Filmmakers

Dan Lindsay

Director

Dan Lindsay is an actor, director and writer from Rockford, IL, a town Money Magazine once named the worst city to live in America. He currently resides in Los Angeles, a city he once described as the worst city to live in America. He has made several short films and documentaries, including WHY US?, which premiered on the Discovery Times Channel in the fall of 2003. He is also a founding member of the L.A. based sketch comedy group THE EXPLODING PAJAMAS. LAST CUP marks his feature length directorial debut.

Josh Otten

Producer

Josh Otten produced his first independent short film, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Quick Mart, directed by David Yarvo, in June 2004. The film,starring up-and-coming actors Joey Kern and Rachel Nichols, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and subsequently showed at several other festivals. He then started working with documentary film director Dan Katzir and helped finance and associate produce Yiddish Theater: A Love a Story. From there he went on to finance and produce The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat & Beers in 2005, which had it’s World Premier at Tribeca Film Festival and aired on Spike TV, Discovery International, IFC through B-Side and had it’s DVD release through First Look. He also served as a producer on America Cannibal: The Road to Reality, The Boy Who Loved Hearses and Sleepwalking Through The Mekong, all of which had long festival runs, broadcast premiers and DVD releases. Currently Josh is partnering with Hayze Entertainment to develop, finance and produce several films through his company OG Consulting.

TJ Martin

Editor

TJ Martin is originally from Seattle, WA. In 2002, his documentary A Day in the Hype of America won the award for Best Documentary at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. He was one of three filmmakers in 2005 to participate in the Seattle International Film Festival’s Fly Filmmaking Challenge. As a freelance editor in Los Angeles, he has cut material for clients such as Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera and Celine Dion.

Nicholas Kalikow

Executive Producer

Nicholas Kalikow owns and operates Film 101 Productions. He most recently served as executive producer on Explicit Ills, which won the audience award at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival. His company has produced several films in several genres, including The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat & Beers, Sleepwalking Through The Mekong, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Quick Mart and The Boy Who Loved Hearses, of which he was also the director.

J. Andrew Greeblatt

Executive Producer

J. Andrew Greeblatt began his career in the entertainment industry working as in-house counsel for Film 101 Productions and later served as their President of Business and Legal Affairs from 2006 – 2008. His credits as Producer include: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Quick Mart, The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat & Beers, Sleepwalking Through The Mekong, The Boy Who Loved Hearses and Explicit Ills, which won the audience award at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival. Currently, Mr. Greenblatt is partnering with Hayze Entertainment to develop, finance and produce several films.

Morgan Spurlock

Executive Producer

Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock became well known to most Americans as a result of his 2003 film Super Size Me, in which he documented his health as he spent 30 days eating only food from the fast-food chain McDonald’s. Spurlock was raised in West Virginia, and attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated with a BFA in film in 1993. He worked steadily as a playwright before he produced Super Size Me, which was critically acclaimed on the festival circuit, and became a surprise commercial success. Following the positive reaction he received for his film, Spurlock created a documentary television series called “30 Days,” in which he or other participants would immerse themselves in a given lifestyle for an entire month. Spurlock spent the first episode trying to survive on minimum wage, while other episodes documented situations like clueless hipsters living on an ecological preservation farm, and a border guard living with a family of illegal immigrants. Spurlock also worked on other projects, executive producing the drama Chalk, and producing the documentary What Would Jesus Buy?, a film about American consumer culture. In 2008, he helmed his second documentary feature, Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?