Who is IndieFlix?

Name: Scilla Andreen
Title: CEO and Co-Founder
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Schools: Lakeside, FIDM - SB, NYU
Professional experience: A self-acclaimed chocoholic, and competitive game player Scilla has deep roots in the entertainment industry. She has produced several award winning films including festival favorites, "Outpatient", "The Flats" and Sundance hit, "Bit Players". She produced her first film, "Mutual Love Life" which received Oscar Consideration for Best Live Action Short. In addition Scilla is an Emmy Nominated Costume Designer best known for her work on "The Wonder Years", "Party of Five", "Dawson's Creek" & "What I Like About You". Splitting her time between NYC, LA & Seattle she is a tireless champion of independent film and a big believer that movies are a tool to not only entertain but also to educate. She has spoken on numerous panels and immersed herself in film related organizations worldwide. Her favorite past times are thinking up Tag Lines for friends' companies, reading, sailing, cooking, eating and laying on a beach. She is best known for her contagious loud laughter and when she's not staying up too late working, Scilla can usually be found hanging out with her friends and family.
Favorite film: Witness for the Prosecution, All About Eve, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Willy Wonka (the original), Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, The Godfather, Bridge over the River Kwai, Moulin Rouge, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, The Big Chill, Crash,
Hobbies: Burning music compilation CD's
Photography, painting, cooking, sailing
Known for: Contagious loud laughter, competitive at word games, Ball gown skirts, staying up too late, cooking too much food, getting along with difficult personalities & being late
Likes: Dinner parties with friends & family, watching TV in bed late at night, chocolate, hanging out with my family
Dislikes: Flying coach, pleated pants, paper cuts, humidity, paying bills, rewinding videos, feeling fat & being late
Kids: 2
Do you like chocolate? More than I can say

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Name: Carlo Scandiuzzi
Title: Co-Founder
Hometown: Asolo, Italy
Schools: Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi graduated from the Ecole Superieure D'Art Dramatique of Geneva where he worked in theater, film and television before moving to the United States in 1978.
Professional experience: In 1979 Carlo started Modern Productions, a music production and promotion company, bringing to Seattle such legendary bands as The Police, Devo, Nina Hagen, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, John Cale, Robert Frip, James Brown, Muddy Waters, and many more. He performed in several plays including Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Return of Pinocchio and Dracula. In the early '80s, Carlo collaborated with many Seattle performance artists such as Norman Durkey, Alan Lande, Jesse Bernstein, and Susan Finque. In 1986, Carlo's company Agate Films began producing feature films, among them, Prototype, Apex, and Dark Drive. He also acted in various films including Bugsy, The Public Eye, Indecency, Another You, Casanova's Kiss, and Killing Zoe. Carlo is Co-CEO of Clear Pictures a production company with offices in Seattle and Los Angeles
Favorite film: 8 ½, Once upon a time in the west, Moulin Rouge
Hobbies: - Reading, Gardening, Fixing things and taking naps
Known for: Making things happen, memorable parties, being there
Likes: Dinner with friends, theater, making movies, watches
Dislikes: Flying, pretension and arrogance, bad manners
Kids: 2
Do you like chocolate? Yes

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Name: Rob Holmes
Title: Consultant
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Schools: Princeton University
Professional experience: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios
Texas Pacific Group
Goldman Sachs
Favorite film: Star Wars, Shawshank Redemption, The Game
Hobbies: Sports, outdoors, movies
Known for: Laugh
Likes: Water
Dislikes: Pushy People
Kids: Not Yet
Do you like chocolate? Hmmm... prefer salty

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Name: Jeanine Flanders
Title: CTO
Hometown: Long Beach, CA
Schools: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Professional experience: At Solien, Jeanine has provided management leadership, as well as hands-on analytical and technical skills, to dozens of Internet oriented software development projects, including: a 3,000 user Intranet, several integrated commerce sites, an online music community, and an ongoing, multi-tiered online lead conversion marketing campaign for a Fortune 500 company.
Jeanine joined Solien in 1995 from Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she was Director of Studio Financial and Administrative Systems. She managed a team in the development and maintenance of Sony Pictures Entertainment Studio Finance, Corporate Accounts Payable, Imageworks, Sony Emporium, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, and Corporate Administrative applications residing on disparate platforms (HP 9000/Unix, LAN, DEC/VAX, IBM mainframe). She was instrumental in the evaluation and implementation of the client/server infrastructure and the selection of windows development tools (Sybase SQL Server, PowerSoft PowerBuilder, ERwin). She was responsible for the system architecture for a new studio management and billing system that replaced and extended the functionality of several existing studio systems.
Jeanine began her career in software development at Macy's West, transferring from a supervisory position in the corporate accounting department to work on financial systems in the Information Systems department, including a combined (Macy's South/Bullock's) general ledger/trial balance system and an on-line stock/sales reporting system that was used daily by executives, buyers and store general managers.
Favorite film: Blade Runner; Strictly Ballroom; My Life as a Dog, Paris, Texas; Fargo; Brazil; Birdy; Murmur of the Heart; Wings of Desire, The Player; Rushmore, The Usual Suspects
Hobbies: I used to have hobbies, now I have kids.
Likes: ice cream, running, travel, politics

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Name: Mike Williams
Title: Filmmaker Relations & Acquisitions
Hometown: Bremerton, WA
Schools: - Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (Asia Focus) from the University of Washington, Seattle
- Associate of Arts from Highline CC, Des Moines, WA
Professional experience: - IndieFlix, LLC
- Film screenings at 911 Media Arts on a volunteer bases
Favorite film: Dark Days (Dir, Marc Singer), Ghost Dog, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chinjuhlhan Geum-Ja shi), Boyz in the Hood, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ninja Scroll, Ame Agaru (After the Rain), Garden State, Jacob's Ladder, The Matrix
Hobbies: - Watching Movies
- Making Instrumentals
Known for: My height
Likes: Leisure drives with my wife
Dislikes: Elitists and bigots
Kids: 0
Do you like chocolate? White Chocolate!

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Name: Travis "Tobe" Oberlander
Title: Online/Grassroots Marketing
Hometown: Sammamish, WA
Schools: - University of Washington - Seattle, WA: B.A. International Studies
- Eastlake H.S. - Sammamish, WA
Professional experience: Travis got his start in performing arts back in the 6th grade when he appeared as a sick boy staying home from school in his first onstage role. From there he continued to perform onstage in several theatrical productions from Romeo and Juliet to Fiddler on the Roof. Pretty soon acting wasn't enough for Travis and he decided to ask a friend about how he can get into filmmaking. He suggested that Travis write a script and the result was Checkpoint 33. CP33 went on to make the Slamdance Screenplay Competition semi-finals and Travis' screenwriting and film production whistle was wet. Over the course of his short film career Travis has produced over 7 short films and has initiated development of the feature film "Clemency". Eventually, through a friend, Travis was introduced to Scilla Andreen for a dog-sitting job. This however never came about, as Travis' ideas for online grassroots marketing lead to his hiring at IndieFlix. He looks forward to projecting IndieFlix out into the crucial, and fledgling online marketplace.
Favorite film: Varies depending on genre but "Swingers" is always tops.
Hobbies: Writing, Watching movies, drinking coffee.
Known for: Blogging and Myspace! Grandiose ideas.
Likes: Coffee, Coffee shops, Double short americanos, Stupid comedy, Challenging and tough concepts/ideas, challenging systematic thought, philosophy, hearing the sound of my own voice. seriously.
Dislikes: Defeatists, the word "impossible", lethargy, sleep.
Kids: Nope
Do you like chocolate? Usually, but I try not to overindulge.

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