Daniel Peddle's debut feature documentary film, The Aggressives, is considered an important and penetrating work on gender identity in the modern world. It was awarded the Alfred C. Kinsey Honor from the Kinsey Institute in 2006 and has won numerous "Best of" awards at documentary film festivals worldwide. Powerhouse Books published Peddle’s written exposé on the Aggressive subculture in the book Transculturalism © 2005.
Peddle spent his childhood in the woods of rural North Carolina. He graduated with honors in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attended graduate film school at New York University. He has lived in New York City since 1992.
He is the founder of Daniel Peddle Casting a company that specializes in casting models for fashion with an international clientele including such companies as Conde Nast and the LVMH group. Peddle is represented as an artist by Envoy Gallery in NY. His wordless book, Snowday, was published in 2000 by Doubleday.
CHRIS HOOVER, PRODUCERChris Hoover has a diverse background in production ranging from film / video production to event production to art installation planning and production. Hoover’s production credits include Swoon (production manager) by Tom Kalin, Postcards from America (assistant director) by Steve McLean, I’ll Be Your Mirror (production coordinator) by Nan Goldin, and as a producer for Fast Trip, Long Drop (theatrically released in the US and France), Junk by Roddy Bogawa, Dresden by Ben Speth, and Afraid of Everything by David Barker. Dresden and Afraid of Everything premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Corporate video clients include Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Vanity Fair, Van Cleef & Arpels, Christian Dior and others.
Hoover was the director of an independent distribution program, Drift Releasing, specializing in European independent films, distributing Jean-Luc Godard's work among others. As principal in Noon Pictures, Hoover produced over a dozen films including feature films that appeared in competition in numerous international film festival (Sundance, Berlin, Rotterdam, Melbourne).
Hoover is currently working on The Chill of Lonesome, a film portrait of bluegrass performer Ernie Thacker.
Karim López is a writer, activist, youth-worker and editor/filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York. His films have screened at festivals all over the country, including: the Brooklyn Arts Council Int'l, San Francisco Int'l, Rooftop Film Festival and the H20 Int' film festival.
López is a member of La Lutta New Media Collective and Mayfirst/People-Link, two of the leading progressive media and internet organizations in the country, and he was a panelist for the 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival. From 2001- 2008, López was an editor at Rainlake Productions, an award-winning documentary and television production company. He now works as a freelance editor, producer and camera-person. He is currently working on several short and feature-length screenplays.
JAMES SALVATORE CORRIGAN, COMPOSER
James Corrigan will be releasing a Rivers record entitled "Bits" on Friendly Ghost Records in the summer of 2010.
