bios
Actor/Writer/Director - Lynn Breedlove
Lynn Breedlove will star as the lead talent for Godspeed, Jim. As an author, comic, and the lead singer of Tribe8, Breedlove has toured with spoken word, music and multimedia shows, collaborating across lines of race, age and gender.
Breedlove has been dedicated to creating women's, trans,
and queer art programs internationally for the last 15 years. He has taken
this performance art to the cinema screen in Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary (2003), the feature By Hook or By Crook (2004), the documentary Wrong
Bathroom (2005), and in numerous documentaries about the communities of
women and queers in rock. In the 90s Breedlove founded Lickety Split All
Girl Courier, toured with Sister Spit, and wrote Godspeed, the autobiographical
novel (St. Martins Press, 2002. He is now touring his One Freak Show in
the US and Europe in five languages, a solo comedy show about trans identities
and the LGBTIQQ community.
Co-Director – Jen Gilomen
Jen Gilomen is a media producer and instructor at the
Bay Area Video Coalition, where she manages a program called the Digital
Storytelling Institute, helping California-based nonprofits use technology
to tell stories for social change. Jen's documentary In My Shoes:
Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents (director, 31min, 2005) won the Audience
Award for Best Short at the 2005 Frameline Film Festival, and went on
to screen at several other festivals across the U.S. Her other documentaries
and short narrative works have screened in various festivals in the U.S.,
France, Italy, England, Spain, Brazil, Australia, Mexico, and New Zealand. In addition to editing Godspeed and a short documentary about Paraguay, she's currently writing a feature screenplay called Sunlight in a Dark Room, which she plans to produce in mid-2007.
Producer - Kami Chisholm
Kami Chisholm is a Bay Area producer/filmmaker and lecturer in Women Studies at San Francisco State University. FtF: Female to Femme, Chisholm's first feature documentary, premiered this summer at Frameline30 to a sold-out crowd. Chisholm is also the director of Seven Questions about Desire, an experimental erotic documentary that debuted in July at the 2006 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. In 2005, Chisholm and Jen Gilomen co-directed Sigmund Freud: Professional Psychoanalyst, which screened at Frameline and Outfest before touring at queer film festivals worldwide. Currently, Chisholm is producing Godspeed and is in development on her own HD short, The Insomniacs.
Co-Producer - Laura Teodosio
Laura is the producer of the award winning short "Who's
The Top?" directed by Jennie Livingston (Paris Is Burning).
She is a software designer and entrepreneur, and currently runs a video
imaging technology company whose clients include leading media, advertising
and government customers around the world.
Director of Photography – Sinisa Kuckic
Sinisa Kukic graduated from Southern Illinois University
in 2005 with a BA in Cinema and Photography. Kukic is currently enrolled
in San Francisco State University's MFA Cinema program, where he continues
to make experimental and documentary films. Other interests include cinematography,
hand processing, and new forms of camera subjectivity. “Pump”
(2006), his most recent film, explores the hybridization of the bicycle
and the cyclist. His film, “Breathe” (2003), aired on FOX
television, and his undergraduate thesis, “Conduit Of Displacement”
(2004), won the Loren D. Cocking Animation Award. Born in the former Yugoslavia,
Kukic and his family moved to Chicago when he was eleven. He currently
resides in San Francisco, where he is editing “Imaginary Lines,”
a documentary about migrant border crossings in Arizona. He is also acting
as the Director of Photography for Godspeed.
Assistant Director/Casting Director –Dara Sklar
San Francisco's unique queer culture is brought to life with sass in the characters Dara Sklar plays, writes and directs. She co-produced Sweet Boy about mommy/boy dyke relationships, casted extras for the love story Mango Kiss, and wrote and produced both this is a party about a transgendered man questioning his role in the lesbian community, and the worldwide film festival favorite Toothbrush Tango which danced through the trials of a hygience obsesses slut. Most recently, she collaborated with the talented and zany director, ideographic and editor, Pam Dore, to produce the popular short Day One: a Period Piece, about women's once-a-month chasm between perception and reality.Assistant Camera/Assistant Editor – Alexa Inkeles
Alexa Inkeles grew up in Los Angeles, California where
she escaped from Hollywood to the Bay Area to study Social Documentation
at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her latest documentary, Our
Life, A Hidden Life, came out of a 6-month field study focusing on queer
rights issues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and screened at Frameline 2005.
She has produced short videos for non-profits such as The Boys and Girls
Clubs, Women's Initiative for Self Employment, and Ladyfest Bay Area 2004.
Currently, Alexa teaches video production to high school youth at the
Beacon Center and does freelance video production for non-profits, community
groups, and queer storytellers.
2nd Assistant Director /Assistant Editor - Liz Berliner
Liz graduated in 2005 from Smith College with a B.A. in film and theatre. She has worked on a variety of documentary films including David Sutherland's Country Boys and for Powderhouse Productions in Somerville, MA. Her senior film, The Second Oldest Profession, was accepted into the Camp Betty Campout Film Festival and an earlier film, Catching The Wind was accepted into the Northampton Independent Film Festival. Her passion for documentary video production brought her out to the Bay Area in 2005 to assistant edit Ugly Ducklings, which has been accepted into various film festivals across the country. Liz is currently in pre-production on a project exploring gender and considering graduate school.
