THE SUNRISE TEAM

PETER GORNSTEIN writer/director

Peter graduated from CCA with a BA in Illustration and had an internship on JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH.

He worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks as staff concept artist. During his 4 years at Sony Peter worked on more than 10 feature productions, including CONTACT, STARSHIP TROOPERS and STUART LITTLE.

Peter moved to Denmark 1998 and worked as Lead Concept
developer on several video games, including the HITMAN
series, FREEDOM FIGHTER and PROJECT M. He also Directed
numerous commercials, music videos and short films. In 2004
he was nominated at the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL as Best
Young Director in the test commercials category.

 

 

 

 

 

DAVID BISHOP Producer

David graduated from Oklahoma State University, with a BA in Broadcast Journalism and Advertising, in 1995.

He is a member of SAG, IATSE, The Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation school and a graduate of The Meisner Acting Institute.

From 1999-2002 David operated a production company in New York's, Bryant Park. Through this company, David worked closely with the Works For Me Art Foundation. Together, these two organizations helped fund and nurture acting, art and production experiments with inner-city youth. It was during this time that he began to develop scripts for the stage and screen.

David has worked on over 20 feature films and more than 200 commercials and music videos. In 2001, David produced the 2 million dollar indie film, TEN-13. His most recent screen credit was the Dreamworks/TNT mini-series "Into the West".

ANKA MALATYNSKA
Cinematographer

Anka graduated Summa Cum Laude from NYU where she majored in cinematography and minored in documentary photography.

Anka worked as a camera assistant & gaffer in New York and LA. In 2001 she received a distinction for cinematography from the Academy of Television Arts and Science, which awarded her an apprenticeship with James Chressanthis, ASC.

As a cinematographer, Anka shot commercials for Ogilvy & Mather and Foote Cone & Belding. Documentaries include KILLER KING with filmmaker Randy Holland & DNC2004 for Art Monterastelli, and TAVARUA a surf film in Fiji. Her first feature, Camjackers, was released earlier this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JULIA FRANKLIN Editor

Julia attended the University of Kansas, where she graduated with a degree in Film Studies summa cum laude.

During two summers, she studied at the New York Film Academy in New York City where she discovered her love of editing.

Julia also worked as a Production Assistant for several television casting calls, an Oxygen Network movie, a short documentary, and a Nissan car commercial. Before entering into the American Film Institute, she edited an independent short, THE DATE, as well as edited and designed graphics for a television news pilot, California Space and Technology News. She completed a yearlong editing course at Video Symphony in Los Angeles in July 2005.