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OnScreen Film Festival

OnScreen Film Festival
September 29, 2022, 7pm at the AMC Classic 11 Williamsport, PA

Leah Bedrosian Peterson, Festival Director

Bedrosian Peterson’s films have received substantial recognition at national and international festivals. Her film Under the Walnut Tree was awarded the “Director’s Choice Award” at the Black Maria Film Festival, awarded “Audience Favorite” at the Florida Animation Festival, nominated for the “Women Film Critic Choice Award” at the Socially Relevant Film Festival New York, screened at Lincoln Center as part of “Armenians in Film” sponsored by the AGBU, and nominated for the “Best Short Animation” by the Arpa International Film Festival. Her most recent short narrative film, Brave Little Hawk, that she wrote and directed, is slated for release in the summer of 2023. Bedrosian Peterson is the founder and director of OnScreen International Film Festival, and Chair and Professor of Film and Video Arts at Lycoming College. She received an MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. www.leahbedrosian.com

Festival Programming Committee

Emily Shaffer

Shaffer is employed by Penn State University as a marketing communications specialist. She graduated from Lycoming College in 2019 with a BA in Film and Video Arts with a minor in Photography and has produced freelance photography and videography for the Lycoming County Courthouse and several other businesses in the greater Williamsport region. She was the 1st Assistant Camera and Focus Puller on Brave Little Hawk, a short film, due out during the summer of 2023. During her free time, Emily enjoys traveling, hiking, and exploring the great outdoors with friends and family.

Mitch Wheary

Wheary owns Cardinal Creek Media Haus, a video production company. He has freelanced on dozens of commercial projects in various roles and has interned with Little League International in their video department as well as at the Cannes International Film Festival. He graduated from Lycoming College in 2020 with a BA in Film and Video Arts with a minor in Business. He has also worked as a Director of Photography on Brave Little Hawk, a short film, due out during the summer of 2023. During his free time, Mitch enjoys hiking, fishing and exploring the great outdoors.

Judges

Tom Woodruff, Jr.

Tom Woodruff, Jr. (Tom Woodruff Jr. Grand Jury Award for Lycoming College films) is an actor and special effects artist who has worked on every Alien and Alien vs. Predator film since Aliens. Much of his early interest in movies and monsters was a result of late‐night broadcasts of the now classic Universal monster movies and the stop‐motion effects of Ray Harryhausen. Finally, seeing one of the Planet of the Apes films in a theater focused his attention on the craft of make‐up, while getting his hands on his father's 8mm home movie camera at 13 years old simultaneously encouraged his interest in filmmaking. He co-owns Amalgamated Dynamics alongside his longtime partner and friend, Alec Gillis. Woodruff won an Academy Award for Visual Effects on the film, Death Becomes Her and was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in Alien 3. http://www.studioadi.com/

Levi Woodward

Levi Woodward (Narrative Films) is the Managing Partner at Rocket Science, a globally recognized preeminent international film and tv studios. They develop, package, produce, and distribute critically acclaimed and commercially successful film. Recent films include, Sean Penn’s Flag Day, The Trial of the Chicago Seven, and May December. https://www.rocket-science.net/

Joshua R. Troxler

Troxler is a NYC based filmmaker and film professor. He received his MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University School of the Arts where he graduated with honors and received the Lewis B. Cole Memorial Award for Excellence in Screenwriting. He has taught courses as an adjunct professor in Film Production, Screenwriting, and Film History and Theory at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, New York University, Hunter College, and Elon University. He worked with NYC-based Big Mouth Productions on CHARM CITY (Oscar shortlisted, 2018) and on Kirsten Johnson’s DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Oscar shortlisted, 2020) as her director’s assistant and production coordinator. His producing credits include PAS DE DEUX (2022) which won the Opera Prima (best first feature) at the 2022 Solothurner Film Festival, UNTITLED FIELD OF VISION SHORT (in production) from Kirsten Johnson, and INTO THE TULES (in production) from director Martin Lucas. Joshua has made a pair of experimental short films, IF YOU COULD GO BACK I WOULD SEE HER (2020) and ARSONIST (2021),which both had their premieres at Festival ECRÃ in Rio, Brazil. He's currently in production on his first feature documentary about the rehearsal processes of Shakespeare. www.joshuatroxler.com

Christina Moliterno

Christina Moliterno (Animation) is a designer, animator, illustrator, and Lycoming College Alum (2014). Starting her career fresh out of college as a freelance filmmaker, Christina pivoted to motion design once she realized her passion for animation. She went on to work at various places in NYC, most notably at Rockstar Games where she worked on various titles such as GTAO, Red Dead Redemption II, and RDO while serving as the Lead Motion Graphics Animator. Currently, she works remotely as a Senior Motion Designer at Animus Studios. You can see some of her work at christinamoliterno.com

Stephen St. Francis Decky

Stephen St. Francis Decky (Experimental Films and Music Videos) is a multi-media artist and writer whose work has appeared in festivals, collections, and museums both nationally and internationally, including The New Britain Museum of American Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan. As a technical consultant and collaborator, he has worked on multi-channel video installations in Boston, New York City and Montana. Stephen received his MFA from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Video Art at Lycoming College.
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