Chris Clements – writer/director

After a wide ranging domestic and international festival run, Chris Clements’ debut feature film was licensed for international television broadcast and home video distribution throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. FREE FLOATERS details the exploits of a dysfunctional young couple, a Chevy van full of VCRs and a crazed mission to reorder the stock of video stores across the continental United States.

Chris has written and directed a wide variety of award winning short films, including: 

• ARENA, whose complex stunt sequences amazed festival audiences around the world;
• DIGITAL GREMLIN FOR WINDOWS, an animated short exploring the deep, inner workings of a laptop computer, which was acquired for broadcast by the Emmy award winning PBS series, The Short List;
• X-PHILES, a documentary which probes the depths of the cult-like ‘fandom’ surrounding the immensely popular television series, The X-Files, premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival, where it won an audience award and was cited as a “top pick” by Bay Area newspapers;
• WHAT’S UP, a docu-comedy which the Dallas Star Times called “hysterically funny” won multiple jury awards on the festival circuit.
• Chris’ other writings include novels, stage and screenplays:
• Fortune’s Fool is a novel about mistaken identity, criminal law and the periodic need to recalibrate a misspent life, for better or worse.
• Reading Room is a play about an agoraphobic kidnapper with literary pretensions and idiosyncratic writing habits.
• The Survival of Miss Fittest is a screenplay that involves the disbursement of a large estate among an estranged, enraged family who must inherit by way of a survivor-like ordeal.
• The Artifacts of Manic D is a novel concerning a broadly arrayed bi-polar family that spans continents, life styles and garden variety crippling emotional distress.
• Soft Catastrophes is a screenplay depicting the charmed life of a financial master-of-the-universe that’s gone suddenly, inexplicably, terribly wrong. It’s a comedy.

Awards and Screenings
South By Southwest (1998, 1999) Austin Film Festival (Finalist, Feature Film Competition) Cinema Jove (Finalist, Feature Film Competition) Athens International Film & Video Festival (Jury Award/Best Documentary) New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Chichester Film Festival Singapore International Film Festival Central Florida Film Festival (Best of Show) Anthology Film Archives Wine Country Film Festival (Finalist, Feature Film Competition) Hollywood Shorts Film Showcase Chicago Alt. Film Festival Sedona International Film Festival Cinequest International Film Festival (1999, 2000 Audience Award/Best Documentary) West Palm Beach Independent Film Festival (Best Animated Film) Los Angeles ShortsFest (1998, 1999) Dallas Video Festival (1998, 1999) Carolina Film and Video Festival (Special Jury Award) Palm Springs International Short Film Festival Tacoma Tortured Artist Film Festival (Award Winner) Millenium Film Series New Orleans Film and Video Festival Sinking Creek Film Festival (Award Winner) USA Film Festival (Finalist, Short Film Competition) Cincinnati Film and Video Festival (Award Winner) Brussels Independent Film Festival (1993, 1999) Canadian International Film Festival Orlando Museum of Art Bochumer Video Festival Humboldt International Film Festival Ohio Independent Film Festival (1998, 1999) Temecula Valley International Film Festival Nashville Independent Film Festival Montage 93 Brooklyn Museum of Art Newport Beach International Film Festival The Knitting Factory Santa Fe Film Festival Hudson Valley Film Festival SoBe Animation Festival (Honorable Citation) Melbourne’s Best Ten on Eight Long Island International Film Festival Awards and Screenings (cont.) First Glance – Philadelphia Film &Video Festival PSA American International Film Festival (Best Experimental) Northampton Film Festival Seattle Screening Room MicroCineFest Pratt Art Institute Olympia Film Festival Cucalorus Film Festival Sony Wonder Technology Lab Virginia Film Festival Woods Hole Film Festival Atelier Film Festival Mondial de la Video-Belgium (Honorable Citation) Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Arts Festival Culture Under Fire Film Festival Williamsburg Film Festival

Julie Goldman – Executive Producer

Julie Goldman has over 15 years of experience as a producer specializing in raising financing for documentary films. Goldman is a founding partner of Cactus Three, a New York based company that executive produces high-end documentary films and non-fiction programming. Cactus Three offers a unique blend of production and co-production expertise, creatively developing projects as well as securing both funding and distribution.

Since establishing Cactus Three in 2003, Goldman has executive produced an award-winning slate of films working with a line-up of talented and acclaimed filmmakers. Cactus Three’s feature documentaries have screened at the most prestigious film festivals around the world, including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca and London.

Most recently, Goldman executive produced Doubletime (Discovery Films) which had its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival; SXSW Audience Award winner Cat Dancers (HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films); Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother (A&E IndieFilms/Channel 4), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival; and 2007 Sundance Audience Award winner In the Shadow of the Moon (Discovery Films/Channel 4) which was released in September 2007 by THINKFilm.

Goldman executive produced several films that were released in 2006, including: Once in a Lifetime (Miramax/Pathe/BBC); Sydney Pollack’s Sketches of Frank Gehry (Sony Pictures Classics/Artificial Eye/PBS); Three of Hearts (THINKFilm/NBC-Bravo); BAFTA-nominated Black Sun; What Remains (HBO/BBC/Zeitgeist Films); and loudQUIETloud: a film about The Pixies (Sundance Channel/Plexifilm).

Other recent productions include the acclaimed HBO series Family Bonds; Don Letts’ PUNK: attitude (IFC/Fremantle); Lewis Lapham’s The American Ruling Class (BBC/Sundance Channel); John Landis’ Slasher (IFC); Honky Tonk Blues: the Life and Death of Hank Williams (PBS/BBC); and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Trio/BBC/TF1) based on Peter Biskind’s bestselling book.