CREW

AMITABH KLEMM
Director/Co-Writer/Producer/Editor

Amitabh Klemm was born to a Caucasian theoretical physicist and an Indian food chemist and was raised in the suburbs of Chicago. He loves to travel and after graduating from the University of Iowa with an honors degree in English Literature he moved to Sydney, Australia to work in the city’s booming film industry. There he did everything from sweeping the floors as an Art Department P.A. to eventually editing music videos that aired on the Australian version of MTV. One year later Amitabh matriculated into USC’s graduate school of the Cinematic Arts. Previous producing efforts include the award-winning "Lights and Darks" and "Confessions of a Late Bloomer," an Official Selection of the 2006 TriBeCa Film Festival. In 2006 he was awarded the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant to direct his thesis film "The Art of Stalking," which he shot in Chicago. He resides in Los Angeles, loves to cook and has just completed his lasted feature script, a voyeuristic dramatic thriller entitled “Dirty Pictures in the Quiet Night.”

ZACK KAPLAN
Co-Writer

Zack Kaplan moved to Hollywood after graduating from The George Washington University studying theatrical directing and playwriting. He has worked in several aspects of the entertainment industry, and recently graduated with his Masters in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California. His thesis screenplay, ECLIPSE, a science fiction thriller, Blade Runner meets Chinatown, has made its way to some of the largest companies in town, and is in the process of being packaged with talent. He is currently putting finishing touches to his new spec horror/thriller THE HILLS. Zack is represented by Barry Perelman of The Barry Perelman Agency.

KATIE IRWIN
Producer

Katie Irwin was born in upstate New York and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2002 she moved to Chicago in 2002 to attended DePaul University, where she produced multiple student short films as well as her first feature film, Do Us Part. She kept busy throughout her college career, studying film in Paris, production managing the independent features William’s Left Ear, and Second Moon, working in the casting department for Fox’s Prison Break, and producing multiple independent short films, including Amitabh Klemm’s The Art of Stalking.

Katie graduated with honors from DePaul University’s Digital Cinema program with a minor in French in 2006. Two months after her graduation, she moved to Jilin City, P.R. China, where she has lived for the last eight months, to teach Film and English studies at Northeast Dianli University. Upon her return to the United States, she will move to Los Angeles to continue her producing career.

JOSEPH WHITE
Director of Photography

Director of photography Joseph White was born and raised in New York City. His mother is a playwright and his father was a theater director. His high school interest in photography segued into his pursuit of cinematography. He received a bachelor’s degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Cinema Studies, focusing on film theory and criticism. White earned a master’s degree from The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in May 2004 in film production.

Since graduating from USC, White has lensed seven feature films, including narrative films and documentaries, and has shot over a dozen music videos (several of which have aired on such networks as MTV2, fuse, BET, and CTN) and several commercials. In February of 2006 he was honored with The American Society of Cinematographers’ Heritage Award for his work on the film “Rogue 379,” and has been featured in such publications as American Cinematographer magazine, Kodak’s In Camera magazine, as wells as Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. White currently resides in Los Angeles.