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Chuck McLearn
Producer Chuck is a Producer from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since his entry into the Atlantic Canadian film industry in 2011, Charles has remained active through formal education, producing smaller independent film, documentaries and working on some of the largest sets in the region.
In 2014, Charles reunited with his friend and former mentor Joshua Young to help produce two smaller shorts, Choices and Touch, which are both slated for a 2015 release date. |
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Joshua Young
Writer & Director Like fellow writer / heroes of mine, this story started with me drunk in a bar. The good news is the alcohol was Sangria, the show was Flamenco dancing and my mind had big life questions occupying it. A nice recipe for a short film about love, passion and getting older. I have a lot of friends moving into their senior years and I've often wondered where I'm going to be. But more importantly, who I'm going to be with when I get older. What's going to keep me driven and loving life? I perhaps naively believe that love and passion will be my personal driving force. So I wanted to show this through the character Leandro. He's like an exhausted lion who won't give up on life. In the past fourteen years Joshua has worn many hats in the film, television and commercial industries:
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Meet the Team!
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Josh Cruddas
Composer Josh Cruddas is a Toronto-based artist. His work composing for film has earned him two SOCAN Foundation Awards for Musical Score (Top 3) by a Canadian composer under the age of 35, along with various other awards and nominations. His work has traveled to festivals including Cannes and LAIFF, to the American Film Market, and even to funnyordie.com. His first feature film as a composer, LA-shot sci-fi action-adventure Battle For Skyark, will be released worldwide by LIONSGATE (the studio behind The Hunger Games) this summer. It’s been a privilege to work with Joshua, Chuck, David and the rest of this great team! www.joshcruddas.com |
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Maria Osende is professional dancer, teacher and choreographer from Spain established in halifax, Nova Scotia since 2003. Maria is a passionate about dance and about bringing flamenco to everyone around her. Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, Maria started dancing at age seven with Luis Fuente and later on with Julia Estevez and Jose Granero. Maria grew up strongly influenced by ballet and flamenco. At age fifteen, she became one of the youngest members of the National Ballet of Spain (currently Compañia Nacional de Danza). At seventeen a Fulbright scholarship allowed her to take a leave of absence from the company and deepen her ballet studies at the School of American Ballet in New York City.
At nineteen Maria was offered a contract with the Deutsche Oper Berlin Ballet and moved to Germany, where she danced as a soloist for eight years, working with several choreographers and performing a wide ranged repertoire of classical and contemporary dance. Throughout this time, Maria started developing an increased interest in doing her own creations and in finding a dance style that truly matched her personality and origins, this inevitably brought he back to flamenco. Back in Madrid, Maria focused exclusively on flamenco at the renown Centro de Arte Flamenco Amor de Dios. Amongst her teachers are Manuel Reyes, La Truco, Ana Maria Amahi, Inmaculada Ortega and many more. Shortly after, Maria started performing flamenco as a freelance with various musicians. |
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Daniel MacNeil Guitarist www.danielmacneil.ca Daniel is a Multi-Discipline Instrumentalist (Guitar, Oud, Percussion), Composer, Educator, and Arranger based in Halifax who due to his creativity, professionalism and ability to collaborate is becoming more and more in demand. He is the founder and Director of Halifax, Nova Scotia’s Premiere Middle Eastern Music Chamber Ensemble “Nafas”, in which he performs Oud and Percussion (dumbek, riq, tar). Daniel has composed, arranged, and performed in concert with Symphony Nova Scotia, the Victoria Symphony and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. |