Alex wrote and produced the theatrical documentary
Bigger Stronger Faster*, which he developed and guided through every
stage from financing and production to final delivery and
distribution. The film premiered in competition at the 2008 Sundance
Film Festival and was distributed by Magnolia Pictures. Alex was the
co-producer and director of photography of Green Street Hooligans,
about London’s football subculture starring Elijah Wood, which won both
the Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival. In
2003, Alex received an Oscar nomination for the short film Johnny
Flynton, which he produced and photographed. He recently completed
the Chinese co-production Shanghai Kiss, starring Hayden Panettiere,
and has been the director of photography for the Saturday Night Live
Film Unit for the past 9 seasons. Other credits include the
Emmy-nominated ESPN series Mayne Street. Alex is a graduate of the USC
School of Cinema Arts and spent his early post-collegiate years on the
camera crews of studio films including Twister, Conspiracy Theory and
Armageddon.
Buono is a member of the Writer’s Guild of
America, the International Cinematographer’s Guild and International
Documentary Association.
Tamsin Rawady was born into a family of filmmakers in
Melbourne, Australia. She earned her degree from Melbourne University,
double-majoring in Cinema and History while working on various film and
television productions including the long running network drama series
Neighbors and the 26 episode comedy show, Get A Life. In 1998, Tamsin
moved to Los Angeles to attend the UCLA Film and TV program, and worked
for the international commercial production companies Foreign Affaires
and Crossroads Films, which produced commercials with directors Dean
Semler, Ian Macdonald and Mark Pellington. Rawady also produced the
motocross sports-documentary film Wrathchild. Back in Australia, she
produced the feature Fishnet for cult-film director Mark Savage, was
the script doctor for the theatrical narrative feature Dalkeith. In
2003 she produced, wrote and directed the documentary Prep For Life for
Australia’s SBS network. Following, she was awarded a development
grant from Film Victoria and UN-AIDS for The Sixth Wave, a feature
documentary about the AIDS crisis in Southeast Asia. With partner Alex
Buono, Rawady developed, wrote and produced the award-winning
theatrical documentary Bigger Stronger Faster* which premiered at the
2008 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by Magnolia Pictures.
Rawady is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America and International Documentary Association.