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2015 JURY BEST DEBUT FEATURE (CONTINUED) BEST DOCUMENTARY Christiane Georgi A Swiss performing artist and director who has lived in Los Angeles since 2000, Georgi is making her theatrical directorial debut at The Actors’ Gang Theatre company with Aristophanes’s Lysistrata by Ellen McLaughlin. Georgi is a member of the company, where she has performed as an actress in Break the Whip, Tartuffe and Red Noses, and is a lead teaching artist in The Actors’ Gang’s renowned prison project and youth education programs. Georgi has directed multiple operas for the Neuchâtel- based companies L’avant-Scène Opéra and at Le Théâtre du Passage including Les Contes D’Hoffman (2011), Tosca (2012) and La Vie Parisienne (2014). Moving between Switzerland and the US—and their respective languages—her work as a performing artist and director is truly multi-disciplinary and inclusive. Guido Santi He started his career working as an apprentice with Ipotesi Cinema, a film workshop coordinated by Cannes and Venice award-winning director Ermanno Olmi (The Tree of the Wooden Clogs). He wrote and directed Concertino, a film about four teenagers living in the suburbs of Rome, for RAI, Italy’s national television network. After receiving his Master’s degree in Film Production at USC, Guido has worked producing and directing documentaries and TV specials. In 2008, he produced and directed Chris & Don: A Love Story, along with his partner, Tina Mascara, and most recently, Monk with a Camera, which is currently playing in the theatres in US, Canada and Australia. Guido teaches film history and other film related classes at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita. Tina Mascara After studying journalism and photography at the Art Institute in Pittsburgh, PA, Tina moved to Los Angeles to study cinema. She graduated from the film program at the Los Angeles City College, and then wrote, produced and directed two independent feature films: Jacklight (2000) and Asphalt Stars (2002). Both films have been shown and awarded at several domestic and international film festivals. In 2008, Tina co-founded Asphalt Stars Productions with Guido Santi and together they produced, directed and edited Chris & Don: A Love Story, on the life-long relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American painter, Don Bachardy; and Monk with a Camera, on the life and journey of Nicholas Vreeland, from photographer to Tibetan Buddhist monk. Tina works as a freelance editor. John Fitzgerald Keitel An award-winning producer, director, cinematographer, and editor whose work includes the Telluride Film Festival hit Prodigal Sons and two documentaries with Drew Barrymore, including The Best Place to Start for MTV. His documentary, An All-American Story, was an official Sundance selection and received the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as the David L. Wolper Achievement Award from the Independent Documentary Association. Other past projects include: Saving the Boom, Yours Truly, Miss Chinatown, Forest Guards, and Fred. He is currently completing Justly Married, a feature documentary about seven same sex couples on their journeys to marriage equality over the past ten years. John is a graduate of Stanford University and holds an MA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. 33