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DIRECTOR / PRODUCER Steven Greenstreet, 25, first began work with documentary film after returning from a two year Mormon mission to South America. In 2001, he began the project Futonmaker. He and John Kinhart, director of the film, both filmed and edited the hour-long feature which explores the life of Melchizedek Todd, a young African-American man who worked in a futon factory in downtown Baltimore. Greenstreet and Kinhart collaborated again in 2002; their second documentary Non-Player Character studies the life and imagination of role-playing gamers and stand-up comedians. Since moving to Utah in 2003, Greenstreet has worked extensively with the Utah film community, including the LDS Motion Picture Studio, Halestorm Entertainment, and countless movie, television, and commercial productions. He edited Halestorm's DVD release of It's Latter-day Night! and recently worked as a production assistant with Anthony Hopkins on The World's Fastest Indian.. As he covered the "Michael Moore Controversy" at Utah Valley State College in October 2004, he dropped out of school, quit his job and dedicated all his efforts to making a film about the failure of civil discourse in America. |
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CO-PRODUCER Dr. Philip Gordon is the exuberant and out-spoken Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Utah Valley State College featured in the documentary This Divided State. Phil received his Ph.D. in communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003. His doctoral dissertation, The Sound and the Fury: Common Sense about the Exxon Valdez, explores the cultural construction of the famous oil spill from historical, critical, and environmental perspectives. He has taught at the University of Illinois, Michigan Technological University, the University of Alaska, and Alaska Pacific University. He has presented and published on a wide variety of topics, with a particular interest in the intersections of culture, politics, and environment. "Dr. Phil" often jokes that "he's on a mission from GodŠto teach the Mormons how to be liberal." His most recent publication is titled, Not a Mormon: Confessions of a Dangerous Nomo, in a forthcoming issue of the journal Cultural Studies. |
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ASSISTANT DIRECTORS Elias Pate and Bryan Young met while in the 6th grade and have been working together as a co-writer/co-director team ever since they began pre-production on their first feature film Missy while still in high school. In 1999, just after high school graduation, they built a spaceship interior set in Bryan's backyard and filmed the dramatic feature Missy in just 3 weeks. Since then, they've directed a series of shorts, assistant directed various feature films (The Best Two Years, 2004), and directed a feature length documentary (The Misbehavers, 2004). They've also written dozens of screenplays, two of which have been hip-pocketed at top agencies in Los Angeles. Aside from helping Steven Greenstreet out on This Divided State, they are both in pre-production on a feature film entitled The Snipe Hunters. They are both married and each have two children. |
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