Bella's Star - Production


			Elyn J. Shindler, Writer & Executive Producer Elyn's commitment to teaching tolerance through the arts has incorporated her training with Facing History and Ourselves as well as her work with the Mizel Museum of Judaica's "Bridges of Understanding" program. In addition to her 15+ years of classroom experience, Elyn has produced two film shorts for the Anti-Defamation League's Youth Leadership Mission and contributed filmic and musical elements for Erika Kaufman's nationally-acclaimed Holocaust play "Voice" (2000). She has authored and published five biographies, three of which documented the lives of Holocaust survivors. The script for Bella's Star was inspired by the recent passing of Elyn's father, Samuel Shindler, also a Holocaust survivor. To this script Elyn brings the culmination of her teaching, writing, and artistic expertise along with the intention of bringing yesterday's lessons to tomorrow's youth through a meaningful and timelessly contemporary vehicle.

			Andrew Arell, Producer In 2007, Andrew established Rapture Collaborative Media as a documentary production agency, conceptually driven toward enrapturing audiences in the poetic and narrative capacity of the motion picture medium. His emergence as a filmmaker coalesced out of the anthropological notions embodied in his abstract short- Huella. This singular work was envisioned and produced as an artistic act of intention- to engage humanity nakedly upon the plane of existence as a sublime meditation on the holy ephemerality of fleeting existence. In producing Bella's Star, Arell has embarked upon his first effort in the hybrid field of narrative driven documentary. He believes there is great imperative to address the topic of human indignity and societal self-destruction within the context of this contemporary parable.

			Pax Harris, Director & DP Pax is a director, writer, cinematographer, animator, photographer, and VFX artist. His unique combination of artistic talent, technical expertise, and vivid imagination help us breathe life into our story, create wonderful performances and amazing imagery. For the last 10 years he has produced commercials, TV shows, and animation for hundreds of clients including NBC, Motorola, ESPN2, VH1, and the Discovery Channel.

			Ed Kramer, Visual Effects Supervisor Ed Kramer spent 12 years as Senior Technical Director at Industrial Light + Magic, doing CGI lighting and effects work for STAR WARS Episodes I, II, and III, as well as such classics as Jumanji, The Perfect Storm, Harry Potter II,Twister, Van Helsing, Herbie Fully Loaded, and Jurassic Park II: The Lost World. He developed the techniques and supervised the "Scarab Beetle" shots in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, the "Rock Monster" shots in Galaxy Quest, the "Droid Factory" shots for Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and did lighting and creature development work for Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Prior to ILM, he worked on Stargate and Clear and Present Danger, and animated the "Lady with a Torch" logo seen at the beginning of every Columbia Pictures movie.

			Edyth Moldow, Actress Edyth Moldow makes her film debut in Bella's Star. A natural performer, Edyth has appeared in The Nutcracker and Cinderella as a character dancer. A fourth grader who loves to read and play with her dolls, Edyth has been described as "an old soul." For her, magic isn't something in story books -- it's everywhere at every moment. This is why she is the perfect fit to convey the essence of Bella in Bella's Star.