Brian
Jude has been credited as a producer, director, screenwriter,
actor, assistant director, script consultant and more on feature-length
and short films, live concert & narrative music videos and
television programs and commercials. His producing credits include
the feature films The
Jonestown Defense, The
Blood Shed and Under
the Raven's Wing, short projects The
Pod, Cruel
to be Kind He has also produced and directed the shorts
The
Last Days of Frank Whyte, Unappealing Visions and
ATM Blues Brian also directs and acts for the stage.
Brian
is currently developing the screen adaptation of Morris E. Goodman's
The Miracle Man, a
story that was featured in Rhonda Byrne's best selling book and
film, The Secret.
In
2006, after a collaboration between Dragon Rider Productions and
the critically acclaimed power-acoustic indie rock band Friday's
Child to produce the concert film Friday's
Child: Live at Luna Stage,
Brian Jude teamed up with frontman Tom
Walker 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.
His
screenplay, Ride with the Dragons, was featured in the
2002 Independent Feature Project (IFP) Market. Also 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.
Brian
received a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcasting at Montclair
State University, and minored in both Music History/Theory
and Film. 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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