Keith Snyder

Writer/director/composer of Credo, Keith is known for his crime novels, most recently The Night Men, his fourth, which The Washington Post called "one of the best" of the year. His short crime story, Dead Gray, appeared in the March/April '07 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and another, Into Stone, is online at Demolition Magazine. His short films have won Best Writing, Best Musical, and Director's Choice awards at various international film festivals.

Larry and Keith worked together previously on The Ship That Lies at the Bottom, which integrated a 20-minute one-act opera with original short fiction by two dozen authors, both best-selling and previously unpublished. It was performed aboard the decommissioned lightship Frying Pan in New York City.

Keith's previous film, a short comedy with Blake Arnold about telemarketing demons, Sell in Hell, won the BEST WRITING award at Toronto's "Giggleshorts" International Comedy Film Festival, and now appears on Canada's Movieola Channel. 1 is for Gun, a short detective comedy by Keith and Blake, won the Silver Award at the Atlantic City Film Festival, and Session 52, a short film Keith co-produced and scored, was an official selection of the New Orleans and Bombay Film Festivals. His newest film, following Credo, is I Love You, I'm Sorry, And I'll Never Do It Again.

Formerly the keyboardist for The Cosmic Debris, the spoken word and electronic music group that debuted at #1 on the New Age Voice Airwaves Top-100 as Alias Zone, Keith also played keyboards with the Afropop and reggae band Kadara. He has worked extensively with opera singers, combining classical voice with electronic and world music influences.

Keith had no hobbies before moving from Los Angeles to New York; now he loves bicycling in blizzards. He is married to the dramatic soprano Kathleen Haaversen, and they have two baby boys.

  Larry Picard

The artistic path of Credo's star has taken several interesting turns. Shortly after moving to Brooklyn, he took over as conductor and music director of the neighborhood choral ensemble, The Park Slope Singers. One year later, Larry was touring with the movement theater multi-media extravaganza, Autobahn, created through the improvisation of the members of The Adaptors, led by directors Kari Margolis and Tony Brown. For five years, Larry helped create new evening-long movement theater productions with The Adaptors such as DecoDance and Bed Experiment I which won Off-Broadway's Tony, the Bessie, for Best Ensemble.

Larry then began using his voice again, singing in cabarets, then producing and performing song recitals. He combined the theatrical and physical techniques he learned in The Adaptors with the recital format, performing 20th century American art vocal literature on stilts, by candlelight, hanging from a rope or in any other way he believed might help illuminate the composer's and poet's intention—as well as entertain his audiences. He also performed with professional choral ensembles in New York City under Kurt Mazur, Sir Colin Davis, Zubin Metah and others. He helped form and performed with two chamber ensembles as well: Cygnus Vocal Ensemble, a Renaissance madrigal quintet; and Play It By Ear, an improvisational opera ensemble directed by Rhoda Levine.

After five years of early music and unwritten music, he began finally pursuing his original love, musical theater. Larry won roles in many regional productions, including Titanic, Ragtime and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He has appeared in many NY theatrical productions, both musical and "legit." He is featured in a new recording,  released in February 2005, of the music of composer Gershon Kingsley and recently completed a short film, Credo, with writer/director Keith Snyder. Larry is always looking for new projects, in all styles and venues, that will challenge and reward.

Mike Faircloth

Executive Producer of Credo, Mike's previous projects had even more moving parts than a movie: He project-managed the design, development, and production of F16 components and submarine intelligence gear. A Long Island, NY native who worked previously with Keith on the short film Sell in Hell, he's looking forward to his first film festivals.

 

Andamion Murataj

Credo's Director of Photography was born in Albania. From early childhood, he underwent extensive art education. For more than 15 years, he has produced work that deals with cultural roots and identity in the modern era.

In 1998, after an extensive period of artistic reflection in painting, theater, and television, he moved to Washington DC, where he pursued his MFA in Film and Electronic Media from American University.

Since than he has been shot features, shorts and documentaries in film, video and digital formats. A small sampling of his extensive body of work can be seen at LightMediaNY.com.

His work has received awards from American Vision Media Festival and the John Bodwen Award for Photo-essay. He is the national Finalist of Albania in the painting contest held by the Mid-America Art Alliance World Program.

One of his recent works, the short film Heroes, will premiere at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.