CREATORS
Writer / director / producer
ERIN SEGAL
Erin is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts- Atlantic Theater Company. Upon graduating she was accepted into ATC’s Los Angeles Film Conservatory, led by David Mamet. After relocating to Los Angeles, Erin earned an alumna status through the three-year screenwriting program at Writer's Boot Camp, and completed UCLA Extension’s Craft of the Director. In addition to acting and writing, Erin has worked as a Production Designer and Art Director on films, commercials, pilots, and music videos such as Halsey’s GHOST directed by Malia James; feature films ECHO PARK starring Mamie Gummer and directed by Amanda Marsalis, and CAUGHT starring Anna Camp and directed by Maggie Kiley. Both films premiered at the LA Film Festival. Most recently she Art Directed the upcoming Drake Doremus film, ENDINGS, BEGINNINGS starring Shailene Woodley which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Erin has completed two short films of her own, ABBIE AT THE PARTY and BEFORE THE STORM. She has a unique combination of experience in the technical and production realms of filmmaking, as well as a lifetime of studying, exploring, and loving the craft, beauty, and importance of storytelling.
cinematographer
JULIETTE VAN DORMAEL
Juliette Van Dormael was born in Brussels, Belgium to father and filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael and mother Laurette Vankeerberghen. She is a cinematographer based in Brussels known for the feature film "Mon Ange" (2016) and for the shorts "Jay parmi les hommes" (2015) and "Mouettes" (2013) among others. She studied cinematography at INSAS Film School in Brussels. She won the "Best Cinematographer's Debut" Award at Camerimage 2016 for "Mon Ange" and was nominated for the ASC "Spotlight Award" 2017 for the same film. She was named one of "VARIETY's 10 Cinematographers to Watch in 2017".
EDITOR
MELANIE ANNAN
Melanie has over ten years experience as a film and television editor across many fields including drama, documentary, television, music videos and commercials. Melanie is known to be a compassionate and dedicated editor. Her short films have screened internationally and won numerous awards including an Australian Screen Editors award for Best Editing for Something Fishy in 2012. Australian Summer won Tropfest in 2005 and Danya won the Rosemount Diamond award at the Jackson Hole Film Festival as well as Best Editor at Hatchfest, USA. Recently she has completed Spine which won Best Australian Short at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Melanie’s documentary work is also highly regarded with the feature documentary Despite The Gods premiering at Hot Docs International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada and selected for the Sydney International Film Festival and the Raindance Film Festival, UK. Her television work includes At Home With Julia which was nominated for an AACTA award for Best Television Comedy Series. Melanie was also editor of CGI-heavy films Crooked Mick of The Speewah and Cockroach.
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY
MANDY HOFFMAN
Mandy Hoffman is a visionary composer and songwriter who has been writing for various mediums for over a decade. She has scored numerous films, series, advertisements, and art installations that have appeared in theaters, top film festivals, television networks and galleries all over the world. She is known for her nuanced scores that adhere closely to the fabric of moving pictures, strongly supporting both story and vision.
Her collaborations with director Azazel Jacobs have garnered critical acclaim, and her orchestral score to A24's The Lovers (2017) not only received abundant praise from the press, but it ended up on Film Music Magazine's Top Ten Best Scores of 2017. High honors were received for indie favorites Terri (2011) and Momma’s Man (2008). They also collaborated on the HBO/SKY series Doll & Em (2013-2015).
Hoffman teamed up with Jill Soloway on the lauded Amazon Studios series titled I Love Dick (2017), and her music can be found on a myriad of television shows including Inside Amy Schumer, American Pickers, and The Voice to name a few. Recently she worked with director Minhal Baig and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's Overbrook Entertainment on the poetic feature HALA (2019), which premiered at Sundance 2019. She has also collaborated with world-class artists including Marcos Lutyens and Barbara Husar to present installations in distinguished galleries located in New York, Paris, Vienna, Switzerland, Sweden, and Los Angeles.
She is a multi-instrumentalist with a keen understanding for dramatic nuance, and can write honestly in many musical styles and genres. She is both versatile and unique. Noticeably gifted as a child, she easily picked up new instruments and would often improvise compositions and melodies. After being told countless times that her music sounded “cinematic”, she seriously pursued musical training, first as an multi-award winning student at Pasadena City College’s prestigious music program and was certified at UCLA Extension’s celebrated Film Scoring Program. She is a 2018 class member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
OrIGINAL MUSIC BY
PERRINE VIRGILE
Perrine Virgile is a film and TV composer based in Los Angeles, CA. A native of France, she studied piano and composition for 10 years at the Classical Conservatory in France and earned a degree in Sound Engineering at the ESRA school in Nice, France. She moved to Boston in 2010 to study at Berklee College of Music.
After graduating with a dual major in Film Scoring and Music Business, she moved to Los Angeles to start her career. She currently works alongside Composer Jeff Russo (Fargo, The Night Of, Legion) and writes and arranges additional music for TV shows (Counterpart, The Umbrella Academy, Legion, The Night Of), video games (What Remains of Edith Finch), and films (Mile 22, Lizzie). Perrine also writes concert music and has performed two original pieces through the Future is Female concert series in 2017 and 2018.
CO-PRODUCER
RANDA ED
Randa Eid grew up in Northern Virginia; always with a camera in hand and singing her favorite classical piece. Studying art and music from the age of 5 she was given a great gift of honing her talents and thriving in her passions. Two months after graduating from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec (2002) with a BA Double Major Communications and Music she moved back to her hometown and was hired to work as a production assistant at Al Jazeera Arabic Television in Washington DC. She grew up quickly in the fast paced environment of the news world. Within 8 months she was promoted to Producer and moved to New York to work at the United Nations Bureau. After 12 years of producing news, features, documentaries, covering the gamut of war, Arab Springs, innovations in technology, and climate change, she said goodbye to that world so that she could get back to her roots and delve into more creative projects. For the past 4 years Randa has been freelance producing commercials, short films, documentaries, music videos, photos shoots and even experiential events. Working with reputable agencies and organizations like Arcade Agency (Sony), documentaries for Tribeca Digital Studios, the documentaries Mass Appeal for Hulu, commercials for Wieden + Kennedy, Little Bear Inc, and producing short films for a campaign that raised over 1 million dollars for Syrian refugees at Kickstarter, Kickstarters first ever fundraiser campaign. Director Erin Segal has inspired Randa to move towards the beautiful worlds of scripted and narrative storytelling. She is looking forward to helping realize more dream projects of talented diverse female directors.
CO-PRODUCER
LYSETTE URUS
Lysette is a producer from NYC who currently resides in Los Angeles. Lysette cut her teeth in the NY production scene, under the guidance of producer, Alon Simcha. Through Simcha, she worked with world renowned director, Andrew Wonder, on projects that garnered the attention of some of the biggest festivals; "One More Day" which received the Cannes Lion Award in 2016 and "Seed" which premiered at SXSW in 2017.
She has worked the production circuit inside and out and is as well versed in the commercial standard as she is in the guerrilla technique. She is a ferocious go getter, who doesn't take no for an answer, only gives it. Lysette received her BA in film from American University, Washington DC, where she also spent a semester studying film in Prague, Czech Republic at FAMU. She continues to work bi-coastally as she builds her network and helps creatives realize their visions.
1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
SACHI MACLACHLAN
Sachi Maclachlan is a NYC/Brooklyn based filmmaker. She has been fulfilling her life long dream within the world of cinema for the pat 7 years. Her directing, producing, and AD credits include commercial, music videos, and narrative projects, including Recover 180, YourGoodSkin, “Friends” by Animal Years music video, and “Fake it Till You Make it” by Gaya music video.