Necropolis
Dir. Craig Scheihing, Zack Auron, David Fieman, Jacob Shanks Kindlon
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 9’43”, 2009
Action! Adventure! Romance! ZOMBIES! A sad love story featuring zombies. Zombies have their own world in which they have their favorite foods and fall in love. But their world is shattered…
Dir. Bio: Craig Scheihing
A Little Bit ABout Myself…
I know most people write these in the third person, but that feels weird to me. So, anyway, I’m going to tell you a little bit about myself. My name’s Craig. I’m from Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, a place you’ve probably never heard of before. It’s a small town, all nestled in the Blue Mountains, and surrounded by farm land. It’s a nice place, but since I wasn’t particularly interested in delivering pizza for the rest of my life, I left.
Left for college. Temple University. Traded Pen Argyl for Philadelphia. Decided to major in Film and Media Arts. I can’t tell you exactly why I did this, but I have suspicions it had a good deal to do with the fact that I felt more connection with movies than people over the course of my high school career. Didn’t have much experience in the whole movie making thing though. Took a photography class in high school, and made a skate video with some friends in middle school. But that was about it.
So I dove into it. Headfirst. Now, two years later, I can’t imagine doing anything else. Though I’ve worked with narrative, experimental, and documentary forms, I consider all of my media work an experiment. I approach each project differently than the last, bringing into it all the experiences from my previous work to take it, and me, somewhere new. This is why I love what I do. Each project is an opportunity to try something new, to find out what works and what doesn’t, and to learn about myself, my subject, and my craft along the way.
The Portrait
Dir. Daniela Merino, 2011, 17min. color, drama, US/Ecuador,
Synopsis:
Penélope, a young photographer, is obsessed with capturing the essence of the photographic portrait. Throughout her pursuit, Samuel, a music composer and her lover, attempts to help her understand her creative process. 
Suddenly, an unexpected event inspires her to produce a body of work that completely transforms her original intentions.
The Portrait is a poetic reflection of the inner relationship between the artist and her photographic art.
Director Bio: Daniela Merino
Ecuadorian visual artist Daniela Merino lives and works in New York city since 2003. Her art has mainly focused on a series of photographs and video portraits on female characters within the subject of coming of age: their physical and psychic transformation on a postmodern society. The Portrait is her first narrative film. It reunites experimental and more abstract elements of her previous work and traditional cinematic storytelling that poetically questions the nature of the photographic art.
Previous work:
– The photographer (2009): a photographer ends up photographing herself as she participates in a labyrinth of mirrors. HD. – Chicasblue (2008): a poetic journey into a woman’s childhood. Super 8. – Concupiscence (2008): a visual poem on the power of the unlived moment. Super 8.
– I’m not (2007): a playful interrogation between and adult and a child on the essence of identity. Super 8.
Angel in My Sky – Redwood City, California – United States, 15min.
By Diamante Horton, Ruby Gonzalez, Richard Kaho & PJ Poloai
“ANGEL IN MY SKY” is a coming of age story of young man who searches for answers during a tragic time in his life. He learns a powerful lesson in faith, forgiveness, and staying true to your word. Members of the Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy worked together to write, produce, film and edit this short film.