"Bread Machine" (2018)
A documentary about the power of childhood memory, friendship, and communication told through the reconnection between a young woman, her uncle Karl, and his two dogs. (51 minutes)
Winner of the Outstanding Documentary Award at the 2018 Dusty Film Festival
Presented with the Student Award at the 2018 Women in Arts & Media Coalition’s Collaboration Awards.
"Bread Machine is a film about comfort zones and breaking them. It's a film about friendship and hardship and experience. It's a story of human connection and communication, and how unexpected it often is.
"To break bread is an offering of oneself on the part of all parties. It's to share your home and your life. To offer peace, love, & friendship, even to the strangers at your table."
"Three of us spent a week with [shelby's] uncle, Karl, who–simply put–is a hermit, though the label is a shameful reduction of a beautiful man. The film unfurled itself as a document of a week wholly shared rather than a character study in which we were hidden--even cordoned--well behind a fourth wall. To that end, what unfolded was profound, chaotic, heartbreaking, and hilarious all in equal measure."
– Julia De Santis, Director of Photography
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Julia DeSantis - Director of Photography & Co-Writer
A photographer and Video Artist who works primarily with video to dissect and reconstruct formative moments and experiences of hers as a young woman in New York City. She recently finished a series of work “Boyfriend Material” as a mentee of Margot Norton, Curator at New Museum. In 2016, her video work “Humann,” which she co-directed, was installed at Zentrum Für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin, Germany. Julia has also worked as a cinematographer on the upcoming short film “Creatures” (2018) and the documentary “Bread Machine” (2018).
D.A McCormick
Composer
Daniel McCormick is a Los Angeles based composer whose compositions have been featured in theaters across Finland, Scotland, India, Mexico, and the U.S.A. Films he has scored have premiered at Sundance, Tribeca, and many other film festivals across the world as well as having theatrical distribution in North America, Australia, and parts of Europe. His music has also been featured at the prestigious Palacio De Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and his first ever score for the film “Getting Ready For A Lunch Date” won Best Original Musical Score at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. His composing credits also include “Nevada,” (2018) “Boomtown,” (2017) and “Big Time” (2017).
Keren B. Nechmad
Assistant Director & Camera Operator
Keren Nechmad was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, where she attended the art-based school "Municipal School No.1" on the film track, and then "Alon High School" where she graduated with a diploma in film. Then, upon completion of her training in the Israeli Army, where she was also a member of "The Film Unit of the Intelligence Corps," Keren came to New York City to study film at School of Visual Arts. She worked closely with the director Yaron Zilberman at Opening Night Productions for a little over a year, where she shadowed him in pre-production for some of his upcoming work. Keren is most known for her directing work on the short films “Ani” (2018), "Do You Think I Meant Country Matters?" (2017), and "Il Bagno" (2017). She has also acted as an assistant director for multiple films, such as “Bread Machine” (2018), “For You” (2018), and “Creatures” (2018), along with the feature film "LiveLove" (2015).
Francesca Matias & Julia Ward
Assistant Editors
