Writer//Director
Antonio Stellato
Antonio Stellato is a filmmaker and avid screenwriter and story editor from Toronto, Canada. He holds a BFA in Cinema and Media Studies from York University and an Advanced Diploma in Film and Television Production from Humber College. As an artist, Antonio’s work is imaginative and surreal. His directorial debut, Farewell, New York City, follows Edwin Mulligan, a washed-up musician, who loses his talking guitar aboard a one-way train out of New York City. Currently, Antonio has written/ directed two short films and story edited two short films.
Director of
Photography
Devon Shaddick
Devon is a graduating student of Humber College’s Film and Television Production program. From a young age, he’s always been interested in telling stories, from going to the theatre as a kid, to experimenting with short fiction, painting and graphic design as he grew older. In high school he found his passion for film-making. The cameras weren’t great, and the films were terrible, but he loved every second of it.
At Humber he has worked on a variety of fiction and non-fiction projects, DPing two short films and working in the lighting and camera departments on many others. He plans to pursue a career in lighting and grip work in the Toronto film industry.
Producer
Arsen Martyrosian
Arsen Martyrosian is a Toronto based filmmaker who focuses on writing, directing and producing. He has directed multiple short films including the upcoming “Schrodinger’s Cat” and documentary, “Hearing Films”, as well as had few projects produced based on his screenplays. Having experience in producing, he agreed to be a part of “Farewell, New York” because it provided him with a challenge of making a stop motion film and explore areas of filmmaking that he was previously not familiar with.
Production Designer
Dylan Duttil
An obsessive illustrator from a young age, Dylan’s first vocational aspiration was to be an architect. Albeit on a much smaller scale, Farewell New York City provided the opportunity for him to realize that dream. Though it was his first stop motion project, Dylan has no intention of letting FNYC be his last.
Animator
Joseph Bertrand
Joseph Bertrand is an interdiciplinary artist based in Toronto. The Guatemalan born artist started his path in filmaking self producing short films, music videos and video art commissions. He entered in the animation program at Sheridan College to develop the craft of animation. He is currently working as an intern in House of cool in the storyboarding department.