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| QUENTIN LEE |
| PRODUCER / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY / WRITER / DIRECTOR |
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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Quentin began his filmmaking career at eleven when he started making Super 8 short horror flicks with his friends. In his teens, he immigrated to Montreal, Canada. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English from UC Berkeley and Yale University respectively. He then went to Los Angeles to complete his M.F.A. in Film Directing at UCLA. His early shorts including TO RIDE A COW (1992), banned in Japan, earned him the reputation of being the "enfant terrible" of queer cinema in the film festival circuit. In 2000, Quentin produced, shot, wrote and directed DRIFT, a digital feature, financed with a prestigious production grant from the Canada Council for the Arts (NEA equivalent in Canada). |
| BELLA YURKOVETSKY |
| PRODUCER |
| Born in the former Soviet Union, BELLA YURKOVETSKY immigrated to the U.S. in her teens and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University. Bella began her career in New York publishing where she worked for ART IN AMERICA, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, ESQUIRE just to name a few. Bella later moved to Europe and worked on various independent films. She came back to America to work for WQED, a PBS station in Pittsburg as an associate producer. She moved to Los Angeles and worked for the President of Alliance Pictures on such projects as EXISTENZ and SUNSHINE. Bella is currently a freelance production manager and worked on commercials for Minute Maid and Nike, and music videos for Ice Cube, Three Doors Down, Cypress Hill, and Kid Rock. She has worked with music video directors such as Dean Karr, Steve Carr, Dave Myers and Michelle Gondry. DRIFT is her first feature film as a producer. |
| DEEYA LORAM |
| PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGNER |
| DEEYA LORAM graduated from Berkeley with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts with highest honors. She has collaborated with Quentin since undergraduate years at Berkeley. Her feature credits include Quentin's SHOPPING FOR FANGS (Production & Costume Designer), the 2000 Sundance Competition Selection FREAK WEATHER (Costume Designer), RESTLESS (Costume Designer) with Katherine Kellner, and several UCLA graduate student shorts including CAPTURED (Production Designer) and JORNADO DEL MUERTO (Production Designer). When not working on a film, Deeya restores vintage car and motorcycles and does interior design on airstream trailers. |
| STEVEN PRANOTO |
| MUSIC COMPOSER |
 STEVEN
PRANOTO
graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles
with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition and a Bachelor of Science
in Cognitive Science. He scored Quentin's feature SHOPPING FOR FANGS
in 1997 and several UCLA student films. Recently, he also contributed
some original music for the Japanese American Museum. DRIFT is the
second feature he has scored. |
| JIM RIDGLEY |
| SOUND MIXER |
| After an 18-year career as a comedy-juggler, JIM RIDGLEY went to film school and became a Production Sound Mixer. Of all the positions behind the camera, he thinks that the Sound department is the easiest and most intimate. Since starting his career in sound, he has been a boom operator on the film "PROPHECY 2: ASHTOWN," with Christopher Walken and a production sound mixer on the MTV series UNDRESSED, as well as additional days mixing the Leslie Neilsen feature film 2000.1: A SPACE TRAVESTY. |
QUENTIN
LEE is an independent filmmaker based in Los
Angeles and Vancouver. His last feature SHOPPING FOR FANGS premiered
at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1997 and opened theatrically
later in the U.S. to critical acclaim. His previous feature FLOW
(1995), a compilation of his award-winning student shorts, has been
screened nationally and internationally at film festivals and was
also theatrically released to rave reviews in Los Angeles.