MIFF 1999

M.I.F.F. 1999
Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival
(Melbourne, Florida)

Indian River Brewing Company.

Louis Lowy studied film at Miami-Dade Community College and is currently
enrolled at the University of Miami Film Program. His film, The Amazing
Colossal Director was the first place winner of the Wolfson Media Center/IFP
Indie No Budget Short Film Competition and won inclusion in the Ft.
Lauderdale International Film Festival.The project was shot on Hi-8 Video and
super 8 film and includes archival 16mm footage.
Michael Gonzalez is the co-writer and DP of The Amazing Colossal Director and
also studied film at Miami-Dade Community College. He is currently working
for a Miami-based production company and recently completed a shoot for
Playboy Magazine.

The Amazing Colossal Director

...was shown at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18, 1999

The Multimedia Group, Inc.

"A Medical Multimedia Production and Consulting Firm"

Bob Krissak received his B.A. in Film Production at the University of Central
Florida
and has worked in various aspects of corporate/industrial video production
since 1979. He started his own production company, The Multimedia Group.
Inc., and is happy to provide medical multimedia services to the local
physicians of Holmes Regional Medical Center.  In 1998, he produced  Fireman
Jim’s Amazing Rescue Rigs, a children’s safety video that received the
official endorsement of the Coalition for Quality Children's’ Video and
recently received the highest level of national recognition for non-broadcast
film and video productions, the Silver Telly Award.

The Multimedia Group, Inc.

"Fireman Jim's Amazing Rescue Rigs"

...was shown at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18, 1999

Abel Klainbaum majored in English at Florida International University. He is
the
manager of the Alliance/IFP-South in Miami, a not-for-profit organization,
dedicated to the advancement of artistic expression in film and video. This
includes the operation of the Alliance Cinema, an independent cinema
specializing in foreign, art, documentary, and independent films, and the
Alliance Film/Video Cooperative, a public access media arts center dedicated
to supporting independent filmmaking in Florida. He has made many short films
including Apple Pickin’ which showed at the 1999 Anti-film Festival on South
Beach. He teaches editing on the Media100 and has edited projects for Doris
Wishman, Sergio Giral, and others.

...was shown at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18, 1999

Patrick Martin graduated from Melbourne High School and received his degree in
Finance from the University of Florida. He has been involved in many film
projects and is a co-founder of  3 Boys Productions. He has called himself
“Gasman” and has vowed to continue to push the low-budget envelope of
filmmaking. A talented musician who cut his chops in rock and roll with his
band, The Truth Hurts, Martin has composed soundtracks for other productions
including Under the Bridge and Crisp. His film, The Ride, is an
autobiographical sketch that premiered at the 1999 Anti-Film Festival on
South Beach and was selected for the 1999 West Palm Beach Independent Film
Festival. He is the co-director of Crisp.

The Ride
...was shown at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18, 1999

Eric Steinberg graduated from Orlando College with a degree in film and video
production. Born in America, he grew up above the Arctic Circle in northern
Norway. His short film , Blue Roads, won a bronze award at the 1998 Florida
Motion Picture and Television Association Crystal Reel Awards. He currently
works as a production
Specialist at Time Warner Communications in Melbourne. His film, Will Work
For Food, was shot on 16mm and makes its festival premiere Sept. 18th.

...was shown at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18, 1999

Christine Jones is a Wiccan. She fought a first amendment battle in the early
1990’s and won on behalf of religious freedom for all Wiccans.She was the
last student of the most famous white witch, Sybil Leek.She has been a
working resident of Brevard since 1980. Her latest project is an
autobiographical film entitled January Witch. She can be contacted via e-mail
at

eurimonme@aol.com

Original Soundtrack Link

...was shown at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18, 1999

Thomas Mumme got his AS in Film and Video Production from Phillips College,
Melbourne in 1994.  Since then he has been a freelance Camera Operator /
Assistant and has worked on such feature films as Men In Black and The
Devil’s Own. Over the past five years he has won 12 Crystal Reel Awards
including a Silver award for best videography in the statewide competition 
for his 15 minute dramatic video, Help Wanted.  His production company, THE
ATTIC, is world premiering Action News 13, which he directed and was shot on
both Digital Video and 16mm film. To contact THE ATTIC, log onto
http://theattic.8m.com/ .

...was shown at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18, 1999

by Anthony Miller

Anthony Miller spent his high school years in the rural backwoods of Wakulla
County, Florida before moving to Boston, Massachusetts to attend Emerson
College. He was awarded his Bachelor of Science in Film by acclaimed director
Spike Lee.
Homesick for Florida, Anthony moved to Viera and founded the successful Space
Coast Filmmakers, a nonprofit cultural arts group dedicated to independent
filmmaking.His film, The Cowboy, is making its festival premiere. He is now
organizing The American Digital Arts Festival, to be held at the Henegar
Center on May 19-21, 2000. More information on that event can be found at
www.digitalartsfest.com or email Anthony at spacecoastfilm@yahoo.com

http://www.digitalartsfest.com/american/index.htm
...was shown at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18, 1999

Directed by Terry Cronin and Pat Martin

Crisp

Terry Cronin is a graduate of Melbourne High School and a local dermatologic
surgeon who did his residency at the University of Miami. He is best
remembered for his early work in film including local favorites, The Attack
of the Moss Monster, Psycho in a Box, and Afternoon of the Dead. In 1998,
Cronin, Bob Lizek, and Pat Martin founded 3 Boys Productions and premiered
his 16mm film, Under the Bridge, at the Henegar Center which went on to show
at the 1999 Anti-Film Festival on South Beach and the West Palm Beach
Independent Film Festival. His latest film, Crisp, co-directed by Pat Martin
is the first part of a trilogy of short films which will makeup the body of
the feature, The Religion of Vitamins. Believing “the more, the merrier”,
this film marks their second attempt at what they call “Fiesta Filmmaking”.  
This film is shot entirely on digital technology

...was shown at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18, 1999

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