Duncan Putney

Duncan is an award winning screenwriter residing in Providence, Rhode Island and working in the New York and New England markets. He recently won an Emmy Award for the Rhode Island International Film Festivals 2008 public service campaign. The documentary “Partnership Runs Deep, which he co-wrote for the US Navy & NOAA, was selected for the Smithsonian Institutions Ocean Hall and won two Gold Screen Awards. His scripts have garnered recognition at film festivals and competitions:

Finalist: International Family Film Festival Short Comedy Screenplay Competition, Quarter-Finalist: Scriptapalooza TV Script Competition,

Quarter-Finalist: Page International Screenwriting Awards, Top 10%: Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Winner: Woods Hole International Film Festival Short Screenplay Competition, Round Three Semi-Finalist: Bravo TV Situation Comedy Competition, and a Selected Script: Grub Street Writers & Central Productions Screenwriters Salon Series.

His writings on the subjects of both film making and American history have appeared in national magazines and journals.

Duncan is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied both accounting and theatre. He went on to make his career in acting in stage, film, and television, as well as an associate producer in film and theatre. He has performed stand up and improv., as well as being a published poet and historian. You have seen him in feature films, episodic television, commercials and corporate videos. He has served as an officer/delegate for both SAG and AFTRA and he serves on the advisory board of the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Duncan is also the creator of the History Casting division of LDI Casting, finding historic reenactor extras and historic consultants for film and television productions (www.ldicasting.net/historycast)

 

André Stark

 

André Stark has been involved with television and educational programming for more than 15 years, first at WGBH, where he worked both in Local and National Programming then at the

Chedd-Angier Lewis Production Company in Watertown, Massachusetts and the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University as well as Boston Productions in Norwood, MA. He has worked on such diverse programs for including the Science series THE SECRET OF LIFE; MANDELA: LAST MILE TO FREEDOM, a film on the former president of South Africa, and the derivative series on the AIDS epidemic, THE AIDS QUARTERLY with Peter Jennings.

In recent years he has also produced a variety of museum video and interactive science exhibits from the US to the Middle East. These include Petroleum Planet for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois, The Saudi Aramco Visitors Center in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and the BIOSCAPE exhibits for the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond. His  documentary film on Evolution can be found on the Annenberg media website.

Mr. Stark recently produced the video exhibits for the College Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City, MO and the Power of Children exhibit in Indianapolis, IN concentrating on three trailblazing kids, Ruby Bridges, Ran White and Anne Frank

• In Pursuit of a Dream, a story about modern kids recreating life on the Oregon Trail will be airing nationally in the fall of 2010. Stark produced the film in conjunction with Boston Productions

Stark has twice been nominated for Emmy Awards for his work on the Sports Series, THE SPORTS EXCHANGE.