#streetpunxofyangon
TFI Suppport
TFI Network 2018
Logline
An aspiring filmmaker in New Orleans quits her high school teaching job to make a film about punk rockers in Yangon, Myanmar, overlooking one detail: she has no story.
Maja Holzinger
Director, Screenwriter
Filmmaker Maja Holzinger grew up in the coastal city of Sopot, Poland. Maja has directed several short films including Call Me Cappy, 2B or not 2B, short documentaries (FANTASTIC UVI, shot in Myanmar) and theater plays. She studied cinema and literature at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan. Driven by the love of American Road Cinema, she moved to the United States where she joined the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon to make short films on Super 8. In 2011, she moved to New Orleans to pursue an MFA in Film Production at the University of New Orleans where she later also taught. She is currently co-writing and co-editing a feature length documentary about a musician Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) and developing her first narrative feature #STREETPUNXOFANGON.
Yamil Rodriguez
Producer, Screenwriter
Yamil Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican born, Miami raised artist based in New Orleans presented his performance art on screen, stage and in galleries. He is currently producing and editing a documentary about musician Alex Ebert as well as co-writing and producing a narrative feature #STREETPUNXOFYANGON.
Matt Clegg
Cinematographer
Matt Clegg is a cinematographer born by the river and raised in Richmond, Virginia. His first feature film as cinematographer, ARE WE NOT CATS, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and he has had other narrative and documentary projects screen around the world as well.