The Crew
Micaela Saxer
Director-Producer and Writer
Micaela Saxer (Writer, Director, Producer) was born in Iquitos, Peru on the legendary film set of Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo".
She is the daughter of Walter Saxer (producer and production manager of Herzog’s most notable films and early documentaries) and a peruvian chef, Gloria Gonzalez.
Growing up in film sets around the world, mostly Herzog's ones, she has experienced an extreme and passionate way of making films.
Her studies took place in Italy which has been a neutral zone between the Peruvian and Swiss roots.
She has pursued theater acting for several years in her teens until the need to move to independent movie making had become clearer.
In her 20's, she worked as casting director Shaila Rubin's assistant in Rome, on such films as "Talented Mr. Ripley", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "When in Rome", "Titus", "Hannibal", "The passion of the Christ", until Rubin's death in 2006.
She moved to the United States in 2010 to work in production for independent films in LA and recently in NYC collaborating with production company Cinema Imperfecta as an associate producer for Nadia Zold's first feature film "Joy de V."
"Path of the Dwarfs" is her first experience as a director.
Quentin Andre
Composer, Producer and Writer
Quentin Andre, a New Yorker with French roots, is a young artist.
He works primarily as a musician, being a composer and percussionist who is producing songs and mix tapes for the record label Clown and Sunset.
Within the same label he has also produced and directed music videos for the artist Nicolas Jaar, with whom has also performed live in NYC.
His talents are numerous and range from writing to editing.
This is his first feature length experience and is a result of the encounter in 2009 with Micaela Saxer in the Peruvian Amazon, he was doing a study on jungle sounds and she was deepening her experiences with its shamans.
Trevor Tweeten
Director of Photography
Trevor Tweeten originally from Minnesota has traveled a lot for his work as a cinematographer, often working for renown artist photographer Richard Mosse, under the wing of the "Anneberg Fellowship" creating artistic videos in war zones such as east Congo, Iraq, Gaza, Pakistan, eastern Asia and western Africa.
Trevor has filmed and produced with his production company OmniKino, several films, amongst which there are also some feature length ones like "BITS" in 2008 and "O of the Ocean" in 2011. His preference goes to non fiction creative projects instead of the classical documentary format.
Trevor experiments constantly with the poetry and form of the image within the limits of real situations, that so often are too crude and real to be portrayed in a linear and flat way.
Jose Carlos Lao
Production Manager
Jose Carlos Lao is a young Peruvian producer who has worked for many years for one of the most important TV channel in Peru, Canal 7.
Originally from Iquitos, he has studied and worked mostly in Lima yet for his work he has traveled a lot in Peru', experiencing it's diversity. Now back in Iquitos has line produced in the first feature film that has been shot lately in that city, "Cementerio General" who will come out in Peru next spring.
His skills range from production, sound and editing, given the fact that the film industry in Peru is still young and scattered.
Sebastian Legaspi
Sound Mixer
Sebastian Legaspi was born in Lima Peru in 1986.
He completed his education in Audiovisual communication at the Universidad Pontificia Catolica del Peru. In 2007 Sebastian began his career in film and television as assistant director in the documentary "Sueños lejanos" directed by Alejandro Legaspi which was selected for the IDFA Festival in the same year.
He worked also as assistant to the Peruvian photographer Piero Pereiraand to Santiago Roose with whom he collaborated in a music video for the peruvian rock band "La Mente".
He currently works for the Sound studio Perfo Studio in Lima, he was boom operator in the feature film "El extirpador de idolatrias" directed by Manuel Siles and has had his first experience as Sound mixer in the documentary "Path of Dwarfs" directed by Micaela Saxer, moving then to commercials for AFP "Profuturo" and "Citybank".
Juan Diego Mau Melendez
1st AC
Juan Diego Mau Melendez was born in Lima Peru in 1991.
He currently is a student at the Universidad Cientifica del Peru, in Iquitos, of Communication Sciences.
For the university he has done several shorts, music video and short documentaries as director of Photography.
In 2011, he was hired as 1st AC for the feature film "Cementerio General" directed by Dorian Hernandez and because of his experience in this film he was chosen to be assisting a DP from New York for the documentary "Path of the Dwarfs" directed by Micaela Saxer.
Juan Diego is one year away from graduation and continues shooting shorts in that environment.