Bios
Aiden Dillard (Producer, Writer, Director, Editor)
Aiden Dillard is 28 years old and finishing production on his fourth feature film, Death Print, which he has produced, written, directed, and edited in Miami Florida. Aiden has not always lived in Miami though, and was actually born in Southern California but grew up in North Carolina where he graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts boarding school and then moved north to attend the prestigious Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art located in New York City on a $125,000 full scholarship.
Aiden went to work for Troma Films upon graduating and developed his style under the mentorship of the acclaimed independent filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman (creator of The Toxic Avenger). While at Troma, Aiden made his first feature film Meat Weed Madness (2006) at the age of 25, which he then followed a year later with the sequel Meat Weed America (2007). Though made in New York, both of these DVD distributed films (www.troma.com) had their premieres in Miami, Meat Weed Madness being screened at The Wolfsonian Museum in 2006 during Art Basel week, and Meat Weed America having an uproarious premier at Churchill’s Pub in December 2007.
Ultimately, Aiden’s love of tropical weather and Miami’s cosmopolitan Latin culture drew him back to Miami permanently in 2007 where he has since produced two feature films for Accord Productions: Special Angelz (2008) and Death Print (2009). In December 2008, Special Angelz premiered at The 2008 Borscht Film Festival held at Calle Ocho’s Tower Theater in Little Havana. In addition to directing feature films, Aiden has also participated in group art shows such as the Confluence show at Fred Snitzer Gallery, The Boyz of Bazel show at Carol Jazzar Gallery, and The 2008 Optic Nerve Video Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Aiden is thankful and excited to be making movies and art with so many talented people in Miami.
For more information or to watch video clips please visit www.myspace.com/aidendillardmovies or www.aidendillard.com.
Ted Vernon (Himself, Executive Producer)
Ted Vernon has established worldwide recognition as an actor, writer and executive producer since he played the title role in his own screenplay of Hammerhead Jones, which was released worldwide and still frequents HBO. Ted was the executive producer of the Major Motion picture of John Carpenter's Village of the Damned with Universal Films starring Christopher Reeve, Kristy Alley, and Linda Kozlowski. Vernon’s credits as Star actor/executive producer are in the all time cult famous film Scarecrows as Lead Role of Corbin, Mercenary. As an actor, Vernon filmed South Beach acting with Peter Fonda, Gary Busey, Fred Williamson; Silent Hunter with Fred Williamson and Miles Okeefe; The Unholy with Ben Cross and Trevor Howard; The Victims, played Arnold Cutter “Real Estate Mogul and Tough Guy”; Deadly Rivals acting with Andrew Stevens and Margot Hemmingway; played Kojak for Kojak Series Commercials on Channel 4 WTVJ; starred in Commercial for Arequipena Beer; Vernon recently appeared in the popular teen series S Club Seven, as the hilarious Body Guard wearing a dress. (Ted still insists he had the best legs in the group!)
Vernon's most recent adventure is that of an executive producer of a new horror film shot in South Florida called Angel of Death and will be released shortly on DVD. In addition, Vernon has done numerous music videos including My Blue Angel with Aaron Tippin; Miami High Boy music video with Don Johnson and Andrew Hugger and has had his own Rock and Roll Music Band for many years as lead singer of Ted Vernon and the Bulldogs, The Chromatics, and The Autotones.Vernon’s lifestyle was documented in the series Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
Recently the Univision station prepared for an upcoming feature on Ted's home in the next few weeks: show is titled "control" and is a wild and crazy stomp through Ted's unusual home.
Vernon's 35 year knowledge of the car business was documented in a new book called Collecting Cars For Fun and Profit. Theatrical Performances include: twice The King and I as The King; twice in Annie as Oliver Warbucks; Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as C.J. Scruggs. Miami knows Vernon for his Professional Boxing Days with a Record of 21-1 and as a Professional Wrestler, Stock Car, Stunt and Demolition Derby Driver. Recent Ventures include two films by Accord Productions; Special Angelz directed by Aiden Dillard starring Ted Vernon.
Ted Vernon’s Bio is taken from www.tedvernon.com.
Notorious Nastie (Arthur Basel)
Notorious Nastie has been a staple of the Miami music scene for a decade. Through the years he has developed friendships with music legends like Otto von Schirach, Marky Ramone, Jeru the Damaja, and many, many more.
In addition to his work in the music business, Notorious Nastie is a seasoned actor. He is a Silver Knight recipient in Drama, and was the lead in plays from Fiddler on the Roof to Death of a Salesman.
In Death Print, Nastie plays antagonist Arthur Basel - derranged photographer and ex-pat Cuban sympathizer.
For more information on Notorious Nastie, please visit www.notoriousnastie.com.
Rubber Doll (Detective Rubberdoll)
Rubber Doll is a fetish model, live performer, and erotica producer, with a particular interest in latex fetishism. She is based in South Florida, but frequently travels the US and abroad appearing at fetish events and performing.
Since 2000, she has shared her latex lifestyle with the world on her website, RubberDoll.net. She has also worked behind the scenes, producing photos and videos for ShinySluts.com.
In addition to modeling, she also frequently performs live at various events. She has performed on stages across the US, Canada, and Europe; sometimes on her own and sometimes in collaboration with others. Currently, she is working on a music-meets-fetish fusion with the band, FAQ.
For more information visit RubberDoll.net.
Otto von Schirach (Himself)
Citing a desire to become the "gangster of Digital Sound Processing", Von Schirach aka the Romantic Toe Sniffler creates eccentric, frenetic, densely packed abstract Powerbook collages at the midpoint between avant electronica and the chase themes from Loony Toons cartoons. The techno oddball shreds hip-hop ("I always felt that hip-hop beats need shark-bite rhythms or chain-saw sounds"), corrupts Miami Bass and perverts techno, saturating his hard drive with sonic detritus such as Jew's-harp, accordion, Geiger counters, toys and micro-second samples of particularly morose songs from the Smiths back catalogue. Von Schirach claims the title of his debut album 8000 BC alludes to the date the music was created. "It was just waiting for me to uncover it deep within the layers of my Multimedia PC,' says the musician. Featuring his grandmother as its cover star, the follow-up Escalo Frio, says the ghetto funk renegade, "It's really a whole body feeling that comes over you like the chills, a tremble close to a shiver."
Von Schirach has notably released music via Rice & Beans, Beta Bodega Coalition, Komadose, Schematic, and Mike Patton of Faith No More's recrod label Ipecac. He has also worked with Ultra Red, Matmos, Jeru the Damaja, Venetian Snares, Miss Kitten, Quintron, Skinny Puppy, Modeselektor, and many more. New projects include Miami Bass Warriors and a new record label. Death Print marks Otto Von Schirach's debut in a feature motion picture.
Otto has spread his unique musical message by consistently touring the world for over a decade. Autechre once claimed that the greatest challenge in their music making procedure was to make tracks that changed at the same pace as their thought processes. For Von Schirach, however, the intent is to "reach new levels of thought, using more of my brain than most humans".
Part of bio taken from NME.com. For more information on Otto von Schirach, visit his myspace page (www.myspace.com/ottovonschirach) or his website (www.ottovonschirach.com).
TM Sisters (Themselves)
Tasha Lopez De Victoria, 24, and Monica Lopez De Victoria, 26, grew up throwing concerts, creating fanzines, producing events, and sewing clothing. Their do-it-yourself ethic started by being home schooled together in Miami. They were raised with intense psychological and spiritual discussions regarding behavior, relationships, and truth. Movement, interaction, and energy has influenced their direction. Also, Tasha is a speed skater and Monica is a synchronized swimmer.
The sisters collaborate in the mediums of video, digital video performance, interactive video, VJing, collage, social experiments, clothing, and installations. Their brother, Samual Lopez De Victoria, also work with them in programming and conceptualizing interactive video. Monica graduated from Florida International University with a BFA in Photography and Video and Tasha graduated from New World School of the Arts with a BFA in Electronic Intermedia. Their work has been included in the traveling exhibition Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, and Gunnar B. Kvaran and the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
Bio taken from the TM Sisters website, www.tmsisters.com.
Maximum Capacity (Detective Flem)
Michael Stanco (born August 2, 1968) is an American professional wrestler, better known as Maximum Capacity, and is billed in many independent promotions as the "World's Largest Athlete".
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Maximum Capacity trained at the School Of Hard Knocks under former WWF preliminary wrestler Rusty Brooks. Former Wrestler Billy Fives also played a large role in training Max. Max used to work as a bodyguard and bouncer at many of South Florida's finest nightclubs. Capacity gave up this line of work when he was involved in a very dangerous bar incident and took up wrestling.
Maximum Capacity has also appeared in an episode of Jerry Springer. Death Print is his first feature film.
Bio taken from Wikipedia entry for Maximum Capacity. For more information, visit Maximum Capacity's website, www.worldslargestathlete.com.
Jose El Rey (Himself)
Exactly how much of the mysterious, greasy fellow known as José El Rey is a put-on? We don't know or care — and neither, apparently, does his rapidly growing legion of fans.
His lo-fi renditions of tinkling freestyle and booming Miami bass, coupled with his flashy Miami Vice-era stage wear and rico suave sexual banter, cause unanimous commotion among the wildly mixed-up cross section of people in his audience. Old-school bros, roller rink queens, Wynwood hipsters — they all worship at the altar of this ladies'-man shaman. Seriously — so many girls jump onstage to shake their shit that El Rey's trusty security sidekick, El Tigre, often has to lay the smack down, for real.
The king has scored shout-outs from Perez Hilton and a recent full-page interview in Maxim en Español, as well as an appearance (as part of the Miami Bass Warriors group) at the holy grail of local Latin culture: the Calle Ocho Festival. José El Rey loves Miami, and Miami loves him right back.
Bio taken from Miami New Times Best Local Solo Musician of 2008. For more informatio on Jose El Rey, visit his myspace, www.myspace.com/aijaialai.
Clifton Childree (Uncanny Clifton)
Miami resident Clifton Childree is a filmmaker/artist who in 2003 completed his six-year solo feature film project, The Flew, which Cashiers Du Cinemart Magazine named as one of the top 50 Midnight Movies made in the last ten years.
In 2004, Childree received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship and presented an installation of The Flew at the Miami Art Museum. His recent projects include She Sank on Shallow Bank, a stop-motion animated/live action dance film, Something Awful, a slapstick comedy/gore film co-commissioned by the Miami Performing Arts Center and the Miami Light Project for their 2006 Here and Now Festival and It Gets Worse made with funding from his 2007 Legal Art Native Seeds Grant.
Childree is a featured artist in the book Miami Contemporary Artists. Childree was the first recipient of the Hilger Artist Project Award and in September 2008 after working for 2 months installing at Locust Projects in Miami, presented his life-sized amusement park installation, Dream-Cum-Tru.
Bio from Clifton Childree’s website, cliftonchildree.com.
David Tamargo (David the Assistant)
David Tamargo is a Cuban-American Fine Artist who was born and works primarily in Miami, Florida. He graduated from Florida International University with Bachelors in Fine Arts in 2006 and has received numerous International honors and awards of achievement for photography throughout his career.
Exhibiting his work nationally in museums such as the Corcoran Museum, and National Gallery in Washington D.C., the Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum, Miami Art Museum and The Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, Florida.
Current projects include collaborations with recording artists Otto Von Schirach, Notorious Nastie, Peasants with Feathers, The Miami Bass Warriors and Jose El Rey; a film in collaboration with Aiden Dillard is scheduled for production in Fall 2008- to be released on Troma Entertainment.
Bio from Borscht Film Festival website: borscht.info/davidtamargo.htm.
Max and Rocky Wyler (Executive Producers, Accord Productions)
Accord Productions is a leading South Florida-based video and new media production company founded in 1988 by brothers Max and Rocky Wyler. Max and Rocky's distinct skill sets complimented each other on the production of Death Print, as Max concentrated on allocating resources and managing personnel, while Rocky served as Director of Photography.
Accord Film and Video provides the full range of traditional video and new media production services to a vast array of companies throughout South Florida, the Americas and the world. Accord Productions also operates The Beach Channel on Channel 19 Atlantic Broadband in Miami Beach, www.thebeachchannel.tv, and has recently finished producing The Orange Bowl Stadium documentary, and Aiden Dillard's Special Angelz, which are now available at www.leadingvideo.com.
