MEET THE CREW OF MS. PINK
Lauren McCann – Writer, Director, Executive Producer
Lauren McCann is an award-winning actor and filmmaker, a 12-time marathon runner, mother of 2 with a PhD in education and now she has a new love...filmmaking. She was named "The Voice To Watch" at SeriesFest 2020 and has won 20+ awards for the Girl Boxer proof of concept - an accomplishment for a 1st timer. The feature screen play is now a finalist at the Nashville Filmfestival and a Semi-Finalist at the Rhode Island International Filmfestival, both Oscar qualifying festivals.
Inspired by the films of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino, she hopes to make a place for women in this "boys' club". Ms. Pink is a proof of concept for a larger project which will sit alongside the likes of Kill Bill...but from a mother's reality.
Lauren has a natural ability to bring people together and pull the best out of every actor and crew member. As a performer in her own right, she understands the actor's process and trusts in their craft and choices.
Roman Rivera – Urban Arthouse Films
Roman Rivera, the founder of Urban Art House Films, is an award-winning New York filmmaker best known for his uniquely stylized cinematography. His latest project, feature film “DOGGMEN”, stars the late legendary rapper / actor DMX.
Roman has many high profile projects set for the months to come. Stay tuned.
Samantha Mileski - FX Makeup
Samantha is an award winning Sfx artist from Tom Devlins Monster Makeup Showdown, New Jersey Film Awards for Best SFX, Cinephiles Film Festival for best Makeup, Rome International Movie Awards for best SFX, Hollywood Blood Horror Festival for Best SFX and Madrid Internation Movie Awards for Best SFX. She also has an associate's degree from Tom Savinis SFX Program.
She is known by her buisness name Agedblood FX. She is mentored by Mike Mekash is known for his work on American Horror Story and Guardians of the Galaxy. I learn from the very best in the industry. She is most known for her work on, "Chief of War" starring and produced by Jason Mamoa, "An Angry Boy," starring Eric Roberts, directed by Andrew Fitzgerald, "Anomaly" by Terry Wickham, "The Adults" starring Michael Cera and Sophia Lillis and "Pretty Little Liars Original Sin.
Louis Robert King - Original Score
As an orchestrator, Louis Robert King has created the musical colors you hear in the iconic Columbia Pictures Opening Titles, as well as scores for Disney's “The Little Mermaid II,” and Rob Marshall's film adaptation of the Broadway classic “Annie." In 2022 he used those same skills for record industry icon Terry Ellis's Chrysalis Rock Orchestra - A reimagining of rock classics performed by a 40 piece orchestra.
In 2020 his score for "Like Daughter Like Mother" received the Accolade Global Film Competition Award of Merit, he also won a British Web Award in the Best Music category for his score to “FabUless,” a sitcom about three struggling actors making ends meet as brand ambassadors. Other accomplishments as a composer include “The Albatross,” which was nominated for Best Animated Short at Australia’s Cinema and Television Awards, he also provided additional music for the Sundance Jury Award nominee “Billy’s Dad Is A...” You can hear his distinctive score for the sci-fi sitcom “Extra/Ordinary." It tells the story of three roommates, each with a superpower that seems more of a burden, than a gift to humanity, can be heard on SeekaTV. The films "Anne", "Overdue", "Aaron with 2 A's", and "Sunday" are all in their festival run featuring his scores. He recently completed scoring the coming of age film "Nothing Will Ever Be The Same", the horror/comedy "Trip Upstate", and the crime drama "The Interrogation". King has also created award-winning musical branding for major companies like Xbox, Google, and Geico. In 2018 his composition for the HP short branded film “The Show,” was nominated to be part of the AICP (Association of Independent Commercial Producers) permanent collection at MOMA.
Luca Canessa – Colorist , Recall Studio
I am a professional colorist based in New York. If you are in need of an experienced freelance color grading artist for your project, please keep me in consideration, I could definitely take care of the prepping, color and delivery, making the process as smooth as possible. I successfully delivered many remote handled projects. I work on my own color suite or in house, and I will be glad to use all my years of experience and my top-notch equipment to make the footage of your project look at its absolute best.
I color mostly film/doc contents (I've taken care of films from some of the most interesting rising NY indie filmmakers) and I have worked for brands like Discovery+, Red Bull, Heineken, Canon, Calvin Klein. I am one of the few colorists in New York that can perform professional beauty retouching in Davinci Resolve. I am also a beta tester of the number one film emulation tool of the market, in case you were aiming for a true professional film look. I spent a lot of time during the pandemic refining my skills (you can find all my professional certifications linked above and on my IG personal profile) in order to make digital to look like film as much as technologically possible, along with learning and testing the latest and advanced techniques used in commercials by the top Hollywood colorists. I have no doubt I can provide the right, highest quality, and tailored grading look for your project.
Abigail Aldridge - Original music, lyrics + vocalist
Abigail Aldridge is a New York City based artist working in both fashion and the music business.
She is a couture milliner with her own hat company, and a jazz and gospel singer. Abigail is also a songwriter in collaboration with jazz master pianist Kuni Mikami.
Kuni Mikami - original music, music + performance
Kuni Mikami is a highly esteemed jazz pianist in both his longtime home, New York City, and his native Tokyo, Japan. Kuni has toured worldwide.
His credits include playing for the legacy group Lionel Hampton Big Band, he was the last pianist personally chosen by Mr. Hampton. Kuni played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Birdland for eight years. He has worked with many celebrity singers as well as leading his own band.
Molly Gazay - original score, pink neon city
I’m working on my debut album of Original Music while releasing each song with Podcast episodes on my show "A Living Album".
After 6 years in NYC, I’m proud to say I’m a Multi Award Winning Actor and Singer with several wins & nominations for both acting and screen writing. I am the Lead in “Halloween Candy” a SAG-AFTRA Approved Feature Film. I’ve been seen in several crime drama's on ID Channel, Sketch Comedy shows, Indie Comedy Shorts, Writing both for stage and screen, Cabaret, Musicals, Stage readings, including "Girl Boxer" a TV Pilot which has been seen at SeriesFest 2020, Chelsea Film Festival, NYCTV & many more. I’ve also written 2 songs now for Award Winning Indie Films & was the playback singer for “Flame” a short film that was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival.
A blood traveler with a long standing history of circus ancestors, I feels a kindred spirit with the disenfranchised, misunderstood, off-beat characters in films and have a deep attraction to characters from "the wrong side of the tracks" as well as the oddball who isn't what they seem.