Team

Andrei Kirilenko

Producer/Director/Writer

Andrei Kirilenko, PhD has been making films since 1995. Andrei's debut documentary, Technostorks - a film on infertility and in-vitro fertilization - won an award for the Best Health Documentary at the 2006 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Technostorks is distributed worldwide by Mercury Media International (TV broadcast market) and Aquarius Health Care Media (educational market). Andrei, who also produced six short narrative films, has appeared on ABC, CW, and NBC, and was profiled by Conceive magazine, Washington City Paper, and Washington Woman. Andrei lives and works in Bethesda, MD.

Kiley Kraskouskas

Co-Producer

Kiley infuses her documentary work with sharp analytical, research, and creative skills that she has developed over four years of graduate training in social science research and academia. She capitalizes on this expertise to shape the pre-production and conceptual aspects of documentary filmmaking. Kiley conducts historical and sociological research to inform and conceptualize documentary storytelling. Calling on her extensive background in qualitative research methods - Kiley has an MA in Sociology from New York University - she illuminates biases in the documentary interview process and develops novel interview methods to circumvent this bias.

Tim Phillips

Director of Photography

Tim Phillips, an award winning producer, director, and writer and one of the owners of Rock Creek Productions, Inc., has nearly 20 years of experience delivering film, videotape, and interactive multimedia products to a diverse range of customers including government, corporate, broadcast and commercial clients. He is an accomplished writer, having scripted programs on diverse subjects ranging from the ancient Chinese game, “Go” to children's titles, from nutrition to emergency management, from African art to counterterrorism. Tim has won numerous industry awards for his video and multimedia production and scripting work, including Telly Awards, Videographer Awards, Communicator Awards, Vision Awards, and others.

Mark Leisher

Camera

Mark Leisher has been in the film and video industry for the past 4 years, working as a Director of Photography, Camera operator, and HDTV Digital Imaging Technician. Mark has worked on many full length independent features, and numerous digital shorts. His work has been featured on HD/SD networks from Comcast Cable, HD Net, Rush HD, Dish Network, Speed Channel, VH-1, BET and Much Music. Mark is currently working on two full length documentaries scheduled to be released in the Fall of 2007.

Craig Gildner

Sound

Craig Gildner is a twenty year veteran in the field of audio production. As the owner and engineer of Metrovoice Media in Bethesda, he created radio and TV commercials for clients like Arc of Northern Virginia, GIVF, Patient First, and Sport Chevrolet. He also does audiobook production, restoration of tape and disc recordings, video postproduction, as well as field audio engineering for local production crews. In 2006, Craig won both a silver Telly and Videographer Award of Distinction for the creation of AIAA informational video, From The Sand to The Stars.

Jonathan Shaivitz

Production Assistant

Jon Shaivitz will be graduating from the University of Maryland with a degree in Communication in the Fall 2007. He has worked both as an office and on set production assistant for various productions including indie horror, indie documentary, and full length broadcast documentaries for Discovery, HGTV, and PBS. Jon is aspiring to be a writer and producer of both fiction and nonfiction film.

Lucy Engelman

Production Assistant

Lucy Engelman is a second-year student at Oberlin College in Ohio, focusing on documentary production and global studies. Her previous projects include a self-produced documentary on her high school experience (the Waldorf Experience), another on the Folk Festival at the Washington DC Mall, and a mock horror film, Disconnected.