The Infinite Life of Stuart Hornsley
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2008
Logline
A lonely physicist builds a time machine to travel to the past and win the girl that got away; but his actions have unintended consequences in the present and now he must race to succeed at love before his life goes totally awry.
Leigh Dana Jackson
Director/ Writer
Leigh Dana Jackson(Director) is the writer and director of several award-winning short films. His work has screened at major film festivals across the country, and has sold in territories around the world including the UK, Japan, Canada and Germany. In the U.S., Dana’s wrk has been broadcast on HBO and Cinemax, HBO Latin America, PBS and BET. Dana got his start in film as the Story Editor for Spike Lee’s production company 40 Acres & A Mule, where he contributed to the development of several screenplays, including “The Best Man” and “Summer of Sam”. He then went on to earn his MFA from New York University’s graduate film program, where he received multiple honors, including two Graduate Fellowships, a Graduate Assistant Fellowship, the Keiko Ibi Prize for Directing and a Faculty Commendation for Directing, awarded to his thesis film “The First Three Lives of Stuart Hornsley.” While at NYU, he also served as Spike Lee’s Teaching Assistant. Since graduating in 2003, Dana has directed and produced work for HBO Sports, HBO Documentaries, Spike TV and MTV’s college network television shows including “24” and “Private Practice.” He has been invited to lecture at NYU, Emerson College, Long Island University and the New York Film Academy. Dana lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Sarah Sun-lien Bynum, and their daughter.
Moira Griffin
Producer
Moira Griffin(Producer), is currently the Vice President of Pipedream Productions, an independent film company in New York. She has produced short films including the award winning “Night Magic” by Bernardo Ruiz. She has worked in production management for a variety of companies including VH1 and Mega Entertainment (an Israeli based production company). A founding member of Ocularis, she is also the co-founder and advising director of Rooftop Films a non-profit film festival and production collective. She is also a former member of CAAMO (Contemporary African American Music Organization), founded by the late jazz great Makanda ken McIntyre dedicated to promoting free expression and continuing education in music and the performing arts with African- American origins. Moira is the founder of Universal Soul, which focused on bringing new music and art that crosses genres exposing new artists to a wider audience and helped launch the careers of such diverse bands as the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. In addition, she conceived and co-produced an album for JUNCTURE a large-scale exhibit which featured the work of over fifty accomplished young artists working in three art forms: story, drawing and song. Independently, she is currently producing the feature film APACHE directed by Coodie & Chike.