Directors LAB is international platform for filmmakers.
Directors LAB is international platform for filmmakers.
Directors LAB is international platform for sharing ideas and experience among directors to improve our skills and gain new perspectives.
Barry Primus started his career with acclaimed directors such as Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman. Through a long film career consisting of more than 50 movies, Barry has worked with Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell, James Toback and Roger Vadim. Barry also co-wrote and directed Mistress starring Robert De Niro. He teaches using Lee Strasbourg, Sandy Maisner and Stella Adler techniques.
Steven is an Actor, Director and Acting Teacher who studied with Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen and Zoe Caldwell. He is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City where he later was invited to train as a teacher of the Meisner technique.
As an actor, Steven worked with many great artists such as Al Pacino, Arthur Miller, Tony Randall, Ron Rifkin, Sam Waterston, Diane Wiest, Blythe Danner and more.
Kim Swanson – Casting Director, CSA, is an American born Casting Director who has worked internationally, as well. She maintains offices in Los Angeles, and a Midwest office in St. Louis, Missouri. The first three commercial projects she cast all won Emmy Awards. The first feature film she cast The Treatment (a/k/a "Gua Sha") for the Beijing Television Arts Center (BTAC) was awarded Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress in Beijing. Past film credits also include Showdown at Area 51 for Sci-Fi Channel (top 5 grossing films that year). She recently concluded casting for A&E on Emmy nominated Intervention and Intervention Epidemic, as well as the scripted series Declassified (CNN). Kim also enjoys guiding talent in a positive format through her Facebook Page "The Casting Factor". When not working in production, she enjoys being a mom and grandmother, and recently becoming a part of the Lithuanian American Business Association in Los Angeles.
Over the past twenty years, she has worked with screenwriter/directors, Martin McDonagh, Sam Shepherd, Paolo Sorrentino, Jim Sheridan and John Carney. Recent films include BARBER with Aidan Gillen, THE WINTER LAKE, directed by Phillip Sheerin and IT IS IN US ALL directed by Antonia Campbell Hughes
and starring Cosmo Jarvis.