BRYAN
MAZZARELLO
DIRECTOR | WRITER
Bryan Mazzarello is a Bay Area born, LA based SAG-AFTRA actor, award winning graphic designer and screenwriter. He has trained in improv comedy with Upright Citizen Brigade, in sitcom comedy with Actors Comedy Studio and in drama with Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood.
He is most known for being transformed into TV personality and artist, Bob Ross, for the award winning AdAge Content Campaign of the Year by an Emmy winning makeup team for a Mountain Dew national commercial. Bryan is also the host of the 23andMe 5-part Welcome Series campaign.
As a screenwriter Bryan and his team won Best Story at the Seattle 48 Film Project for the short film, The Call. Since then Bryan has garnered recognition with his pilot, Friends Like Family co-written with his neighbor Conrad Garcia and his wife Stephanie Mazzarello.
Bryan changed his last name back to Mazzarello from the Americanized name Marell in 2002 and he received his dual citizenship recognition from Italy in 2016.
STEPHANIE
MAZZARELLO
WRITER | PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Stephanie Mazzarello is a nerd and an artist. Growing up she thought you had to pick a side. Creative or logic. Words or numbers. Vivid colors or straight lines. Luckily in film she has found that having a strong left and right brain is pretty powerful. No dreams become a reality without problem solving and practical work.
Screenwriting is a new endeavor for her, but she has always been a lover of stories. Whether she was rereading books as a child or rewatching Gilmore Girls for a 5th, 6th or 7th time, she loves what a story can tell us about ourselves and our world.
Stephanie spent over a decade as a graphic designer working on screens. Her work would eventually be printed into something you can hold. Having the opportunity to make and design in a 3 dimensional world is both stimulating and rewarding. Now she has to imagine how the 3 dimensional spaces will look on a screen. Her work flow is now in reverse, which is pretty darn fun.
COURT
TAIT
PRODUCER
A Reno, NV native, Court grew up with a passion for the arts, and a hunger to get into showbusiness. She was involved with theater from a very young age, and began making her own short films in high school. She was certain by age 13 that all she wanted to do was make movies. (After a brief stint at 12 when she contemplated becoming a marine biologist)
Since she moved to LA in 2015, she’s worked in a wide variety of mediums including eSports, Reality, Documentary, and finally landed in Scripted content in 2019. She has since worked in Production for Film / Television for studios including A24, Warner Bros, Searchlight, Netflix, Apple, Hulu, and Showtime.
Court’s driving force in the industry is to make cool stuff with good people. (And to always follow the motto she picked up at her first full time job in LA: Work hard, and be nice.) She is incredibly excited to be producing such a fun project and helping to cultivate an unbelievably passionate and talented team to bring this story to life.
JUSTIN
KEMPER
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Justin Kemper is a spirited soul who feels most comfortable looking at life through a lens. He started in lighting just over 15 years ago on features and commercials right out of film school. With a background in lighting design, cinematography wasn’t just the next logical step for Justin, it was an invitation to further his knowledge of lighting to better enhance the emotions and arc of the story and its characters. He loves capturing what could be the simplest moment in a new light and creating imagery that moves audiences. Justin’s cinematography has always been a tool to portray stories through an empathetic eye.
One of his favorite parts of shooting is the collaboration process and connecting with new creators to find compelling ways to tell their story. He feels it is his responsibility to collaborate and guide the director’s vision from conception to actuality in a compassionate and organized environment.
JEFF
ASHER
EDITOR
Jeff Asher began his editing career with Nickelodeon game show, BrainSurge, and has since jumped to scripted shows such as ABC’s Forever and Fox’s Lethal Weapon & Prodigal Son; most recently he edited two seasons of ABC’s Big Sky and the indie feature For When You Get Lost.
Jeff studied film in New Orleans and was brought out to L.A. by Hurricane Katrina. He has since become a husband to Dawn Asher, a short-term rental experience designer, and father of two lively girls, 8 and 4. He keeps busy outside the office playing guitar and disappearing into nature. Repped by Innovative Artists for editing.
MATTEO
GUASTAMACCHIO
SOUND DESIGNER | COMPOSER
Matteo Guastamacchio is a music producer, film composer and sound designer from Connecticut living in Nashville TN. He works with many independent pop artists as well as composing scores for the royalty free music platform Artlist. Brands he has worked with include Nascar team 23vi, Patron, Jordan, Bare Minerals and others.
Two great aunts from either side of his family had accordions, one black and one white, that came from family in Italy. These were passed down to him which sparked a whole new love for Italian folk and Italian musical traditions - inspiring him to create his own.