DENIS JENSEN
Co-Founder of the Vail Film Festival, Denis began his media career
filming nature documentaries on the outer islands of Hawaii. Productions
have taken him from the South Pacific to Northern Canada and have garnered
Direction of Photography awards from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
and Eastman Kodak. Production credits include Encounters with the
Whales of the Saint-Lawrence, The Last Frontier, The Mystery of the
Blue Whale and American
Cannibal, Kurt Loder’s “Best Documentary of 2007”.
In addition to the Tribeca Film Festival favorite, Con Artist,
currently on the international film festival circuit, recent
projects include advertisments for Citibank, LG, and Canon, as well
as The Game Show Network's Honey,
Please! and TV Land's Make My Day.
MICHAEL NIGRO
Michael was acclaimed as both a playwright and a music journalist in
the U.S. as well as the U.K. before taking a steady gig as an adjunct
professor in screenwriting at American University. After Scenario
Magazine honored him in its national screenplay competition, he signed
with a major agency and was then chosen by the editors of William
Morrow as one of the nation's best short story writers. Subsequently
anthologized in Rob Weisbach’s imprint Virgin Fiction, Michael
soon completed various fiction projects and then began writing for
television. He quickly moved to producing and directing shows for
ABC, MTV, Vh1, the BBC among others. His foray into documentaries
in 2006 resulted in the celebrated American Cannibal, which
he co-wrote and directed; the film enjoyed a 30-city release and
can now be seen on Showtime and the CBC. He wore the hat of producer
on his most recent documentary, Con Artist, which premiered
at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and an international debut in Rome,
of that same year. As of late, Michael has been behind the camera
as head writer and director of the TV Land original series, Make
My Day (premiering in November, 2009) and helming the pilot episode
of Honey, Please! (just picked up for 8 episode by the Game Show
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