Bios
Aiden Dillard, founder of Meatweed Media, has been making weird low-budget movies for over 10 years, and lives in Miami Florida. Aiden made his first feature film Meat Weed Madness (2006), which he then followed up with the sequel Meat Weed America (2007). With Deathprint (2009), Aiden hopes to bring a new level of professionalism to his work. To view more of Aiden Dillard's work please visit:
meatweed.com, aidendillard.com, myspace.com/aidendillardmovies, youtube.com/user/AidenDillard
Ted Vernon (Himself, Executive Producer)
Ted Vernon has established worldwide recognition as an actor, writer and executive producer since acting in the 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; The Unholy and many more films. Miami knows Vernon for his theatrical performances and his professional boxing days with a record of 21-1 and his stints as a professional wrestler, stock car/stunt and demolition derby driver.
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.
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 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.
Otto von Schirach (Himself)
Citing a desire to become the "gangster of Digital Sound Processing", Von Schirach creates eccentric, frenetic, densely packed abstract electronica collages that shred hip-hop, corrupts Miami Bass and perverts techno. 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.
myspace.com/ottovonschirach, ottovonschirach.com
TM Sisters (Themselves)
Tasha Lopez De Victoria, and Monica Lopez De Victoria 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. 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.
Maximum Capacity (Detective Flem)
Michael Stanco is an American professional wrestler, better known as Maximum Capacity, and is billed in many independent promotions as the "World's Largest Athlete". 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. Maximum Capacity has also appeared in an episode of Jerry Springer. Deathprint is his first feature film.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Capacity
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. 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.
Clifton Childree (Uncanny Clifton)
Miami resident Clifton Childree is a filmmaker/artist who has shown locally in Miami at the Miami Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Art Center South Florida, BFI, Pulse Art Fair, Florida International University, Miami International Film Festival, Florida Dance Festival, Locust Projects and internationally in Vienna at Brot Kunsthalle and a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien in addition to over 40 domestic and international film festivals. He received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, the Legal Art Native Seeds Grant and the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. His large scale installations have been commissioned by the Pulse Art Fair NYC, Locust Projects Miami, the Miami Performing Arts Center/Miami Light Project, Hilger Contemporary Gallery and Kunsthalle Wien.
David Tamargo (David the Assistant)
David Tamargo is a Cuban-American Fine Artist who was born and works primarily in Miami, Florida. He exhibits his work internationally as well as curates exhibitions of emerging contemporary art from around the world. He is a founding member of the Borscht Film Festival, The CCCV movement and is the assistant art director and curator at the world's largest collection of erotic art, The World Erotic Art Museum, Miami Beach.