A project initiated by OpenGorey in collaboration with 2 leading filmmakers living in the UK brought Culture TV to the Gorey Community. Culture TV screened work by Anton Califano and Meghan Horvath who both have won numerous international awards for their work.

Culture TV Featured

Home, The Seafront, The Middle Men and A Dollar a Dream

Biographies

Anton Califano is a London-based filmmaker and editor with over 20 year's filmmaking experience.Anton started out in the film industry as a trainee editor in 35mm cutting rooms after graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Film & Television Production from London Guildhall University. Anton's graduation film "Flat", a comedy, won the First Director's Award at the Birmingham International Film Festival. Alongside an editing career which includes cutting award-winning independent films and broadcast documentaries, Anton has continued to produce and direct documentary and fiction films of his own. In 1996 Anton co-produced the Art House feature film "To Anyone Who Can Hear Me" which won the Grand Prix and International Press Jury Prize at the Figueira de Foz International Film Festival, Portugal 1999 as well as being selected in competition for the prestigious Taormina Film Festival, Italy. For the last ten years, Anton has been the Executive Producer on the Eastern Edge Film Fund, which has funded over 20 short films made by new/emerging talent. Many of the films have won film festival awards and prestigious industry prizes.Anton's more recent documentary work focuses on cultural identity, justice, and social equality.

Meghan Horvath is a director/producer most interested in the stories and people who exist just beyond the lens of the mainstream media. Her passion and attention for the most minute emotional and physical detail is apparent across her work, and she is motivated by expressing beauty in its most elemental form. Horvath love's building creative collaborations and together pushing visual and emotional boundaries. Visual storytelling for her is a provocative way to get more people talking and thinking about the challenges of and beauty in our world. Horvath grew up in Steelton, Pennsylvania, began her career as a documentary researcher in New York, and now lives in London. Although she works predominantly in documentary she believes that each story has one genre that fits it best.