Running Away with Blackie

Michael Silberman - Producer
Michael Silberman is a line producer who takes an unorthodox approach to the ordinary, priding himself upon his communication, delegation and follow up skills with a no-nonsense attitude and known for keeping large budgets and complicated logistics on track.

Silberman is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and has been working for over a decade on all genres of production inclusive of feature films, high budget shorts to be exhibited directly at film festivals, commercials, music videos, corporate/educational projects and the recent triple Broadband Emmy Nominated show Stranger Adventures produced by Anne-Marie Mackay formerly of Propaganda Pictures.

Mentored and a personal friend of studio producer and Unit Production Manager Doug Claybourne, Silberman worked for him and Mandalay Pictures/IXTLAN when Oliver Stone was directing Beyond Borders featuring work on a 12 country, 4 week documentary shoot lensed by Academy Award Nominated Brokeback Mountain cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto.

In his recent narrative feature film work, Silberman has completed Love Is The Drug for Alpine Pictures with Daryl Hannah, Lizzy Caplan, and John Patrick Amedori, The Most Award Winning Independent Film of 2006, Self Medicated for THINKFilm/Promise Pictures starring Diane Venora, Michael Bowen, Greg Germann and Kirstina Anapau, and 7th Arts Releasing/Bad Habit Films The Memory Thief with Mark Webber, Rachel Miner, and Jerry Adler.

Upon completing Running Away With Blackie Silberman signed on to line produce a Christimas themed dramatic fantasy called Once Upon A Christmas Dream. He is able to live/work local in numerous cities and enjoys cooking, photography and walking his Afghan Hounds Silver and Kodi.

Yash Bhatt - Cinematographer
Winner of the prestigious 2007 Kodak Award for Excellence in Cinematography, Bhatt's first experience with film started when he assisted cinematographer Amit Roy for two years and slowly graduated from being a grip to first AC. He learned from Amit not to get impressed by the mechanics of cinematography but to concentrate on telling the story in the most efficient way.

He came to Chapman University where he shot The Vaudevillian, which was nominated in the best cinematography category in the Cecil Awards 2007. This film also gave him the recognition to become one of the scholars at the Budapest Cinematography Masterclass 2007.

His experiences have helped him shoot short films like The Last Page, The Orphan and Till Death Do Us Part which was officially selected for eleven international film festivals including the LA Short International Film Festival 2006 and the Sedona Film Festival 2006.

Roy Rede - Production Designer
Roy Rede has designed iconic commercials, award winning TV series, high profile music videos, stylish films and is not yet halfway into his career. His unforgettable post 9-11 Super Bowl opening garnered his first Emmy nomination in 2003. He has commandeered armies of art directors for today's network reality genre and helped create the fresh look of the Fox and WB networks.

Roy used his arts background to quickly work his way up the creative ladder from art PA to production designer, earning a full grasp of every aspect of the art department on the way.

In addition to having for TV series on the air right now and designing several high-profile films, including most recently the new Brittany Murphy thriller Across the Hall at Universal and the upcoming film The Riot, during his off time he loves working on smaller independent and short films.

Kyle Kenneth Batter - Music
Kyle Kenneth Batter has established himself as one of today's most promising young composers of film and television music. While his musical style encompasses many genres, Kyle is most absorbed when exploring the infinite melodic, harmonic, and timbral possibilities of the orchestra. Kyle was educated at the Berklee College of Music where he obtained a dual degree in composition and film scoring. In 2004 he was awarded the Michael Kamen Film Scoring Award, and in 2006 the ASCAP Film And Television Music Workshop Award. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

August Emerson - Jetty
August was born and raised in South Florida where he started in the business at a young age alongside his sister working constantly in commercials and local theater. At age 8 August made his professional theatre debut in The Rothschilds under the direction of Emmy winner and Tony nominee Lonny Price. At age 16 he moved to New York to pursue his love of acting and after spending a few years in the big apple working on a handful of various theater projects including the upcoming Broadway musical Leap of Faith, August headed west where he attended the University of California Los Angeles.

Natasha Lyonne - Motel Clerk
Lyonne began acting at an early age with her first role as "Opal" on Pee-Wee's Playhouse. She appeared in the 1990 film A Man Called Sarge during the time her family lived in Israel.

Lyonne is perhaps best known for her roles in the first two American Pie films and the starring roles in Slums of Beverly Hills and But I'm a Cheerleader.

Known as an "indie darling" she has starred in many independent films including Die, Mommie, Die!, Party Monster and Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby. which she also produced. She has also appeared in more than 30 other movies, including Detroit Rock City, Blade: Trinity and the narrator of Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You.

Camden Toy - The Figure
Camden has acted in well over one hundred independent films. He was one of the founding members and Artistic Director of the Obie Award winning NADA in New York City and has written and developed five different full length solo theater pieces that he performed across the country.

After moving to Los Angeles, Camden played one of the lead “Gentlemen” in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He returned to the show in season seven to play the skin-eating demon “Gnarl” and the recurring role of “Turok-Han” (a.k.a. The Ubervamp). He also appeared in season five of Angel as “The Prince of Lies”. He is the only actor to have played four different villains on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Camden is not only an actor, but also a writer and film editor. When not acting, Camden continues to work editing many feature films.

Bill Suplee - Motel Drifter
Thirty years ago, Bill Suplee created The Pink Painter, a painting company in New York City. For the past twenty-five years The Pink Painter has been serving Southern California and to this day he still maintains it himself.

Bill's acting career, however, started while working with the Summer Stock Theatre and he soon landed himself on Broadway. He got his first major role in My Name is Earl as Willie "The One Eyed Mailman".

He is also set to appear in the film Knife to a Gun Fight in 2009 and the upcoming Who Shot Mamba?