Philip Pelletier
- Writer / Composer
"Frogtown" is
the latest creation from award-winning writer/producer
Philip Pelletier. Known to occasionally sit in puddles
and eat flies, he has won numerous awards, including
Best Director at the LA International Film Festival,
Grand Prize at The NY Funny Shorts Fest, and a Media
Masters Award. Official selections in over 75 film festivals
worldwide, his work has been honored at the Lucille
Ball Comedy Museum and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary
Art.
Prior to "One Night In Frogtown",
Pelletier composed, conducted & produced the music
for the Emmy-Award-winning children´s television
series “Rapmatazz” for ABC-TV. He has composed and conducted
music for Emmy Award-winning children’s programming,
Disney & Pixar animations, and award-winning Hollywood
films. His work has been praised by The New York Times,
Time Out New York, Variety, Premiere, Buzz, Juxtapoz,
LA Weekly, and BBC World News. He has won numerous awards,
including Best Director at the LA International Film
Festival, Grand Prize at The NY Funny Shorts Fest, and
a Media Masters Award. Official selections in over 75
film festivals worldwide, his work has been honored at
the Lucille Ball Comedy Museum and the Los Angeles Museum
of Contemporary Art. He has made Oregon his home since
2001.
A prolific composer and
surprisingly strong swimmer, he has created film & television
scores for Amblin´ Entertainment, CBS, Paramount,
20th Century Fox, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers.
Pelletier enjoys working with all kinds of musicians,
(human and otherwise), from the LA Philharmonic Orchestra
to the Wille Nelson Band.
Pelletier made
a splash in the world of animation when he co-founded
the award-winning Swankytown Studios (www.swankytown.com)
in 1998 with partner Verne Lindner, and was named one
of Animation Magazine´s
top 15 digital animation producers. His work has been
featured in the NY Times, Wired, Premiere, Variety, Hollywood
Reporter, and BBC World News.
Pelletier graduated from Berklee College
of Music with a degree in Film-Scoring Composition, which
he received from BB King. Pelletier also attended Bard
College, where he spent many enjoyable hours discussing
cinema with Adolfas Mekas and drinking tiny cups of unusually
strong lithuanian coffee.
Pelletier enjoys a semi-aquatic
lifestyle on the Oregon Coast with his partner Heather
and her daughter Christina, happily hopping about by
day and croaking contently at night.
Verne Lindner
- Illustrator
Verne Lindner has been drawing
and lettering ever since she can remember. In the last
15 years, she´s been
lucky enough to have done a lot it for many of the country´s
largest advertising agencies, film studios and corporations.
Verne works in ink, paint, gold leaf, pixels, walnut
bark, goosefeathers, and, just once, a mop soaked in
sumi. She has animated and created special effects for
clients as diverse as The Oregon State Parks and Pixar
and USA Networks.
Verne lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
to tell a unique story of the
value of cultural diversity. Beautiful illustrations
by Portland artist Verne Lindner and soulful narration
by Curtis Salgado bring the m
