Celamy
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2007
Logline
The rise and fall of the friendship between a young girl and her imaginary friend, as told from the point-of-views of the imaginary friend.
Joe Turner Lin
Director/ Writer
A native New Yorker, Joe Turner Lin grew up in Lower Manhattan and attended nearby Stuyvesant High School. After graduating with honors from Columbia University as an screenwriting concentrate, he proceeded to work on over fifty feature length and short films, various television, commercial and music-video productions including: Joe’s Apartment, Jeffrey, Dogs, HBO: Real Sex, The Rosie O’Donnell Show and National geographic Explorer. After producing a number of independent features, he returned to Columbia for the M.F.A. Film Program, where he received the Arthur Krim Award, the HBO Young Producer’s Development Award and Columbia’ university’s Best Producer for the Student Academy Award-winning short, Jesus Henry Christ. He has written several feature-length screenplays, one of which was a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist. In addition, he has also directed short films, spec commercials and industrials. His short thesis film, Seibutsu (Still: Life), was a national-finalist for the Student Academy Awards in 2004, and recently won the Grand Prize at both the San Diego Asian International Film Festival and Chinese-American Festival of Film and Culture in Beijing. Currently, Joe is a partner in Kulture Machine LLC and continues to pursue projects that intrigue and fulfill him creatively.
Julie Anne Meerschwam
Director/ Writer
Born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Julie Anne Meerschwam moved to the United States when she was 18 years old. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from Boston University in Philosophy and French, she continued to work on the psychiatric unit of a children’s hospital for over a year, before pursuing her interest in film at Columbia University’s graduate film program. There she wrote and directed “Audrey & Einstein”, which played at many prestigious festivals across the country and was the first directing exercise in Columbia University’s history to be selected for as a national finalist of the Student Academy Awards. Her graduation film “Celamy”, is currently still in its festival run and has already garnered 15 awards, played in over 40 festivals worldwide, and has been offered various distribution deals. In addition to her schoolwork, Julie was an assistant to writer/director Kenneth Lonergan, Scott Ellis and Adam Brooks. Currently, she is a partner of culture Machine, a production company created by Columbia film students that has produced 6 award-winning short films, several award-winning screenplays and will be going into production on its first feature film this spring. In addition, Julie is attached to direct the feature-length comedy “Diary of a Fat Girl”, and is in the process of completing several screenplays.