The Filmmakers:
Sean King has been steadily making films and videos for 16 years. After graduating high school, he co founded the production group Horror Business Pictures and wrote, produced, directed and acted in numerous short films and videos that had many festival and public screenings, including the acclaimed WEDDING PICTURES (2002). King then joined the comedy film group The Slack Pack and co-produced numerous sketches and over 30 half hour episodes for cable television and festival screenings. In the meantime he took production work on independent short and feature films, doing everything from sound recording to assistant director. Recently, he has been focusing on acting and freelance cinematography as well as the production of industrial videos.
Paul Natale has been working professionally in the entertainment industry since graduating high school. But, it was in 2002 that he decided to focus his creative energies specifically on his passion for film. His first short, UN-REAL, which starred Sean King and was shot by Pete Bune, had a successful festival run which inspired him to continue writing and directing films while further developing his skills. This led him to film schools on the East and West coasts of the US, the production a few more shorts and finally to Paris, France to attend EICAR: The International Film School of Paris. Here, his 2nd year Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis film, CASSIE, was awarded the best in class Grand Prize from an illustrious cinéaste jury panel, and his thesis 35mm film, THE LESSON, has won awards and screened in film festivals around the world. Natale is now back in NYC to continue his professional career.
Peter Bune made up one fourth of the Long Island/NYC cult TV show, The Slack Pack. Bune edited the first 26 episodes and has co-directed the majority of The Slack Packs productions, including his first short, BORED (2001). In addition to work on the TV show, Bune co-wrote and directed his first feature film about the Long Island music scene, entitled THE FREAKS, NERDS, AND ROMANTICS. Bune is responsible for the cinematography behind Paul Natale's UN-REAL (2004) as well as numerous other projects for various artists.
Terrence Smith has been working in the film and video industry for seven years. His career began with a much fabled, Troma Studios where he worked as a DVD production coordinator and eventually a co-location manager on Citizen Toxie: Toxic Avenger 4. He began making films in high school where he met Sean King and Elizabeth. The three would go on to make Man into Vampire in 1997. He attended college at SUNY Buffalo and studied filmmaking and learned nothing. However, that didn't stop him from continuing to pursue his interest in all things horror and film related. Currently he is a freelance video editor in NYC as well as a full time dad to two daughters and husband to Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Smith is making her debut into filmmaking and scriptwriting with The Institute for Mental Hygiene. She graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a BFA in Metals, focusing her senior thesis on sculptural pieces representative of mental and social defects. Elizabeth has tried her hand at many different disciplines, open to any art form that can convey her desires. After working in the jewelry industry and serving as an artist's assistant to a few major artists, Elizabeth now concentrates her time plotting and experimenting ideas while raising her two young daughters.
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