The Crew

 

Jack Venturo ____________________________Writer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor.

Jack Venturo was born in Lima, Peru on January 9, 1981. He came to the United States in March 1990 he attended the Pinellas County Center for the Arts (P.C.C.A) in St. Petersburg, Florida where he pursued a wide range of visual arts including photography, oil painting, welding, molding, rendering, sketching, design, sculpture art history and film history. "The Death of Tempo is Jack's 5th movie. Jack currently lives in Los Angeles, CA and is constantly working on new projects from short films to features, t.v. show ideas to music videos.

Read full Bio HERE.
Jack's IMDb HERE.
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Anthony "Abstrakt Soundz" Bowman ________________Composer/Instrumentalist.

Ab started off as a VJ for a college radio station in 2003. He soon met Dj Dirf Diggler who introduced him to the equipment to make instrumentals. Ab met a producer named D Twyce who became his mentor and good friend. Twyce then showed Ab what those instrumentals could become. He has engineered for several projects including an album on Rawkus Records, Kids Rap, commercials, shows, and the Boondocks Cartoon. He Is a self taught pianist and uses a massive array of sound devices, software, and modules. He also has production credits on several mix tapes and albums in stores. Ab joined the MPE team when he created music of “The Death of Tempo

Official MySpace page HERE


Megan Powers ____________________________Production Coordinator/Assistant/Grip.

Megan Powers has worked in film distribution with the Milestone Films and with Troma Entertainment in New York, where she assisted the President and was the VP of DVD Sales, Marketing and Promotions. When she moved to California in 2004 she joined the Adult Swim/Cartoon Network's Emmy Award winning "Robot Chicken" and also worked on “Moral Orel.” Currently Megan works on features and is developing projects to produce.
In addition to producing, directing and writing her own projects, she also worked as an associate producer on the film “Rules” for Zash Productions and is a freelance writer for "Wildsound Filmmaking", where she writes classic film reviews. Megan Joined The Moviegod Productions Entertainment team on November 2008 as a Production Coordinator/Assistant and more.

Megan's IMDb HERE.


Dick Kaneshiro ______________________Production Assistant/Lighting Technician/Grip.

Dick Kaneshiro was born and raised in Honolulu Hawaii.
He is no stranger to cheesy music with slide guitars and ukuleles.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to record music that was not Hawaiian.
He worked in several music studios before making the move to post audio.
Acting on his creative instincts, he changed his profession to work in the stop motion
animation field.
Dick joined Moviegod Productions Entertainment in 2009, he currently lives in
Los Angeles and enjoys building puppets and motion control with a one frame at a time
attitude.

Dick's IMDb HERE.


Ben Lazarus _______________________________________________Sound Engineer.

Ben Lazarus transitioned into filmmaking after a five-year stint
playing guitar in a touring rock band. He currently works as a sound
designer and production audio mixer. His short film "Love and Limbs" is featured in Spike and Mike's Festival of Sick and Twisted Animation.

Visit Official Website HERE.
Ben Lazarus IMDb HERE.
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James Dastoli and Robert Dastoli _______________________Visual Effects Artists.

Identical twin brothers James Dastoli and Robert Dastoli created their own computer generated effects and filmmaking company, Dastoli Digital LLC in 2008. The next year, the brothers directed, shot and edited their first feature length film: the buddy-road-trip comedy "Who Stole the Electric Car?" Prior to starting their own company they worked for Two Headed Monster, a visual effects company based in Los Angeles. During that period they worked on various computer generated car advertisements for companies like Ford, Nissan and Hyundai. They also created photorealistic renderings for the science-fiction action project "Siren 7". The Dastoli brothers have won numerous awards and have worked on several projects including the Redesign of the MPE Intro Logo.

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Ben Hurst ________________________________________________Voice Over Arist.

Ben Hurst is a voice artist in Studio City who has voiced commercials for 7-UP, Nike, Visa and more. He has done numerous corporate narrations, audio "short story" titles and a number of student film trailers. He also does live narration, including the 2009 Cecil Awards at Chapman University's Dodge Film School. Ben did the Trailers for "The Death of Tempo"

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Hali Bonvenuto ____________Production Assistant/On Set Photographer & Videographer.

Hali was born in Los Angeles CA and has lived there all of her life, she started working as and on set production intern for Moviegod Productions Entertainment in July of 2008 and has enjoyed her experience ever since, She is mostly responsible for taking the behind the scenes photos and video for Jack Venturo’s Video Production Diaries.
Her on set tasks range from Production Assistant to helping out with Wardrobe and Lighting.


David Haverty ________________________________________Lighting Technician/Grip.

David has worked in Film and TV in LA for over 2 years as a Grip/Electric Tech for Bravo, The CW, CWkids, Mental Slapstick Productions, Humanity Films, and many more. Before he moved to LA he worked in Technical Departments in NY for several theatre groups and productions for over 4 years. Before David made his move to NY he was the Artistic Director of Bravo Centre for the Arts where he converted a Library into a fully functional children's theatre where he produced very technically involved shows such as Little Shop of Horrors and Annie Jr. (over 6 different set changes using the entire stage). David Joined Moviegod Productions Entertainment in 2008

David's Official website click HERE
David's IMDb HERE.