Kristian Fraga - Director, Executive Producer

Kristian is a graduate of the prestigious film program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His senior thesis film, "The Mind’s Eye", was the first digitally shot student film at NYU. The picture was an official selection of the New York Film and Video festival, The Anthology Archives New Films/New Filmmakers Series, and was picked up for distribution by Atom Films.

In 2001 Kristian wrote, produced, and directed the award winning PBS documentary, "The Inside Reel: Digital Filmmaking". He currently serves as producer on the television series, "The Inside Reel", which is now in its 7th season.

Kristian and his producing partner Marc Perez founded Sirk Productions, LLC, in 1997. Currently for Sirk he is directing and producing the feature length documentary "Anytown, USA" and writing, directing, and producing "Severe Clear", a feature documentary about one soldier's experience during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Up next for Kristian as director are, "The Spelling Bee", based on the award winning stage play by Philip Vassallo and an original comedy entitled "The Pianist" or "Be Careful What You Wish For". He is currently over seeing the restoration of the first "Robin Hood" feature shot in 1912 on behalf of The Fort Lee Film Commission.

His first book, Tim Burton: Interviews, published by the University of Mississippi Press, will be released in May 2005.

Juan Dominguez - Producer

Juan Dominguez is an independent producer and partner of XMark Monkey Entertainment. Juan began his career in 1989 as an officer in the United States Army and led an Infantry platoon during the Gulf War. After leaving the service, he worked as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch and Co., was a Managing Director of the Investor Relations Group, and directed Investor Relations at the Xmark Funds.

He is a former Bogota, NJ councilman and also served as a commissioner on the Bergen County Utilities Authority. Juan received his M.S. in management from Troy State University in Alabama.

John L. Sikes - Producer

Sirk Partner, John Sikes, studied public health and social behavioral sciences at Boston University Masters program. He later joined Sirk Productions to produce the award winning documentary, The Inside Reel: Digital Filmmaking, which aired on PBS. As a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) John was able to work on several award winning worldwide health education media projects dealing with issues of domestic violence, child abuse, and HIV/AIDS.

In the past several years John has produced several high profile and award winning commercial and television projects for the United Nations, ChampionsWorld, GBX Shoes, AMC and MTV. The award winning documentary Anytown, USA and Severe Clear are two of his latest producing projects. John’s extensive health background combined with his interest in social issues and knowledge and experience of filmmaking brings a valued contribution to this team of professionals.

Michael Bridenstine - Producer

Michael is an award-winning Writer/Producer/Director whose work has been broadcast in primetime on the networks, sold on the shelves of Blockbuster and distributed in the halls of major corporations. His experience includes reality ("Help Wanted", "The Apprentice"), feature-length docs ("Anytown, USA"), comic DVDs (Sandra Bernhard's "I'm Still Here…Damn It!"), daytime ("Design Invasion", "Lifetime Now"), talk ("Montel Willliams") and countless corporate pieces (Waterhouse Securities, Harley Davidson, Island Records, etc.) In addition, Michael has been creating and performing comic material for over 20 years, having been featured in The New York Times, Time Out New York and The Village Voice. He continues to foster relationships with cutting-edge production companies such as Sirk Productions and X-Mark Monkey Entertainment in an effort to create original, dynamic programming.

Marc Perez - Executive Producer, Visual Effects

Marc is a graduate of New York University's Stern School of Business with majors in finance, marketing and economics. He has worked at Republic National Bank in the Precious Metals Trading Department, handling over 300 million dollars in gold and silver transactions on a daily basis. He then moved to Brunswick Warburg, a division of SBC Warburg, one of the largest banks in the world. Working in Russian Equities, he helped streamline the risky and inefficient operations of equities trading in the former communist state. In late 1998 he left Brunswick Warburg to work full time at Sirk Productions, LLC. where he produced most of Sirk's television show, films and commercials. Marc is also an editor and graphic designer. Marc is based in the NYC office.

Douglas Tirola - Executive Producer

Doug made his directorial debut as a writer and filmmaker with the critically acclaimed film "A Reason To Believe", which was released nationally by Lions Gate in 1996 and will be released on DVD in the Winter of 2004. He has since written screenplays for and set up projects as a director and producer at Paramount Pictures, New Line Cinema, Nickelodeon Movies and Twentieth Century Fox.

Doug has worked on the production of over twenty-five movies in roles including producer, location manager, and production coordinator for Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Warner Brothers, New Line and MGM. Some of these movies include, "A League of Their Own", "Searching for Bobby Fischer", "Money Train", the digital feature film "Twelve", and "Killing Time", which was an Official Selection of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

Doug recently served as a partner at Emerging Pictures as the Head of Production and Development. Under that banner, Doug was Executive Producer on the digital feature, The "Lucky Ones" (Tribeca Film Festival 2003) and set up a series he created, "Cheerleaders," with producer Ed Pressman.

Doug is currently President of 4th Row Films where he continues to produce, write and direct films. He has also created a division of the company, which utilizes independent filmmakers to produce commercials as well as marketing and branding films. He has produced and directed over 150 of these films.

Most recently, Doug's screenplay, "Victor in December", which he will also direct, was optioned by the Academy Award nominated producer of "Gosford Park", Bob Balaban. Victor in December won a Writer's Guild Award for best-unproduced screenplay.

Doug is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a degree in Philosophy. He also has a Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York City. He is represented by the William Morris Agency.

Robert Greene - Editor

Robert Greene has directed and edited films, videos, documentaries and experimental works that have received many awards and played in several festivals. Most recently, his film "Ye Are the Light of the World (Don't Stare into the Sun)" was selected to screen at the 2003 New York Underground Film Festival. His 16mm narrative short "Cut-Out" played at the 1999 Hi Mom Film Festival. His thesis video, the experimental documentary "God is Not Silent Down South" screened at the Cityvisions festival in May, 2002. In December, 2002, Robert received his first one-person show of new work at the Millennium Film Center in New York.

Sandy Patch - Editor

Sandy Patch started his editing career on the short animal rights documentary "Delicacy of Despair," a film exposing the inherent cruelty of the US foie gras industry. A success within the animal rights community and beyond, "Delicacy of Despair" screened internationally at film festivals from California to New Zealand and helped lead to the ban of foie gras production in the state of California, one of the two states with foie gras farms. Before moving to New York to further pursue editing, he helped run the 48-Hour Film Project, an international traveling film festival. In New York, Sandy worked as a freelance film editor until he joined Sirk Productions to work on Anytown, USA. Currently, Sandy works as a full-time Engineer/Editor at the Manhattan-based post production house Final Frame where he has worked on such TV shows as Comedy Central's Stella, The History Channel's Rome: Engineering an Empire, and IFC's Greg the Bunny, and such movies as Murderball and The Trials of Darryl Hunt. Sandy also teaches at the New York film editing school The Edit Center and serves as Audio/Visual Specialist for the Washington, DC based non-profit animal rights group GourmetCruelty.com.