Adam Hirsch (founder/filmmaker) works as an exclusive Media Consultant for several corporations including SSM Healthcare and ProCure Treatment Facilities for specialized multimedia projects.  His thesis film, Faith Healer, filmed entirely on location in his native Oklahoma, is currently making the international festival circuit, traveling everywhere from Alabama to Chicago to Milan.  His experimental 35mm film The Semiotics of Intimacy (2008) was selected to be a part of the NewFilmmakers Screening Series at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City.  In addition to his film work, his video installation TESSSMOKEONETAKE (2007) was exhibited at the Hessel Museum in New York.

Currently, he’s managed to slide off the map and has holed-up somewhere in the Midwest to complete 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 thesis film, Bullseye, premiered at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge last July.  Matt’s music video for folk singer/songwriter Devon Sproule, Ain’t That The Way, is beginning its international festival run in October at LA International.  In January, he completed The Greening of Blue Hill Ave, a short documentary which follows the partnering of Nuestra Comunidad and YouthBuild Boston to reverse the devastation caused by decades of discriminatory banking and insurance practices in the greater Boston area.  Matt is a 2009 Reach Film Fellowship finalist.

Matt is currently in 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 over 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’s senior thesis film, Part II, premiered at Bard College in May and at the Lexington Venue in June.

[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. 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 is a 2009 Reach Film Fellowship finalist.

Peter’s short screenplay, Ruchiki, directed by Matt Paley, began 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.

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.

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.