Kelly Brennan
grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and received
her Bachelor's degree in Television, Radio
and Film from Syracuse University. She came
to Cabin Creek Films in 2003 and has worked
on several projects including Bearing Witness,
I Married… and Steamfitters Local Union
638 . She worked as an Associate Producer
on the documentaries Shut Up & Sing, Small
Steps, High School Musical: The Music In You,
and The DC Sniper’s Wife. In April,
2008, Kelly traveled to New Orleans with Cabin
Creek Films to document V-Day’s 10th
anniversary, which was held over two days
in the Louisiana Superdome. In 2007, she traveled
to Cape Town, South Africa to film the Vital
Voices' Leadership Summit & Initiative
for Women and Girls. Kelly's main interests
include travel, volunteering, and Sunday brunch.
David Cassidy
has produced and/or directed documentary series
and features. He recently produced the verite
documentary Shut Up & Sing, directed by
Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck, about the
Dixie Chicks and the political controversy
that exploded around them following their
lead singers anti-war comment in London on
the eve of the Iraq conflict (Theaters, Weinstein
Co. 2006). Cassidy directed and produced the
documentary feature One Small Step: The Story
of the Space Chimps (2003, spacechimps.com)
with Kristin Davy, about the chimpanzees used
by NASA in the space race and what became
of them. He began his career in documentary
independently but moved on to work with Cabin
Creek Films where he was part of the producing
team behind the A&E Indie feature Bearing
Witness (A&E, 2004) and the VH1 verite
documentary series I Married… (VH1,
2003-2006). Cassidy co-produced a segment
of HBO's special on Addiction (HBO, 2007)
and was an Associate Producer on a four-year
long project about New York City Small Schools
(PBS, 2007). This past year projects on High
School Musical (Disney, 2007) and the DC Snipers
Wife (TruTV ,2008) will air. Cassidy continues
to produce with Cabin Creek Films where he
is currently working on a broad development
slate. Outside the office he pretends he is
going to finish his book and is releasing
his first film on DVD. He lives in Red Bank,
New Jersey with his wife and three cats and
hopes never to outgrow his love of chasing
the ice cream man.
Williams Cole:
Before joining Cabin Creek Films, Williams
produced Giuliani Time with director Kevin
Keating. Giuliani Time premiered at the
Rotterdam International Film Festival in
2005, was released theatrically in Landmark
Theatres in 2006 and is now available on
DVD. Previously, Williams worked on a variety
of network, cable, and independent documentary
film productions for a variety of clients
including CBS's Eye on People, A&E/The
History Channel, and Cicala Filmworks, where
he had two different documentary films in
working-progress as part of the Independent
Film Project. He graduated from Columbia
University and was a Fulbright Scholar at
the London School of Economics where he
earned an MSc in Media and Communications
while working in the BBC Documentaries Department.
Williams is also a widely published freelance
writer and a founding editor/writer for
The Brooklyn Rail, an award-winning monthly
publication about politics, art, film and
literature where writes about documentary
film, local and national politics and a
variety of other subjects.
Lucjan Gorczynski
is originally from Poland. He has been working
at Cabin Creek Films for five years as an
Associate Editor on many documentaries including
I Married…(VH1 2003-2006), Bearing Witness
(A&E 2004), Shut Up & Sing (released
theatrically 2006), Steamfitters Local Union
638 (HBO 2007), Small Steps (PBS 2007) and
High School Musical: The Music In You (The
Disney Channel, 2008).
Ashraf Rijal
grew up on New York City's quaint Roosevelt
Island. He spent his high school years at
The Dwight School, where his musical pursuits
culminated in a performance at Carnegie Hall
with his jazz ensemble. He continued his musical
endeavors at Connecticut's Wesleyan University,
playing in a number of bands – one of
which completed a successful summer tour of
the Northeast in 2004. He is a co-founder
of R.O.O.M. Collective, which organizes and
promotes concerts in central Connecticut.
Mid-way through college, he turned his attentions
to film, working on several projects in different
roles over the years. He co-produced one movie
that gained an Honorable Mention at Sundance
2006 in the Short Film category. He also wrote
and directed a short of his own – Agave
– during his final year at Wesleyan.
In 2007, he graduated with a degree in Film
Studies and moved back to Roosevelt Island,
where he currently resides. After having interned
several times in the past years, Ashraf is
happy to be working fulltime at Cabin Creek.
Maureen Dougherty
studied fine art at Carnegie Mellon University
and the NY Studio School. She has spent the
past twenty-five years in the film industry,
the last five of which at Cabin Creek Center.
In 2003, her own production company, MOJO
FILMS INC was incorporated. Currently two
films are in production: “Failure is
not an Option” is about the Abysinian
Development Corporation’s creation of
the first high school to be built in Harlem
in over fifty years (the Thurgood Marshall
Academy for Learning and Social Change), which
opened on the 50th Anniversary of Brown Vs
the Board of Ed, and “Listening to the
Mountain,” which is about the first
US Outward Bound instructor Tap Tapley and
the future of outdoor education in today’s
virtual world.
Julia Finn
graduated from the Park School of Communications
at Ithaca College where she became interested
in documentary films while working on a project
about the Haudenosaunee Native Americans of
Central New York. After college Julia moved
to Westchester and worked for a few documentary
companies before coming to Cabin Creek films
in 2008. Julia continues to work on a project
about five ex-Amish brothers living near her
hometown in Central Texas. She enjoys Broadway
shows, letterboxing and LOST.
Interns
Genevieve Faust
recently graduated from The College of New
Jersey (TCNJ) with degrees in Communication
Studies and Interactive Multimedia. She
began interning at Cabin Creek Films in
January 2008. In December 2007, she traveled
to Liberia to film a documentary that is
in post-production. At TCNJ, she shot and
edited field packages for her campus television
news show. Her interests lie primarily in
editing, but she enjoys learning more about
directing and production at Cabin Creek.
Genevieve grew up in Green Lane, Pennsylvania
and has four sisters who lend themselves
well as actresses for her movies and projects.
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