Artistic License, David Lago Bio

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Divi Crockett

NEWS	Key Personnel Bios				Director's Statement	Promotional Photos	Press Releases
	David	Jennifer	Michael	Divi


DAVID LAGO PLAYING DAVID MILKEN While best known for his role of Raul Guitierrez on The Young and the Restless, Emmy-Award winning David Lago also won the recurring role of Jeremy on the WB’s 7th Heaven.
David has guest starred in a variety of television shows including Step-by-Step, Dangerous Minds and Pacific Blue and was also the star of Hollywood Safari, a series for the Animal Planet network. Away from the small screen, Lago has starred in such films as Hollywood Horror, Young Hollywood, and A Couple of Days and Nights. David is also an accomplished writer, having written his own original screenplays. He somehow still manages to find time to write songs and play drums for his band.
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JENNIFER ECHOLS PLAYING BRIANCA VINCENT Anyone who has turned on a TV in the past decade has no doubt seen the face of Jennifer Echols. She has been sassing people in countless airings of commercials for years.
	Among Jennifer’s many television credits are Nip/Tuck, Malcolm In the Middle, Hidden Hills, Less Than Perfect and The District with recurring roles on ER and Strong Medicine. Some of her films include The Notebook, The Ladykillers, Friday After Next along with upcoming releases: Grilled, Down In The Valley and Dying For Dolly. A graduate of USC, Jennifer is also a sassy R & B, jazz and blues singer with a heavy musical theater background.
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MICHAEL WOHL -CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR Michael Wohl is best known as the principal designer of Apple’s Final Cut Pro software, but his accolades as a filmmaker are piling up with the completion of his first feature film, *WANT*, in 2003:
“An arresting debut feature probing familiar ideas with a fresh eye...Wohl’s screen future looks bright”– DENNIS HARVEY, VARIETY “Crafted with assurance and panache” – DANIEL WIBLE, FILM THREAT “Wohl has the makings of a J.G. Ballard for the information age. WANT is a fantastic, fun and frantic ride through the modern day crush of digital desire!” – DONOVAN AIKMAN, VICTORIA IND. FILM FESTIVAL “Refreshing, funny and brilliant! An original and exciting story told in a way that not only kept me engaged, but fascinated me, made me laugh and made me cry.” – HESTER SCHELL, BAY AREA CASTING NEWS
Wohl wrote, produced, directed, and edited WANT, an “edgy, stylized, and thought provoking” film about dot-com mania and sex addiction set during the internet boom of 1999. An earlier film, Theatereality (1993) won the coveted CINE Eagle award and played in many festivals around the world. Michael got his training at Northeastern University and San Francisco State University, achieving a B.A. Cum Laude from the latter in 1992. He then went on to work as an editor, sound mixer and finally, A.D. at Film and Video Service, a corporate video facility specializing in environmental projects and training films for companies like Chevron and British Petroleum. After getting recruited to assist with designing digital editing and special effects software for Adobe Systems (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop) He was the second person hired to develop the next generation of editing software, Final Cut Pro for Macromedia. His role was to provide the real world experience and input to guide the engineers to create a tool that could please both professional editors as well as novices. In 1998, the team was purchased by Apple Computer where he went on to design and produce all of the demo and training material used for the software. Final Cut Pro won an Emmy Award in 2002 and has grown to be one of the most widely used tools in the filmmaking industry. During this time, Wohl continued to hone his filmmaking skills by doing freelance editing, writing, and directing gigs including music videos, short films, documentaries, and several corporate pieces for Apple, Macromedia and Hobie Cat Sailboats. To further develop his directing ability, he studied acting with the Bennett Theater Lab, a 3-year intensive program focusing on Stanislavski’s method of physical action. Throughout this time, he grew to be one of the world’s leading experts on digital filmmaking. In 1998 he founded Bare Witness Productions, an award-winning ensemble of actors and filmmakers using improvisation to create short films for the internet. That group’s first feature film IPO premiered at the *Slamdance film festival* in 2004 and has gone on to win several awards. To help support his filmmaking endeavors, he has written several books and training DVDs on editing, digital filmmaking, and special effects techniques. In addition he has taught classes on those subjects at institutions including AFI, UCLA, San Francisco State University, University of Georgia, South by Southwest, DV Expo, MacWorld, Cinequest Film Festival as well as countless seminars around the world.
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DIVI CROCKETT - PRODUCER Divi Crockett is the co-founder of Scheherazade films, a development and production company for feature films and television. In 2002, she produced her first feature film, WANT which won wide critical acclaim and played at several international film festivals including Cinequest, IFP Central Standard, Newport Beach Film Festival and others.
	“WANT is an arresting debut feature smartly handled on a low budget.” – Variety “WANT is a powerful, refreshing digital feature that works.” – Bay Area Casting News Additionally, Divi has produced four short films, several of which have also received festival and broadcast exposure. As a production manager she has worked on music videos, short films and spent two years post supervising for Metropolis Digital, a special effects house with clients including 20th Century Fox Television, Ten Thirteen, and Roland Enmerich’s Centropolis. As a production coordinator, Divi has worked for Larry Levinson Productions, where she has completed five feature length movies for the Hallmark Channel in the past six months.
She spent more than 8 years working in the San Francisco independent film scene working in various capacities on over 25 feature films including Sundance hits: *Groove* (dir: Greg Harrison), Haiku Tunnel (Josh and Jake Kornbluth), Cherish(Finn Taylor) and the Sundance Channel’s own Red Diaper Baby. Related experience includes a stint producing DVDs for Circa 9 (a subsidiary of Intellikey Labs) and she was on the selection committee for the Cinequest film festival from 1996 –1998. She also was a curator for PBS affiliate KTEH’s, The Naked Eye. She has worked as a make-up artist, both in film and for the San Jose Opera, working on shows including La Boheme and La Traviata. She has taught special effects make-up techniques at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. This past year she as produced a series of one-act plays featuring award winning actors and directors called The Clap, as well as a training DVD for Apple Computer’s Motion software.

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