Filmmakers & Full Crew Ido Mizrahy - Director Aaron Louis Tordini - Screenwriter Joseph Siravo - Producer Joseph N. Zolfo - Producer Vanja Cernjul - Cinematographer Michael Galasso - Composer Full crew listing Ido Mizrahy – Director Things That Hang From Trees is Ido Mizrahy's feature directorial debut.  Born in South Carolina in 1981, Mizrahy grew up in Tel Aviv. He began his acting career on stage at the Israeli National Theatre at the age of ten.  Since then, he has performed in many plays including Conversations with My Father. He has also worked extensively in Israeli television with a recurring role on the television show, Saturdays and Holidays.  Mizrahy also spent much of his childhood dubbing animated feature films and television cartoons by Disney and Warner Brothers. Mizrahy went on to produce the film The Butcher from the Fields, which had its world premiere at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival. In NYC, where Mizrahy has lived since 2000, he has been an assistant director on shows at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Cherry Lane Theatre, and has directed staged readings and movement theatre Off-Broadway. Mizrahy is currently an associate director with Joseph Siravo and Fay Simpson for The Shakespeare Workshop, hosted by The Actors Center and The Cherry Lane Theatre.  Ido Mizrahy is a founding member of Aviles Street Productions. Aaron Louis Tordini – Screenwriter Aaron Louis Tordini, pen name T.A. Louis, is the author of a number of books including the Southern Gothic novella, Things That Hang From Trees and the screenplay for the Aviles Street Productions adaptation. His novella was very well received on a recent Barnes & Noble book signing tour, which took him to over twenty different cities. Aaron Louis Tordini began his career as a musician, and after a few years as the principal singer/songwriter for the 11 piece acoustic band, Dandelion Wine, in 2000 he went on to release a solo album under the name Aaron Louis, called If So (Cell records/Tropia). Upcoming works include the novel, Great Inland Waterways, and the novella, If You Can’t Act Normal, Go to Bed.  Aaron Louis Tordini is a founding member of Aviles Street Productions. Joseph Siravo – Producer Mr. Siravo’s extensive stage, screen and television credits include acting, directing and producing. After receiving a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Theatre Program, Siravo was a founding member of New York Stage & Film Company. As Coordinator of the New Voices play development series at NYS&F, he supervised the presentation of over 60 new plays. His directing work in the theatre includes plays written by a wide range of playwrights from Shakespeare and the Greeks to Sam Shepard and Samuel Beckett. His film appearances include 16 Blocks with Bruce Willis; Carlito’s Way opposite Al Pacino and Sean Penn, directed by Brian DePalma; Maid in Manhattan with Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez; Night Falls on Manhattan, directed by Sidney Lumet; as well as Walking & Talking, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Wise Girls, A Day in Black & White, the Disney animated feature The Wild with Eddie Izzard and the DreamWorks animated feature Shark Tale with Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorsese. On television, he is best known as “Johnny Boy Soprano” on HBO’s legendary series The Sopranos. He has guest-starred on Third Watch, Hack, New York Undercover, The Cosby Show, and all three versions of Law & Order. Onstage, Siravo has appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning, Grammy-nominated musical The Light in the Piazza, in Conversations With My Father and The Boys From Syracuse; Off-Broadway in Mad Forest (Drama Desk Nomination), Up Against the Wind, Dream of a Common Language, My Night with Reg, Dark Rapture, Gemini and Smashing. Regionally, he has been seen in a wide variety of leading roles in productions of Hamlet, Antony & Cleopatra, Othello, Three Sisters, Sweeney Todd, A View From the Bridge, and Last of the Boys. Siravo is a member of both The Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Actors Center. He is the founder of The Shakespeare Workshop, where along with Ido Mizrahy and Fay Simpson, he has conducted an ongoing series of professional workshops at both The Actors Center and The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City. Several of the leading actors in Things That Hang From Trees have participated in those workshops. Joseph Siravo is a founding member of Aviles Street Productions. Joseph N. Zolfo - Producer A New York native and fifteen-year veteran of the film industry, Joseph Zolfo contributes a wealth of experience, having worked in several key areas of production on over 50 film and television projects. He has had the pleasure of working with some of the most celebrated directors in the business on such films as Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, It Could Happen to You, Everyone Says I Love You, Celebrity, and Mighty Aphrodite; with Mike Nichols on Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer; with Sydney Pollack on Sabrina, starring Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond; with Sidney Lumet on Gloria, starring Sharon Stone; Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco, starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp; on Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan; Barry Levinson’s Sleepers, starring Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Brad Pitt; Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men In Black, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith; Tom Cairns’ Marie and Bruce, starring Julianne Moore and Matthew Broderick; with Jonathan Demme on Beloved, starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover; GreeneStreet Films’ productions of Boaz Yakin’s A Price Above Rubies, starring Renee Zellweger; Michael Ian Black’s The Pleasure of Your Company, starring Jason Biggs; Stanley Tucci’s The Imposters; and on Luminous Motion, starring Deborah Kara Unger. Zolfo’s television credits include the CBS dramas Without a Trace, starring Anthony LaPaglia; Hack, starring David Morse; Ernest Dickerson’s Monday Night Mayhem for TNT, starring John Turturro and Eli Wallach; and HBO’s hit series Sex and the City. Joseph Zolfo is a graduate of SUNY Purchase where he received a BFA in Visual Arts. Vanja Cernjul – Cinematographer Vanja Cernjul was born in 1968 in Zagreb, Croatia. After graduating from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1995 he moved to New York to get his Masters from the Graduate Film School at NYU. Since graduation, he has photographed nine dramatic feature films in the USA. Vanja has received the Best Cinematography Award at the Aspen Shortfest for Fishbelly White (directed by Michael Burke), a Kodak Vision Award at the Avignon/New York Film Festival for The Photographer (directed by Jeremy Stein) and The Best Cinematography Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival for Rain (directed by Katherine Lindberg). Michael Galasso – Composer Composer, violinist and musical director Michael Galasso was born in Hammond, Louisiana in 1949, to a concert violinist father and an oboist mother.  He began studying the violin at the age of 3 and had his solo debut performing Vivaldi’s Concerto in A minor with the New Orleans Philharmonic at age 11. Galasso continued his studies at Oberlin and Dartmouth Colleges. A musician of classical formation influenced by his encounter with John Cage at the age of 18, born in the land of jazz, rock and rhythm n’blues, author for theater, cinema, dance and sound installations, this violin virtuoso has been experimenting for 30 years on a melodical and rhythmical synthesis in which his affinities with Baroque music are entwined with his American heritage as well as with Iranian and central Asia traditions. Michael Galasso began his career composing music for Robert Wilson's Ouverture (1972), The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973), A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974-5) and The $ Value of Man (1975). Also with Wilson, he has written the score for Ibsen's Lady from the Sea (1998), Strindberg's A Dreamplay (1998), voted the best foreign theater production for the 1999-2000 season by the French Theater and Music Critics Society after a performance in Paris in March 2000 at the Theatre National de Chaillot, Chekhov’s Three Sisters (2001), and for the theatrical version of Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz and Robert Wiene's silent film, The Cabinet of Doktor Caligari (2002). In 2004, Wilson and Galasso collaborated on Les Fables de La Fontaine for the Comédie-Française, which premiered January 30, 2004 in Paris and has been an enormous critical and public success. In November 2004, Galasso and Wilson will premiere 2 Lips and Dancers in Space with the Nederlands Dans Theater in Luxembourg. Galasso recently scored Peer Gynt, directed by Wilson that premiered in Oslo in February 2005. Recent film scores include Wong Kar-Wai’s Chunking Express and In the Mood for Love, Babak Payami’s Iranian film Secret Ballot, Tajikistan’s Djemsjed Osmonov’s Angel on my Right Shoulder, Sam Gabarski’s The Tango Rashevski, Danish Zaim’s Turkish film, Çamur (Mud), and Mariana Otero’s documentary Histoire d’un Secret and Gabriele Salvatores’ I am not  afraid. Galasso also has made numerous sound/music installations, including the Giorgio Armani Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2000 (the first sound installation in the New York 's history) and the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2001. Subsequently the exhibition has traveled to the Neue National Galerie in Berlin in May 2003, followed by London’s Royal Academy of Arts in October 2003 and Rome at the Terme Diocleziano in May 2004. Other installations include the Swiss EXPO 2002, and the Basilique de Saint-Denis in Paris. Michael Galasso has also written and performed music for choreographers Karole Armitage, Andy DeGroat and Lucinda Childs. Michael Galasso’s second album for ECM Records, High Lines, was released in March 2005. Full Crew Listing Directed by Ido Mizrahy Screenplay by Aaron Louis Tordini Based on the novella by Aaron Louis Tordini (as T.A. Louis) Produced by Joseph Siravo Produced by Joseph N. Zolfo Director of Photography - Vanja Cernjul Production Designer - Vera Mills Editor - Frank Reynolds Music - Michael Galasso Music Supervisor - Blake Leyh         Supervising Sound Editor/Re -Recording Mixer - Lew Goldstein Casting- Eyde Belasco, C.S.A. Kimberly Mullen, C.S.A. Mark Mullen, C.S.A. Costume Designer - Suzy Freeman Sound Mixer - Richard W. Murphy, C.A.S. Associate Producer - Theresa L. Marsh Production Manager - Douglas Bruce First Assistant Director - Michael Calas Second Assistant Director - Marta Forns -Escude Second Second Assistant Director - Oak Porcelli Location Manager - Kimberly Feinman Production Accountant - Theresa L. Marsh Production Office Coordinator - Elaine Kooser Script Supervisor - Lee Davis Set Decorator - Shawn McFall Property Masters - Leni Calas Richard Swim Assistant Prop Master/On Set Dresser - Jeff "J Mac" McDonald Greensman - Robert Welch Assistant Set Decorators - Caleb B. Mikler Ian Bock Storyboard Artists - Caledonia Curry Goran Rusinovic Production Illustrator - Adam Lewensohn First Assistant Camera - Wili Chan Estrada Second Assistant Camera - Erik S. Curtis Stedicam Operator - Chip Monk Additional Camera Operator - Anthony Realmuto Still Photographers - Gene Page Vern Kousky Gaffer - John Ferguson Best Boy Electric - Thomas L. Dodson Electricians - Jeremy Post Sean Fisher Zachary Siddle Steve Irvine Terry Phillips Louis Normandin Ken Ramseur Nick Colvin Stuart Connell Larry M. Rudolph Key Grip - Mike L. Germaine Best Boy Grip - Lee Mclemore Dolly Grip - Shai Goldenberg Company Grips - Jonathan “Ace” Stoll Chris Hill Mike Clayton John Harris Carl Post Chris Allen William J. Dixon Crane Operator - John Leeward Construction Coordinator - James Smith Lead Carpenter - Jonathan Shaffer Carpenters - Bob Venney David Reynolds Boom Operator - Laurel Ann Bridges Production Secretary - Peggy Kirton Assistant to Producer - Amy Hallwood Assistant to Director/Cinematographer - Steven Fleet Office Assistant - Dee Lamphear Key Makeup Artist - Linda Zibelli Key Hair Stylist - Linda Schonning Additional Makeup/Hair - Cyndie Boehm Diane Calfee Assistant Costume Designer - John Smith Set Costumer - Sandra Milliner Draper - Lynn Vincent Wardrobe Intern - Nicole L. Williams Additional Costumer - Armando Pompa Dialect Coach - Deborah Hecht Movement Coach - Fay Simpson Tutor - Lindsey Henderson Transportation Captain - Jeff Hooie Equipment Truck Drivers - Jack Belcher Bob Campbell Picture Car Coordinator - Amy Hallwood Key Set Production Assistant - Michael A. Johnson Set Production Assistants - Joshua Smith Jessica L. Plowden Steven Fleet Danielle Stephenson Lauren Mialki Matt Grosner Shelley Smith Debbie Ricks Production Secretary - Canella Williams Assistant Production Accountant - Lauri Shulman Location Scout - Rick B. Ambrose Location Assistant - Ashton C. McComb Assistant Accountant - Jennie Myers Production Office Intern - Cassandra N. Schaffa Extras Casting - Jeanne Johann Extras Casting Production Assistant - Amanda Sulock Craft Service - Rory Dickerson Caterers - Country Caterers Barbeque Pyrotechnics By Santore and Sons Pyrotechnics Supervisor - Lloyd E. 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