Kiki Allgeier

Associate Producer

After graduating from the University of San Francisco, Kiki took off for New York where she is currently working for Little Dust Productions for filmmaker Jasmine Dellal on her film Rhythms of Rom (working title). In addition to working on the pre-production of her own short film Dear Mr. Polar Bear, Kiki has been studying with many members of the Upright Citizen's Brigade and will to be performing there every Tuesday in June.

Bill Basquin

Gaffer

Bill Basquin is a San Francisco-based FTM gaffer, filmmaker, and photographer. As a gaffer, Bill lit such acclaimed projects as: Tiffany Schlain's Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Jed Bell's Foucault WHO?, Silas Howard and Harry Dodge's By Hook or By Crook, Natalija Vekic's The Girl with the Pearl Suspended, Abigail Severance's Come Nightfall, Amy Hick's Hatching Beauty, Ilya Perlman's Unhung Heroes, and Laura Plotkin's Whipsmart. As a director and cinematographer, Bill received a 2001 Golden Gate Award and a 2004 Film Arts Fund grant, and will have a retrospective at the San Francisco Cinematheque in May 2005. For more information, please visit www.billbasquin.com.

Jed Bell

Assistant Director

Jed Rosenthal Bell is a San Francisco filmmaker and animator. His first film, the queer noir crime drama Foucault WHO?, toured the globe, winning awards both at home and in Europe. The animated DRIVE THRU, his second film--combining joyous Tokyo-pop-color flatness with an embittered rant on the transgender situation--is now screening around the world. Jed's production company, Heads Will Roll Productions, can be found at www.headswillroll.net.

Ariella J. Ben-Dov

Project Advisor

Ariella J. Ben-Dov is the co-founder, director and curator of the MadCat Women’s International Film Festival. MadCat promotes cutting-edge films and videos by women directors from around the globe. Ben-Dov has participated in and moderated panels on alternative exhibition, documentary film and experimental filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival, SF International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and Bay Area Lady Fest. She has been a juror and panel chairwoman at the SF International Film Festival. In addition she has acted as a juror for the NY Underground Film Festival, the Horizons Foundation, SF Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and Milan Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

Christian Bruno

Cinematographer

Cinematographer and filmmaker Christian Bruno has employed photography, hand-processing, found footage and sound collage in a number of film contexts to explore lost and overlooked histories. His personal work includes the short experimental piece Midge, and the documentary Pie Fight '69, made with Sam Green, which garnered several awards including Sundance Film Festival Short Film, Black Maria Grand Jury and Chicago Underground Silver Jury prizes. His collaborations with Natalija Vekic include the dual projected super8 film Diggins, and the installations Twilight of the Celluloid Age and The Weeping Woman, both presented at various venues around the Bay Area. Strand: A Natural History of Cinema, his current long form documentary, is an examination of the changing urban landscape seen through the lens of San Francisco s disappearing single screen movie houses. Mr. Bruno received an SF Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant for this film.

Laura Jane Coles

Actor (Rhonda)

Laura Jane Coles found her way to performance work a little late in life, after a severe detour through the practice of law. Laura Jane can now regularly been seen on stage throughout the Bay Area, as well as in numerous independent films showing in film festivals across the country. To learn more about LJ’s performance work -- and see some really cute photos of her super-wonderful cats, Porkchop and Applesauce -- visit her website at www.laurajanecoles.com.

Katarina Fabic

Script Supervisor

Katarina Fabic has an Associates Degree in film production from CCSF where she had the pleasure to meet and work on many films with Miss Vekic (Carl Weichert's Hard To Swallow, Laurel Frank's Sound Bites and her own -Blu Girl). Since then she has worked primarily as an actor on Bay Area indie gems such as Bettina In The Fog, I Am A Sex Addict, Whiskey Blue, and Come Fly With Me Nude. She is currently co-editing a feature, Knocked Up, in which she acted and co-directed with actors from Shari Carlson Studio... plugs are just too cool. She jumped at the chance to work with Natalija again for Lost & Found cause she ROCKS!

Ryan Hayes

Actor (Milan)

Ryan Hayes has always been an actor and a professional human being. He fluctuates between theatre, film, watching films, watching people, and thinking about making films. Ryan also acted in Natalija's last movie, The Girl with the Pearl Suspended. His other movie credits include Alice in Storageland, The Breathing Show, Seriality, Love and the Monster, UP, and Generating Delusion. Ryan is currently performing in the world premier of HEN!! The Musical and has appeared on stage with No Nude Men Productions in L.E.A.R, Troijka, Speak to Me, and Edward II. He joined Elastic Future for their production of Beautiful, Asylum Theater's Uroboros, as well as the local classic Young Zombies in Love. Ryan is currently creating his disaster piece Stories Of A Sausage Patty.

Pat Jackson

Project Advisor

Pat Jackson began her career as an assistant sound editor on Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and has worked extensively as a sound editor and sound supervisor on numerous features like Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley and The English Patient, Blue Velvet, Toy Story and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.

Rebecca McBride

Photographer

R.A. McBride is a freelance photographer working and living in San Francisco. To see more of McBride's work go to www.rebeccamcbride.com

Andrea Minton

Art Director

Art Director/Wardrobe mistress Andrea Minton specializes in both timeless sculptural environments and detail oriented period pieces. Lost & Found is her second collaboration with the Natalija Vekic after art directing the award winning Girl With The Pearl Suspended. Other projects include Danny Plotnik's 50's whodunnit/film lesson Swingers Serenade (Best Props Ed Wood Intl Film Fest), Greg Serpa's Hero and Alex Pearcy's soon to be completed psychedelic film noir Silver Dragon and numerous other projects. She has a BFA in Sculpture, studied Decorative Arts at Christies NYC and is currently slinging mannequins and painting murals as a Visual Merchandiser for a major department store in Los Angeles.

Angela Reginato

Editor

Angela Reginato is a free-lance editor and instructor who lives and works in Oakland, California. Her wide body of work includes editing documentaries such as the Weather Underground, Promises and Ni Aqui, Ni Alla and more experimental shorts done by artists such as Rockefeller-recipient Veronica Majano. These films have been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam, and The San Francisco International Film Festival as well as on PBS, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. When not editing Reginato likes to draw, scratch, and hand process her own films as well as work on video installations. This is her second collaboration with Natalija Vekic.

Candace Roberts

Assistant Camera

Candace works as a camera assistant, sound recordist and videographer in the SF Bay area. She continually aims to incorporate her music training and social work background into her personal projects. She's currently in production on Bede, a 16mm film exploring nostalgia and the quality of life of her 93 year-old grandmother.

Liza Maine Seybold

Project Advisor

Liza Maine Seybold has worked in Bay Area post-production since 1997 and is a staff member of the Final Cut Pro Editorial Team at Apple Computer. Her credits include editing the feature Prospect and the documentary Gumby Dharma. She was an additional editor on the feature Pomegranate and the PBS documentary Store Wars, When Wal-Mart Comes to Town. Liza has also edited numerous narrative and documentary shorts, many of which have toured the world in film festivals. When she is not editing, Liza teaches 'Intro to Final Cut Pro' classes and runs the Bay Area chapter of Women in Film and Television International.

Joan Shen

Producer

Joanne Shen is a graduate of Princeton University where she received her bachelor 's degree in English literature in 1994. In 1998, she co-directed and co-produced King of Kowloon, a half-hour documentary about a crippled Cantonese graffiti artist, which won the Distinguished Award at the Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards. It was screened at festivals such as the Double Take Documentary Film Festival and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Her last documentary, Cricket Outta Compton, about an American cricket team aired on PBS and won first prize in the Black Maria Film Festival.

Paige Silvester

Actor (Lolly)

Paige has been active in regional and community theater since age seven. Favorite roles include the Prince in The Little Prince and Fan in Christmas Carol at Sacramento Theatre Co., Bo Groden in Off The Map at B Street Theatre, Mayor of Munchkinland in The Wizard of Oz at Music Circus and Oliver Twist in Oliver! at River City Theatre Co. Paige also enjoys acting in independent films, educational videos and commercials. She's also one mean "crafter" and aspires to be a contestant on Craft Corner Death Match.

Annette Sowell

Sound Recording and Boom Operator

Annette has been interested in all things audio for as long as she can remember. She recently completed the Sound Recording program at City College of San Francisco and will move on to study post production sound for film in Southern California this fall. In addition to working on Lost and Found, she has done location sound work on the indie short, One Weekend a Month. Annette is currently involved as a volunteer for Women's Audio Mission (W.A.M.), a non-profit organization that provides technology and training to women and girls in the recording arts. She is also a DJ/Producer of the bi-weekly W.A.M. Radio show on Enemy Combatant Radio, and operates under the pseudonym, DJ Miss Anthropy.

Rachel Thieme

Associate Producer

Rachel Thieme is psyched to have worked on Lost & Found. She hopes to make her own film someday, but in the meantime is enjoying working on other people's projects. Rachel spends her days at her nonprofit job recently emigrated to Hayes Valley, where she can be found with her face stuck in the window of various shoe stores she cannot afford to enter.

Daniel Zinna

Actor (Jason)

Daniel Zinna has been gathering attention nationally and internationally for his performances in both feature films and television commercials. He is a native of Fremont, California and despite being twelve years old has already acted in seventeen films. He is preparing for a feature length narrative film, which is currently in pre-production and scheduled to begin shooting in the summer of 2005.