Peter Olsen and Josh Apter on location shooting "Kaaterskill Falls"
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JOSH APTER - "Kaaterskill Falls" Co-Director, Producer, Editor
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Communications, Josh attended NYU's Graduate Film Program, where his thesis film, "53rd Calypso," was honored with the Martin Scorsese Award for achievement in Directing. The film, which stars Edward Norton, received Craft Awards for directing, editing, and cinematography at the NYU First Run Festival, Best Narrative at the New York Expo of Short Film and Video and the Audience Choice Award at The East Village Film Festival. Josh's first feature screenplay, "Ice Nine or When Bad Weather Happens to Good People," which he co-wrote with Peter Olsen, was awarded a $25,000 development grant from IFP/North and the Minnesota Independent Film Fund.
Josh recently completed work on Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation as videographer of over 150 testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Josh is currently developing an adaptation of "Break and Enter," the first novel of best selling author Colin Harrison.
PETER OLSEN - "Kaaterskill Falls" Co-Director, Producer, Cinematographer
Honored as a regional finalist in the Student Academy Awards for his first 16mm film "Interstates," Peter was accepted into the Graduate Film Program at NYU where he met Josh and garnered numerous honors including a Graduate Teaching Assistantship, a Warner Bros. Production Award, a mentorship with Sundance award winning director of photography Lisa Rinzler, and a nomination for the American Society of Cinematographers Greg Toland Heritage Award. In 1999 he and Josh won a $25,000 development grant from IFP/North and the Minnesota Independent Film Fund for their feature film script "Ice Nine". Peter has served as director of photography on over twenty films, including four features, both documentary and narrative, and just wrapped shooting season five of the PBS series "At Gardens Gate."
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