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Gia McKenna

Founder & Managing Partner for
1909 Productions

1909 Productions offers their services to jobs in Development, Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production.
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Creative Director for
Blue Point Brewing Company

     Gia manages digital content, sales and oversees an in-house content team.
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Noble Jones

Award Winning Writer/Director/Cinematographer  
Noble has worked with some of the biggest brands and biggest stars, from Coca Cola and Proctor & Gamble to Seal and Taylor Swift


Noble directed second unit on “The Social Network"(2010) and has since then worked with Fincher on various other projects.

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Petter Holmsen

Writer and Director
Petter graduated valedictorian of Long Island University '14 and is known for Quiet on Set (2015), Sleepwalker (2014) and Visions of a Background Actor (2014).


Casting and 2nd Unit Director for The 12th Man (2017)  on Amazon Prime.

Watch his Valedictorian Acceptance speech here:

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​Nora Bernard

 ​Venue Manager
Sundance Film Festival 2017
Nora Designed the venue's space, including common area and 3rd floor Media Center. She also tracked the projected and actual expenses of the venue's budget. 

Senior and Screenings Crew Coordinator
Tribeca Film Festival March 2014 to May 2018
Nora facilitated staffing across 10 departments.​
She reviewed applications, interviewed and hired over 1,000 Crew Members. She conducted daily communications, including email blasts and
all crew email correspondences.
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Brian DiLorenzo

Technical Engineer
CBS
Brian manages a team for any technical issue that may arise in an edit situation for CBS News, which encapsulates all hard news programming (CBS This Morning, Evening, and Weekend News).
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Justin Portaro

Award Winning film at The Worldfest Houston Film Festival
Justin won several awards for his latest short Kid, The Moon (2020), including Gold at the Worldfest Houston Film Festival.  
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