Crew

PAUL SAPIANO ( Writer / Director )

Paul Sapiano worked at RSA as an in-house runner for three years where he took all he had learned about The French New Wave and Semiotics at film school and applied it to such tasks as making tea and helping the caterers set up tables for lunch.

Paul then moved to Los Angeles where he directed a campaign for “Optometric Options” which won two Belding Bowls. On the strength on that campaign he went on to direct spots for clients such as Dell Computers, Bush’s Baked Beans and various state lotteries, among others.

Being a prolific writer, he has co-written and directed spots for “1-800-Dentist” which was honored at the 2000 AICP show; “Detrol” which won a Gold Effie for Best Healthcare Campaign of 2003; the PSA “Ken and Barbie” for MADD, which traveled as part of the Redcar “Verboten” Film festival; and the “Salonpas” spot on his reel, which hasn’t won any awards, but was pulled off the air in Hawaii for being too violent.

Paul enjoys dressing like a Pimp and is the proud owner of a gold plated 1970 Lincoln Continental, which incidentally is available for Rap Videos.

ENRIQUE AGUIRRE ( Editor / Executive Producer )

Started his career in NY editing short films and commercials after graduating from the University of Arizona. Moving to L.A. in 1990, Aguirre formed King Cut in 1992, going on to win numerous awards, including a gold lion, clio, andy, mobius, monitors, international automotive awards, for his post production work.

Aguirre lives quietly in Los Angeles amassing one of the world’s largest LLadro collections. He also collects 2nd generation barracuda convertibles and the works of Zamfir.

LARIMIE GARCIA ( Titles / Motion Design )

Larimie Garcia doesn’t exactly hail from The Swiss Design School for Well Behaved Boys. His first introduction to hand lettering and logo design was through graffiti art. That flamboyant vernacular stayed with him - as did the deep-seated compulsion to subvert, appropriate and reinvent - through a year at Art Center College of Design (he dropped out), followed by seven years in the pulse of LA’s music and entertainment scene. After that, Garcia contributed as a member of the MAC Cosmetics Colour Team doing make-up product development, a deliberate infiltration that he is now parlaying into his own experimental fashion photography and video direction. A career counselor might call his curious meanderings misguided and say that he “looks bad on paper.” But have no doubt that Garcia’s moves - however unorthodox - have all been willfully deliberate. And boy, does he look good on paper. And in packaging, pixels and more.

AMINÉ RAMER ( Music Supervisor )

Aminé Ramer is a freelance music supervisor/music consultant with a strong background in music licensing for film, television and soundtrack albums. As a dual citizen of New Zealand & the United States, Aminé has a strong sense of the international music scene and works closely with the New Zealand music industry. Aminé’s known for her ability to bring cutting edge music to her projects and for her budgeting and negotiation skills. Starting in the business as a booking agent for Brian Jonestown Massacre. She then went on to book a successful club “Luna Park”in Los Angeles. Soon after began licensing music for Jetcast as their in house music licensing person. This led to her being hired to work as a music co-ordinator for Thomas Golubic Music Supervisor for Six Feet Under which was the start of her music supervising career. Since then has continued supervising shows for Showtime, NBC, Lionsgate, MTV,TLC, E! etc...

HANI SELIM ( Producer )

Hani has acted as a freelance Producer and Line Producer for various large scale production companies including Believe Media, HSI, Radical Media, Beaucoup Chapeaux, FM Rocks and Cobblestone Pictures.

Seven years ago, Selim founded Concrete Images, a Line Production company that serves European and Asian companies who wish to shoot in the United States. Concrete Media also acts as a co-production company that assists companies located outside of California that wish to shoot in California.

Prior to that, Selim was the Manager of Feature Film Syndication for Columbia TriStar Television Distribution (Sony Pictures Entertainment) where he was in charge of putting together film packages to sell-through to network and pay television. He was also on the creative and sales team for films such as, The Big Hit, As Good As It Gets, Go, Air Force One, Stuart Little and I Know What You Did Last Summer.

ROMAN JAKOBI ( Director of Photography )

Roman was raised in Germany and South Africa. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990, where he studied film at Columbia College - Hollywood. After graduating He worked as a set lighting technician on several larger feature films, while moonlighting as a cameraman on specs, shorts and videos. Since the late nineties Roman shoots commercials, music videos and documentaries. Some are really corny, some have won awards. “ The Boys and Girls Guide” is his second feature film. www.romanjakobi.com

MATHEW HOLT ( Art Director )

Originally from Lancashire, England, Matthew Holt graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London with a degree in Theatre Design and Stage Management. He moved to the United States in1990 where he immediately found his niche working for the art department in commercial and music video production.

Now working as a production designer, he has been looking to venture into the motion picture industry for quite some time. After reading the script for “The Boys and Girls Guide,” he decided that this would be his entrance into the world of making movies.

His main attraction to the project was that he found the material interesting and fun to read. He was also eager to work with the key technical staff.

LYNNE QUIRION ( Casting )

Over the past 12 years Lynne Quirion has become a very well known name in the Commercial Production world. Having cast hundreds of spots including countless national and global campaigns for Coca Cola, McDonalds, Nike, & Sharp, to name just a few.

This year Lynne has now opened her casting career to include casting of Feature Films, and Television. “This year has just been amazing! While I can’t see myself ever giving up casting spots... I just enjoy it way too much. The experience of casting two features this year has been so rewarding . The level of creative imput I’m allowed has been extremely gratifying.” “The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down” for director Paul Sapiano, and “Crossing the Heart” starring Kris Kristopherson, and Efren Ramirez for director Steve Hood are two fantastic, yet very different films bringing even more diversity to my work.... I am so very grateful.”

Lynne is currently casting the pilot “The Interview” for FOX, and continues to cast commercials.

CANDICE CARELLA ( Stylist )

Candice studied fine art at UCLA. She became a stylist and worked on music videos and commercials for the next six years. She has styled many celebrities such as Moby, Eminem, Drew Barrymore, Morrisey, Molly Sims, JC Chasez, Dave Navaro, Gwen Stefani, and Jamie Foxx. She enjoys playing with specific periods in time and exploiting trends from these periods. She has had the priviledge to work on several huge features and began costume designing her own films in 2003. Her films include “The House of Usher”, “And Then It Breaks”, and “The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down”.