Team Salamander
AKIKO MURAKAMI Akiko is a graduate of Keio University in Tokyo with a Bachelor of Laws. She joined a TV production company, Daiei TV-Film, where she produced six prime time TV shows for the major networks in Japan.
ZACH HORTON Raised in the small Northern California town of Ukiah, Zach has always been fascinated with open vistas, mild insanity, and protracted interpersonal space. He has studied Philosophy and Creative Writing at Oxford University, and recently earned BAs in both Visual Arts (Media) and Philosophy at UC San Diego. He was a 2002 recipient of the national Princess Grace Film Award for his short film work.
MIA CHO Mia Cho is a graduate of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, with a B.F.A. in Film. She has chosen to focus her broad talents on Production Design at the American Film Institute, and was recently awarded the Judy March Endowed Scholarship. She is Korean and a New Zealander.
JAMES WEST James earned a BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and won the School Faculty Prize for Photography at graduation. In Chicago, he made a living as a still photographer for almost ten years while exhibiting photographs in galleries around the country. Before attending the American Film Institute, James photographed numerous short films as well as an independent feature.
RITA DaSILVA Rita is from Portugal. She worked as a professional ballet dancer for six years before entering NYU’s Tish School of the Arts where she graduated with a BFA in Film and Television. Prior to her studies at the American Film Institute, she was working in Europe as an Assistant Editor. Her short film “ROUTE 31”, which she directed, wrote, and edited, won Second prize at the 1999 BRNO International Film Festival (Czech Republic) and was screened at the “Festival du Cinema International” (Canada).
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