No Matter What

Crew

Cherie Saulter

Writer/Director/Producer

Cherie Saulter grew up in a small town in Northwest Florida and traveled not too far away to acquire her degree in Filmmaking from Florida State.  Award-winning Medicine for Melancholy marked her first feature credit as a producer and she has since Associate Produced The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell) which premiered at South by Southwest in 2010 and was one of the few American indies playing at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.  No Matter What is Cherie’s first feature as a writer/director and it is a story that is very close to her.

Cherie wants to make movies that ask audiences to care about flawed characters. And she wants to help other filmmakers do that too. Cherie believes in the power of hope, in the ability of people to change the world and, above everything, in unconditional love.

Justin Barber

Producer

Justin Barber is an independent producer/couch-surfer living off of left-over craft service snacks somewhere in California.  He financed Medicine for Melancholy, his first feature, through an impressively high tolerance for other people’s futons and the ever-appreciated help of his family and friends.  He is the director of two short films, The Heart of a Small Boy and Leaving Baghdad, which received poor screening slots at insignificant film festivals across the nation.

Brett Allen Smith

Producer

Jay Keitel

Cinematographer

Jay Keitel was born in Northern California, and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He attended the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon and holds a BFA in Film/Video from CalArts. He made his first super 8 movie in 1988, and since then has continued to explore the world with a camera in hand – following the good light. His western Black Dragon Canyon screened at the 2005 Viennale and his second feature Despedida is currently in post-production.

Some would call Jay an animal whisperer. He once shot an entire scene with a stray cat in his arms. Jay lives in Southern California with his cat Ozu.

Morgan Hall

Production Designer

Morgan Hall graduated from FSU’s Film School in December of 2009 and went straight to work on her first feature film under Strike Anywhere and was spoiled in the process.  She reveled in the opportunity to work professionally as a production designer on No Matter What.  Morgan recently moved out to Los Angeles, California and plans to pursue more chances to work creatively in the film and television industry.

Andrew Hevia

Editor

Andrew Hevia is an award-winning editor and segment producer for PBS. He has worked on reality TV shows and major Hollywood productions and is most proud of his time in San Francisco, where he interned at McSweeney’s Publishing, the company founded by the accomplished writer, publisher and TED award winner Dave Eggers. He works closely with the Borscht Film Festival in Miami doing all manner of ridiculous things.

If there were a list of things that Andrew likes most, number twenty-seven on that list would be writing biographies in third person. Also on that list would be vegetarian restaurants in San Francisco and stories about robots in love.

Keegan DeWitt

Composer

An accomplished and prolific singer/songwriter who began recording music as a teenager, Keegan is a native of Portland, Oregon. At 17, he left home to attend the SUNY Purchase Film conservatory in New York. His critically acclaimed work as a composer, heralded by publications like The New York Times, draws on this background as musician and a trained filmmaker to create a simple but effective accompaniment to films such as DANCE PARTY USA, QUIET CITY, LUKE AND BRIE ARE ON A FIRST DATE and COLD WEATHER. Now living in Nashville, Tennessee, he writes, produces and performs with his backing band The Sparrows.

Emily Colon

Production Sound Mixer


Emily Colon is an NYU Alum, who studied film and television at Tisch School of the Arts. She considers herself a Floridian native, transplanted from the Northeast when she was just a bean sprout, to the warm beaches of Tampa/St. Pete. She currently resides in New York City because it’s so much nicer than it smells. She primarily works in production sound or in video post. Her favorite part of being a “bixer” (that’s a fusion of the words “boom operater” and “sound mixer”) is going to remote locations, meeting new people and listening in on interesting conversations. “Rain, snow, cold or dead of night, no matter what, she makes it sound beautiful.” -Jay Kietel D.P. extraordinar.

Tyler Johnson-Williams

Gaffer/Key Grip/1st AC/2ndAC/Mustache

Tyler Johnson-Williams is keeping the handlebar mustache alive. He likes 80′s hair metal and working in the grip and electric departments. Working and going to school in San Francisco keeps him busy. No Matter What was an adventure he is glad he didn’t miss.