CHRISTINA D'ELIA :: KATE :: Special Effects Coordinato
Christina D'Elia has appeared in numerous films for Fishing Lemur Productions. Her extensive skills in squirting blood, or blood-like substances, through tubes is well documented in the annals of modern film. Also: not laughing at Brent on camera. Her past projects include Oh! The Horror!, The Hatchet Attack Trilogy, and the Furnished Room, which are all available from your local YouTube.
RUSSELL HEHN :: AL
Russell Hehn, in real life, suffers neither fools nor foolishness. He is the only son of two parents, a mother and a father, who live in South Mississippi, which is where he lived as well, that is, until he moved to Clemson, South Carolina, where he currently lives. Russell believes in this film and the good it will inevitably do for him, for you and for all of humanity. Believe, and we shall achieve.
MICHAEL HOVAN :: BECKHAM
Mike Hovan is a former footballer and therefore a David Beckham enthusiast. He believes that a kind word and a red card to the jugular will get you further than a kind word alone. His interests include growing the illustrious portulaca oleracea and he is currently studying rhetoric at Clemson University. He can also bridle a horse in just under 15 seconds.
JUSTIN M. LESNIEwSKI :: FRIEND :: Writer/Director/Producer
Justin is known for movies and televisions … owning and watching them on DVD that is. This past summer he completed a viewing binge that consisted of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the new Doctor Who, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, and Torchwood. “What I’m most shocked about,” he surmised, “is the overlap between these seemingly unrelated series.” That post modernity is what Lesniewski plays on in his writing process, incorporating allusions and nods to his favorite pop culture gems. Fittingly, his Masters thesis was a discussion of media’s affect on our nation and how it can be incorporated into the classroom titled “Medination: Pop Culture and the Classroom.” End It Like Beckham represents Lesniewski’s first major entertainment project. He describes it as “a giant joke that lampoons two easy targets: David Beckham’s role in American soccer and the dynamic between Jack and Kate on LOST.” The statement isn’t surprising because with Lesniewski everything goes back to LOST (or, at least, Evangeline Lily).
NICK MAZZUCA :: MARC
Nick Mazzuca has no idea how he became a part of a film as august as End It Like Beckham. When he thinks about how he got to this point in his life, he wonders if it's all just a dream... or if his dream has become a reality. Nick Mazzuca dedicates everything he does to his hero, Barack Obama.
DANIEL T. RICHARDS :: Chief Consultant/Assistant Director/Public Relations Manager
Daniel Thomas--a name of inexorable commonality--falsely represents a Biblical context (specifically deriving from the Hebrew Daniyel meaning "God is my judge" and Thomas in direct reference to the apostle who doubted the resurrected Jesus) when, in fact, my mother, growing up in a family not devoid of Christian influence but certainly liberal about theological instruction, simply took great aural pleasure in hearing the name "Daniel"--the way it glides off the tongue, as if to suggest flight or a floating consciousness above reproach--and decided, at quite a young age, to name her first, and hopefully her only, son by the pseudo-majestic name, taking careful selection in the middle name Thomas, my grandfather's name, as to provide a full sense of (false) regal majesty, enlightenment and wisdom, which, upon first chance, the average human decides to shorten to a more comfortable, down to Earth, form such as Dan, Danny, Dano, Dan the Man, Danwhich (the act of standing between two Dans), Diz to the An O or the most unholy and repulsive form, DANIMAL--which, upon hearing, often causes aural displeasure whose equivalent can best be imagined as two oboes attempting to play in unison.
BRYAN RICKE :: STUDENT :: Cinematographer/Assistant Director/Producre
Bryan Ricke has been filming out with his cock out for more than eight years. His other works include Oh! The Horror!, The Hiccup Movie, and The Red Election. He has worked extensively on this film because of his unquenchably thirsty passion for cinema and because he was bored. He thinks End it Like Beckham has the potential to reach a very large audience and become nominated for stuff, and looks forward to working with this cast and crew in the future.
BRENT ROBIDA :: JACK
You know the massive quality of Brando, the sense that every word, every scene, is being held in place by a gigantic pressure, so that there is an architectural sublime in every frame whether the matter be sublime at the moment or not. You know also the air and fire of Daniel Day-Lewis, the very antithesis of the Brandonic solidity, the untrammeled, reckless speed through pellucid spaces which makes us imagine while we are watching him that we have somehow left our bodies behind. If now you can imagine (but you cannot, for it must seem impossible till you see it done) an acting which combined these two all-but incompatibles--an acting as bright and piercing and ethereal as the one, yet as weighty, as pregnant and as lapidary as the other, then you will know what BRENT S. ROBIDA is like.
JONATHAN WILLIAMS :: QUINN
I believe in prophecy and in the aesthetic, and as a believer in both, I am constantly frustrated by the question of where the two coincide, as that locus of synthesis is one that lies beyond my own ability to assimilate or articulate it.