Joseph Valentino Palau
Founder/Director
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Regina Mosch
Director
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Yasmin Lawson
Outreach & Social media manager
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JULIE KøLLE
OUTREACH & SOCIAL MEDIA assistant
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PRESTON DRAKE-HILLYARD
Media Advisor |
Copenhagen University PArtner
Johannes Riis |
Johannes' main interest is film theoretical and has long been focused on film acting and the power of performances for affecting our experience of moving image narratives. He is the author of Spillets kunst (2003) on emotions and nonverbal meaning, and has contributed to encyclopedias, anthologies, and journals on this and other issues. Currently he is working on a book-length study of film acting styles between 1920 and 1980, addressing American, European and Asian actor-director collaborations. Johannes' is particularly interested in cognitive film theory and has attended the SCSMI conferences for years. A secondary interest is that of media industries, in particular issues of distribution and ownership, and has a particular liking for short film narratives. Johannes has been teaching a course on film theory and analysis, as well as institutions and organizations, including a course concurrent with students' internships. Since 2005 he has been a member of the board at Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, since 2017 on the board for Carl Th. Dreyers Mindefond. |
JOSEPH
Joseph Valentino Palau has been working in the entertainment industry for many years, as production assistant, assistant Director, Director and Producer. The American native has worked in Los Angeles, New York, and Denmark. He has a BA in Entertainment business from Full Sail University, two certificates in Film making, and a Masters in Film and Media, at Copenhagen University. Joseph has founded Through The Eye Productions in Denmark. The company has produced a 18 episode web series titled Perfect Pair. They currently have several projects in development from short films to features. He is also a screenwriter, director , and producer for more projects in which you can find on IMDB.
Click here for a link where you can hear Joseph talk about Perfect Pair and the growing web series trend. (Danish/English)
Joseph has founded the 1st annual Copenhagen Web Fest to shed light on all the inspiring and innovative projects designed for new platforms.
Click here for a link where you can hear Joseph talk about Perfect Pair and the growing web series trend. (Danish/English)
Joseph has founded the 1st annual Copenhagen Web Fest to shed light on all the inspiring and innovative projects designed for new platforms.
REGINA
Regina Mosch is a documentary and experimental filmmaker originally from Germany but at home in a variety of places that have influenced her creative products in many ways. After her BA in Film & Media in Stirling (Scotland) and an exchange semester at UMass, Amherst (USA), she now lives in Copenhagen and now holds a MA in Film & Media Studies. With New York based production designer Simon Schabert, she co-founded the artists’ collective NoMilk NoSugar that takes on experimental film and theatre productions. ‘Schwarzer Kaffee‘, shot in Stuttgart (Germany), won ‘Best Experimental Film‘ at the Underground Short Film Festival, Cork (Ireland) and was screened at the International Film Festival Pune, India. Their most recent production ‘What To Do With Life‘ is an experimental documentary about young artists in New York City and was in the official selection of the Monthly International Festival in Copenhagen. Other works include short documentaries (‘Seeing the World Again’, 2015; ‘Change and Growth and Stirling University’, 2016), narrative shorts (‘Of Humans and Nature’, 2016; ‘Bullets’, 2015) as well a number of radio drama / documentary productions.Together with Joseph Palau, she worked on the web series Perfect Pair as Assistant Director and will produce a feature film in spring 2017.
yasmin
Yasmin Lawson has been a part of the film industry in Atlanta and Los Angeles since 2013, first as a background actress and online magazine host and most recently as a production assistant, production manager’s assistant and second assistant director. She has worked on several series including Tastemade, Funny or Die, America’s Next Top Model Season 24 and Pensole. Her undergrad is a bachelor’s of science in public policy with a focus on sustainable city planning and a minor in environmental science, which she received in her home city of Atlanta, and she is currently pursuing a master’s of science in social entrepreneurship and management in Denmark. Yasmin specializes in sustainability and is working towards producing videos and photo journals about environmental and social issues and solutions around the world.
JULIE
Julie Kølle is a young writer and filmmaker who was raised in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Julie used to work in a cinema, where her love and interest for film and the world surrounding it, only grew bigger. Recently, Julie has been working as a production assistant for multiple short film and theatre productions and is creating Youtube and SoMe-content aimed at Danish youth. She has published a poetry collection and is currently working on writing novels for young adults. She is also working towards getting accepted into film school within the next couple of years to gain more knowledge and practice in the art of filmmaking. Ultimately Julie aspires to become a screenwriter or a film director.
PRESTON
Preston Drake-Hillyard is a talented photographer, journalist and cinematographer working out of Copenhagen. Born in Hawaii, Preston moved to Denmark with his family as a teen. Preston returned to the United States to work as an Associated Press photographer before studying at Humboldt State University among the redwood trees of northern California. Preston has since worked as a photojournalist in disaster zones, as well as an accomplished studio photographer. He’s now branched into numerous film projects including music videos, television commercials and short documentaries.
Projects include: Director, DP, Camera Operator of Clean, Simple, Local: Stedsans in the Woods a Documentary;
Photographer/Videographer, Retoucher and Photo Assistant at Line Falck Studio;
DP for Perfect Pair (Web series); DP, Camera Operator: Sæason - Marketing videos for social media; Photographer Roskilde Festival Communications; Styling assistant Stryhns Leverpostej TV commercials
Projects include: Director, DP, Camera Operator of Clean, Simple, Local: Stedsans in the Woods a Documentary;
Photographer/Videographer, Retoucher and Photo Assistant at Line Falck Studio;
DP for Perfect Pair (Web series); DP, Camera Operator: Sæason - Marketing videos for social media; Photographer Roskilde Festival Communications; Styling assistant Stryhns Leverpostej TV commercials