Saturday Morning Christmas
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2009
Logline
An enterprising nine-year-old boy discovers the true meaning of Christmas while hunting for his favorite Saturday morning cartoon action figure.
Gene Cajayon
Co-Director/ Producer
Gene Cajayon attended film school at Loyola Marymount University, where he began work on his first feature film,. A coming-of-age story about a Filipino American familly. The film grossed $1.8 million through a grassroots, self-distribution campaign that targeted both Asian Pacific American and mainstream communities through traditional and new media marketing tactics.received a traditional deal with Sony Pictures. Cajayon is curerntly developing two feature length screenplays--Glass Street and Saturday Morning Christmas.
Van Partible
Co-Director/ Screenwriter/ Producer
Van Partible turned his film at Loyola Marymount University into a weekly cartoon series for teh Cartoon Network. The series, Johnny Bravo was one of the network's original tent pole series, and recently revamped for a strictly Hindi audience in India, with Partible attached as the director/ producer. He has produced original materials for Film Roman, Walt Disney Television Animation, Fox Kids, and for NBS's Medium, for which was the animation producer for the premiere of the third season. Partible is currently serving as executive producer for Cartoon Network Asia's original programming, and teaches animation workshops at Loyola Marymount University.
Hisham Abed
Director of Photography
Critically acclaimed for his work on the MTV series Laguna Beach and The Hills, Hisham's first feature film, The Natural History of Parking Lots, made the Los Angeles Time Film Critic's Top Ten List. He also lensed the Sony Pictures release.