CAMERON LOWE
Director, Writer
Producer, Editor
Always involved in the arts in one of its myriad forms, Cameron Lowe sang and played keyboard and guitar in numerous bands after studying music composition at UCSB. He has also written many songs and continues to write with top Nashville songwriter Marv Green. His interest in film was ignited after purchasing a Super 8 film camera to record the images of his daughter’s early childhood. It was then that he discovered the beauty of using the film medium to capture and communicate life’s profound and comedic moments.
Cameron soon progressed to shooting short films and television commercials. His father, lead singer of the legendary garage rock pioneers The Electric Prunes, prompted Cameron’s first large scale undertaking - the documentary My Dad is an Electric Prune. The family crucible proved to be an irresistible wellspring of subject matter for the new filmmaker.
Cameron’s next quest was to write and direct his first feature film. Mushka Water is the quirky and touching story of a lost young man who undergoes personal transformation after accidentally drinking a powerful elixir, and becomes the unwitting student of life’s finest teacher – love. It is a modern fairytale set in Bosnia and Los Angeles, told in Cameron’s immediate style he calls "Garage Vision."
Admiring the ‘do it your self’ pioneers of early Rock n Roll, Cameron makes his films in the same spirit. Inspired by the French New Wave films,
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the Danish film style of Dogme 95, and films such as Easy Rider and Amores Peros, Cameron believes garage spirited filmmaking has advanced cinema into a fresh, raw and immediate future.
Cameron is currently writing a black comedy and directing a documentary about homeless musicians.
JOHANN WOLF
Co-Producer
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
After graduating from the Los Angeles Theatre Academy’s writer/director program, Johann began his career as a fashion photographer in Vienna and Paris while taking postgraduate art and film classes at the Kunst Hoheschule and Sorbonne respectively.
He moved back to California in the mid- eighties and worked in Hollywood positions varying from assistant editor on Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II, art dog on Northern Exposure, to music videos for Propaganda, and also sound mixer and camera operator on numerous indie features.
Moving back to Europe he expanded as a Creative Director at advertising agencies Bates, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and Ogilvy and Mather. This experience segued into directing and producing TV commercials and music videos.
In 1998 Johann founded the post Soviet commercial production company Radioaktivefilm in Kiev, Ukraine, which now produces an average of 70 commercials per year.
He continues to work as an international commercial director and photographer, recently completing a PSA for peace in Iraq and 3 new launch spots for LG in the US while making Mushka Water, and is currently preparing various upcoming feature projects.
Johann has a beautiful two-year-old daughter, Taisia, and between travels lives in Ojai, California.
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BRYAN CLARK
Composer
"I am large, I contain multitudes"
Whitman.
Bryan Clark continues to defy categorization. A published author with a doctorate in Jazz Guitar, a Masters in Composition, and a signed bluegrass band, he simply can't be pigeonholed. How can one easily describe a Texas Buddhist cowboy who publishes articles about meditation, releases an average of three CDs per year, does session work in Los Angeles, collaborates with dance troupes and spoken word artists, and is in demand as a film composer, producer, songwriter, and guitarist?
"I met Cameron Lowe while doing a avant-garde poetry show at 'the Mint' in LA about 2 years ago. It was a one-woman show and I scored the music live on stage with her every night. After the show, Cameron and I got to talking about film and we discovered that we had strikingly similar views on the interaction between the audio and visual worlds"
Bryan has a special penchant for concept CDs. Two of his most recent contemporary classical ventures "7 Secret Lives of Lucien Midnight" (2003 Rainfeather Records), and "Cincinnatus at the Plow" (2002 Rainfeather Records) have garnered praises and critical acclaim. "7 Secret Lives of Lucien Midnight is about a man who thinks he's 7 different people, all of whom exist on the under-belly of society: Porn star, Magi, Ronin, Carnival Stalker, etc..by the end of the CD, he's a wraith. He just goes around interfering with people's radio reception and running chills up their spines. Musically It's like Charles Ives, Bartok, Stravinsky, and Part, meet Charles Mingus, and Elvis Costello in Bill Monroe's living room. www.bryanclarkmusic.com
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CAST:
Sananda Vietor: Fortimbras
Natalie Mandrick:
Marina
Robert Mcatee:
Sutton
Oto Brezina:
Bosnian Shopkeeper
Tara Clark:
Olga
Ken Johnson:
Ibrahim
Armand Napoleon Kirshman
Mladen
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Camilla More
Lisa McLaughlin-Strassman