Game Narrative Studio

BIOS

Kevin McLeod has produced film, documentary, music videos, commercials, was a developer of the groundbreaking A.I. Webgame The Beast  (Warner Bros.),  coproducer of the documentary The Cruise  (Artisan) and is the founding director of mstrmnd.

Noah Sacco has worked in talent agencies and film studios in London and New York, with a focus on literary development. Noah began working with Mstrmnd after he attended one of Kevin's lecture series on Star Wars, War of the Worlds, The Dark Knight and The Shining.

Arkadiusz Banasik A pioneer in computational design, he co-founded-in 1994-a multi-disciplinary studio in New York called i/o360º. His work has been featured in ID Magazine (awards in Top 40 and Annual Design Review), Blueprint, Nikkei Design, Print Magazine, Forum, Axis, Aesthetics of Surveillance and Re:Buzz, with chapters in Designing Multimedia, Graphis New Media 1, Applied Typography 7, Cool Type, Designing Interactive Websites, Website Graphics and HotSites, and has won awards from Casie, Channel 7 Net Tech, Net Tech 21, Cooper Hewitt Triennial, Annual 100 Show American Center for Design. He is a graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences in New York.

Amedeo Turturro  is a human being. He enjoys eating food, drinking water and going to the bathroom on occasion. He knows that Odds Bodkins' performance of The Odyssey is the story's definitive version.

Elie Zananiri makes short films and interactive media. His films have been screened at various festivals such as Fantasia, Spasm, and Uppsala. His new media projects have been presented at SoukMachines and Medialab-Prado. Elie studied in traditional animation, computer science, mathematics, and interaction design. He was born in Cairo, lived most of his life in Montreal, and is currently stationed in Brooklyn.

Paul Barman is an artist and lyricist specializing in language innovation. Rolling Stone awarded **** to his debut album. First to rhyme in palindrome and Morse code, Paul invented puzzles for Games Magazine and Nick Jr. He has appeared as interviewee in Time Magazine, London Times and NYTimes, and as interviewer for Wired Magazine and Village Voice. Guest speaker at Brown and Columbia U.'s, CMJ Creative Genius Panel and London ICA. Recent projects include writing dialog and music with director Michel Gondry for 2008 film Be Kind Rewind,' and voicing a 'Pedestrian' for Grand Theft Auto IV.'

Wooden Mirror 3 is drawn by Simon Winheld The Returners is drawn by Jack Forbes

Founder/Emeritus: Phoebe Elefante

info@mstrmnd.com