Director Jason Jakaitis
Jason Jakaitis oversees an after-school advanced video production program in downtown Oakland for the Bay Area Video Coalition. He is a filmmaking student at San Francisco State University and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts program in Communications Studies. Born and raised in San Diego, he currently lives in the Upper Haight area of San Francisco. In 2007, Jason was awarded a Murphy Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation, as well as a Personal Works grant from Film Arts Foundation and a New Filmmaker grant from Panavision. SFSU's Princess Grace recipient in 2008, Jason was recently awarded finishing funds support from the Fleishhacker Foundation.
Jason's previous film, minutiae, is a 16mm narrative short that was awarded Special Jury Prize at the Portland International Short Short Film Festival, and screened at the 2007 Mill Valley, Humboldt and Santa Cruz film festivals. Past films include Frankie Lowfat (2003), a comedic short about vegan mafioso, and the found-footage documentary Turn/On (2001), which explored viral metaphors in contemporary science-fiction cinema.
Cinematographer Sinisa Kukic
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Sinisa Kukic graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2005 with a BA in Cinema and Photography. His film, Breathe (2003), aired on FOX television, and his undergraduate thesis, Conduit Of Displacement (2004), won the Loren D. Cocking Animation Award.
Kukic is currently enrolled in San Francisco State University's MFA Cinema program, where he continues to make experimental and documentary films. Other interests include cinematography, hand processing, and new forms of camera subjectivity. Pump (2006), his most recent film, explores the hybridization of the bicycle and the cyclist. Pump has screened at over a dozen international film festivals, including Ann Arbor Film and Video Festival, and has aired on PBS. His preoccupation with the particulars of camera carriage and movement are rooted in his involvement in the local biking community and his work as a racecar mechanic.
Miljenko Skoknic
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Miljenko is a director, producer and critic, currently an M.F.A Candidate of San Francisco State University's Cinema program. After earning a B.A. in Fine Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, he worked as a Post-Production Assistant for the science TV show Enlaces, winner of the Grand Prix Jules Verne, awarded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. As Art Designer, he worked on the Tapsin-Lalo Parra TV Ad, winning Best Comercial of The Year by the Chilean Association of Advertising, ACHAP.
Joel Garber
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Joel is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at San Francisco State University. He is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a graduate from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Prior to moving to the west coast, Joel worked as an Associate Producer and Post-Production Supervisor for New York based Atlas Media Corp. His credits include programs for Food Network and The History Channel. He is also the director of several short films, most recently Personal Curator, a short 16mm narrative shot entirely on location at the Berkeley Art Museum.