Our vision: To rekindle a love for the arts and an appreciation for those driven by the passion to create.
Yelena Demikovsky
Founder
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Yelena Demikovsky is founder of Red Palette Pictures. Born in Russia, she has lived in the United States for more than 15 years. She is a documentary and narrative filmmaker with a broad theatre background in the United States and Russia.
Demikovsky has directed three full-length documentaries —Unity, the award-winning The Story of Fenist and happy to be so…, which will have its world premiere in January 2008 at the Dance on Camera Film Festival co-sponsored by the Dance Film Associate and Film Society of Lincoln Center. Her narrative short, Shell, received Honorable Mention, The Accolade Film Awards.
She is in post-production on the documentary, I am Vera and in production on And Then Comes the Glory…, about famed ballet star, Rudolf Nureyev.
In addition, she has written five short scripts, two feature scripts and a two-act play.
Demikovsky has produced two symposia about Rudolf Nureyev — one in New York (1997), the other in St. Peterburg, Russia (1998). She also contributed interviews and translations to four authors of Nureyev biographies.
Demikovsky was guest director of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, where she adapted and directed Book 10 of Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. She also directed for Soho Rep.
Demikovsky has two masters degrees, one in theatre (Moscow, Russia), and another in video (Boston, USA) and had taught theatre directing in Moscow.
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John Burns John Burns is an expert in Final Cut Pro and has used one-on-one training techniques to help others master the program. Previously he was an Avid editor, cutting commercial for advertising agencies such as Grey, McCann Erickson, and Bates Worldwide, to name a few. Burns was also the Web developer for the Red Palette Web site. www.finalcutproclasses.com; www.macclasses.com |
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Nancy Sifton Nancy Sifton has worked with Yelena Demikovsky since 1997. She assisted with the Nureyev symposia in New York and St. Petersburg and served as production coordinator on The Story of Fenist. She has also transcribed interviews for And Then Comes the Glory... Sifton worked at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, where she archived numerous photo collections. |
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Leslie J. Yerman Leslie J. Yerman helps documentary filmmakers and other industry members bring their projects to fruition — drawing from her more than 20 years of communications, special events, development and administrative expertise. She is associate producer of And Then Comes the Glory…, as well as of Jokerman (for LowlandsFilm). Formerly VP/Communications for New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), her clients have included Bohm Productions, Isaac Solotaroff Productions, Chalice Well Productions and Touchbase Productions for whom she has provided marketing and outreach, film festival strategies, development and other services. |
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Fatima Benbrahim Fatima Benbrahim was editor on Shell and happy to be so..., a Red Palette documentary. Her experience working for various international television stations — PBS/WNET Thirteen, TV5, France 2, France 3, Al-Jazeera, MBC, Abu Dhabi TV and Morocco’s 2M TV — and renowned film directors has given her universal exposure. She has worked in many formats and editing systems. |