Anne Lower – Creator/Executive Producer
An award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Anne created On the Verge and Global Voices, two Outreach programs for Final Draft, Inc., which works to close the gap between Hollywood talent and emerging, disabled and under-served writers. She has served as a consultant for Save the Cat! and Blake Snyder, and as Director of Communications for the International Centre of Women Playwrights. As an Organizing Director for V-Day for three years, Anne has used Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” to raise funds for an awareness about victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. This work led to the establishment of the Delores Fund, which provides victims of dv/sa with stop-gap funding to enable them to remove themselves from dangerous situations by granting monies to secure rental deposits, turn on utilities, and, on occasion, provide them with educational scholarships.
Anne has led workshops and seminars for the University Film and Video Association, Women in Film Los Angeles, Women in Focus, Writers Faire, Freshi Film Festival and several others. She has been a guest judge for the Hollywood VPype contest, a featured guest on ScriptChat and Write On! Blog Talk Radio, a panelist for the International Family Film Festival, and is a member of Reel Ladies and Women in Film. She lives in Los Angeles, and blogs about screenwriting on PrincessScribe.com. She can be found pushing her limits in the great outdoors and hanging out wherever creative people are in abundance.
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Steve Harshfield – Producer/Assistant Director
Anne: “Steve is my rock. An artist in his own right, he’s seen the best – and the worst of me… and he’s stayed around. He’s dealt with torrents of tears and thousands of texts, and he remains the eye of the storm. Calm. Collected. None of this would be possible without him.”
Writing since an accident in his neighbor’s garden shattered his dream of being a professional T-Ball player, Steve Harshfield got hooked on movies after taking film study in high school. He completed his 4-year undergrad degree at SIU Carbondale in 2 years and 50 weeks; within a year of graduating, he found himself in Hollywood working on features, music videos, commercials, and TV in various capacities. With the “Great Democratization of Media” currently underway, he’s excited by the opportunities that web series and sites like Kickstarter offer up-and-coming filmmakers. He’s honored to be a part of the “They Live Among Us” team!
Mike Stanislawski – Director of Photography
Anne: “Mike is a visionary, a true artist. I received hundreds of reels for consideration and yet, it was Mike that seemed to share my vision. Mike ‘sees’ stories captured in frame. He is a visual storyteller; he understands the emotion of the lens. He is courageous and gifted. I owe the beauty of TLAU to his eye – and lens.”
For as long as he can remember, Mike Stanislawski has had a camera in his hands. Using that passion and a degree in Film & Video Cinematography from Columbia College Chicago, Mike has made a career in cameras in Chicago and Los Angeles. An avid believer in the idea that imagery should support story, Mike’s works have supported that theory. Above all, Mike would like to continue to contribute to the diversity of the Film & Video industry. As a cinematographer, Mike has captured such diverse stories as the coming-of-age feature ‘Avers,’ a short about a farmer dealing with advanced Alzheimer’s in ‘Statler’s Tapes,’ and the award-winning documentary about wood-fire ceramicist Jay Strommen, ‘Pass Through the Fire.’
