Michael Rodrick
Producer

Michael Rodrick auditioned for the prestigious NJ Governor's School of the Arts for Theatre and was one of twelve to make the cut for the entire state. He received a full scholarship to Catholic University's drama program, one of the oldest in the nation. 

Known best for ‘his intensity and emotional vulnerability,” (The Village Voice).  Michael Rodrick first caught audiences' attention with Tim McCann's independent feature Desolation Angels.  In April of 1998 Rodrick made his daytime debut on NBC’s “Another World” as fan favorite Cameron Sinclair.  Other television appearances include Sidney Lumet’s drama “100 Centre Street” and WB’s “Charmed,”
CBS’s “The District,” and FOX’s “Bones.”

In August of 2000, Rodrick won “Best Actor” Award for his leading role in Under Hellgate Bridge at the Narrowsburg Independent Film Festival in New York.   In the fall of 2002, Rodrick completed filming  Nowhere Man, directed by Tim McCann, in which he played the lead role of Conrad Kane.  Nowhere Man was theatrically released in the Spring of 2005 and his performance has been highly praised as “relentlessly intense.” (LA Times).  He has appeared in dozens of national commercials for Chrysler, Arby’s, Hasbro, Dodge, and Miller Lite.  Rodrick guest starred twice for Bruckheimer Television in 2006, specifically the highest rated Cold Case to date.

Tim McCann
Director

In 1995 Tim directed his first feature film, Desolation Angels on a budget of less than 50 thousand dollars. Desolation Angels won the International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) at the Toronto Film Festival, the Merchant Ivory/Kodak Award at the Telluride Film Festival, and was a Critic's Choice at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.  With directors Jonathan Demme and Barbet Schroeder presenting, Desolation Angels began an eight-city release in the summer of 1996.  The film landed on several “Best Films of the Year” lists, and McCann was one of the five finalists in the 1996 IFP-West SPIRIT Awards.  Desolation Angels is available from Winstar Cinema on video and DVD.

His second feature, Revolution #9, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and then at the Toronto International Film Festival.   Revolution #9 also won the Grand Jury Award at the 2002 Nantucket Film Festival and a Special Jury Award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina.

McCann's third feature, Nowhere Man, which stars Michael Rodrick and Debbie Rochon, was theatrically released in the spring of 2005 by First Run Features. McCann also directed an episode of Barry Levinson’s Homicide: Life on the Street, which starred Eric Stoltz, Joan Chen, and Tate Donovan. 

Recently, McCann directed and produced the film Runaway for New York based production company Filbert Steps.  Runaway stars Aaron Stanford, Robin Tunney, Melissa Leo and Terry Kinney.  The film recently premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, where Variety hailed it as “a slacker psycho thriller that will keep audiences off balance till the bitter end…Pic will find favor not just with fests, but with younger auds in general…Paralyzing performances.”

In addition to directing, McCann has worked as a cinematographer, shooting five feature films, including Larry O'Neil's Throwing Down. He has guest lectured at Ithaca College, Cornell University, and The New School, and teaches film at SUNY Purchase.

Bob Gosse
Producer

Bob Gosse started making feature films in the late 1980’s with his cousin and SUNY Purchase classmate Hal Hartley (Trust, Henry Fool). After working on Trust, Gosse made his first meaningful impression as a producer on the NYC film scene in 1992. With his partner Larry Meistrich, Gosse went on to produce Nick Gomez’s feature debutLaws of Gravity.

That same year, Gosse and Meistrich founded the noted independent film company, The Shooting Gallery which has made a name for itself by producing no- and low-budget pictures for edgy, young directors such as Billy Bob Thornton. The Shooting Gallery produced Thornton's Sling Blade, which received a nod from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 

Since then, Gosse has produced a number of feature films including Handgun, Another Girl, Another Planet, New Jersey Driveand The Last Home Run, which he also directed.  Directing then became his main focus and he made the filmNiagara, Niagara.  This film won the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival and then went on to the Sundance Film festival before its US theatrical release just last year.  Niagara, Niagara was been nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards.

Adapting Wendy Hammond’s play Julie Johnson for the big screen, Gosse cast Lili Taylor and Courtney Love. After screening at the Sundance and Berlin Film festivals, the film traveled extensively abroad. Julie Johnson was released in 2006 by USA Films.

Gosse has just finished a feature length screenplay entitled A Violent Act, which is based on Alec Wilkinson’s award winning non-fiction novel.  Recently Gosse produced the narrative feature Runaway with Aaron Stanford, which had its world premiere at the 2005 Tribeca International Film Festival.

Jeff Kushner
Sound Designer

Jeff Kushner’s editing skills include all the elements of Post Sound including FX, Dialogue, Foley and ADR editing.  After graduating the State University of New York at Purchase in 1987, he had a brief stint in Production as a sound mixer and boom operator. He worked as a picture-editing assistant in features and trailers; and through a New York City based trailer company began sound editing in 1989. In 1990 he began a long-term relationship with the sudden burst of NYC independent cinema; and founded the Post Production and Editing Division of the independent feature company The Shooting Gallery.  While with this company he supervised several features, among them Sling Blade, Illtown, Niagara Niagara, Frogs For Snakes,and Pharaohs Army.

He left The Shooting Gallery in 1998 when he moved to LA, but the divisions he founded, East Coast Post and Gun For Hire Post, continued to thrive. Since coming to LA, he has supervised Drowning Mona,  Harold and Kumar Go To White Castleand  The Great New Wonderful.  Since 2003 he has been the dialogue editor on Law And Order and  Law And Order: Special Victims Unit. Other credits include, The In-Laws,   Agent Cody Banks, Unfaithful, High Crimes, Behind Enemy Lines, and Cats and Dogs.