Cast & Crew

JEREMY DAVID WHITE (Director)

Jeremy David White is a writer-director as well as a human being.

His short films have received accolades at film festivals across the world.
THE FIRST HOPE is a revisionist coming of age story about a young boy who watches Luke and Leia’s infamous kiss in The Empire Strikes Back and develops an inappropriate crush of his own. Jeremy’s science fiction companion piece, ENHANCED, stars Timm Sharp (Enlightened, Blunt Talk) as a stand-up comedian coping with his relationship to a new bio-technology in a brave new world. The film was awarded Best Director at the 2015 Fantastic Fest.

Jeremy is the Series Producer of VICE WORLD OF SPORTS — an award-winning documentary anthology series set at the intersection of sports, culture, politics and place. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, the show aired on Viceland and won the 2017 Producer’s Guild Award for Outstanding Sports Program. A second season, “VICE World of Sports: Rivals”, premiered in February 2017.

Jeremy lives in Los Angeles where he continues to write and direct both narrative and documentary film.

AUSTIN REYNOLDS (Screenwriter)

Austin Reynolds received an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute and a Bachelors in Creative Writing from Emory University. During his time at AFI, Austin was a Writer's Room Intern for MAD MEN (Season Five), FunnyOrDie, and Sony Pictures Television. Austin has since been recognized for his writing by the Austin Film Festival (Best Drama Finalist), Nicholl Fellowship (three- time Semi-Finalist), Variety, the Hit List and was placed on the 2012 Blacklist, the "best-of" unproduced spec screenplays. He has several projects in pre-production, including his Blacklist script FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA with director Philip Noyce. Austin is currently a Feature Staff Writer for Walt Disney Studios.

PHILIP KLUCSARITS (Cinematographer)

Philip Klucsarits is a Los Angeles-based director of photography with a strong passion for collaboration and visual storytelling. His award-winning work has screened at over two hundred film festivals worldwide, including Telluride, SXSW and Camerimage.

Recently, Philip finished principal photography on the feature film, The Sound of Magic, which will be completed in Summer 2015. He has worked extensively abroad, including the feature film, Stealing Summers, which was shot on location in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Philip is also a visiting lecturer at UCLA and an instructor at UCLA Extension, where he teaches both composition and lighting in the cinematography certificate program.

He earned his MFA in Cinematography from UCLA and also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech. In 2009, Philip attended the Budapest Cinematography Masterclass, where he studied under the instruction of renowned cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC.