WHO WE ARE
WRITER/DIRECTOR: DANIELLE LESSOVITZ
MOONSAULT will be Danielle’s tenth short film, and fifth narrative short. Her work has been screened at Philadelphia International Film Festival, Portland Oregon Woman’s Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival and has received prizes at First Person Film Festival, Kansas City Film Festival and Ovation. Her video installations have been included in a number of public art exhibitions. She received the Ben Lazaroff screenwriting award for her script, The Earthquake. In 2011 she was awarded a Wasserman fellowship. She is currently a MFA candidate in NYU’s film program.
PRODUCER: JESS FUERST
Jess is a native of Los Angeles, California, and became a filmmaker at a young age. In 2001, she was included in the High School Division of the Los Angeles Film with a short she wrote, directed and produced. She moved to Philadelphia to study neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania before graduating and beginning to professionally produce for a Philadelphia-based newspaper.
Moving to New York in 2009, Jess worked with Producer Dean Silvers (Manny & Lo, Flirting with Disaster) as the production manager on One Fall and in marketing on Enlighten Up!. She began the MBA/MFA program in Producing at New York University in 2010 and has already produced the thesis Henry and worked as the Producer of Marketing and Distribution on the student-Oscar
regional finalist Crazy Glue.
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Chananun Chotrungroj
Chananun is a Thai female fine arts photographer and and
filmmaker who has held solo and group exhibitions in Asia. She has shot and production designed a number of short films which have continued to do well in film festivals. She considers filmmaking as a patchwork of photography and installation art where she can put to use her mulit-disciplinary talents. Chananun is currently a second year filmmaking graduate student at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
WHO WE ARE
WRITER/DIRECTOR: DANIELLE LESSOVITZ
MOONSAULT will be Danielle’s tenth short film, and fifth narrative short. Her work has been screened at Philadelphia International Film Festival, Portland Oregon Woman’s Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival and has received prizes at First Person Film Festival, Kansas City Film Festival and Ovation. Her video installations have been included in a number of public art exhibitions. She received the Ben Lazaroff screenwriting award for her script, The Earthquake. In 2011 she was awarded a Wasserman fellowship. She is currently a MFA candidate in NYU’s film program.
PRODUCER: JESS FUERST
Jess is a native of Los Angeles, California, and became a filmmaker at a young age. In 2001, she was included in the High School Division of the Los Angeles Film with a short she wrote, directed and produced. She moved to Philadelphia to study neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania before graduating and beginning to professionally produce for a Philadelphia-based newspaper.
Moving to New York in 2009, Jess worked with Producer Dean Silvers (Manny & Lo, Flirting with Disaster) as the production manager on One Fall and in marketing on Enlighten Up!. She began the MBA/MFA program in Producing at New York University in 2010 and has already produced the thesis Henry and worked as the Producer of Marketing and Distribution on the student-Oscar
regional finalist Crazy Glue.
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Chananun Chotrungroj
Chananun is a Thai female fine arts photographer and and
filmmaker who has held solo and group exhibitions in Asia. She has shot and production designed a number of short films which have continued to do well in film festivals. She considers filmmaking as a patchwork of photography and installation art where she can put to use her mulit-disciplinary talents. Chananun is currently a second year filmmaking graduate student at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
