CREW
Director
Robert KOlodny
Robert Kolodny is a Director, Writer and Cinematographer based in New York City. The Featherweight is his directorial debut. For the film he was awarded the John Schlesinger Narrative Award from the Provincetown International Film Festival and the Peter Brunette Award for Best Director at RiverRun International Film Festival.
As a Cinematographer Robert has shot on films by Josh & Benny Safdie, Alex Ross Perry, Robert Greene, Laura Poitras, Sean Price Williams, David Byrne, Taylor Mac and Cecilia Vicuña.
Robert served as Director of Photography on the Netflix film Procession, which had its world premiere at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. The film went on to be nominated for Best Documentary at the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards and Robert was nominated for an Emmy® for Outstanding Lighting Direction at the 43rd News & Documentary Emmy Awards. He is the director of photography of Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements which had its premeire at the 81st venice INTERNATIONAL film festival.
He contributed cinematography to the HBO Documentary Film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which won the Golden Lion at the 79th Venice International Film Festival and went on to be nominated for an Oscar at the 95th Academy Awards.
His short film Fly on Out screened at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in the Court Métrage. His direction of the TV series Frankie Cooks, earned him a New York Emmy® Award.
In 2022, DOC NYC named Robert one of its 40 Under 40 Filmmakers. In 2019, he was invited to be a fellow of newportFILM’s inaugural Documentary Cinematography Lab. He has lectured on visual language in hybrid nonfiction at Museum of the Moving Image and the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri.
He has created and publicly displayed site-specific fine art video installations in collaboration with Cecilia Vicuña, that have been shown on exhibition at The MoMA (NYC), The Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Art Boston and the Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
Robert is a prolific film-viewer and a lifelong student of the craft and history of cinema. When not making or watching films, he is a Professor of film at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Screenwriter/Producer
Steve Loff
Steve Loff is a film and television industry veteran of almost 25 years.
The Featherweight is his feature screenplay debut.
He won a 2008 Silver Telly Award for his producing work on Current TV. His first feature script, Lester, placed in the top 10% in the 2008 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.
His writing-directing debut, Desert Rain, premiered at the 2011 Cinequest Film Festival. His short documentaries Eviction (2007) and Pepsi Won (2001) have screened all over the world.
Producer
Bennett Elliott
Bennett Elliott is an Emmy® award-winning, Peabody award-nominated producer based in New York.
She is the producer and co-director of Couples Therapy (Showtime, seasons 4 and 5), and the producer of Robert Greene’s 2021 Procession (Netflix, Academy Awards Short List), Kim Snyder’s Us Kids (Sundance 2020), Abel Ferrara’s Sportin’ Life (Venice Film Festival 2020), and Greene’s Gotham Awards-nominated Bisbee ’17 (Sundance 2018).
Bennett was the co-producer of Robert Greene’s multiple-award-winning Sundance documentary Kate Plays Christine (2016).
She was selected as a 2017-2018 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and a DOC NYC 40 Under 40 fellow, and has produced documentary films for David Byrne, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, and Nan Goldin.
Producer/Editor
Robert Greene
Robert Greene is a director, editor and producer. His film Procession, premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and is distributed by Netflix. It was nominated for an Emmy®, an Independent Spirit Award, a Peabody, an IDA Award; and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Robert won a Cinema Eye Honor for Best Direction for the film.
His other films include: Bisbee ’17 (2018), Kate Plays Christine (2016), Actress (2014), Fake It So Real (2011), and Kati with an I (2010).
Robert edited Her Smell (2018), Golden Exits (2017), Queen Of Earth (2015), and Listen Up Philip (2014), Christmas, Again (2015); Killing Them Safely (2015); and Hey Bartender (2013).
He serves as the filmmaker-in-chief at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri.
Producer
James Madio
James Madio began his career at age 13 when he was cast in Steven Spielberg’s Hook (1991). Dustin Hoffman personally chose him for the role of his son in Hero (1992). He went on to star in The Basketball Diaries (1995) alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.
Madio worked again with Spielberg, as Sergeant Frank Perconte in HBO’s highly rated miniseries Band of Brothers (2001). He co-starred in the Clint Eastwood film Jersey Boys (2014) and played anarchist Nicola Sacco in the feature film No God, No Master (2013).
James’s career has extended to behind the camera — he has produced and written several award-winning independent projects. His award winning 2011 short film AppleBox earned him two Best Actor awards. He has appeared CSI: NY, Blue Bloods, Bones, Castle, and Law & Order. He starred in the Paramount miniseries The Offer and the HBO/DC miniseries The Penguin.
Producer
Asger Hussain
Born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, Asger spent the early 2000s working with Lee Daniels on films such as The Woodsman (2004) and Shadowboxer (2005).
He served as one of the producers of the Sundance Film Festival winner Precious (2009). The film was nominated for six Academy Awards® and won two.
He developed and co-produced the Golden Globe nominated thriller The Paperboy (2012), starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo and Nicole Kidman. Asger also produced the critically acclaimed South African western Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017) by director Michael Matthews.
Asger currently runs the TV arm of Lee Daniels Entertainment (The Wonder Years) under its deal with 20th Television / Disney.