Alex Mastoon // Director // writer
Award-winning Writer, Director, and Editor. From her childhood in South Florida creating worlds in spiral notebooks - inspired by the glow of early MTV - Alex Mastoon dropped out of high school and began shooting skate videos in Brooklyn, precariously wielding a clunky Dell laptop as her camera. Graduating to Set Decoration and Art Direction on indie features and shorts in Chicago, her talents got her hired in art departments for various commercials, and Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story; experimentations with live video art led to blockbuster and commercial Production Management for companies like Nike, and directors such as Zack Snyder & Michael Bay. Once in Los Angeles, she collaborated with burgeoning artists to produce live-streaming content for Red Bull Music Academy that broke the internet. And with downtime at a popular post house in Hollywood, she soon fused her unique inspirations to write and direct her debut short, Word Is Bond: a day in the life of a closeted rapper in 90s LA. Through close collaboration with LGBTQ rappers of color who lent the necessary authenticity to the struggle her film highlights, this sonic & visual poem about homophobia in Hip Hop debuted at Outfest Fusion at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. It has since received awards and nominations at screenings throughout Europe, North America, and Japan. Her newest project, the award-winning "Us In Octaves", is an official two-part narrative music video told through an all Womxn & Non - Binary cast - OUT NOW! She is currently in development for her first feature film as writer/director.
Zachary Mastoon // Producer // Sound Designer
ZACHARY MASTOON
Beginning and seemingly ending with a silent short edited with razorblades and tape in 1995, Zachary Mastoon still couldn’t stay away from the movies… Working on both sides of the camera in between touring the world as a musician - including voicing a recurring character on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - he returned to production for a major E-Commerce music retailer, where he created factory tours, artist interviews, and product videos for iconic brands such as Gibson, Fender, Taylor & Bose. Internet-breaking work for Red Bull Music Academy followed in Los Angeles, but his role producing, co-art directing and composing his wife Alex’s debut short, Word Is Bond, truly sealed the deal. Now spending his time throughout LA, New York, and Europe, Mastoon is producing, script writing, composing & mixing sound for films, shorts, music videos and commercials alongside the resurrection of his longtime electronic music alias, Caural.