The Passing

THE PASSING Soundtrack:
Crew:
John Harwood
Writer/Producer/Director

John Harwood was born in Coconut Grove, Florida where he received his B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Miami. Upon graduation John moved to New York City where he produced and directed several Off Broadway plays. He also performed in recurring roles on such Soap Operas as "Loving" and "All My Children." John finished up his stay in the Big Apple playing the role of Jack Vernon for two years on the Emmy Award winning "One Life to Live." John Moved to Los Angeles where he performed in local theater in such plays as "Taxi Tales", the Drama Logue winner "Stitch and Yubie", and a play he wrote and starred in entitled "Just Roomates." John also landed roles in several feature films, including Steven Speilbergs's "Inner Space", starring Meg Ryan and Martin Short, "The Boss' Wife", starring Christopher Plummer, and Danny Stern, and the Mario Van Peebles directed blockbuster "New Jack City", starring Wesley Snipes, and Ice T. John recently co-starred in the feature film entitled "Bravo" with Carlos Gallardo, the lead in the Sundance Film Festival Winner, "El Mariachi." John also co-starred with Dan Haggerty in the soon to be released, "Born Champion." He has written, produced, and directed three feature films, "In the Living Years", starring John Ashton from Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2, "A Time to Revenge", starring Elizabeth Berkley, from "Showgirls", and the soon to be released "The Passing, starring Paul Gleason from "The Breakfast Club" and "Van Wilder." He's also Produced, Co-Produced, or Line Produced over 15 features for such studios as Disney. John formed the production company NiteLite Entertainment and produced several films including "Chow Bella" for Executive Producer, Debra Hill who has produced such films as "The Fisher King", "Escape from New York", and "Escape from L.A.." He also worked with Robert Simmonds, the producer of "Happy Gilmore", "The Water Boy", and "Big Daddy", starring Adam Sandler and Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the writers of "The people vs.Larry Flynt." John is currently Producing a feature film to be shot in Utah entitled "Confession. John has recently joined forces with Phil Botana and Andy Howard to create the Production Company, Digital Filmz.

Rudy Harbon
Director of Photography

Rudy Harbon, a native of France, discovered at age 15 his passion for photography during a summer job assisting a photographer creating an advertising catalog. He studied cinematography at the university of Paris-Sorbonne and still photography under portrait photographer Kathleen Blumenfeld. In 1983, He moved to New York and landed a job as an assistant cameraman on a Paul Morrissey ..s film Mixed Flood. For that point, he collaborated with talented cinematographers such as Mikael Salomon ASC, Ronny Taylor BSC, Adolfo Bartoli AIC on feature films and commercials. Starting in the mid nineties, he had the opportunities to shoot numerous music videos mainly for Propaganda films, The End and Geneva Films. As well, Rudy had photographed many TV promos for ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, Lifetime and the National Geographic channel. In 2001, he filmed extensively aerials of Las Vegas as part of being the second unit director of photography on the film 3000 miles to Graceland. Rudy..s filmography encompasses feature and television films, commercials, documentaries, promos and music videos. Through his experience, he had learned to adapt to crew with different languages and working habits to achieve his personal vision. In 2005, Rudy was nominated for an Emmy award for The Battle of Tripoli .His latest film Treasure Hunters filmed in Russia is in post-production.

Sean Robert Olson
Editor

Three-time Emmy award winning editor Sean Robert Olson has been working on a growing number of films since 2002. Olson's work on "The Passing" was awarded best editing at Shriekfest in 2005. He has also won back to back editing awards for the 48 hour film festival in 2005 and 2006. His first feature film "How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer" was selected for competition in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. "Garcia Girls" has gone to play in international film festivals in San Sebastian, New York, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and Athens, winning awards in Moscow and Paris.Olson's has also completed work on two other features, "Inside" and "The Standard." "Inside" made its debut at the Florida Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at Dances With Films, while "The Standard" has played at the Seattle and San Diego Film Festivals. In addition to his editing work, Sean made his directorial debut, "Latchkey", which won audience awards and gained critical acclaim while addressing the sobering issue of child neglect. He recently completed principal photography on "G.I. Joe, Battle for the Serpent's Stone" which is currently in post-production and is currently writing his first feature "In the Blink of an Eye" which he is set to direct.

Jason Brandt
Film Composer

Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Jason Brandt & family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona at age 7 where he soon began to study piano, guitar, drums, voice & bass. In his early years he spent much time composing rock, jazz & classical compositions on a simple four track recorder which allowed him to create & record many layers of sounds & ideas via his guitars, keyboard & drum machine. This soon blossomed into many opportunities to write for fellow musicians in rock bands, dance concerts, jazz combos & other various ensembles. The desire to further his musical & artistic abilities led him to the University of Arizona to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition. Jason studied composition under Daniel Asia, big band arranging with Neal Finn, and jazz piano & filmmusic with Jeffrey Haskell. In Jason's senior year he wrote music for more than half of the graduating class' films while concurrently writing 5 concert works (2 being 3 movements each) for his senior recital. Many of these films have gone onto film festivals around the country as well as ifilm.com. Upon graduation, Jason moved from Tucson to Phoenix to study choral & orchestral conducting at Arizona State University and to write music for many local films. During this time Jason also began studying non-linear film editing on the AVID Media Composer & AVID XPress as a hobby and has edited two music videos as well as created sound design for several projects. After 2 years, Jason left Phoenix to move to Los Angeles to attend a year long graduate program in filmscoring at the University of Southern California. He studied with Christopher Young, David Raskin, Ed Kalnins, Jack Smalley, Richard Bellis, Buddy Baker, David Spear, George Burt, Leonard Rosenman, Brian King, Terry Woodson & John Burlingame as well as famed orchestrator Steven Scott Smalley at UCLA. Jason was also awarded the 'ASCAP Harry Warren Scholarship SMPTV' for one of his musical compositions while attending this program at USC.

Martin Hall
Visual Effects Supervisor

Born in Sacramento, CA. Martin Hall attended U. C. Davis and Loyola Marymount University. Live-action film credits include lighting the model miniatures for Deep Rising for Dream Quest Images, Con Air, Flubber, Armageddon, My Favorite Martian, Bicentennial Man and Mission to Mars. Photographed large-format plates for X-Files and The Practice. Digital compositing and 3D work at Pacific Title include the following credits: The Replacements, MonkeyBone, Driven, Dungeons and Dragons, Joyride, Rollerball, Black Knight, The Last Castle, Freddie Got Fingered, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, The Bourne Identity, Tuxedo, K19, Men in Black 2, Scooby Doo1 & 2, Cat in the Hat, Garfield, Catwoman, Fantastic Four, My Super-X Giirlfriend, and Flags of Our Father&..s. In New Zealand he did compositing on Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers. He is currently working as an effects supervisor on several commercials for clients such as Mattel, Mazda and Dodge. Martin has been the producer of several visual effects heavy projects. Additionally, he continues to composite and supervises on film and television projects. As well as, teach at Gnomon3d in Hollywood. His work has been featured in Cinefex magazine.