Crew

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Patrick Algermissen Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Animator (Wendell), Digital Effects Artist, Compositor     Patrick Algermissen is the writer and director of the internationally-acclaimed short film Dudley and the Toy Keeper’s Chest. He has been writing screenplays since he was 6 years old. When he was 17, Algermissen won the Grand Prize in Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair Challenge, a directing contest hosted by Spielberg in which Algermissen beat out 30,000 other entrants nationwide. Since that time, Algermissen has helmed over two dozen short films, including Pupsock & Wendell in The Gallery of Doom.

Thomas Mumme Producer     Over the years, Thomas Mumme has been determined to learn all aspects of the Motion Picture and Television field and has worked professionally as a Producer, DP, Camera Op, First AD, Camera Assistant/Utility, Grip, Gaffer, Audio Tech, Editor and a whole lot more. He has strived to become as well-rounded in Film & Video Production as he possibly can be.     He has been a freelancer in the industry for the past 16 years and has racked up credits on major feature films, including Race to Space and Men in Black; television shows and companies including MTV, VH-1, ESPN, “Entertainment Tonight,” Oprah Winfrey, Emeril, “Woodstock ‘99,” Court TV, “Real TV” and “M. Night Shyamalan's Signs of Fear” for ABC. In 1999, Mumme won an Emmy for his work on “The John Glenn Launch.” Most recently, he has been working on reality TV shows such as “Survivor,” “Celebrity Apprentice,” “This American Life,” “Trading Spaces: Home Free,” “NASCAR Drivers: 360,” “America’s Got Talent,” “Dinner: Impossible,” and SPIKE's “Carpocalypse” and “Pros vs. Joes,” just to name a few.

Jeremy Schneider
Director of Photography
    As a skilled Director of Photography, Jeremy Schneider has been capturing images on film and videotape for more than a decade. He has shot on six continents, using just about every format available, from DV to HD to 35mm film. His diverse credits include corporate infomercials, music videos and high-profile network hits like “Survivor: China,” “The Apprentice,” “Project Runway” and an Emmy-nominated stint shooting NBC’s “The Contender.” In addition to being a partner in Blue Juice Films, he has also directed and DP’d on a number of High-Definition music videos for the company, and served as Camera Operator on Dudley and the Toy Keeper’s Chest.


Ryan C. Wolfgang
Production Designer, Art Director
    Ryan C. Wolfgang has been involved in the film and video industry for several years in both Prop and Set Decorating departments, and served as Production Designer on several short films, feature films and music videos. He loves developing the ideas formed by the Writers and Directors of the productions he is a part of, and helping bring the story alive on the screen.
    Working on larger productions has given Wolfgang the ability to design for smaller scale projects with the same results. These large scale projects include feature films, such as Universal Studios’ Ace Ventura 3, Bring It On: In It to Win It, New Line Cinema’s Hoot, and Haxan’s Altered; commercials for clients such as Nike, Hasbro, Sears, Elmer’s Glue, Friendly’s Restaurant, Briggs and Stratton, Wilson, and Verizon (in conjunction with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest); music videos from artists Aaron Carter and Rascal Flatts; and TV shows for networks UPN, A&E, and Spike TV. !


Christopher J. Santora
Practical Effects Lead, Associate Director
    Christopher studied computer science at the University of Central Florida while working as an intern at Northrop Grumman. He graduated in 2004 and continued full-time at Northrop. His experience in writing computer code, running debuggers, analyzing test results, and other engineering-type things uniquely qualified him for a career in the field of motion picture production. Well, maybe not, but it did lead to the great opportunity to work with friend and co-worker, Patrick Algermissen, on PaW in various capacities including designing the rigs for the flying carpet sequence and some special walking rigs for Pupsock, as well as serving as the Associate Director for the film.


Philip Yon
Composer, 3d Modeler
    Philip Yon has grown in a remarkably short time from a jazz pianist in various bands to a well-rounded composer of multiple genres. His ability to convey a story through music stems from his exceptional imagination and natural talent to communicate emotion by sound. He possesses a unique talent for writing memorable themes that appeal to the listener and has been involved in musical story-telling since he got his first piano at the age of fourteen.


Adam Miller
Editor
    Adam Miller has worked in Post-Production for more than nine years. He started making independent short films in college at the University of Florida. After graduating, he went on to learn feature filmmaking at Valencia’s Film Program. He later worked at Adrenaline Films in Orlando for over three years as its Chief Editor.
    Adam has worked on feature films including Florida City and Virgins, television programming such as HBO's “The Making of Band of Brothers,” short films, documentaries, national commercials, music videos, and corporate and industrial videos.
    He first started working with Thomas Mumme and Blue Juice Films on the short film Execution of a Man. Since joining the Blue Juice team, Adam has edited all of Blue Juice's projects, including a series of music videos. Adam also worked on Dudley and the Toy Keeper’s Chest as the On-Line Editor and did the short’s color correction.


David Wallace
Sound Designer
    David Wallace has been involved with the manipulation and creation of audio since he was tall enough to play with his dad’s reel-to-reel tape deck. Years later he would find himself working as an audio engineer for Cirque du Soleil in Orlando, after designing and mixing sound for many theatre companies and artists in his native Canada. Career highlights include the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Sound Design for his work on the Canadian premiere of the play Death and The Maiden, as well as his design and music composition for the TEA Award winning exhibit: “Action: An Adventure in Moviemaking” for Bob Weis Design Island, and recently the sound design and composition for Rockefeller Center in New York City, NY when it reopened the observation deck with a themed elevator ride and High Definition films to welcome the guests. David also mixed “Lewis and Clark: In their Footsteps” for Fertile Films, which aired on PBS in the summer of 2006. Finally, he served as Sound Designer on several award-winning short films, such as Dudley and the Toy Keeper’s Chest, and BLiNK.