Mia Procida as Joey
This is Mia's film debut. She has been on stage in several shows including "Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" (Missoula Children's Theater), "The Music Man" (Gracie Shinn/Bergen Summertime Players), "BIG! The Musical" (Gas Lamp Players), and "The Nutcracker-The Musical" (Linda Dorsey School of Performing Arts).
Mia is only six and wants to be a director when she grows up. In the meantime, she enjoys acting, drawing, dancing, singing, playing sports, learning piano, and enjoying her pet rabbit, Snuggles.
Her brother Travis, father Joseph, and mother Holly, are all very proud of Mia's hard work and talent.

Greg A. Baron as Cliff
Having been everything from a rock & roll roadie to flight instructor and pianist to martial-artist, acting seemed like a natural next step for Greg Baron.
Beginning as a voice actor for commercials and narration, Mr. Baron. then took the time to explore dinner theater, community theater, film, on-camera commercials, voice-over, stand-up comedy and print modeling. Most of all, he enjoys acting.

Theresa Lee as Betty the Nurse
Theresa Lee's last project was Vanya in an AntFarm Production adaptation she co-wrote. It was performed at Connelly Theatre for the Chekhov Now Festival and was moved to 78th St Theatre Lab.
She has worked with Obie award winning director Daniel Aukin in "The Year of the Baby" and has premiered in several plays by Obie winning playwright Mac Wellman, including "Fnu Lnu" at the Soho Rep, "Why The Y in Ybor", a site specific project in Ybor City Florida, "Girl Gone" with director Paul Lazar, and "The Lesser Magoo" at the 78th Street Theatre Lab. She has also worked with Obie winning playwright Len Jenkin in "Poor Folks Pleasure" and "Tallahassee", and "Careless Love" with Director David Lee.

Kyle Moss as Libby the Aide
The Paper Castle marks Kyle’s second student film. She recently starred in an independent film directed by George Strayton and is currently working on an original rock musical.
In addition to acting, Kyle is the lead singer of Spinster, a local New York City band.
Kyle is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has also studied at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in New York City.

Leif Young Huckman: King
Born in Red Bluff, California, Leif started his career very early, working for many local theater companies as an actor-dancer. He then specialized in dramatic acting at the Shakespeare Academy in London before moving to New York to pursue his acting degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU; here he produced his acclaimed solo project Small Town, Small Man. After completing his studies in 2002, he started working in New York city as a free lance actor, taking parts in many advangarde productions, which premiered in such theaters as the famous La Mama. Leif is also a talented singer and guitar - bass player, currently involved in an intensive performing activity with his New York based band.

Mike Getz: Whistle Voices
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Director, Screenwriter Stephen Unger
Stephen Unger wrote and directed four short films while attending the University of Central Florida School of Motion Pictures. His award winning short Bittersweet Karma picked up best film honors securing the SDI Tech award as well receiving the prestigious Tampa Bay Film Foundation's Touch the Future Award. Unger's 2000 production The Fly That Wouldn't Try has been licensed for distribution by Hypnotic Films. His feature length screenplay Binary Sonata has been selected as a semi-finalist in both the Dolphin Bay Screenplay Competition and the Chesterfield Film Project.
After graduating in 2001, Stephen moved to New York City to take advantage of a position with Children's Television Workshop's Sesame Street Program while pursuing a master's degree in film at The City College of New York. It is a part of this Master's program that he takes on his most ambitious project to date.

Producer, Roberto Herrero
Born and raised in Brazil, Roberto has degree in Business and Film from Sao Paulo University, Stevens Institute of Technology and New York University.
Roberto has been involved in show business since a young age, working on several television, film and theater productions in Brazil as an actor, director and producer.
Roberto was nominated for Brazil's version of the Tony Awards as best musical actor.
In the United States he has been involved in several on and off Broadway theater, opera, regional theater, and dance productions as both director and producer.
Roberto has also been involved in US films such as The Kiss of the Spider Woman (produced by David Weisman), The Siege (produced by Edward Zwick) and the television show Hot Spot (Showtime Television).
Roberto has also produced the following films: What’s for Dinner Dear, Dirt Road and Reading Lessons. Roberto also has his own film production company called Herrero Entertainment. He is currently producing a musical drama feature film who will be directed by well-known award-winning movie director Roberto Jabor and a comedy feature called The Foursome. Contact Roberto by clicking here.

Screenwriter, Joshua Grover-David Patterson
This screenwriter from Oshkosh, Wisconsin had his first film, Searching for Mr. Right.Com, released in Australia in 2002.
A Chesterfield semi-finalist for his feature Pizza Pig, Patterson has also written for college radio and penned an award-nominated music column.

Cinematographer, Zoran Drakulic
1983: Graduated from The School for Applied Art, Department of Photography
1988: Voted Best Student of Cinematography Department at The Academy for Drama Arts. Rewarded with studentship at VGIK, Moscow Film Academy, Moscow University
1989: Graduated from The Academy for Drama Arts, Department of Cinematography, Zagreb University
1995: Winner of ArtsLink Fellowship, sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts. Selected from 450 applicants from 20 Europe countries.
1996: Fellowship at NYU Tisch School of Arts, Graduate Film Program
2001: Member of Croatian Society of Cinematographers (HFS),
1996 - present: lives and works in New York.

Composer, Mario Mazzoli
Italian born composer, he is currently based in New York City. After graduating from the Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara, Italy, majoring in piano performance, he moved to Boston to study Film Scoring (with a particular focus on cartoon music) at the Berklee College of Music, where he graduated in 2001. He then moved to New York to gather studio experience at The Edison recording studio on Broadway, where he worked as Assistant technician-engineer, and to pursue a Master degree in composition at the City College, where he received the Bernard Goldfine Award. As a composer he focused on dramatic music, writing scores for several short movies as well as theatrical productions and Tv documentaries. He is currently working on the score for two italian short movies and on his first opera, based on a libretto by the young Italian writer Dario Alfieri.

The Paper Castle
(full crew credits)
Director: Stephen Unger
Screenplay written by Stephen Unger and Joshua Grover-David Patterson
Co-Producer: Jesse Blanco
Story by: Stephen Unger
Producer: Roberto Herrero
Casting Assistant: Shelly Madeja
Production Manager: Jaehwan Kim
First AD and 2nd AD: Roberto Herrero and Shelly Madeja
Director of Photography: Zoran Drakulic, HFS
Assistant Camera: Michael C. Kenney
Slate: Moddy Faroyk
Gaffer: Joseph Brunette
Best Boy: Carter Trout
Sound: Victoria Tidikyte
Boom: Josh Grumet
Principal Animator: Serge Volsky
Animation Editor: Frank Rivera and Bruce Bertrand
Animated Inserts: Alison Crawford
Editor: Betsy Heistand
Titles: Vijay Ramachandran
Production Designer: Jim Squiciari
Set Dresser: Jim Squiciari
Set Builders: Johnathan Clarke, Chris de Spoelberch, Warren Gregory, Stewart Villilo
Composer: Mario Mazzoli
Lyrics: David Hein and Stephen Unger
Production Coordinator: Erin Donnelly
Script Supervisor: Maegan Ochoa
Wardrobe: Emily Kettler
Hair and Make-Up: Jeni Bartiromo
Prop Master: Regis Schuch
Junior Craft Services: Deborah Browne, Joe Dos Santos, Stuart G. Dearnley
Cook: Timothy Hawkins
Production Assistants: Johnathan Clarke, Chris de Spoelberch, Warren Gregory, Stewart Villilo, Karin Muscarella, Jeff Tart, Dan Harkins, Chris Schneider, Daniel Knight Powell, James B. Jones Jr, Christine Araman.

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