Other Creatives
ALWYN KUMST, C.S.C., DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY (Pilot, Season One & Two)
Alwyn Kumst did not spend his summers in "cottage country" as a youth - he grew up in South Africa, famous for beaches of its own. "This story is about people having fun and enjoying the sun and the beach. I think it is pretty universal."
As a Cinematographer, he has worked in 38 different countries. Eleven years ago he visited Canada. Captured by the country, he decided to make Toronto his home and he has worked steadily ever since.
Alwyn's film credits include The Divine Ryans (Genie Nomination for Best Cinematography), Secret Santa (Lifetime) and Drive Time Murders (PAX). He has also been the Cinematographer on many hit series including Mutant X, Relic Hunter and The Queen of Swords.
CRAIG SANDELLS, PRODUCTION DESIGNER (Season One & Two)
Craig is an award-winning Production Designer, having won a 2004 Gemini Award for Best Production Design for the six-part anthology The Atwood Stories, and a 2005 nomination in the same category for the Shields Stories on W Network. Educated as an interior designer, Craig has also designed sets and costumes for theatre. His recent credits include working with Winnipeg's Original Pictures on A Bear Named Winnie and The Many Trials of One Jane Doe, both for CBC and The Murdoch Mysteries for Citytv.
SARAH WEBSTER, MUSIC SUPERVISOR (Season One & Two)
Sarah Webster is a music supervisor with S.L.Feldman & Associates. In addition to overseeing a wide range of projects from television documentaries to big budget feature films, Sarah also acts as an agent to over a dozen award-winning score composers. The Corporation, Going The Distance, The Delicate Art Of Parking, SliTHER and FIDO are some of the projects for which she has provided the music. Prior to beginning her career in music for film and television, Sarah ran business development for an independent record label group in New York City.
RON WISMAN, EDITOR (Season One & Two)
Ron Wisman has had a distinguished career in film, television and theatrical editing for over 20 years. He has worked on K-9: P.I., The Undertaker's Wedding with Adrian Brody, television special Amy Fisher: My Story, as well as The Terry Fox Story and television movie, An American Christmas Carol. Ron has worked with many major studios and networks in his career including Universal, 20th Century Fox, Columbia TriStar, MGM, NBC, ABC and HBO. He has also been awarded three Canadian Film Editors Guild awards, two Genie awards and a Gemini Award.
SHELLEY MANSELL, COSTUME DESIGNER (Season Two) Shelley has worked as a costume designer in the film and television industry for over 7 years. Her recent credits include the television series The Jane Show for Global, and two seasons of Darcy's Wild Life for NBC's Discovery Kids. Her feature credits include Public Domain starring Don McKellar and Nicole DeBoer, Cybermutt featuring Judd Nelson and Michelle Nolden and Nemesis Game with Ian McShane and Adrian Paul for which she was nominated for Best Costume Design at the New Zealand Film Awards. MOW credits include Stolen Miracle starring Leslie Hope and Gabriel Hogan for CTV and Wind At My Back Christmas for CBC.
COLIN HOULT, C.S.C., DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY (Season Two)
From the age of 12, Colin wanted to be a cameraman. After shooting many short films in elementary and high school, Colin got a summer job as a camera trainee and vowed after high school to continue in the film business. After working 8 years as a camera assistant he got his first break as camera operator on the feature film Rude. Working as a camera operator and Director of Photography on many television and feature projects, Colin became one of the youngest camerapersons ever to become a full member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC) at the age 29. After working as "A" camera operator and second unit Director of Photography on season one of Falcon Beach, Colin took over the reigns as main unit Director of Photography part way through season two. His recent credits include Mutant X, Relic Hunter, the upcoming Transit Lounge, and he won the CSC award for Best Short Film Cinematography in 2006 for My Uncle Navy and Other Inherited Disorders.
JAMES JANDRISCH, COMPOSER (Season Two)
James is one of Canada's hottest film composers. Since his arrival to the scene in 2001, he has scored 8 feature films, well over 100 hours of dramatic television, and dozens of commercials. He has earned 4 Gemini Award nominations and won 2 Gemini Awards.
As a result of his university studies in jazz and orchestral film composition, a love of world music and years of playing as a hired gun in several top touring pop bands, he brings a unique and often eclectic range to the scoring stage. James is also a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. He keeps current by serving as a music producer for indie solo artists and bands.
Sadly, although he's an avid snowboarder and trail bike rider, he still sucks at golf.
"I grew up in Winnipeg. Ironically I've spent many years partying and playing gigs on the very beach where Falcon Beach shoots. I'm scoring what at times seems like a little piece of my life. Freaky yes - but very cool. It's an absolute blast to be on this show," said James.
Some of his recent credits include feature films: On the Nose, The Delicate Art of Parking, American Venus, Punch, and Pink Ludoos. For television: Godiva's, Human Cargo, Cold Squad, Show Me Yours, Blood Ties and yes, Sesame Street.
GEORGE ROULSTON, EDITOR (Season Two)
George started at BBC-TV in London, and has subsequently worked in Amsterdam, Paris and Los Angeles as well as in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver - and now Winnipeg. He won a Gemini and Director's Guild awards for the CBC movie The Many Trials of One Jane Doe, produced by Kim Todd and Bernie Zukerman. He's been fortunate to work with some of Canada's finest movie directors including Jerry Ciccoritti, Kari Skogland and Eleanore Lindo.
LISA MARTIN, COSTUME DESIGNER (Season One)
Lisa designs the look of the stars of Falcon Beach from the inside out: "There isn't one design approach," she says, "It's discovering the inside of the character to determine how he or she should look on the outside." She looks for diversity in dress to match the diversity of the characters. Lisa is an expert buyer. She buys carefully and orders alterations so the character can look the very best possible. Costume design and key buying has been Lisa's life for 17 years.
Her credits include: costume designer and assistant costume designer for the feature film Fever Pitch, assistant costumer designer for Welcome to Moosepor and key buyer for the feature films The Perfect Man, Assault on Precinct 14, Dark Water and Resident Evil:Apocalypse, and costume designer on numerous television series and movies. Lisa's also a professor at Toronto's Seneca College where she teaches Costume Studies for Film and TV.
ARI WISE, COMPOSER (Season One)
Ari has been writing music for film and television for over 14 years. He studied in Los Angeles with Jerry Goldsmith, Bruce Broughton, Bill Conti and Buddy Baker while attending the University of Southern California's Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Advanced Studies Program, where he won awards for his film scoring.
He returned to his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia where he has scored over 150 film, television and special event projects. Some of his television credits include the movie School of Life (ABC Family), the series Silverwing (Teletoon), The Sausage Factory (MTV/Comedy Network) and the animated movies, Dragons: Fire & Ice, and Dragons II: The Metal Ages. In the past four years alone, Ari has received two Gemini nominations, four Leo nominations and a Leo award.
ROBERT LOWER, EDITOR (Season One)
Born and raised in Manitoba, Bob has been cutting film for over 35 years, returning to his native Winnipeg in 1971 after training as an editor in Toronto. He has extensive experience directing, editing and writing documentaries as well as editing and writing drama. His recent drama credits include three seasons of The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (YTV) and numerous MOWs and features, including the Toronto and Sundance hit Seven Times Lucky. He edited the original Falcon Beach made-for-TV movie which inspired the current series.
