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Mike Bowes has extensive experience as a Producer, Line Producer, Production Manager, and Production Coordinator. He splits his time working on independent feature films and PBS documentaries. With over a decade of production experience in Massachusetts he has an intimate knowledge of the local production landscape. While getting his B.A. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he was the President of its Film Society and the organizer of the Five College Film Festival. Mike has also served as the Board Chair of the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA's nationally-recognized repertory cinema.
Zachary is both an independent filmmaker and educator. He was raised in southern Arizona, California and Massachusetts. After spending much of his youth skateboarding and playing music, Zachary decided to pursue his passion for filmmaking and attended the University of California at Santa Cruz where he received his B.A. in film and video production. After college Zachary worked in a bookstore and volunteered at Community Television of Santa Cruz County where he worked as an editor, camera operator, director and producer. Zachary then furthered his education by attending Boston University where he received his MFA in film production. During this time Zachary has written and directed eight short films. His filmmaking credits include "Distance = Rate(Time)," "Shortness of Breath," and "The Only Exercise I Get Is When I Walk To The Liquor Store" which have played at festivals across the US. An accomplished Writer/Director, Zachary is also a talented Director of Photography. In addition to shooting his own films, he has also shot several films and acted as 2nd Director of Photography on the feature film, "Billy Todd's War."
Beyond his production experience he is co-founder of the fantastic screening series Boston Open Screen and is a Professor of Film Production at Fitchburg State College.
Felicia Ryan is a life-long Boston resident who enjoys city life. She earned her BA from Boston College in English and Human Development and her MA in Communication Studies from Emerson College. Over the past ten years, she has worked with various arts-oriented non-profits, focusing their fundraising efforts and increasing marketing profiles. Having spent many years behind the scenes supporting the arts—as a stage manager for a theater group, as a booking agent for local rock bands, as well as a gallery manager for an artist's cooperative—she brings her avid love of the local arts community and especially films to the CP Board. In her free time she loves traveling or planning her next vacation. She works as a Life Coach helping others focus and motivating them to achieve their goals.
Alissa Harris graduated from Sweet Briar College with a BA in Media Studies. After working for a commercial production company in Washington, DC she moved to Boston where she began work on the documentary feature film "My Father, The Genius." Alissa went on to work in production on various fiction films, including "Freebox" and "American Wake." She is currently working in Los Angeles for 20th Century Fox in network television, supervising post-production traffic for over 20 programs, including "Modern Family," "The Simpsons," and "How I Met Your Mother." She spends her spare time working on small video projects and pursuing various artistic endeavors.
Upon graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1997, Nick Ravich researched for filmmaker Errol Morris, starting a ten-plus year career in documentary film and television. Since that time, he has worked as a producer and production manager for various broadcast companies including the Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Comcast. Nick has also worked on a number of award-winning PBS-broadcast arts and culture productions, including Blackside's "I'll Make Me a World" and WGBH-TV's "Greater Boston Arts." Nick is currently the director of production for the Peabody Award-winning PBS arts series "Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century," and lives with his wife Sheetal Khanna-Ravich in Brooklyn, New York.
David is an accomplished writer and musician. He is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, has a regular weekly film review column in Worcester Magazine and contributes film reviews to The Boston Phoenix. He also does freelance writing for Boston Magazine, The Boston Herald, The Boston Globe and the Detroit Metro Times, as well as some teaching of writing and music on the side. In addition to his film criticism he writes fiction, including his first novel The Book of Enemy, about a mind-reading cult in the Berkshires, a screenplay titled Coconut Highway, that was optioned in 2005, and a short story, Containment. He is currently at work on his second novel The Idea Room. David is also a singer/songwriter skilled at keyboards, guitar and trumpet, who has composed scores for the short film "Synthetic Bodies" by Anna Feder, and the stage production of "The Grapes of Wrath." You can see him playing around town at rock clubs like The Middle East, TT The Bear's and The Cantab with his group The Unfamiliars.
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