Ed Radtke
Ed Radtke has made three independent feature films, including the award-winning BOTTOM LAND and THE DREAM CATCHER. THE DREAM CATCHER garnered 11 awards at international film festivals and has been released worldwide.
Ed Radtke has years of additional filmmaking experience, having served as a writer, producer, assistant director and editor on various projects including: features, documentaries, TV movies, ITVS funded dramas, commercials and music videos. He has taught filmmaking at the university level, worked extensively with at-risk youth, taught media making to developmentally challenged adults and to prisoners. He's lectured at Columbia and NYU, conducted workshops in Paris and South America, is the recipient of two NEA production grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
Radtke co-wrote the feature script AIME TON PERE, produced by Gerard Depardieu and starring Depardieu and his real life son, Guillame. The film was the official Swiss entry for Best Foreign Film consideration for the 2001 Academy AwardsR. Ed currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and recently finished his third feature THE SPEED OF LIFE, for which he received the Rockefeller Fellowship. THE SPEED OF LIFE premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2007, where it won a Special Jury Prize.
Chris Langer
Chris has been working with Transparent films for over 5 years. He has done everything from being an office intern to production managing a feature film and producing the LIFT project, from helping design the "Transparent" logo to designing print materials for productions as well as designing Transparent Films' original webpage. A graduate of the Ohio State University, Chris has assisted and produced sveral community based youth projects from suburban and rural Ohio to New York. He currently lives in New York, teaching a multimedia course at Brooklyn College and working as a freelance graphic and video artist as well as managing and producing television and film on occasion.