Founder • Art Director • Designer, Little Tiger
Azin Shamma is an award-winning creative director whose art direction and design have helped fuel HBO, ABC, NBC, MTV, Bravo, A&E, CNN, BBC America and other leading networks. Little Tiger, a division of 99 Tigers, is Azin’s New York-based creative services studio and post production company. Little Tiger specializes in broadcast motion graphics design; outdoor advertising and print campaigns; product packaging and branding; and mixed-media web identities. Azin infuses her work with influences from pop culture, music, emotions, the intellect, the natural world, “and all of life’s beauty.” We think that’s beautiful. See Azin’s work>>
Anna Kerrigan
•Writer•Director
Being a bicoastal filmmaker has kept Anna Kerrigan very busy with her writing and directing for over a decade. Her first feature “five days gone” traveled the film festival circuit and was awarded with best screenplay at the Brooklyn film festival. Anna likes to be creative and isn’t held to one visual medium, and she pursues playwriting along with her filmmaking. She is one of the 2014 recipients of Williamstown theatre festival’s prestigious Sagal fellowship for her family band musical “the Dixon family album”. Having the ability to write and create content helps her shine in the branded content world and her incredible work ethic allows her to be ultra resourceful in getting challenging projects completed. Her web series the impossibilities was originally released in march 2015 and will now make its debut on Hulu plus. It was recently nominated for a 2015 Gotham award.
Jeff Grace
Director • Writer
Jeff Grace is a director, writer, actor and comedian who made IndieWire’s list of “25 Best Breakthrough Performances” in 2013. He started his career on the stages of Second City and ImprovOlympic, and enjoys bringing improvised naturalism to his work as a comedy director and actor. Jeff wrote and directed the critically acclaimed film Folk Hero & Funny Guy, which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and stars Alex Karpovsky, Wyatt Russell, Melanie Lynskey, David Cross and Michael Ian Black. As a commercial director, Jeff has directed and/or written campaigns for Lay’s, TBS, Universal Studios, Chef’s Feed, Pepsi and Google. Jeff is a unique commercial director because he’s also worked as an actor in campaigns for brands like Heineken, Sony, Chevy, Intel, Nokia and Hallmark. He just shot a pilot for E! (Glam Squad with Erinn Hayes and Meredith Hagner) and will star in his first stand-up comedy special in late 2016. You can keep up with Jeff at www.jeffgrace.com or @jeffgrace on Twitter/Instagram.
Todd Berger
Director • Writer
Todd Berger hails from New Orleans and has been making movies since age 11 (Dick Tracy vs. Dr. Bubbles, in which he also starred). His first feature, The Scenesters, played over 30 film festivals in 2010 and won Most Interesting Film at the Slamdance Film Festival. His feature-length documentary Don’t Eat The Baby: Adventures at post-Katrina Mardi Gras played on the final night of the 2007 New Orleans Film Festival. His most recent film, It’s A Disaster, had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival and will be released later this year. Todd works as a screenwriter and actor in Los Angeles, with scripts currently in development at MGM, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures, Jim Henson Productions, and The Disney Channel. His first novel Showdown City was recently published by Diversion Books. He prefers waffles over pancakes.
Andrew Jive
Director • Animator • Vine Artist
Andrew Jive is a director, stop-motion animator, and Vine artist based in Brooklyn. As an early adopter of Vine, Andrew created animations that grabbed the attention of major brands and agencies. This led to numerous micro-content social media campaigns for Samsung, Chrysler, Chevrolet, AT&T, Lowe’s, American Express, Home Depot, FedEx, DIRECTV, Epix, Bud Light and illy Coffee. Andrew has also directed projects for improv actors with the Upright Citizens Brigade and at the Peoples Improv Theater in New York. He directed the web series “Ground Control,” a finalist at the 2013 NYTVF Comedy Central Short Pilot Competition.