Michael Sergio / Writer-Producer-Director

    Michael Sergio is an Emmy-Award winning Director who has created commercials and videos for clients as diverse as Continental Airlines, AT&T, Disney, Alitalia, ESPN, Broadway Theatre Institute, ABC Sports, and American Express. Sergio has also directed numerous film and television specials including John Ford Noonan's "Night Man at the Sardi Building", "Creating the Wizard of Oz on Ice," for which he was nominated for a Day Time Emmy and "Ringling Bros. 1996 TV Circus Special" for which he won an Emmy. As an actor, Sergio appeared on Broadway in "I Love My Wife," numerous films and tele-vision programs, such as Kojak, Law and Order, Loving, and The Equalizer. He has also appeared in over fifty national television commercials.

    As an accomplished singer/ musician, Sergio has appeared at many of New York City's finest clubs, including "Catch a Rising Star", Greenstreets", "The Bitter End", "The Comic Strip", and "The Original Improvisation" where he performed for almost 17 years.

    Sergio has completed five screenplays and is currently in pre-production on "Cinderella Nights" which is set to go into production in Spring of 2001.


    Isil Bagdadi / Producer

    Under Hellgate Bridge is Isil's first producing effort. She received her Bachelor of Science degree at St. John's University where she majored in Communication Arts (with a minor in Advertising). Last year she received her graduate degree in Film from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). Prior to working with Sergio, she was Production Coordinator at an international production company, working on commercials and music videos. Isil just finished writing, and directing her digital short film "The Blue Marble" starring Michael Rodrick (from "Under Hellgate Bridge") for Cavu Pictures. She is in development on a number of other projects for Cavu Pictures. Her next feature film project is Michael Sergio's "Cinderella Nights".


    Leland Krane / Cinematographer

    Leland Krane has been Director of Photography on six feature films, including most recently "Casanova Falling", a romantic comedy with Amy Redford, Mark Fierstein, and Dabney Coleman, and "Macbeth in Manhattan" with Gloria Reuben, John Glover, and Harold Perrinau.


    Stan Warnow / Editor

    Stan Warnow is a New York based film editor whose credits include some of the most notable films of the past 30 years. After graduating from the NYU School of the Arts cinema program with a Master of Fine Arts he quickly established himself with his first feature credit, the cult classic "The Honeymoon Killers", a low budget film noir that went on to be named to the New York Times 10 best list of 1969.

    Among his many other film projects are the 1970 Academy Award winning feature documentary "Woodstock," co-edited by Martin Scorsese, Milos Forman's "Hair," the concert film "No Nukes," Sesame Street's "Follow That Bird," and "Hurry Up or I'll Be Thirty," which introduced Danny DeVito to the film-going public. Warnow also directed, co-produced, and supervised the editing of the award winning documentary "In Our Hands." He is currently editing "Working Shakespeare," a chronicle of an acting work- shop that brought together notable US and British actors for an intense immersion in Shakespearean acting and vocal techniques.


    Stephan Moccio / Composer

    Stephan Moccio has composed for such films as the award winning "Swann" (soundtrack on Sony Classical), "Edna's Song," and has written themes for various television shows in Canada. Classically trained, 26 year old Stephan is currently signed to Sony Music as a songwriter and has a single on the U.S. Country charts written for Sawyer Brown. Stephan has also worked with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as well as countless song-writers worldwide.


    David Polemeni / Music Supervisor

    David Polemeni started his career as a songwriter for Famous Music, a Paramount/ Viacom Publishing company. He is currently Head of Film & TV Music at Smythe & Company/ NY. His recent supervision credits include Columbia Tristar's animated feature "Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night," starring the late Phil Hartman and Tom Arnold, and Sunlight Pictures' "Fever," which was in the Cannes Film festival 1999.


    Michele Ortlip / Casting Director

    Michele Ortlip has over ten years experience in theatre and film, including the independent films "Milk and Money" (RKO Pictures) with Olympia Dukakis and Calista Flockhart, "Pants On Fire" for Elevator Pictures, and "You Can Thank Me Later," with Mary McDonnell and Ellen Burstyn for Cinequest Films. Since 1990, Michele has also worked with Pakula Productions on such films as Disney/ Touchstone's "Consenting Adults" starring Kevin Kline and Kevin Spacey, Warner Brothers' "The Pelican Brief" starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington, and Columbia Pictures' "The Devils Own," starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt.