Production Team
Peilin Kuo (Director) - Peilin is an award-winning filmmaker born in Taiwan and based in New York. After graduating with a drama degree from her homeland, she worked for a production company in Taipei. She relocated to New York in 2002 and started to pursue her career as an independent filmmaker.
Peilinʼs first short film, "Everyday," won the "Someone to Watch 2005" award from CineWomen NY and was broadcast by PBS’s "Reel New York" in 2007. Her short film, "A.K.A. 08494####," was awarded “First Runner Up” and “Most Original” from the 2005 "72 Hour Film Shootout" competition. Her music video, "true story," was screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Her short film, "Private Party," won the Golden Palm award at the 2009 Mexico International Film Festival.
Peilinʼs 23-minute film, "Prescott Place," was nominated for the "Excellence in Short Filmmaking" award at the 2011 Asian American International Film Festival. The film was also an official selection at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and won an “Honorable Mention” award from Asians On Film Festival 2012. “Prescott Place" is distributed by SnagFilms.
Peilin’s latest short film, “To Die or To Dream,” is a trailer for her upcoming feature film project, “A Thousand Deaths - The Story of Anna May Wong.” “To Die or To Dream” has been shown at film festivals and won the “Award of Merit” from Accolade Global Film Competition, the “Best Drama Honorable Mention” award from Asians on Film Festival, and the “Remi Award” from WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. The feature length screenplay was a finalist for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab 2017.
Todd I. Gordon (Writer & Executive Producer) - Todd came to screenwriting after many years in the corporate world. The first feature script he completed won two screenwriting competitions. “Pianoforte” is his first script to become a film.
Borja Campillo (Director of Photography) - Borja has worked as a producer, cinematographer and in various other roles on many narrative and documentary projects across the globe, including “Mary’s Land,” which was released in more than 22 countries in Europe, the United States, South America and Asia. That film has been a tremendous box office success, becoming the most profitable film of 2014 per copy in his native Spain. One of Borja’s last projects, “Pela Adhi Akshar,” was shot entirely in India and released worldwide in 2017. He is now working on post-production for “The Faja,” a feature documentary that will soon be seen on the festival circuit.
Joseph Gutowski (Editor & Producer) - Joseph is a film editor who has cut over 20 feature films in a wide variety of genres, such as Echelon Conspiracy, Bella, Front Cover, and Passenger 57. He apprenticed with some of the industry’s top film editors including Dede Allen, Stephen A. Rotter, and Richard Nord. Joseph is also a painter, and has had several exhibitions of his works in New York and California.
Elle Kunnos de Voss (Production Designer) - Elle is a New York-based Swedish designer. Her work ranges from production design, set and costume design, architecture to creative writing, graphics and illustration.
Elle holds an M.A. from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design. After graduating in 2004, Elle moved to New York City and has since completed production design for films, designed sets and costumes for performing arts productions in Europe and the US and is currently developing an opera with LA based composer and artist Micah Silver.
Her first opera, The Echo Drift, co-written with composer Mikael Karlsson is scheduled for its world premiere in New York Jan 2018. For her work on The Echo Drift libretto she received the Opera Genesis Fellowship, alongside composer Mikael Karlsson, in 2015. In Sweden she recently developed Justine, a theatrical dance piece, with choreographer Charlotta Öfverholm. The piece celebrates individuality and deals with justice, in a story of how imagination triumphs over oppression.
Other recent work includes set and costume design for Fernando Melos If walls could speak at The Apollo Theater, NYC, costume design for Too Much by Wendy Houston, Dansens Hus Stockholm, The Misantrophe by Hunger and Thirst Theater New York, story and illustration for Book of Loveistanis with co-writer Gudlaug Fridgeirsdottir for Gudrun Publishing / Safnabókin, Reykjiavik. Recent film projects include Girls Lost by Alexandra-Therese Keining / Gotafilm which premiered at TIFF. The Frigid by Aizhan Tuganbay / NY, The Ceremony by Lina Mannheimer / French Quarter Film which premiered at SXSW.
Nic Izzi (Producer) - Nic began his career producing concert films for record labels, several were certified Gold and Platinum Status by the Recording Industry Association. His first feature film was distributed by Universal, and he has since produced HUNTER’S MOON, starring Colm Feore and Ari Millen. He is currently co-producing THE CHAPERONE, written by Julian Fellowes.
Jessica Kingdon (Producer) - Jessica is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. She received her BA in Film Studies from Columbia University and her MA in Media Studies from The New School. Her short film "Commodity City" shot in Yiwu, China is an observational documentary about the world’s largest wholesale mall. It has played at IFF Rotterdam, Slamdance, True/False, Sarasota and others. It won the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Director at Ann Arbor Film Festival. She also works as an independent producer, and recently co-produced the feature film “Old Stone” which premiered at the Berlinale 2016 and won Best Canadian First Feature at TIFF 2016. Her residencies include the UnionDocs Lab and the Points North Institute Shortform Editing Residency. She is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.
Paul Walker (Producer) - Paul is a New York-based screenwriter. A graduate of NYU's Cinema Studies department, his passion for film history and aesthetics provides a wealth of knowledge upon which he draws as a writer principally concerned with advancing a radical sense of empathy onscreen.
Paul's bilingual stylings - French and English - stem from time spent abroad in France as a child. Despite his fluency with the culture of La Republique, he bleeds New York City bop. Currently working as a freelance screenwriter developing feature-length scripts and shorter formats, he previously spent years working in post-production and development, for companies including Focus Features, FUSE and Discovery Networks.
Peilinʼs first short film, "Everyday," won the "Someone to Watch 2005" award from CineWomen NY and was broadcast by PBS’s "Reel New York" in 2007. Her short film, "A.K.A. 08494####," was awarded “First Runner Up” and “Most Original” from the 2005 "72 Hour Film Shootout" competition. Her music video, "true story," was screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Her short film, "Private Party," won the Golden Palm award at the 2009 Mexico International Film Festival.
Peilinʼs 23-minute film, "Prescott Place," was nominated for the "Excellence in Short Filmmaking" award at the 2011 Asian American International Film Festival. The film was also an official selection at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and won an “Honorable Mention” award from Asians On Film Festival 2012. “Prescott Place" is distributed by SnagFilms.
Peilin’s latest short film, “To Die or To Dream,” is a trailer for her upcoming feature film project, “A Thousand Deaths - The Story of Anna May Wong.” “To Die or To Dream” has been shown at film festivals and won the “Award of Merit” from Accolade Global Film Competition, the “Best Drama Honorable Mention” award from Asians on Film Festival, and the “Remi Award” from WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. The feature length screenplay was a finalist for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab 2017.
Todd I. Gordon (Writer & Executive Producer) - Todd came to screenwriting after many years in the corporate world. The first feature script he completed won two screenwriting competitions. “Pianoforte” is his first script to become a film.
Borja Campillo (Director of Photography) - Borja has worked as a producer, cinematographer and in various other roles on many narrative and documentary projects across the globe, including “Mary’s Land,” which was released in more than 22 countries in Europe, the United States, South America and Asia. That film has been a tremendous box office success, becoming the most profitable film of 2014 per copy in his native Spain. One of Borja’s last projects, “Pela Adhi Akshar,” was shot entirely in India and released worldwide in 2017. He is now working on post-production for “The Faja,” a feature documentary that will soon be seen on the festival circuit.
Joseph Gutowski (Editor & Producer) - Joseph is a film editor who has cut over 20 feature films in a wide variety of genres, such as Echelon Conspiracy, Bella, Front Cover, and Passenger 57. He apprenticed with some of the industry’s top film editors including Dede Allen, Stephen A. Rotter, and Richard Nord. Joseph is also a painter, and has had several exhibitions of his works in New York and California.
Elle Kunnos de Voss (Production Designer) - Elle is a New York-based Swedish designer. Her work ranges from production design, set and costume design, architecture to creative writing, graphics and illustration.
Elle holds an M.A. from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design. After graduating in 2004, Elle moved to New York City and has since completed production design for films, designed sets and costumes for performing arts productions in Europe and the US and is currently developing an opera with LA based composer and artist Micah Silver.
Her first opera, The Echo Drift, co-written with composer Mikael Karlsson is scheduled for its world premiere in New York Jan 2018. For her work on The Echo Drift libretto she received the Opera Genesis Fellowship, alongside composer Mikael Karlsson, in 2015. In Sweden she recently developed Justine, a theatrical dance piece, with choreographer Charlotta Öfverholm. The piece celebrates individuality and deals with justice, in a story of how imagination triumphs over oppression.
Other recent work includes set and costume design for Fernando Melos If walls could speak at The Apollo Theater, NYC, costume design for Too Much by Wendy Houston, Dansens Hus Stockholm, The Misantrophe by Hunger and Thirst Theater New York, story and illustration for Book of Loveistanis with co-writer Gudlaug Fridgeirsdottir for Gudrun Publishing / Safnabókin, Reykjiavik. Recent film projects include Girls Lost by Alexandra-Therese Keining / Gotafilm which premiered at TIFF. The Frigid by Aizhan Tuganbay / NY, The Ceremony by Lina Mannheimer / French Quarter Film which premiered at SXSW.
Nic Izzi (Producer) - Nic began his career producing concert films for record labels, several were certified Gold and Platinum Status by the Recording Industry Association. His first feature film was distributed by Universal, and he has since produced HUNTER’S MOON, starring Colm Feore and Ari Millen. He is currently co-producing THE CHAPERONE, written by Julian Fellowes.
Jessica Kingdon (Producer) - Jessica is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. She received her BA in Film Studies from Columbia University and her MA in Media Studies from The New School. Her short film "Commodity City" shot in Yiwu, China is an observational documentary about the world’s largest wholesale mall. It has played at IFF Rotterdam, Slamdance, True/False, Sarasota and others. It won the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Director at Ann Arbor Film Festival. She also works as an independent producer, and recently co-produced the feature film “Old Stone” which premiered at the Berlinale 2016 and won Best Canadian First Feature at TIFF 2016. Her residencies include the UnionDocs Lab and the Points North Institute Shortform Editing Residency. She is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.
Paul Walker (Producer) - Paul is a New York-based screenwriter. A graduate of NYU's Cinema Studies department, his passion for film history and aesthetics provides a wealth of knowledge upon which he draws as a writer principally concerned with advancing a radical sense of empathy onscreen.
Paul's bilingual stylings - French and English - stem from time spent abroad in France as a child. Despite his fluency with the culture of La Republique, he bleeds New York City bop. Currently working as a freelance screenwriter developing feature-length scripts and shorter formats, he previously spent years working in post-production and development, for companies including Focus Features, FUSE and Discovery Networks.