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Brian
Jude has been credited as a producer, director, screenwriter,
production manager, assistant director, production coordinator,
editor and script consultant on feature-length and short films,
music videos and television programs and commercials. His producing
and/or directing credits include the feature films The
Blood Shed and Under
the Raven's Wing, short projects The
Pod, The Last Days of Frank Whyte, Cruel
to be Kind, Unappealing Visions and ATM Blues,
segments of the New Jersey Network's legal program Due Process,
as well as a variety of narrative and documentary segments on
the CTN cable network program Carpe
Diem.
Through
his production company, Dragon Rider Productions, Brian has produced
several projects for the advertising firm PFS
Marketwyse, including a :30 television commercial for GettingHired.com,
a :30 television promo for the NJ State Fair, a lobby video for
the pharmaceutical marketing company Dendrite, and several contest
announcements for the employees of Washington Mutual.
In
2002, Brian became a founding member of Exit
131 Productions, initially a "no-budget" production arm of
the New Jersey Salon of the Association of Independent Video and
Filmmakers, and which has since evolved into an online networking
community for New Jersey filmmakers. Brian directed the group's
first short, A
Taste of Better Days, which was featured in the Freedom
Film Festival in Philadelphia in February, 2004, and produced
their third project, The
Collector's Item.
In
2006, Brian Jude teamed up with Tom
Walker of the critically acclaimed power-acoustic indie rock
band Friday's
Child to create Digital
Cafe Tour - an on-line venue focusing on bringing live concert
performances from the stage to the home via internet streaming
and downloads.
Brian
received a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcasting at Montclair
State University, and minored in both Music History/Theory
and Film. His screenplay, Ride with the Dragons, was featured
in the 2002
Independent Feature Project (IFP) Market. In addition to Ride
with the Dragons, Brian is also currently developing the independent
features Stop Waiting for Regina, Frame of Mind
and The Flycatcher. His first documentary feature, The
Road Will Always Wind, is currently in production. Brian is
a member of Phi
Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, Inc. and The
National Broadcasting Society - Alpha Epsilon Rho.
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A
musician, historian and actor, Richard Legon is Co-Managing Member
of Dragon Rider Productions and serves as Associate Producer on
most of Dragon Rider's projects. He recently served as First Assistant
Director for the short The Last Days of Frank Whyte (2005),
and as Associate Producer/Assistant Director for Friday's
Child: Live at Luna Stage (2005), both directed by Brian
Jude. He has also served as Associate Producer and Second Assistant
Director of Hannah Soule's short Bullpen (Don't Quit Your
Day Job Productions, 2002), as well as Location Manager for Bill
Clemis's short The
Collector's Item (Exit 131 Productions, 2003). He has
been intermittently involved with the film industry since 1997,
having small acting roles in such feature films as Robert Kane
Pappas' Some
Fish Can Fly
(Artistic License, 1999), John Hamburg's Safe
Men (October Films, 1998) and Phillip Noyce's The
Saint (Paramount Pictures, 1997).
Richard's
primary career experience encompasses many different facets in
the worlds of music and education. As a freelance musician, Richard
has performed with a gamut of various music organizations in the
NYC/Tri-State Area. From 1998 to Summer, 2001, he helped run the
Membership Department of Chamber
Music America (CMA), a national service organization for the
professional chamber music field, as both Interim Membership Director
and Membership Associate. Richard also served as an Intern in
Arts Administration with The
National Federation of Music Societies in London, England,
in 1997. He has also volunteered his time and talents as the Recruitment
Chair for the Bushwackers Drum &
Bugle Corps from 1999 to 2001. In his spare time he is on
the staff of the Ridgefield Memorial High School Marching Band,
where he serves as a Marching Specialist.
Richard
is a 1996 graduate of James Madison University, Harrisonburg,
Virginia, with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Minor in Music.
He also received a Master of Arts in Teaching, concentration Social
Studies at Montclair
State University. He is also a member of Phi
Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, Inc., a national
music fraternity and Kappa
Delta Pi, an international honor society in education.
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