Where God Left His Shoes: About The Filmmakers

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Salvatore Stabile (Writer/Director/Producer)
Vanja Cernjul (Directory of Photography)
Jeff Beal (Composer)
Chris Monte (Editor)
Daniel Edelman (Producer)
Richard E. Hutton (Producer)
Michael Caldwell (Producer)
Paul G. Allen (Executive Producer)
Jody Patton (Executive Producer)

Vanja Cernjul
Vanja Cernjul (Directory of Photography) was born in 1968 in Zagreb, Croatia. After graduating from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1995 he moved to New York to get his Masters from Graduate Film School at NYU. Since graduation Vanja has DP’d 14 feature films such as The Mudge Boy (Michael Burke, director, Stanley Tucci, Executive Producer) which premiered at Sundance in 2003.

Vanja has received the Best Cinematography Award at Aspen Shortfest for Fishbelly White (Michael Burke, director), a Kodak Vision Award at Avignon/New York Film Festival for The Photographer (Jeremy Stein, director, Chris Moore, producer) and The Best Cinematography Award at Stockholm International Film Festival for Rain (Katherine Lindberg, director, Martin Scorsese, EP). His recent work includes two films from the 2006 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition: Forgiven (Paul Fitzgerald, director) and Wristcutters: A Love Story (Goran Dukic, director).

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Jeff Beal
Jeff Beal (Composer) has scored over 50 projects for film and television, including Ed Harris’ critically acclaimed directorial debut, Pollock, William H. Macy’s Emmy awarded Door to Door & The Wool Cap, Bob Rafelson’s No Good Deed, Jessica Yu's critically acclaimed In The Realms Of The Unreal & Protagonist, HBO's moody western series Carnivale, and the theme and underscore for USA’s hit comedy series, Monk.

Current projects include the scores to the HBO/BBC epic co-production ROME, ABC's Golden Globe winning series Ugly Betty, the independent feature films He Was A Quiet Man (starring Christian Slater & William H. Macy) & director Phillip Haas' Iraq war drama The Situation. In 2006 Beal composed the scores for all eight one hour films of the Stephen King anthology series Nightmares & Dreamscapes for TNT. The premiere installment, Battleground stars Academy award winner William Hurt in a dialog-free hour film, featuring a rich and pulsing original symphonic score.

Beal received 2 Emmy awards in 2003—one for his quirky main title theme for Monk, and another for his score to the NBC's Olympic documentary, Peggy and Dorothy. In 2005/6 Beal was honored with four prime time Emmy nominations for his work on Carnivale, Rome, & The Water Is Wide.

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Chris Monte
Chris Monte (Editor) has an award winning background which includes over 12 years of editorial experience with over 100 hours of episodic television and promotion for broadcast.

Recently, Monte produced and edited a one-hour special for Fine Living Network called Flying In Style that is currently airing. Guests included John Travolta, Sydney Pollack and Carly Simon. Previously, Monte co-produced Dream Jets, a 2-hour special, for PBS domestically and internationally for the National Geographic channel. He is currently producing a series pilot for Discovery Channel called X-Ops that is scheduled to air beginning in Summer 2007.

For the past 6 years, Monte has been producer/editor of DIRECTV News, a magazine show exclusively produced and broadcast to over 13 million homes of DIRECTV subscribers. During those same 6 years, Chris also produced and edited DIRECTV Basics, a how-to show designed to reduce customer service calls.

Monte is the President and CEO of Magic Hair, Inc., a 4000 square foot HD/SD postproduction facility in Los Angeles that houses 6 edit bays, 2 motion graphics bays as well as a Protocols/voiceover audio suite.

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Daniel Edelman
Daniel Edelman (Producer)as Executive Producer of Sal Stabile’s first film, Gravesend. Prior to that he was in charge of production and distribution of the Academy Award-winning From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China and ran the London-based literary and talent agency Curtis Brown. His support of independent films has included Roger & Me, Paris is Burning, Coming Out Under Fire, Just Another Girl on the IRT, H-2 Worker and Maria’s Story as well as serving on the boards of IFP/West (Film Independent) and AIVF.

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Richard E. Hutton
Richard E. Hutton (Producer) is the Vice President of Media Development for Vulcan Productions. He oversees the feature film and documentary teams at Vulcan Productions and manages a variety of content partnerships, business and distribution deals, and professional relationships in the film, television and Internet worlds. Hutton was formerly the executive producer of the critically acclaimed PBS series Evolution, co-produced by the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions.

Before Evolution, Hutton was senior vice president of creative development at Walt Disney Imagineering. There, he led the creative team responsible for the design of all Disney three-dimensional storytelling (theme parks, retail concepts, etc.). Prior to Walt Disney Imagineering, Hutton was vice president and general manager of the Disney Institute, where he directed the transition of the organization from an idea into an operating business. Before Disney, Hutton was senior vice president, television programming and production, for WETA Television in Washington, D.C., and earlier, director of public affairs programming for WNET Television in New York. His projects have included the award-winning The Brain (1984) and The Mind (1988), as well as various books, medical texts and articles for national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Omni and Cosmopolitan.

Documentaries produced by Vulcan include: the Emmy award-winning Rx for Survival, Strange Days on Planet Earth, Lightening in a Bottle, Black Sky: The Race for Space, Black Sky: Winning the X-Prize, The Blues, Cracking the Code, Evolution, Me and Isaac Newton and Inspirations.

Hutton holds a B.A. degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Michael Caldwell
Michael Caldwell (Producer) is Director of Motion Picture Production for Vulcan Productions. Caldwell oversees development, production, and post-production of all motion pictures produced by Vulcan Productions. Feature films produced by Vulcan include Hard Candy, Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas, Coastlines, The Safety of Objects, The Luzhin Defense, Titus and Men with Guns.

Prior to joining Vulcan Productions, Caldwell served as a production executive with New Line Cinema, where his credits included Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Love Jones. Before that, he was a production executive with Walt Disney Studios, where his credits included The Joy Luck Club and Miami Rhapsody.

Caldwell holds a B.A. degree in business and accounting from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an M.F.A. degree in Cinema/Television Production from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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Paul G. Allen
Paul G. Allen (Executive Producer) founded Vulcan Productions in 1997, the independent film production company behind such award winning films as Hard Candy, Black Sky; The Race for Space, Far From Heaven, Titus, the 2001 Evolution series on PBS, and The Blues, executive produced in conjunction with Martin Scorsese and Jody Patton.

Allen creates and advances world-class projects and high-impact initiatives that change and improve the way people live, learn, work and experience the world through arts, education, entertainment, sports, business and technology. He co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1976, remained the company’s chief technologist until he left Microsoft in 1983, and is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. and chairman of Charter Communications. In addition, Allen’s multibillion dollar investment portfolio includes large stakes in DreamWorks Animation SKG, Oxygen Media and more than 40 other technology, media and content companies. In 2004 Allen funded SpaceShipOne, the first privately-funded effort to successfully put a civilian in suborbital space and winner of the Ansari X-Prize competition. Allen also owns the Seattle Seahawks NFL and Portland Trail Blazers NBA franchises.

Named one of the top philanthropists in America, Allen gives back to the community through the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, whose goal is to transform individual lives and strengthen communities by supporting arts and culture, youth engagement, community development and social change, and scientific and technological innovation throughout the Pacific Northwest. Allen is also founder of Experience Music Project, Seattle’s critically-acclaimed interactive music museum and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.

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Jody Patton
Jody Patton (Executive Producer) is president of Vulcan Productions and is responsible for managing all elements of Vulcan Productions film and development projects. Patton's creative vision defines the composition of the slate of projects undertaken by Vulcan Productions, and she has served as producer or executive producer on various projects including award winning features such as Hard Candy, Far From Heaven and Titus, and documentaries such as Black Sky: The Race for Space, and The Blues and Evolution series on PBS. Patton is also president and CEO of Vulcan Inc., the project and investment management company founded by investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen.

Patton is co-founder of Experience Music Project, Seattle's one-of-a-kind interactive music museum, and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. In addition, Patton is the executive director of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and is on the board of Charter Communications. An active member of the arts and education communities, Patton serves on the board of directors of the University of Washington Foundation, the International Glass Museum, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Theatre. Communications Group.

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