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Cast

• Louis: Al Thompson | bio

  WINNER: BEST ACTOR (First Run Film Festival 2007, New York, NY)

• Alex: Aldous Davidson
• Marc/Homicidal Maniac: Tim O'Malley
• Oscar: Paul Sum
• Wing: Jackson Ning
• Brian: Jarett Gonzalez
• Yao: Nathaniel Geng
• Chris Chan: Hiram Chan
• Melanie: Allyn Rachel
• Doug: Russ Russo
• Casey: Matthew Sacullo
• Tate: Geoff Golia
• Gardener: Francisco Gonzalez
• Pizza Guy: Patrick Bringley

Crew

• Director: Jonathan Yi | bio

  Jonathan Yi was born in Southern California in 1982, but spent his formative years in the San Francisco Bay Area, where his father followed the boom of the Silicon Valley.

  Learning the guitar at a young age and being immersed in the Bay Area music scene, Jonathan formed his first rock band before hitting puberty and, since junior high school, has released and distributed his own music, officially forming his own independent record label, Second Rate Records, in 1998, as a sophomore in high school, using his own raised capital. Since then, his releases have sold thousands of copies domestically and internationally through an international distributor.

  He spent most of his teen years playing music with his band, Spishak, sharing the stage with such big name acts as Green Day and Weezer, among others, eventually becoming a featured act during Vans’ Warped Tour 2000.

  While in high school, Jonathan’s short video projects, developed in his video production class, began to win numerous awards throughout California and Texas film/multimedia festivals. Encouraged and guided by his video production teacher, Jonathan realized that though his love of music was strong, he could not commit to it as a career; so he left it all behind to pursue a life in filmmaking when he arrived at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Fall of 2001.

  Since then, Jonathan’s student films have received wide regard, and he has also become an award winning music video director and cinematographer, being featured in such magazines as CREATIVITY (commercial trade paper) and VICE. His previous short films have been screened domestically in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and beyond, and internationally in England and Canada.

  As a director of photography, he has shot at least one project every month for the past three years and has put together an impressive, award winning filmography. Jonathan currently resides in Brooklyn, where he continues to shoot and direct short films, music videos and commercials on multiple formats. During his time as an undergraduate at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts film program, he has already worked professionally extensively and has been commissioned by companies such as ConEdison, Time Warner, Red Bull, The Village Voice and others for directorial work.

  In 2006, Jonathan was honored at the MOMA at the AICP Awards for his work on the spec commercial "SUSHI" for Monster.com.

• Picture Editor: Sam Goetz | bio

  Sam Goetz was born and raised in Levittown, Pennsylvania. He now resides in Brooklyn, where he practices editing, cinematography and filmmaking of all sorts. Being Jonathan Yi’s closest creative collaborator in New York, Sam has directed and edited many award winning films in which Jonathan was the cinematographer and has worked with Jonathan on paid television commercial jobs that have aired in heavy rotation. Likewise, Sam also was the cinematographer for Jonathan Yi’s most recent film, “I’M SAMMY HAGAR.” Sam has edited two of Jonathan Yi’s award winning music videos and was also the editor and production designer for “SHIFT.”

• Composer: Lance Lee | bio

  Lance Lee grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and developed an appreciation for music at an early age. He began performing and recording guitar in rock bands at age 14 and met Jonathan Yi in 1998 at a battle of the bands. Though Lance's band was still playing "ska" at the time, an immediate friendship ensued. Since then, Lance and Jonathan have worked together on several professional and non-professional projects and traveled collectively with their respective bands on the HELLA 2K TOUR of 2000. Lance was once even a guest star in one of Jonathan's award-winning music videos (ON THAT STAGE, 2003). Lance currently lives in Santa Cruz, California where he is studying film at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He writes and records music for short films and commericals in his bedroom, but this smalltime music work on Jonathan's commercials has been featured on television multiple times and the collaboration continued with "SHIFT" to a much greater extent.

• Sound Mixer: Morgwn Jones | bio

  Morgwn Jones was born and raised in Oakland, CA. Throughout his youth he played many instruments and eventually went further to attend audio engineering school. He now resides in Brooklyn, NY, and is the assistant engineer at a local recording studio. He has worked with Jonathan Yi before doing post-production sound for "I'M SAMMY HAGAR," Jonathan's previous narrative short. Morgwn was both the location sound recordist and the post-production sound mixer for "SHIFT."

• Producer: Michael Haertlein

Bonus Features

• Making Of Featurette
• Deleted & Extended Scenes
• Music Videos
• Scene Selections
• Theatrical Trailers
• Outtakes
• Behind the Scenes
• Auditions
• Alternate Ending(s)

Accolades