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It is the mission of On Look Films to reach across cultural divides, document cultural history and contribute to diverse intercultural dialogue, thus creating a more peaceful world.
On Look Films is grateful to have a dedicated team of professionals dedicated to realizing Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo. Combined, the team has won over 25 awards for film, visual art and sound projects, and participated in over 100 international film festivals, including the Cannes International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Globians Berlin Documentary Film Festival.
Each of us at On Look Films has an unprecedented drive, enthusiasm, and commitment in our respective communities. We have a love for humanity and an unshakeable dedication to cultural issues. As a testament of our commitment to dialogue and understanding within cultural diversity, the On Look Films team is comprised of individuals from Ukraine, Belarus, Brazil, Iran, Egypt, Israel and the United States.
Anna Kipervaser
Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born Chicago artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has been consistently shown in galleries and arts publications across the country since 2001, and she has been the recipient of numerous grant awards and residencies including the George Sugarman Foundation Grant, New York Studio Program Residency, the Bertha Langhorst Werner Award, and the Stephen H. Wilder Traveling Scholarship. She is slated for an upcoming solo exhibition at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery in Washington DC for July of 2010.
Inspiration for Anna’s creative endeavors stems from her fascination with culture. Anna has traveled extensively and has created numerous bodies of socially relevant work. Her commitment to transforming the world through art is visible through the creative leadership she has taken on in curating numerous exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Denver. In 2002, Anna created Manual Productions, a mobile art gallery, and has since been organizing cross-platform exhibitions and creating community everywhere she goes. Through her work, Anna examines social, collective and individual identity. While she has worked in various mediums in her career, her experience in the Middle East has moved her to work with film as a tool for increasing awareness of social and cultural issues globally.
Rodion Ron Galperin
Rodion Ron Galperin is a Belarus-born Chicago based designer. Rodion’s design background is in print media; he has worked with Dell, Macy’s, Sears, and other various clients on advertising campaigns throughout the United States. Outside of the high-profile corporate clients he has worked with, Rodion has created album art and Websites, and has been featured in numerous experimental design publications. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BFA in Graphic Design in 2007 and is currently working toward a BFA in Visual Communications at the International Academy of Design and Technology in Chicago. He is enthusiastic about his venture into film, with which he would like to make a creative and social impact through his love of design and typography.
Miguel Silveira
Miguel Silveira is an award-winning independent Latino filmmaker from Brazil. His films have consistently been recognized at national and international film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, as well as many others. His short film, Namibia, Brasil was picked up and broadcast by the notable Franco/German television channel ARTE. Miguel has taught filmmaking and documentary production at Columbia College, San Antonio de Los Banos, Cuba and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has traveled the globe to countries such as the Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Spain, France, India, Bangladesh and others.
Throughout his life, he has sought to expose himself both to the reality of his country as well as that of the countries visited, and that exposure has come to influence much of his work today. Miguel is currently filming the feature length documentary, Cannikins Wake, about three nuclear bombs that were detonated in Alaska in the early 1970’s and the terrifying repercussions those bombs continue to have on our world today. His short film, Rooftop Wars, about kids raging war with each other on the rooftops of Pilsen won the competitive 2009 IFP Production Fund Grant. He lives in Chicago where he is also a professor of film at Columbia College Chicago.
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Scott F. Busch
Scott F. Busch is a Chicago-based post-production editor whose work includes experimental, documentary and narrative films as well as motion graphics. In Fall 2009, Scott graduated from Columbia College Chicago, earning a BA with Honors in Film and Video. Scott has had two films featured at Columbia College Chicago’s Take One Film Festival: He was the writer and co-editor of Zyrianka, runner up in Fall 2008, and co-editor of Fragmented, which won best film in Spring 2009. Scott wrote, directed and edited Tones, which was one of the six films featured in the new Take None Film Festival in Winter 2009.
Scott is also the host, writer, creator, and graphic designer of a series of scenario paintball games in Petersburg, Illinois with his five-man scenario paintball team, Thorn Busch Paintball, for five consecutive years with games consisting of up to seventy participants.
Ehsan Ghoreishi
Ehsan Ghoreishi is an Iranian-born Chicago based filmmaker, director, sound designer, and musician. He is currently in the Film Program at Columbia College Chicago with a concentration in Directing and Post Production Sound Design for Film. He has also studied Music Composition and Photography. His latest short film After Us was produced in Tehran in 2009 during the political unrest of the presidential elections. His other shorts include Umrikka (2008), and Insertions of Reality (2009). Inspired by both of the countries he calls home, Ehsan partakes in cross cultural activities between Iran and the United States such as curating the Samad Film Festival which began in 2006. This festival is the first of its kind in the United States, featuring all experimental and independent short films produced in Iran.
Ehsan is an avid musician, an accordionist and percussionist; he plays in the Balkan inspired brass band Black Bear Combo with whom he performed at President Obama’s Halloween party at the White House in 2009.
Yoni Goldstein
Yoni Goldstein is an award winning Chicago based filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor whose work puts forward multi-sited interpretations of myth, conflict, and diaspora. Developing multiple variations on the documentary, Yoni has gone on to work on a number of socially critical film projects: from examining hybridized healing practices in the Northern Andes (La Curación) to diaristic journeys through post-revolution Lithuania (Cousin Kasyte) to windows of dialogue in the Palestinian/Jewish Diaspora in (Zeitouna). His films have circulated in numerous regional, national and international festivals, conferences, and showcases.
In 2003, Yoni Goldstein opened Standing Point Films, an independent film and video production house. He and Meredith Zielke envision, design, and lead this organization from the ground up to develop independent and experimental media projects. Since its inception, Standing Point Films has produced and supported over thirty films and video projects and continues to operate as a successful documentary production company.
Meredith Zielke
Meredith Zielke is an award-winning independent filmmaker, cinematographer and audio producer. She has undertaken topics such as the effective process of dialogue in confronting the Israel/Palestine conflict (Zeitouna), prismatic notions of body in Ecuador (La Curación), nautical illustrations of Restless Leg Syndrome (Jib Halyard), alternatives in public education (Our School), urban compromise within Post-Fordist Detroit (Detroit: Ruin of a City), 'City of Big Shoulders'-Informed Couture (Chic Chicago: Chicago History Museum), Alaskan environmental research (Discovery Voyages), disembodiment and disregard amongst Pakistani refugees, and the dual perception of Asian-American women (Eyes without a Face).
Her work has been selected for competition at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival, FIFEQ (Festival International du Film Ethnographique due Québec), Media City International Film Festival, C-Pop Gallery and Detroit's Fringe Festival. She has spoken and presented at ethnographic conferences hosted by Yale University, Université de Montréal and McGill College in Montreal, and has instructed both audio and video documentary courses at the Detroit Film Center, Mess Hall [Chicago], and in Loja, Ecuador.
Ryan "Catfish" Chindlund
Ryan “Catfish” Chindlund is a sound engineer and designer with over ten years’ experience designing, engineering and recording sound in the Chicago area. Catfish is currently sound engineer at Chicago House of Blues. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BA, with Honors, and a concentration in Live Sound Reinforcement. Throughout his time as a professional sound engineer Catfish has recorded numerous live events, studio projects, and has installed PA Systems throughout Chicago and its outlying areas. Ryan also continues to play in various musical projects as a percussionist and also as a multimedia sound art collage one-man-band.
Islam Khaled
Born in Cairo where he currently resides, Islam Khaled graduated at the top of his class from the Faculty of Tourism at Helwan University in 2007. In addition to being a tour guide, he is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Tourism at Helwan University and is working toward his Masters Degree in Egyptology. His goals are to transform negative perceptions of Egypt and Islam through dialogue and action. Islam speaks Arabic, English, French and Japanese, and is an avid athlete and sports fan. He has dedicated his life’s work to fostering cross-cultural understanding, a mission he continues pursuing with On Look Films.
Jeremy Johnson
Originally from Kansas, Jeremy Johnson moved to Cincinnati in 1998, where he attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati majoring in Art History and Fine Arts. He specializes in ancient and early modern religious practices of Western and Eastern cultures. Much of his work incorporates historical mediums in modern context as a way of delivering cultural practices to modern viewers.
Jeremy also curates exhibitions in Cincinnati and collaborates in large scale theatrical and performance art productions. Currently, Jeremy is working on a long term project entitled Meddling With Nature which incorporates photography, sculpture, taxidermy, video, animation, and other media. Meddling with Nature is intended to educate viewers on medical practice and biological process through the use of visual art. This recent work has given Jeremy a new skill of translating visual information on a vast scale and has provided him with the opportunity to incorporate his passion for connecting elements.
Sandra Kofler
Sandra Kofler is a Chicago journalist reporting on everything from entertainment to the lives of everyday people. As a child of Eastern European immigrants, her experience straddling cultures both American and foreign has been life-long. Sandra began her career in journalism at the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was the recipient of the Glenn Hanson scholarship in visual communications. While studying abroad in Moscow, she interned at the city’s oldest independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, alongside her role model, late human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya. As a final project, she composed a thesis in Russian about the deteriorating state of mass communications and free speech in Russia, topics that have formed her perspective as a journalist. After earning a BS in Print Journalism in 2004, she worked in New York City as a reporter and researcher at local and national publications including Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, Spin Magazine and TV Guide Magazine. She is a freelance writer with a column in TV Guide Magazine. She is currently living in Chicago and honing her photography skills and learning Romanian as part of her ongoing research on the Republic of Moldova for a future book project.
Ahmed Rasheed
Ahmed Rasheed is an ambitious independent filmmaker in Cairo, Egypt. He has directed and produced films such as Morphine and The Lost Valley, and directed a TV spot, Sailing the Nile to End Poverty, for the United Nations Development Programme. With his work, Ahmed continues to be interested in culturally relevant films that deal with urban life as well as the fabric of Cairo’s diverse social classes. His films have been featured around the world in festivals and residencies such as the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Culture Wheel Independent Film Festival. Ahmed holds a BA in Broadcasting from Modern Sciences and Arts University, Cairo.
He has worked as Assistant Director on numerous films including The Yacoubian Building, Ibrahim Labiad, and Dam El Ghazal. Currently working on several projects locally and internationally, Ahmed Rasheed works independently and with Lighthouse Films, one of the biggest production houses in Egypt, where he is Assistant Director and Producer.
Dustin Majewski
Dustin Majewski is a Columbia College graduate with a BA in film and video, with a specialization in post production faculties. He has worked as Production Artist at Columbia’s Frequency TV channel in motion graphics, special effects, audio design and editor for various television episodes. He has worked as editor and title designer for numerous short films, and was editor and provided motion graphics for Flash Frame, an interview reel of graduating Columbia College seniors for industry head hunters.
Jen Reinhardt 
After spending time in Damascus on a cultural immersion program with The Middle East Fellowship, Jen Reinhardt became a passionate advocate of media and educational reform with regards to the Middle East. Graduating from the University of Chicago in 2009 with a Bachelors in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Jen relocated to Los Angeles to become program coordinator for the Levantine Cultural Center as well as field recruiter for the AFS Intercultural Programs, while also contributing articles to the Levantine Review. Jen continues her fierce dedication to cross-cultural communication through all of the projects she takes on.
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