Adam Hirsch (founder/filmmaker) co-founded Saint Eliot and Company while filming his thesis film, Faith Healer, at Bard College.  In 2007, his video installation, TESSSMOKEONETAKE, was exhibited at the Hessel Museum in New York.  In 2008, Adam directed Mel Rose (America’s Next Top Model: Cycle 7) in the experimental film The Semiotics of Intimacy.  Faith Healer, filmed entirely on location in his native Oklahoma, premiered at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge this July, and is making the festival circuit in 2010. He recently completed Perseverance, a biography about Jason White, who overcame two knee surgeries to win the Heisman Trophy in 2003.

Adam is currently holed-up somewhere in the Midwest completing the script of the first Company feature, Revolver.

Matt Paley (founder/filmmaker) is an Associate Director of Film and Video at Improv Boston, an Assistant Editor at Verrisima Productions, and the editor of sainteliotandco.com. His recently completed thesis film, Bullseye, premiered at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge this July. Matt is a 2009 Reach Film Fellowship finalist.

Among his most recent work is Lying: a diary film in three parts and Ain’t That The Way, a music video for folk singer/songwriter Devon Sproule.

Matt is currently in pre-production on Ruchiki, a short film penned by Company writer Peter Warren.

M. Fletcher Deitch (business manager) is an associate account executive at Grey Advertising New York. He has worked for Commonwealth Financial Network, Southworth Development, and Porter, LeVey, & Rose. He has studied on three different continents, visited over 40 countries, and can swear in at least six languages.

At 17, Fletcher became (temporarily) the youngest stockbroker in the country. Sic Transit Gloria.

Fletcher is currently at work producing Ruchiki.

Jake Teresi (filmmaker) recently graduated from the experimental film program at Bard College. A prolific filmmaker and playwright, he has written (and directed) three plays, a full-length screenplay, and seen several short stories published in the literary magazine Verse Noir. His documentary Lake Monster was featured at the Northampton Film Festival, and his short Solipsistic Solstice debuted at the FAMfest Film Festival.

Jake is currently dividing his time between working to perfect his senior thesis film, Make Them Cry, and serving as a producer on Ruchiki.

Brian Barth (filmmaker) refuses to give an earnest biography. Though his extraordinary cinematography graces nearly half of St. Eliot’s collective work, Brian would rather let you know that he once held a job as a catering delivery man for one day, and that he has caught and cleaned a trout. His favorite instrument to play is the Didgeridoo, though he is also a talented guitarist.

Brian is hard at work on his senior thesis film, Part II, which wrapped production in September and is scheduled to premiere in May, 2010.

[Also of note: in 2003, Brian received the Verill Prize from the Fessenden School, for being “the nicest guy.” If St. Eliot had such an award, he’d most likely win it as well.]

Peter Warren (writer) is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright, soon to be graduating from the Rita and Burton Goldberg Dramatic Writing Program at NYU-Tisch, with a concentration in Screenwriting. He has worked extensively in production and development for film, television, and media, interning at Focus Features, The Colbert Report, Original Media, and The Webby Awards.

Peter’s short screenplay, Ruchiki, directed by Matt Paley, will begin production in early 2010 in Pickering, Ontario. Several of his feature screenplays are in various stages of development, with One and Only currently being adapted for the stage.

Peter lives and works in New York City.

Giampaolo Bianconi (writer) has a far superior grasp on the English language than his name would suggest. St. Eliot’s resident film critic and theorist, Giampaolo is a History and Film Studies double major at Bard College. Ambitious and versatile, Giampaolo has worked in advertising (in Brazil, of all places), with the Somaly Mam Foundation in New York, and writes for The Bard Free Press.

Paul Liebesny (technical director) is a researcher at the Ragon Institute of Harvard/MIT/MGH, specializing in HIV research. He recently graduated from Emory with a degree in Physics and Astronomy. He advises St. Eliot on all matter of technical and production issues, and maintains sainteliotandco.com.

He is currently at work on a scientific article concerning the non-specific binding of the lambda repressor protein to lambda DNA, with Emory professors Laura Finzi and Fereydoon Family. We employ him primarily in the hope that someday he’ll explain to us what any of that means.