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wendigo

KEY PERSONNEL | CREDITS
LARRY FESSENDEN writer, director, editor - winner 1997 IFP "Someone to Watch Award"is the writer, director and editor of the art-horror movies HABIT (1998 Spirit Award nominations for best director and best Cinematographer) and NO TELLING, OR THE FRANKENSTEIN COMPLEX. As an actor, Fessenden stars in HABIT, co-stars in Ilya Chaikens debut feature MARGARITA HAPPY HOUR (Sundance 2001) and appears in Martin Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, Steve Buscemi's ANIMAL FACTORY, and Brad Anderson's SESSION 9. He was actor, editor and associate producer of Kelly Reichardt's critically acclaimed debut film RIVER OF GRASS. Fessenden has created numerous video and film features and shorts since 1979, and he has played and recorded with the band JUST DESSERTS since 1987.
JEFF LEVY-HINTE producer - is a film editor, producer, and post-production facility operator. As an Editor he has worked on a wide range of video and film projects, including When We Were Kings, which won the 1996 Academy Award for best documentary. He served as the Executive Producer of Jesse Peretzs First Love, Last Rites. He was a Producer of High Art, a feature film by Lisa Cholodenko that premiered in the competition section of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, and was released in the United States by October Films. Under the Antidote Films Banner, in partnership with Michael Hausmans production company Cinehaus, he has recently completed American Saint. He is the proprietor of Post 391, Inc., a post-production facility; and is the co-owner of Dig It Audio Productions, an audio post house providing complete sound services for video and feature film.
TERRY STACEY director of photography - shot Tom Gilroys feature debut, SPRING FORWARD, and Brad Andersons HAPPY ACCIDENTS. He was cinematographer on the indie hit TRICK, the Good Machine cult classic, LOVE GOD, and the road movie, THE DREAM CATCHER. Stacy was principle cinematographer on the TV series WONDERLAND.
STEPHEN BEATRICE production design - worked as Art Director on SUNDAY and graduated to Production Design on JUST ONE TIME, STRINGER and the Sundance 2000 success, GIRLFIGHT.
DAYTON TAYLOR effects producer - is the President of Digital Air Inc, and the inventor of TIMETRACKTM, a patent-pending camera system which has been featured in American Cinematographer and Scientific American magazines, and at the Smithsonian Institute. He was production manager of Fessendens 1990 film NO TELLING, and producer of Fessendens HABIT. Taylors short film, LOVES CHOICE, is in the permanent film collection at the Museum of Modern Art.
JAY SILVER effects cinematography - was the camera assistant on Fessendens HABIT and on Ed Burnss SHES THE ONE. Before moving to New York he worked on big pictures like With Honors and Natural Born Killers, and on the television series THE UNTOUCHEABLES. Transitioning to director of Photography, Silver has shot numerous short films, commercials and 2nd Unit on features. His dv experience includes a documentary on an expedition up Mt. Kilimanjaro on New Years Eve 1999.
MICHELLE DIBUCCI, composer - is an internationally recognized composer working in film, concert performance and theatre. Her film credits include the music for Twins, directed by Andrucha Waddington; Stephen King's Creepshow directed by George Romero, and the docudrama Journey, directed by Indian filmmaker Chitra Neogy and released on Mystic Fire Video. DiBucci has composed music for over 30 theatrical productions and has collaborated with some of the leading figures in avant garde theater including Leon Katz, Radu Penciliescu and the late John Michael Tebelak, best known as writer/director of "Godspell". More recently she has collaborated with director Gerald Thomas on a variety of international projects including her opera, "Grail: Portrait of Faust as a Young Man" which received its premiere in 1997 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ms DiBucci's concert compositions have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She received her New York debut at age 23 under the baton of maestro Lukas Foss in his series Meet the Moderns with The Brooklyn Philharmonic. She has received commissions from Kronos Quartet, Lincoln Center Institute, Manhattan Wind Quintet and The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. For the past 8 years, DiBucci has been on the faculty at The Juilliard School teaching in both the music and drama departments.
TOM LAVERACK, songwriter, Hold Out - is a prolific songwriter and singer who has recorded and performed out of New York for ten years, while serving as a social worker for the homeless. Laverack has played music with Fessenden under the band name Just Desserts since 1980. Albums include Sentimental War (Earhorn Disks, 1987) and Give Up the Ghost (1998). Laverack has solo CDs entitled Out of the Blue (1999) and Gift Horse (2001). He composed the score for Fessendens 1991 feature NO TELLING

KEY PERSONNEL | CREDITS
A GLASS EYE PIX / ANTIDOTE FILMS production
writer, director, editor - LARRY FESSENDEN
producer - JEFF LEVY-HINTE
director of photography - TERRY STACEY
production designer - STEPHEN BEATRICE
music & soundscape - MICHELLE DIBUCCI
casting directors - SHEILA JAFFE, GEORGIANNE WALKEN, MARY-CLAY BOLAND
special effects producer - DAYTON TAYLOR
special effects photography - JAY STEPHEN SILVER
casting associate - KATHERINE EGGMAN
ART
art director - ANDY BISCONTINI
set dresser - SHELLEY HERBERT
property master - WILLIAM BOOTH
assistant props - JOANNA M. WRIGHT
hair/make-up supervisor - TISHA KOEPPEL
costume designer - JILL NEWELL
wardrobe assistant - TIFFANY PENTZ
storyboards/comic - BRAHM REVEL
creative consultant - BECK UNDERWOOD
PRODUCTION
unit production manager - APRIL BLAIR
production supervisor - GWEN BIALIC
1st assistant director - CECILY KASTON
2nd assistant director - ALYSON LATZ
2nd 2nd assistant director - DAN BRILLMAN
gaffer & b camera - KIP BOGDAHN
best boy electric - SCOTT LEVY
electric - RORY WILSON
additional electrics - STEVE BECKER, CURT JENTSCH, MARK LABATTE, EDWARD MATTSON
key grip - DOUGLAS KENNEDY
best boy grip - TIM "LOPEZ" REILLY
grip - CRAIG STRIANO
grip/electric assistant - DAN SCHWEIGER
additional grips - HASHIM AL-MASHAT, ALAN BLAGG, GREGORY CANGEMI, ANDREW FISHMAN, ERIN GRGIC, MATT KRAMER, VINCENT MANGANO, KEVIN TAYLOR, ATTIKA TORRENCE, OSAGYEFO TORRENCE
1st assistant camera - CLAIRE CARIO
2nd assistant camera - NIKNAZ TAVAKOLIAN
b-camera 1st assistant camera - OLIVER CARY
b-camera 2nd assistant camera - MARA GALUS
camera loader - JOSEPH LANGFORD
sound mixer - JOSSE TORRES
boom operator - VINIT PARMAR
2nd assistant director - ALYSON LATZ
2nd 2nd assistant director - DAN BRILLMAN
key production assistant - PATRICK FLOYD
set production assistants - CHRIS KOESTNER, GREG OLLIVER, JENNIFER OLLMAN, TERESA REILLY, JOE SMALLEY, HUNTER THOMPSON
unit p.a. - MICHEAL KRANENBURG
office assistant - KRISTEN KUSAMA
script supervisor - DALE CAMERON
location manager - BEAR SCHMIDT
still photographers - OLIVER CARY, WHITNEY BLAKE, RICHARD SANDLER
miles stand-in - ERIK KARWATOWSKI
child services - ALAN SIMON
on-set tutor - ROGER RAWLINGS
assistant to the producer - KIT HUI
assistant to the director - JEFF WINNER
production accountant - BETH M. SCHNIEBOLK
SPECIAL EFFECTS
associate effects producer - MARK NAPOLETANO
"wendigos" designed by LARRY FESSENDEN
"CREATURE" created by DIRECT EFFECTS
supervisor - TIM CONSIDINE
creature effects - RACHAEL PAGANI, AMY TAGLIAMONTI
creature rigger - JOSHUA TURI
direct effects crew - JIM OJALA, JONATHAN CUPINA, SCOTT FIELDS, LARA MEDA, NIVES SPALETA
mechanimal legs - SCOTT KOLB & ELECTROKINETICS, CALEB CRYE
"TWIGGY" - design, construction & puppetmaster - JAMES GODWIN
"SKINNY" - reconstruction & puppetmaster - TIM LAGASSE
puppeteers - JAMES GODWIN, TIM LAGASSE, LEIGH SECREST GODWIN, JIM NAPALITANO
glass effects - JOHN STIFANICH
stunt coordinator - MANNY SIVERIO
stunt assistant - ROY FARFEL
stunt performers - ELLIOT SANTIAGO, KEITH SIGLINGER, JEFF WARD
POST
EDITED AT GLASS EYE PIX POST 391
assistant editor - PAUL ZUCKER
additional assistant editors - JASON BRODKEY, ADRIANNA PACHECO, JEFF LEVY-HINTE
sound edited and mixed at DIGIT AUDIO, NYC
supervising sound editor & rerecording mixer - TOM EFINGER
sound design - NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY
dialogue edit - ABIGAIL SAVAGE
assistant sound edit - RYAN CLARK
foley artists - NANCY CABRERA, NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY
post production supervisors - PRIA THAKRAN, CHERRY MONTEJO
LABWORK
COLOR BY DUART
super16mm to 35mm blowup DUART
color timer - DAVE PULTZ
titles & opticals
produced and designed by CYNOSURE/HEAVY LIGHT
optical supervisor ROB LUTRELL
logo animation KRIS SCHUMACHER
negative matching - NICK DIBENIDETTO, N & D FILM & VIDEO
VENDORS
camera support - CAMERA SERVICE CENTER
timetrack effect produced by DAYTON TAYLOR at DIGITAL AIR
grip & electric package - EASTERN EFFECTS, Scott Levy
additional grip & electric
DRAGON'S HEAD PRODUCTIONS, INC.
XENO LIGHTS
PARIS FILM PRODUCTIONS
LIGHTNING STRIKES
DALTON HELMS
GENERATORS STRIKE FORCE
MUSIC
Music Composed, Conducted and Orchestrated by MICHELLE DIBUCCI
Music Produced by MICHELLE DIBUCCI with EDWARD BILOUS and GREG KALEMBER
Music Recorded at EDISON RECORDING STUDIOS, NYC Engineer GARY CHESTER
Music Mixed at Smack Music & Sound, NYC Engineer GREG KALEMBER
Composers Assistants SUSAN SHUFRO, JENIFER SCATURRO, PAWEL SEK
Musicians
Frame Drums, Featured Percussion, Overtone Singing & Chanting - GLEN VELEZ
Female Vocals - VALERIE NARANJO
Wood & Alto Flutes - PAULA BING
Drums & Percussion - VALERIE NARANJO
Guitars - JEFF MIRONOV
Bass - ALEX BLAKE
Marimba & Vibraphone - YOUSIF SHERONICK
Piano - JOHN KLIBONOFF
Oboe & English Horn - MATTHEW SULLIVAN
Solo Violin - KRYSTOF WITEK
Solo Viola - JULIET HAFFNER
Solo Cello - TED MOOK
Violins - KRYSTOF WITEK, PAULINE KIM, CONWAY KUO,
HELEN KIM, WOLFGANG TSOUTSOURIS, ANI GREGORIAN
Native American Singing - PHILIP SILVERTHORN
Recorded at Intuitive Sound, Marietta, GA
Producer - ROBERT BOWER
Engineer - ADAM ZUPPARDO
"Hold Out"
written by TOM LAVERACK
Gutiar & Vocals - TOM LAVERACK
Percussion - GIDEON EGGER
Guitar - MARC SCHULMAN
Produced, engineered and mixed by GIDEON EGGER
publisher - Hair o The Dog Music, inc
c & p 2000 May Ying Music, Inc.
WENDIGO a film by LARRY FESSENDEN © 2001 wendigo productions

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