OIKOS FILMS is a New York based independent production company supported by a group of international professional freelancers.
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MEDIA At Oikos, we develop and produce music videos, educational videos, industrials, and commercials, as well as documenting live events and/or performing on site interviews. We begin with the client's concept and provide development and treatment options to lay the groundwork for a fully realized vision. From there, every aspect of the project from pre-production, production, and post is provided by Oikos. When the edit is complete, web supervision to display and share your video content with your partners and clients. is available.
FILM For clients seeking feature and documentary production support on the US East Coast, especially international clientele. Oikos provides everything from budgeting, permits, insurance, productionlogistics, legal and VISA consultation, casting and crew, location scouting, equipment, and post-production services.
RAFFAELE PASSERINI managing producer/director
Raffaele attended the New York Film Academy Conservatory Program and since 2007 is a NYFA directing teacher. He wrote and directed two prize winning shorts The Nurse and The Birdman, both broadcasted on Italian Television. He has been Peter Lilienthal’s assistant director on the German feature documentary Camilo, The Long Road To Disobedience and for Daniel Burress’ NYC based feature narrative The Ones You Love. With his NYC based company, Oikos Films, he has directed and produced documentaries and commercials for the Department of Education of the State of New York, and UNDP, the TV documentarySoundlabs’ People broadcasted on MTV, Michael Tighe’s first single music video, The Likes of You, and Plushgun’s music video Let Me KIss You Now. Going Straight is his first feature film screenplay as a writer and a director. Check out some of his work on YouTube.
JENAH PELLEY producer/director
Jenah has worked in film for over ten years. After developing a keen eye for post production, her efforts moved to the writing and direction of independent films that garnered recognition in Berlin, Tel Aviv, New York, and LA. Proving that storytelling is just as relevant, if not more, to the commercial marketplace, she was given carte blanche to create an internal documentary series for W Hotels in New York. From there she has created original pieces for Dove, Vitamin Water, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and many independent businesses and artists on the East Cost. As a producer and director, Jenah has worked with numerous athletes, actors, and public figures such as: David Wright, David Lee, Dan Abrams, Carmen Marc Valvo, Stacy London, and Ben Bailey among others.
DIEGO ONGARO associate producer/director
Diego is a French director based in the US. Diego cut his teeth as a director working on television shows and music videos. In 2005, he directed and produced the short film, Me, My Bag and My Ball which won numerous awards and accolades in influential film festivals throughout the world, including the prestigious Canal Plus prize at the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival in 2006. In addition to directing, producing and occasional editing work, Diego directs corporate films for such clients as L'Oreal, Lancome, Proctor and Gamble, Warren Tricomi, and the New York Department of Education. Working on both sides of the Atlantic, he recently finished two short films: Back To Labradoria and Rice and Meat, and is currently working on the script for his first feature length film. His short movie Rice and Meat has been recently prized at the Milan International film Festival.
www.diegoongaro.com
DANIEL BURRESS associate producer
Daniel began his career in the arts 13 years ago. From West Palm Beach, Florida, he graduated magna cum laude from Florida Atlantic University with a degree in Theatre. With a main focus on acting, Daniel has performed professionally on stage throughout Florida and New York. He also developed an industrious theater company that brought edgy off-Broadway plays to South Florida. Among other things, he has acted as a therapeutic acting coach for Home Safe, taught acting to high school students and served as chairman for over two years at the Stonzek Studio Theater. In 2005 Daniel attended NYFA and made a transition to film. There, he directed and wrote numerous short films. He is currently in post-production for his feature film, The Ones You Love. Daniel can be seen in Martin Scorsese’s latest movie, Shutter Island and is currently acting for the season on ABC’s hit comedy, Ugly Betty.
The NYC Department of Education has engaged in an inquiry process to help create powerful
learning strategies for their students as well as their teachers. It has sparked an excitement among educators because the data shows the success rate of each strategy enabling the teaching community to taylor their methods in a more timely and efficient manner to best serve NYC students. Putting the inquiry findings on video has allowed this incredible triumph in education to reach its audience more efficiently and literally show the outcome, creating an opportunity for expanding the process.
Plushgun is the brainchild of Daniel Ingala and grew out of the cramped confines of his overpriced and undersized bedroom in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After creating the song Just Impolite and posting it to his MySpace page, the project quickly took off with songs featured in the web-TV series We Need Girlfriends, rising to #1 on the Alternative Rock Channel on Ourstage.com, and being featured repeatedly in MTV's The City. Pins & Panzers will be released on Tommy Boy in February 2009.
Michael Tighe, a.k.a. Tiggers, is currently in the studio completing his debut album. He recently went on a world tour performing with Grammy Award winner Mark Ronson. Tiggers is featured on Ronson's latest album, Version, singing a cover of Britney Spears' Toxic. As a teenager, Tiggers played guitar and co-wrote a number of songs with the late great Jeff Buckley. Visit his myspace page at: www.myspace.com/tiggerstheband.
After ten year, Soundlabs has grown and developed its identity on the European Music Festivals Panorama. Soundlabs brings more exciting, international music to Italy while still highlighting some of the most original and distinctive voices on the Italian music scene. This Feature Documentary tells the story of this amazing festival, through the identity of the people that made and makes this festival possible. This 26 minutes Documentary is currently touring through festivals. Enjoy the trailer.
Bhedigoth is an epic documentary about the dangerous and evocative journey of the Tamangs, a Nepali tribe, who spend six months every year transporting their cattle from their Nepali villages in Sindhupalchok to a remote plateau, called the Goth, in order to feed their animals. The Tamangs come from different villages scattered midway within the Sindhupalchok mountain region in the Himalayas.
In 2010, we will follow several members of the Tamangs from the Golche village, in the Ganesh region, on the east side of Sindhupalchoks mountains. We will live with them during their ascension to the plateau and film their consequential return to the village. Against this storied backdrop, we will tell of the tragic love between Pasang, a poor Golghe shephard, and Dolma, the daughter of a wealthy Yak owner, from the Sherpas Village on the West Side of the mountain.
Through the documentation of this six-month journey and the reenactment of this traditional love story, we will reveal the age-old components of the Tamangs life: their work, their religion, their traditions and their culture.
Raffaele Passerini
An original screenplay by
Executive Producer
Producer
Susan Batson
Carl Ford
In the 80s a peculiar mix of psychology and religion known as Reparative Therapy is spreading across the United States like a silent cancer. The anti-gay marriage issue is a priority in the Republican agenda and Reparative Therapy finds enormous support in politicians and religious groups. Tired of a life of fear, an ex-transsexual and HIV positive Enrico, joins an ex-gay community, becomes a new born Christian and a man again. He marries Cindy and goes on a publicity tour for the program. Everything is looking up for the couple, until they discover that their new happiness is founded on a lie.
RAFAELLE PASSERINI
WRITER - DIRECTOR
Raffaele Passerini (Oikos Films Founder and Manager) has a peculiar background in both the Fine and Dramatic Arts. He took a Bachelor degree in Painting, one in Cinema Studies, and a School degree in Acting, at Bolognas University. As an actor he recently and extensively trained with Acting Coach Susan Batson at Black Nexxus, NYC. In the past, Raffaele toured throughout the world with the Geneva based company Le Malandro, in co-lead role, Leonard, in Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca. In 2001 created and directed for three years, the Theatre Festival degli Animosi in Marradi (Florence, IT). After having lived and worked in Madrid, Paris and Rome, in 2005 he has been honored of a fellowship by Bolognas University-Cinema Studies (Italy), to attend the New York Film Academy 1-Year Filmmaking Program. Since 2007 Raffaele is a NYFA directing and screenwriting teacher. His two prized shorts movies The Nurse and The Birdman have toured festivals around the world and have been broadcasted on Italian Television. In 2007, he worked assistant director for Peter Lilienthal on the German feature documentary Camilo. The Long Road To Disobedience, for which he also assisted on the international sales and distribution phase. Raffaele worked as assistant director also for Daniel Burress NYC based feature film The Ones You Love. With his NYC based company, Oikos Films, he currently works as a writer, director and producer for music videos, feature and documentary films, commercials and industrials. Since 2006 he directs and produces short documentaries and Industrials for the Department of education of The State of New York. He recently shot, produced and directed Soundlabs People, a TV documentary about Indi Rock in Italy, broadcasted by MTV Brand New. He directed and produced Michael Tighes first single music video, The Likes of You, and co-produced the Plushguns Music Video Let Me KIss You Now and Ill Fade Away. He also produced a commercial and a short documentary for United Nations, Capacity development Programs 2009 campaign. As a Writer, Director and producer, he is currently working on his first feature film Going Straight, co-porduced by and
SUSAN BATSON
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Actor, writer, director, producer, teacher, and coach Susan Batson has been called a "technician of the spirit" by the New Yorker. In private consultation on film sets all over the world, and in her New York- and Hollywood-based Black Nexxus acting studios, Susan Batson has enjoyed the privilege of working with Nicole Kidman, Juliette Binoche, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly, and countless other actors searching for truthful connections between themselves and the characters that they play. Nicole Kidman, who has worked closely with Susan for more than twelve years, hails her as a uniquely insightful acting coach with "a hell of a lot of pure talent," while Oscar winner Juliet Binoche praises Susan's ability to "shake you like a tree and get the fruits down." Susan Batson was publicly thanked by Kidman during Kidman's post-Oscar-win press conference for The Hours (2002), and by Tom Cruise in his Golden Globes acceptance speech for Magnolia (1999). Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Batson began her lifelong excursion into the art of acting at Adele Thane's Boston Children's Theater. She graduated from Emerson College's Theater Arts Program and received a John Hay Whitney Fellowship to study with Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, and Herbert Berghof in New York. She was in the original cast of Hair and became a protégé of theater legends Joseph Papp and Harold Clurman, a member of the Actor's Studio, and a recipient of a New York Drama Critics Award, an LA Drama Critics Award, and an Obie. She has consulted with writer/director Spike Lee on several of his films and was a producer of the hugely successful Broadway revival and television production of _Raisin in the Sun, A (2007) (TV)_, starring Sean Combs. Batson's mother, the late Ruth M. Batson, a tenured professor of psychiatry at Boston University, headed the Massachusetts NAACP in the sixties and was the first black woman appointed to the Democratic National Committee and an architect of Boston's pioneering school desegregation initiative. In the spirit of equal opportunity and advancement through education that her mother personified, Black Nexxus (jointly operated with Susan's son Carl Ford), remains open 365 days a year, and Susan Batson remains available to her legion of loyal clients twenty-four hours a day. Susan Batson is the author of the book "Truth: Personas, Needs, and Flaws In The Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters" and has been profiled in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, and Backstage.
CARL FORD
PRODUCER
Carl Ford is founder and chairman of Black Nexxus Inc. a production company and acting studio. As a co-founder of the acting studio Mr. Ford has had the pleasure of working with such luminaries as Brandy Norwood, Q-Tip, Pharrell, Ice-T, Tatum ONeal and Shariff Adare. When Carl Ford isnt sharing his real-world experience with his Black Nexxus students, he is continuing his work as an accomplished director, producer, writer and editor. Mr. Fords directing film credits include Generation X, a short form video documentary about the Million Man March; The Price of Admission, distributed by Bravo; A New York Minute, the most attended short film at the Angelika Film Center during the 1998 New York Independent Feature Film and Video Festival; Barnone, which screened at the LA Shorts Fest, BETJ and won best actress and best editing honors at the New York International Independent Film Festival; Maybe, which he won most original filmmaker at the Roxbury Film Festival and best short film at the Bronx Film Festival and screened at the NYIFF, African Diaspora Film Festival and BETJ. Echoes in Blue which was screened at LA Shorts Fest in 2006. His feature film directorial debut, which he also co-wrote is called Real with Me. Real with Me was completed in New York City February 2005 and is now screening at the NYIFFVM. In addition to his film work, Mr. Ford and his postproduction team have edited Pay-Per-View concerts for artists such as Teddy Pendergrass, Ringo Starr and The Monkees. Carl has edited over five features including Cold Feet distributed by The Starz Network. Carl has produced and edited music videos for such labels as Sony, Motown and Rawkus Records. Mr. Ford has also directed for the theater. One of his credits is Fort Greene Group Therapy that was put up at the NBC theatrical space at the HERE Arts Center Theater. He has also produced and written two television pilots Barnone and Soul of Fashion a fashion show pilot for BET. Mr. Ford has also worked as a producer and unit production manager on Miramax, Island Pictures, Orion Classics and Forty Acres and a Mule productions.
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Oikos Films has worked with (among others): DOE (Department of Education of the State of New York), NYFA (New York film Academy), Black Nexxus INC., NICE Film Festival (New Italian Cinema Events), and Soundlabs Festival.
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