OUR GUEST
Brad Schiff
Animation Supervisor on The Boxtrolls and ParaNorman, Brad Schiff cut
his teeth on a number of popular American television series including
MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch, The PJs and Gary & Mike. In 2001 Brad
brought home a Primetime Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Individual
Achievement In Animation. In 2004, he animated on the first of what
has turned out to be a series of Academy Award®-nominated features
that include Corpse Bride, Coraline and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Most notably
however Brad served as animation supervisor for ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’
with a prestigious voice cast of Oscar-winning Charlize Theron, Matthew
McConaughey and Oscar-nominated Ralph Fiennes and Rooney Mara.
There will be a special screening of Kubo and the Two strings and a Q&A
with Brad Schiff after.
Caiphus Moore
Caiphus is a Trinidadian American artist who currently resides in Oakland,
California. He has spent most of his professional artistic career creating artwork
for the video game industry and currently works as a Senior Artist for Electronic
Arts (EA). A graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, with a degree in
Painting, Caiphus has always been inspired by the natural human form. He creates
art on a variety of mediums; from traditional canvas to 3D sculpting. His main focus
is to create a synergy between his love of fine art, gaming and multimedia.
Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Malika Zouhali-Worrall is an award-winning director of British /Moroccan
origin. ‘Thank You For Playing’ is a documentary that follows the parents of
a child with cancer and how they used their programming skills to create a
game that deals with the emotions and frustrations of the disease. The film
premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for Best
Documentary and the Cinema Fairbindet Prize. Malika is a Chaz & Roger
Ebert Directing Fellow and an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary
Lab, the Tribeca All Access program, the Firelight Producers Lab, and the
Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant. In 2012, Filmmaker Magazine
named Malika as one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. A screening of
this documentary will be followed by a detailed Q&A with the director.