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Roland
Tec
Writer, Director, Composer, Producer
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Roland Tec is the founding director of Pinkplot Productions. Prior to his work in film, Tec served as Artistic Director of the groundbreaking New Opera Theatre Ensemble (NOTE) which mounted new work in such unlikely venues as The Boston Public Library, the Danco Furniture Showroom and The Charles Hayden Planeterium. Since his move to New York City in the Spring of 2000, Tec has had several plays produced and has worked on numerous films in various capacities. Most recently, he served as Co-Producer on Edward Zwick's WWII Epic, Defiance, released in the U.S. by Paramount Vantage.
His plays include: Bodily Function; The Wreck Behind Us; Sniffing Out the Impostors; Gratuitous Nudity (co-written with John Yearley); If There's a Cure for This, I Don't Want It, I Don't Want It and the as-yet-unproduced: The Personal Effects of Annie Solomon.
Tec's first film, All the Rage, is released by Strand Releasing and caused quite a sensation when it first came out in 1999, drawing high praise and heated criticism for its as-yet-unprecedented critical exploration of gay male A-list culture. Tec's most recent film, We Pedal Uphill (Stories from the States) opened in New York City this year and is still making the rounds to small Art houses throughout the country. Currently Tec is at work on two film projects, a documentary about boys and the artists who painted them on Fire Island in the 1970s and an adaptation of Nechama Tec's Holocaust memoir, Dry Tears. Current theatre project is Legends of Batvia, a musical for which he is composing the score to book and lyrics by Katherine Burger.
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John R. Tilley
Executive Producer,
We Pedal Uphill 
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John Tilley has over
two decades of experience as an international and domestic distributor, marketer,
and licensor of independent feature films and documentaries. At Ben Barenholtz'
Libra Films [1975-1978], as head of United Artists Classics [1978-81], as
co-founder and owner of Cinevista, Inc. [1981-1996], he has marketed, distributed
and licensed the films of Pedro Almodovar, Derek Jarman, David Lynch, Ken
Loach, Paul Morrissey, Jonathan Demme, Brian De Palma, and M. Night Shyamalan
among many others. In 1997, John co-founded ProActive Film Marketing whose
goal was to empower independent film makers. ProActive's clients included
Ken Loach's Parallax Films, Film 4, the British Council and British Screen
Finance. With the advent of DVD and its revitalizion of independent and specialized
film on video, John helped establish new home video distribution entities
at Picture This! Entertainment and later at Overseas/First Look Films. Since
2000, John has been in charge of home video distribution and marketing for Strand Releasing, certainly
one of the most independent and adventurous film distributors on the current
scene. At Strand, John is currently supervising the DVD release of Roland
Tec's first feature
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Chris Arruda
Ohio Producer,
We Pedal Uphill 
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Chris has been a producer
for the past 18 years. Much of his experience has been in the advertising
world as a producer of broadcast commercials. He has won several awards for
his work in this field including two Gold Clios, Addys, and most recently
a Gold Effie Award. His client list includes such companies as McDonalds,
Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, and Sony. For the past 5 years, Chris has worked
at the worldwide headquarters of Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising, where he
produces spots for some of their most important clients. His involvement with
Pinkplot Productions started as an actor and he has performed in several of
Pinkplot's latest theatrical ventures including Bodily Function and The
Wreck Behind Us, both of which he also produced. |
