2023 GUEST FIlmmaker workshops and panels
Love… Reconsidered filmmaker Q&A | THURSDAY 10/5 | 9PM | THEATER 8
Join us after the screening of Love… Reconsidered for a Q&A with filmmakers Carol Ray Hartsell (Director and Producer), Arielle Haller-Silverstone (Writer and Producer), S.J. Allocco-St.Germain (Casting Director and Producer), and Dave Carroll (Cinematographer).
lee peterkin | friday 10/6 | 5pM | DESIGN WEST
Title: Adapting Filmmaking Techniques to Changing Technologies
Description: My Journey in micro-budget filmmaking with innovative technologies. From the Canon 7D Mark I to Unreal Engine, and more, I’ve discovered ways to use low-cost tools to create high production value projects.
S.J. allocco-St. Germain | saturday 10/7 | 11AM | DESIGN WEST
Title: Today's Audition: Self-Tapes & Zoom vs. In-Person Auditions, Call-backs, Chem Reads
Description: How to crush a Self-Tape, how to prepare yourself for a zoom audition, callback or chemistry read.
dave carroll | saturday 10/7 | 2pm | DESIGN WEST
Title: Cinematography: A Conversation (frfr)
Description: A practical workshop about filmmaking, storytelling and the business of making moving images.
Filmmakers Roundtable | SATURDAY 10/7 | 5pm | DEsIGN WEST
A signature film fest event, meet our guest artists and visiting filmmakers as they come together for a discussion and Q&A about the process of creating films.
2023 Festival Guest Artists
S.J. Allocco
SJ Allocco-St. Germain is a Casting Director who began her casting career in 2012, as a Casting Assistant working on hit tv shows, including Orange is the New Black (Netflix) and Girls (HBO). She quickly worked her way up to Associate Casting Director, where she played an active role in casting an impressive range of tv shows and films, including The Sex Lives of College Girls (HBO Max), Dickinson (Apple TV), The Perfection (Netflix) and the Oscar-nominated film, Can you Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight). SJ’s most recent title in the casting world is Casting Director. Some of her Casting Director projects include: Friends From College (Netflix), SNAP (AMC+), Teenage Bounty Hunters (Netflix), and the Emmy-nominated Roku anthology series, Immoral Compass. Expanding upon her casting success, SJ is co-founder of a production company, Tiny Office Productions (TOPS). Their first feature, Love…Reconsidered, was recently sold and will premiere in late 2023.
Dave Carroll
Dave Carroll is a New York City based cinematographer, director and owner of Suspect Films Inc. He graduated from The School of Visual Arts and works in the film and television industry. He is the Director of Photography for The Problem with Jon Stewart (Apple TV), Game Theory (HBO), Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS) and The Daily Show (Comedy Central) as well as the feature film, Love…Reconsidered (2023). Dave directed and produced the award-winning feature film documentary BENDING STEEL (2013), which premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival and traveled the domestic and international festival circuit before being picked up for distribution by DIRECTV.
Carol Ray Hartsell
Carol Hartsell is a writer, director, producer and two-time Emmy loser based in New York City. She is currently developing a science-comedy show with BBC Studios. Prior to that she was the Senior Field Producer on the first season of Jimmy Fallon’s The Kids Tonight Show, the Supervising Producer for Amazon’s Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys, and the creative lead behind Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’s award-winning digital team. She got her start in late night as the Digital Producer at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where she innovated their live-streaming content and wrote sketches for Adam McKay and Guillermo del Toro among others.
Prior to her work in late night, she was the Senior Comedy Editor of Huffington Post, launched the original comedy site Internet Action Force, and was the head writer and founder of Drink At Work.com. She also contributed to The Onion and Someecards, and wrote for Current TV’s Viewpoint with John Fugelsang, The Roast of Anthony Bourdain and wrote and performed in the Off-Broadway show Shoot the Messenger alongside Lizz Winstead.
Arielle Haller-Silverstone
Haller-Silverstone comes from an acting background, in addition to her writing and producing work. In 2018, she co-created and starred in the short film, Sac de Merde.
Sac went on to screen at over 200 film festivals around the world, winning over 65 awards. tinyofficeproductionsny@gmail.com
lee Peterkin
Lee Peterkin hails from the suburbs of Sleepy Hollow outside New York City, and comes from a theater and film background. He began his journey in cinema selling his first screenplay out of college. For nearly two decades he’s been working professionally as a writer, director, editor, and cinematographer across fictional narratives, documentaries, music videos, short films, and commercials. He has an appetite for raw, absurd, drama, and tragic-comedy. In his storytelling, he likes to contrast subtlety with blatant catastrophe. He strives to conjure unadulterated authenticity and honesty from within himself and express it on screen.
His efforts have garnered awards for his films in directing and screen writing. Prism, a feature film won an award at Art of Brooklyn FF. ExVivo, a short, received an award at the Raw Science FF and LA Live Score FF. His screenplay Za’atar garnered an award from OpenScreenplay. His cinematography on the film Barry premiered at SXSW (Nominated for Grand Jury Award).
