Antonio Ferrera

A native of Schenectady, NY Antonio Ferrera is an independent filmmaker. THE GATES is Mr. Ferrera’s first feature length film as director. He conceived, produced and co-directed With The Filmmaker: Portraits by Albert Maysles, featuring half-hour portraits of Robert Duvall, Jane Campion, Martin Scorsese, and Wes Anderson for the IFC channel. Before working with Maysles, Ferrera co-directed and shot Voices of Cabrini, which follows the re-development of Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing project and the ensuing effects of displacement on the African-American community as people are uprooted from their homes and community.

Ferrera produced the short film for Bill Moyers Now, entitled Before I Leave, a ten-minute human monologue and meditation on remembrance, memory, and death. Other films of note include, It’s an Adventure, a documentary about director Wes Anderson with Bill Murray, working in Rome on Wes Anderson’s film A Life Aquatic and Masada: Live at Tonic 1999 capturing acclaimed multi-instrumentalist John Zorn in concert.

Antonio is currently working on: a series called As Seen By…, a film called New York City Symphony Film and a film about energy.

Website: www.Ferrerafilms.com
 

Albert Maysles

“… the dean of documentary filmmakers, Albert Maysles.”
-The New York Times, May 6, 2002

Albert Maysles is a pioneer of Direct Cinema who, with his brother David were the first to make nonfiction feature films (Gimme Shelter, Salesman, Grey Gardens) where the drama of life unfolds as is without scripts, sets, interviews or narration. His first film, Psychiatry In Russia (1955) he made in transition from psychologist to documentary filmmaker. In 1960 he served as co-filmmaker of Primary. His 36 films include What’s Happening? The Beatles In The USA (1964), five films of the projects of Christo and Jeanne-Claude (1972 to 1995), and a sixth, THE GATES (2007), Meet Marlon Brando (1965) and three documentaries for HBO. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1965), a Peabody, an Emmy, five Lifetime Achievement Awards, the award for best cinematography at Sundance (2002) for Lalee’s Kin which was also nominated in 2001 for an Academy Award and the Columbia Dupont Award (2004). In 1999 Eastman Kodak saluted him as one of the 100 world’s finest cinematographers.