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BIOGRAPHIES
BRUCE DAVISON
Extremely winning and versatile, the award-worthy actor, now enjoying an over four decade career, has included everything from Shakespeare to Seinfeld. Bruce had strong roles alongside greats like Burt Lancaster in the well-made cavalry item,” Ulzana’s Raid” and the powerful independent film,” Short Eyes “in which he played a child molester. Also, other notable films include the musical film version of “Mame”, “The Jerusalem” “ File”, “Mother, Jugs & Speed”, “Grand Jury”, “Brass Target”, “Kiss My Grits”, “Crimes of Passion”, “Spies Like Us”, “The Ladies Club”, “Longtime Companion” (Academy Award Nominee Best Supporting Actor), and of course Marvel’s “X-Men”, “X-Men 2” and the classic horror film “Willard” opposite film greats Earnest Borgnine and the bride ff Frankenstein herself, Elsa Lancaster. Bruce has also been seen on series in later years including “The Practice”, “The L Word”, “Seinfeld”, Amazon Prime’s “Mozart” “In The Jungle”, “Blindspot” and ABC Family’s, “The Fosters”. In 2021, Bruce was cast in the award-winning hit Netflix series, “Ozark” and recently costarred in the super hit phenomenon, “Yellowstone” spin off series, 1923 with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.
SELENA ANDUZE
Selena Anduze is a West Indian American Actress with over 20 years’ experience in stage, television and film. Most recently, she can be seen as “Jackie Ponder” in HULU’s hit series, CANDY. In addition to numerous roles in horror series and films such as Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep both from Mike Flanagan, Greg Nicotero’s Creepshow reboot, and HBO/MAX and DC’s Swamp Thing series. Selena has also gathered fans from Marvel’s Venom and the MCU as FBI Agent Rodriguez, in Disney’s “Wanda/Vision”.
KEITH DAVID
Keith David is a classically trained, multiple Emmy award winning actor. He is currently shooting a new series for producer JJ Abrams and HBO Max entitled “Duster.” Previously Keith starred alongside Zoe Saldana in the Netflix limited series “From Scratch,” for which he won the NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series. Keith was featured in Jordan Peele’s latest film “Nope.” He starred in the TV series “Greenleaf” for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network for 5 seasons. He also recently starred in “Black As Night” for Blumhouse / Amazon. Other big screen credits include Keith co-starring in Chadwick Boseman’s last film “21 Bridges”. Prior appearances include “Night School” with Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish and “Tales from the Hood 2”. Other highlights from Keith’s movie career include the Academy award-winning films “Crash” and “Platoon.” He is widely recognized for appearing in Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog”, “Requiem for a Dream”, “Men at Work”, “There’s Something About Mary”, and John Carpeneter’s horror classics, “They Live” and “The Thing.” Other recent TV credits include “Leverage: Redemption,” “Creepshow,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Blackish,” and “MacGyver”. Earlier credits include “Community”, “Enlisted”, “ER”, and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”. On Broadway, Keith starred in August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” and “Jelly’s Last Jam” for which he garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical. Keith’s work as a voice actor has made him a household name. His rich and powerful voice has been featured in national commercials, award shows, documentaries, video games, and animation. By virtue of his long collaboration with award winning documentarian Ken Burns, Keith has earned three Emmys for narrating “Jackie Robinson”, “The War”, and “Unforgivable Blackness – The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson”. His most recent narration was for “Muhammad Ali: A Documentary by Ken Burns.” Other voice acting credits include countless fan favorites such as “Adventure Time”, “Bojack Horseman,” “Rick & Morty”, “Spawn”, and “Gargoyles”.
MIKE SARGENT (director)
Mike Sargent has worked behind the camera in a variety of ways as a Producer, Screenwriter, Director, Composer, Sound Designer & Storyboard artist. A graduate of the High School of Art & Design and Parson’s School of Design as an Illustrator, Mike Sargent started his career in Theatre and Film as a sound designer. He was awarded the prestigious Audelco Award for excellence in Sound Design. As an Illustrator he also done storyboards for film projects as diverse as horror film “Brain Damage” by Frank Henenlotter, thrillers “Illegal Tenders & The Ministers” by Franc. Reyes. And most recently two projects for John Leguizamo. In 1997 his short film, “The Lesson”, premiered to critical acclaim at the Visions of New Black filmmaker’s Festival. Mike Sargent’s writing and directing debut feature film, “Personals” (aka Hook’d Up) starred Malik Yoba (of NY Undercover and Why Did I Get Married) and Stacey Dash (of the film and TV show Clueless) and feature the film debut of comedian Jim Gaffigan. ”Personals” was the opening night film at Los Angeles’ Pan African Film Festival in 1999. The L.A. Times called the film “both entertaining and provocative.” In the world of film criticism, Mike was the host and creator of ARISE ON SCREEN Arise Networks weekly global movie review & interview program notably the first ever African-American hosted film review television show. He is also a founding member and co-President of the Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC). Sargent is chief Film Critic for WBAI RADIO and host of daytime film review program, REELWORLD, and WBAI’s popular late-night radio show, NITESHIFT. Mike teaches filmmaking at the Museum of the Moving Image for the Afrikan Poetry Theater and is currently completing “Bad Boys”: A Documentary, an in-depth, investigative film that examines why women and society in general are in love with ‘bad boys’ and have been throughout history.
ALAN HOWARTH (score)
Sonic Composer, Alan Howarth’s film work started on “Star Trek-The Motion Picture”, launching him as a sound designer for the following 6 Star Trek feature films. Next was “Escape From New York”, collaborating with the director and composer, John Carpenter, and continuing on scores for “Halloween” 2-6, “Christine”,”Big Trouble in Little China”, “Prince of Darkness” and “They Live”. His award-winning Sound Design work placed him on the Oscar-winning sound effects teams for “The Hunt for Red October” and “Dracula” directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
CECELIA HALL (sound design)
Cece Hall is an Academy Award winning Sound Designer and Professor who has been an advocate for visionary filmmakers for more than thirty-five years. She was the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing for “Top Gun” and she went on to win the Oscar for “The Hunt for Red October,” a film for which she also received a British BAFTA nomination. Hall has been nominated for numerous Motion Picture Sound Editor Golden Reel Awards, winning for both “Something So Right” and “Top Gun.” Her credits include: “Star Trek” I, II & III, “Beverly Hills Cop “I & II, “Witness,” Both Pee-Wee movies, “Searching for Bobby Fisher”, “Days of Thunder”, “The Addams Family”, “Addams Family Values”, “Flashdance” and “Terms of Endearment”. In addition to her Academy Award for “The Hunt for Red October”, Hall has won two MPSE Golden Reel awards among eleven nominations. She was elected president of the MPSE in 1984, the first woman to hold that office and she served on the Executive Committee of the Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2019, Hall was featured in the Award-Winning Documentary Feature, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound. On January 19, 2020, Hall received the MPSE’s Golden Reel Career Achievement Award.
VINCENT JAMES GUASTINI (special effects makeup)
Practical effects work is mostly known for his 30 plus years in the business in creating the ground- breaking animatronic wings and creature effects in Kevin Smith’s film “Dogma” and for Darren Aronofsky’s film, “Requiem for a Dream”, he designed sculpted and applied prosthetics changing Oscar nominated actress Ellen Burstyn into a thinning decaying woman. The prosthetic transformation made Vincent an Oscar hopeful that year and is looked at as one of the most convincing transformations in prosthetic makeup history for subtlety and realism. He later worked with Aronofsky again on the film “Aftermath” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger where Vincent’s team created silicone bodies for a graphic plane crash. Vincent’s other groundbreaking effects include the first use of silicone technology with fire victim effects for Clint Eastwood’s “Letters of Iwo Jima” and “Flags of Our Father”. Other films include the Bryan Singer produced horror film hit “The Taking of Deborah Logan”. With the help of prosthetic silicone appliances and puppets Vincent and his team transformed actress Jill Larson into a crazed demonic possessed creature. Development & Design: I Frankenstein, Watchmen, Hannibal, Battlestar Galactica, (Ronald D. Moore Version) Creature of the Black Lagoon, Preacher, Green Hornet, Doom the Movie, I Am Legend, The Thing prequel. V.G.P. Design Team & Makeup Effects Crew Credits include: Original Hellboy, remake, Predator 2019, Tron Legacy, Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, Edward Scissor Hands.
ALT HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
Founded by producers Michael Alden, Ian Holt and Michael Kuciak, Alt-House Productions is dedicated to producing the highest quality in genre entertainment. “From The Shadows” follows multi film festival award winning horror headbanger “Death Metal” which is being released May 30th through Bayview/Vipco. The company’s next project is “5 Must Die” a supernatural revenge thriller scheduled to go into production at the end of the summer.
MICHAEL ALDEN
Film works include: Death Metal”, the VC Feature, “Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol With A Twist”, “Come From Away” (Apple) “Death Metal,” “Just Cause” with Sean Connery, Stephen Daldry’s “The Hours,” and “Kissing Jessica Stein.” Feature documentaries include: “Studio One Forever,” “My Beautiful Stutter“(Discovery +) and the fashion forward “UnZipped” for Miramax. As a theater producer; On Broadway: Come From Away, Disgraced (2015 Pulitzer Prize – Drama), Grey Gardens, and Bridge & Tunnel (Special TONY Award). On the West End: Come From Away (Olivier), David Seidlers’ The King’s Speech, and Bat Boy The Musical.
IAN HOLT
Ian is the co-author, with Dacre Stoker, of the international best seller, “Dracula The Un-Dead”, the official sequel to Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel, “Dracula.” To date, “Dracula The Un-Dead” has sold more than two million copies worldwide and was nominated for “Best First Horror Novel” by The Thriller Awards. Ian wrote the cult horror classic, “Dr. Chopper”.starring Costas Mandylor. He wrote and produced the supernatural thriller, “Episode 50”, co-produced by Ehud Bleiberg and Compound B. Ian penned and will produce the horror feature “5 Must Die”. Ian is also producer of the new horror feature, “Death Metal” and the story writer and producer of the new horror feature “From The Shadows” starring Bruce Davison (“Willard”, “X-Men”), Selena Anduze (“Doctor Sleep”, Marvel’s “WandaVision”) and Keith David (John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, Jordan Peele’s “Nope”).
MICHAEL KUCIAK
Michael Kuciak is the writer-director of DEATH METAL (out now via Bayview/Vipco) and the writer-producer of “From The Shadows” (starring Keith David, Bruce Davison, and Selena Anduze) which is slated to be released on 9/22 via Bleiberg/Stonecutter. Mike has served as a producer/executive producer on several indie feature films, including the horror-comedy “Killer Party” and “All For Nikki,” a thriller. Besides “Death Metal”, Mike has directed several music videos and short films, including the award-winning horror short, “Stairs.” He is the founder/CEO of Blast Furnace Media, and a partner of Alt-House Productions. Previously, Mike was the Senior Vice President of Development for a management-production company and the founder of his own management company, Samurai MK. Mike is originally from Chicago, where he played bass in punk and metal bands. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
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