Sony Creative Software has compiled an expert panel to review the Technology in Motion student film entries. This panel was chosen with extreme care to ensure a wide representation of experience with media and technology; and includes industry pros, educators, and other experts.
Catherine Green
A 2008 graduate of Ashland High School, Catherine Green is the winner of last year's Technology in Motion student film contest. She wrote, directed, filmed, and edited the entry titled "Contact," a live-action film that showcases a group of teens trying to free their families and community from a dark world where human contact is forbidden. Catherine is currently a freshman film major at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She began her film training under direction of teacher Brad Carr, and has since worked in several aspects of film production including writing, directing, cinematography, lighting, sound design, and editing. Catherine is currently in pre-production for a new short scheduled to premiere this spring.
Jason Gleed
Jason Gleed is an award-winning songwriter and producer. He has written commercial music for clients such as Coke, Pepsi, Budweiser, McDonalds, Alltel, Chevy, Honda, and Ford. He has produced music for major Hollywood films with the crew at Deetown Entertainment for movies such as Alvin and the Chipmunks, American Pie Beta House, and is currently working on Speed Racer, Hotel for Dogs, High School Musical 3, Hannah Montana, What Happens In Vegas, and a new movie from the Wayans. Jason recently won an American Music Award for the platinum selling Alvin and the Chipmunks soundtrack. He also co-produced a song for Miley Cyrus called "Let's Do This," as well as co-wrote and co-produced two songs for an upcoming album from Miley Cyrus's costar Mitchel Musso. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Jason is now living in New York City. For more information visit Jason's website at www.gleedsville.net.
Julie Lindsay
Julie Lindsay is head of information technology and eLearning at Qatar Academy, Doha, State of Qatar. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, she is an enthusiastic, global-minded education leader and innovator with experience teaching and leading the use of technology in schools in Zambia, Kuwait, Bangladesh and Qatar. Her wealth of diverse work experience is complemented by Master of Arts degrees from La Trobe University in Melbourne and George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Julie is a frequent presenter on the world stage, and an inspiration to colleagues and collaborators demonstrating just how different world-class education will be in this 21st Century. She is recognized worldwide for her innovative programs using a wide array of Web 2.0 tools to transform learning for the emerging digital, "world-is-flat" educational landscape. As co-founder of the Flat Classroom Project, Julie provides opportunities for educators and students globally to connect, collaborate and create.
More information can be found on Julie's digital portfolio.
Julie blogs at 'E-Learning Journeys'.
David Was
David Was, with his childhood friend Don Was, formed the 1980s pop band Was (Not Was). Reviewed by The New York Times in 1980 as "the funkier art-funk band," Was (Not Was) used members of Funkadelic alongside jazz legends such as trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, and singers Mel Tormé and Ozzy Osbourne. They released five albums and enjoyed four Top 10 singles worldwide. They continue to tour, their most recent album being issued in 2008. In other projects, Was produced two soundtrack albums for the X-Files TV show and feature film, as well as music supervised features for Fox and Disney. He joined the ranks of network music composers on CBS's Education of Max Bickford, starring Richard Dreyfuss, and also did the music for ABC's "That Was Then." His theme music introduces Fox Sports' "NFL Pregame Show." As a record producer, he has also worked with Bob Dylan, Rickie Lee Jones, Roy Orbison, k.d. lang, Wayne Kramer (of MC5 fame) and the Holly Cole Trio of Canada. Was is a regular contributor to NPR's midday news newsmagazine, Day to Day, where he writes essays about classical, jazz and other forms of music.
