Featured Cast

Pablo Schreiber (“David”)

Pablo Schreiber is best known for his portrayal of the Polish-American character Nick Sobotka on HBO’s multiple Emmy-winning drama The Wire. He first broke into films with Bubble Boy (2001), starring along Jake Gyllenhaal. His breakout role came three years later in Jonathan Demme’s remake of the classic The Manchurian Candidate (2004), starring with Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington and his half-brother, Live Schreiber. Schreiber followed with prominent roles in Lords of Dogtown (2005), with Emile Hirsch and Heath Ledger; and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), directed by Academy Award-winner Woody Allen and starring Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson, and Penelope Cruz; and Nights in Rodanthe (2008), starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane.

Connor Paolo (“Ross”)

Connor Paolo is quickly cementing himself as one of the great young actors of his generation. He burst onto the scene as Kevin Bacon’s childhood character in Clint Eastwood’s Academy Award-nominated Mystic River (2003), also starring Academy Award-winning Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. Paolo followed that with a starring role as Young Alexander in Oliver Stone’s epic Alexander (2004), starring Colin Farrel and Academy-Award winner Angelina Jolie. Stone cast him again in his next film, World Trade Center (2006), in which he played the son of Nicolas Cage and Maria Bello. He also worked in David Gordon Green’s critically-acclaimed indie Snow Angels (2007), starring Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell.

Kellie Overbey (“Joan”)

Kellie Overbey is a veteran actor with extensive experience on TV, most recently on the Emmy-nominated show The Good Wife (2009-2010), starring Julianna Margulies and Chris Noth. She broke into films in Wolfgang Petersen’s Outbreak (1995), starring Academy Award-winners Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, and Cuba Gooding, Jr., with Donald Sutherland and Rene Russo. She followed that with a starring role in Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown (1999).

Bios

Howard Libov - Director

Howard Libov, a native of Baltimore, MD, graduated with a BFA in Film & Television from New York University and also garnered a Certificate in Directing from The American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies. Favorite Son, Howard’s second feature film, is based on the award-winning short film Little Man, also directed by Howard Libov. Little Man, co-starring Frankie Muniz of Malcolm in the Middle, played at more than twenty five film festivals, won the Best Dramatic Short Award at the World Festival of SportFilm, and the Silver Illumination Award at The Crested Butte Reelfest.

Howard Libov directed and co-wrote the feature film, Midnight Edition, which won the Best First Feature Award at the Festival of Fantastic Film, played at the London, Dublin, and Hamptons Film Festivals, and was broadcast on HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime. Midnight Edition was released on home-video by MCA/Universal. Libov also directed the comedic short film, Men Will Be Boys, which starred members of Chicago’s Second City Theater and was syndicated nationally on PBS stations as a modern day companion piece to Paddy Chayefsky’s Oscar winning, Marty. Libov’s documentary Fourteen Stations, profiled Madison, New Jersey artist and resident Arie Galles, and his ten-year quest to complete a series of drawings he started out thinking would take him only a year to finish. Fourteen Stations is also in distribution with The Cinema Guild.

Brian Gonsar - Producer

Curently a producer at international advertising agency BBDO, Brian has had an expansive career producing commercials for clients such as GE, Bank of America, Domino’s, Jet Blue, Ford, and many others. Brian is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University's film program.

Benjamin Wolf - Director of Photography

Ben Wolf’s first film, the short Gold Mountain, won a student Academy Award. His most recent features include: James Ryan's The Young Girl and the Monsoon, now on Showtime, starring Terry Kinney and Diane Venora; David Sporn's The Road from Erebus, currently playing on HBO; and Art Jones' Going Nomad, starring Damian Young and Victor Argo. That last collaboration led to 2003's Lustre, the feature by Art Jones starring Victor Argo. Ben photographed Deborah Kampmeier's Virgin, featuring Robin Wright Penn, Elizabeth Moss, and Daphne Rubin-Vega, which was nominated for two 2004 Independent Spirit Awards. Ben takes his trade to the far reaches for documentaries - from Oaxaca, Mexico to Lijiang, China. Ben's photography helped bring Bernard Malamud's short story, The First Seven Years, to life on PBS. It guided Howard Libov's Little Man and Under the Radar to festival acclaim, and lifted Shoja Azari's K, which screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2002.

Emily Gumpel - Editor

Emily Gumpel graduated from SUNY Purchase in 1993 with a degree in Fine Arts and a minor in Film Theory. She began working in the film industry as an assistant editor on films such as New Jersey Drive, Surviving Picasso and American Psycho. She has edited more than 20 feature films, shorts and television shows including the feature Miss Monday, which won an award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, Black Picket Fence, a feature documentary, which won several awards at both the 2001 Brooklyn Film Festival and the Urban World Festival, and 60 Odd Hours in Italy which was directed and produced Russell Crowe and premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

Mike Mills - Composer

Mike Mills is a founding member of the Grammy-winning band R.E.M., formed at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, in January 1980. Discovering they had similar tastes, vocalist Michael Stipe and guitarist Peter Buck began working together, eventually meeting bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. In April 1980, the band formed under the name Twisted Kites, playing psychedelic bubblegum, and punk covers in a converted Episcopalian church. By the summer, the band had settled on the name R.E.M. after flipping randomly through the dictionary.

Though Mike is known primarily as a bassist and piano player, his musical repertoire includes many other keyboard, string, wind and percussion instruments. He is responsible for the songwriting behind some of R.E.M.'s most respected songs, including "Find the River", "At My Most Beautiful", "Why Not Smile", "Let Me In", and "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?".