Fiore DeRosa
Co-Director/Co-Producer
Fiore DeRosa is a long time lower Manhattan resident and an award winning film and theater director. His film “Distraction”, which he wrote, directed and produced won third prize in the Zoie Film Festival, and is currently in online distribution with “REAL”, and rated one of the top 100 viewed films. His recent film, “After The Tango”, which he wrote and directed, has just finished post-production and is soon to be in the film festival circuit. He was the Founder and Creative Director of The Abraxxas Theater in New York City, and previously the Managing Director of Hunger Theater of Philadelphia. With Hunger Theater, his production of “American Buffalo” won The Golden Cockerel Award for best play in the 2000 Edinburgh film festival.
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Jen Senko
Co-Director/Co-Producer
A graduate of Pratt Institute, Jen has worked in the independent film world for
over ten years. “Road Map Warrior Women”, her award-winning documentary short,
screened at the Brooklyn and Houston Film Festivals, among others. It received
the Special Jury Award from CineWomen where she was featured as a panelist at
the 2002 Women Who Rock Symposium. She is the creator of JSenko Productions,
LLC.
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Heather Quist
Associate Producer
Heather is another long-time resident of New York City, and is very familiar with the politics, business and economics of the city. Her film career includes several independent productions, most especially as Production Manager and Script Editor for “Downsizing of the Gods” (a short satire about disruption and change in a New York business) and as Associate Producer for a JSenko Productions film in production. She has a B.S. in Communications from Syracuse University with a Concentration in Urban Politics.
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Christopher Bram
Writer
Christopher is the author of nine novels, including “Gods and Monsters”, which became an Oscar-winning movie starring Ian McKellan and Lynn Redgrave. A 2001 Guggenheim Fellow, Bram has been the writer-in-residence at both Vassar and William and Mary. He is a widely-published book and film reviewer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Premiere, New York Newsday and James White Review. Bram has also collaborated on several feature screenplays with Draper Shreve, including a film about Tallulah Bankhead currently being developed for actress Patricia Clarkson.
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Draper Shreeve
Editor
Draper has produced, directed and edited four narrative shorts and one
documentary. “Kids of Penzance”, broadcast on the Documentary Channel, follows a
group of New York City students and their teachers against the backdrop of a
production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, “The Pirates of Penzance”. The
film was sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts. “Dangerous Music”,
featuring Tony-nominated Kathleen Chalfant of “Wit” and “Angels in America”, won
the Bronze Award at the Houston International Film Festival and was included in
the New American Short Film series at the American Film Institute. Shreeve
studied design and filmmaking at Pratt Institute and New York University.
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Abe Schrager
Cinematography Consultant
Abe brings to the project extensive cinematic and photographic experience, from the Beatles to the Oscar-winning films “Dead Man Walking” and “The Hours”. Most especially, his years of shooting in New York City for “Law & Order” and “Sex and the City” provides the crew of “Vanishing New York” with a wealth of information and techniques for working in the city.
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Jason Knobloch
Cinematographer
Jason is trained and experienced in several styles of photography, which gives him the flexibility to meet the challenges of shooting in New York City. He attended the Hallmark Institute of Photography and the Art Institute of Philadelphia. His work may be seen through his company, Illusion Studios and his website, www.jasonknobloch.com.
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Allan Ludwig
Photographer and Story-Writer
Allan has been working for more than 50 years. His photos have been in numerous solo and group exhibitions, both in the US and internationally, and are in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress and many others. He has a Ph.D. in Art History from Yale University, and has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bollinger Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others. Most recently, Ludwig has written a text called “Neighborhood Stories,” about the gentrification of Little Italy and other downtown neighborhoods.
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