Adam Hirsch (founder/filmmaker) works as an exclusive Media Consultant and freelancing video producer. His thesis film, Faith Healer, filmed entirely on location in his native Oklahoma, was selected and screened at over ten festivals, traveling everywhere from Alabama to Chicago to Milan. His experimental 35mm film The Semiotics of Intimacy was selected to be a part of the NewFilmmakers Screening Series at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City, as well as participating in competition at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival. In addition to his film work, his video installation TESSSMOKEONETAKE was exhibited at the Hessel Museum in New York.

Currently, he’s in production on a short film triptych, Three Psalms.

Matt Paley (founder/filmmaker) is an award-winning film director and producer, and the editor of sainteliotandco.com. His music video for folk singer/songwriter Devon Sproule, Ain’t That The Way, concluded its international festival run at YoungCuts in 2010. Since then, he has worked primarily as a music video director and producer for bands The Dean’s List, SUPERCUTE!, and artists Devon Sproule and Carsie Blanton. Most recently, Matt completed The Warning Bell, a four part music-video cycle featuring Devon Sproule, to be released in early 2012.

Matt is currently putting the finishing touches on Carsie Blanton’s Baby Can Dance, a dance video in collaboration with Baltimore’s Effervescent Collective and a host of the world’s greatest swing dancers.

Matthew F. Deitch (founder/business manager) is a Digital Account Executive at Grey Advertising, New York.  He has worked to create value and shift perceptions across a variety of brands there, as well as at Commonwealth Financial Network, Southworth Development, and Porter, LeVey, & Rose.

After becoming one of the youngest stock brokers in the nation at the age of 17, Matt embarked on his production career, aiding (and abetting) a number of Broadway productions, in addition to his work with STE.  As a principal at Full House Productions, Matt has helped to bring numerous shows to Broadway, including the Tony nominated revival of View From The Bridge, David Mamet’s Race, and this year’s critically acclaimed revival of Porgy and Bess.

Jake Teresi (filmmaker) is an award-winning writer, director and producer. His past projects run the gamit from psychedelic narrative (Solipsistic Solstice, which debuted at the FAMfest Film Festival) to cryptozoological documentary (Lake Monster, official selection at Northampton Film Festival ’09) to his newest (and nearly completed) work, the incisive mockumentary Make Them Cry.

Jake is currently living his dream of being a delivery driver in New Orleans, LA. He divides his creative time between editing Make Them Cry and preparing a racy Nutria-related short film script, to be shot Fall/Winter 2011 in NOLA.

Brian Barth (filmmaker) is an experimental filmmaker and musician. His experimental landscape film, RICKETS, premiered at the Boston Underground Film Fest, and played at the Kansas City Film Festival. His most recent piece womanwalking premiered at inFEST International in May 2011. He is currently working on a narrative film/performance/installation piece, I Hope You Find What You Came Here To See.

Brian is also expanding the Company into the fabulous world of Boston fashion through a series of short films promoting the best Boston boutique designers. Keep your ears to the ground.

Matthew Pitkoff (filmmaker) is a commercial and music-video director, and a recent graduate of Emerson College. Matthew’s short film Deadly Breakfast was nominated for Best Film at the Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival.  Most recently, Matthew completed No Sleep, his fifth video for the Boston-based hip hop group, The Dean’s List.

Peter Warren (writer) is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright. Peter is currently writing an original screenplay for Emmy-Award winning director Kenneth Bowser, recently completed The Empathy Machine for director Oliver Irving, and is set to pen an original comedy for First Uncle Films.

Peter’s short screenplay, Ruchiki, directed by Matt Paley, began production in early 2010 in Pickering, Ontario. As of December 2010, he is under new Manage-Ment.

Giampaolo Bianconi (writer) has a far superior grasp on the English language than his name would suggest. Our resident film critic and theorist, Giampaolo graduates a History and Film Studies double major at Bard College in May. Ambitious and versatile, Giampaolo has worked in advertising in Brazil, with the Somaly Mam Foundation in New York, and as a writer for the Bard Free Press. Giampaolo uses the moniker “Mark Bianco” at restaurants, when having film developed, or when holding tickets at the box office.

Most recently, Giampaolo completed his thesis about Hollis Frampton entitled Magellan and Metahistory: Hollis Frampton’s Historical Aesthetic, which we’ll be publishing portions of for those of you looking for a bit of light summer reading.

Elizabeth Phelps (producer/project manager) is a writer, producer, and filmmaker based in New York City. She has worked in all areas of production, from development and pre-production to marketing and distribution, both on small-scale independent projects and Academy Award-nominated pictures. Her written works have been staged at the Berkeley Repertory Theater and the Magic Theater in San Fransisco. Liz’s project “MWM” (Married White Male),  a short film directed by Greg Luna, was an official selection at Rhode Island International, Indianapolis International, Austin Gay & Lesbian International, First Run and New Fest in 2010. Most recently, she produced the short Calles Zapatos Perdidos for Opening Ceremony.

As the first female member of Saint Eliot and Co, Liz would like it to be known that she plays as hard as the boys. The boys would like it to be known that she plays a lot harder.

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

Paul’s recently completed article Determination of the Number of Proteins Bound Non-specifically to DNA (concerning the non-specific binding of the lambda repressor protein to lambda DNA) is being published in an upcoming edition of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. We employ him primarily in the hope that someday he’ll explain to us what any of that means.