CAST & CREW
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| LUCIANO STORTI - COMPOSER |
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Italian-born, Award-Winning Composer Luciano Storti was awarded a Swiss state scholarship, obtained Diplomas in Pianoforte Performance from the Konstanz Music Conservatory, Germany and went on to graduate Magna Cum Laude in Filmscoring & Songwriting at the Berklee College of Music, Boston.
Relocating to Los Angeles, Luciano studied contemporary composition under Daniel Kessner and Liviu Marinescu at the California State University Northridge, obtaining a Master of Music in Modern Classical Composition. He has since scored numerous Award-Winning films including “Il Purgatorio” (dir. Leonardo Corbucci), “Kali Ma” (dir. Soman Chainani/No Pressure Productions), TV shows and features such as “Not in Gods Name” (Oscar-Winning Producer Maria Florio, Director Paula Fauce).
A classical background and passion for new musical landscapes enables him to perfectly orchestrate marine animals’ enigmatic characters in their vibrant, mystical world of colour, and he has created a tailor-made, emotive score for WATER COLOURS.
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PROFESSOR JUSTIN MARSHALL - RESEARCH SCIENTIST, SENSORY NEUROBIOLOGY GROUP; MARINE SCIENCE ADVISOR & PRESENTER
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ARC Professorial Research Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute Professor
School of Biomedical Sciences Professor
Vice President - Australian Coral Reef Society
Visual Ecology Lab/
Vision Touch and Hearing Research Centre
Sensory Neurobiology Group
School of Biomedical Sciences
University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA |
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Doctor of Philosophy, with a background in Neurobiology, Zoology, Marine Biology and Art, Prof. Justin Marshall is the worlds leading Marine Research Scientist in Visual Ecology; a wide-spanning area covering colour vision, visual behaviour, colour change, colour signals and much, much more. With Research Grants, Professorial Fellowships and Awards from ARC, L’Oreal, NOAA and The ROYAL SOCIETY, Professor Marshall has written numerous Scientific publications, Articles for SCIENCE, NATURE, features for National Geographic, Co-Authored the revolutionary book ‘Sensory Processing in the Aquatic Environment’, been Advisor to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC and advisory Scientist for the BBCs DEEP Expedition in the BLUE PLANET Series.
Honouring us with his presence in WATER COLOURS, he shares his expertise, humour, infinite knowledge and ceaseless ability to express profound scientific phenomena in ‘human terms’.
http://www.uq.edu.au/ecovis |
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PROFESSOR SHAUN P. COLLIN - RESEARCH SCIENTIST, SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES; MARINE SCIENCE ADVISOR & PRESENTER
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Professor of Sensory Neurobiology
Deputy Head of School of Biomedical Sciences
The University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Collin is one of the world’s foremost authorities in comparative neurobiology and has published over 120 publications including 2 co-authored books (‘Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments’ and ‘Communication in Fishes’).
He has received many of the most prestigious Research Fellowships offered in Australia, the United States and Germany and has collaborated with researchers at Scripps Oceanography Institution in San Diego, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory and Friday Harbor.
Prof. Collin discovered the incomparable visual system of the Sandlance during his extensive studies on the visual systems of reef fishes of the Great Barrier Reef. He currently heads a large research Group at The University of Queensland, where he is investigating the evolution of the vertebrate eye and colour vision in ancient fishes.
http://www.cms.uq.edu.au/
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DR CHARLES H. MAZEL Ph.D - RESEARCH SCIENTIST, PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.; FLUORESCENCE EXPERT
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Author of several publications analyzing the use of, reasons for and anything at all surrounding marine animals’ extraordinary use of fluorescence. Dr. Mazel is the man behind fluorescence - and the designer of our prototype lights. His research focuses on the optical properties - fluorescence and reflectance - of marine organisms. He develops equipment and instruments for observing and measuring these properties, and then applies the new tools in field research. He discovered, published and gave us exclusive use of his fotage of the first ever, proven use of fluorescence by a marine creature for behaviour. Never before has this been seen or experienced – never again will it be, without his help.
http://nightsea.com |
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DR. ULI SIEBECK - NEUROSCIENCE; ULTRA VIOLET COMMUNICATION EXPERT
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Projects and publications include:
‘Decoding the complex facial patterns of reef fish’,
‘The role of ultraviolet colour patterns in fishes’,
‘UV communication in fish’
‘Can coral reef fish see ultraviolet light’?
Using Microspectrophotometry in combination with retinal anatomy, Dr. Siebeck investigates the use of the ultraviolet waveband as a secret signaling channel for marine animals. Fascinating… |
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MIKHAIL V. MATZ PH.D - Research Scientist, the deep, fluorescence and finder of the worlds first ever fluorescent shark
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MS (1991), PhD (1999) in biochemistry from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, for the past 2.5 years Mikhail 'Misha' Matz has been Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research lab currently studies biofluorescence, evolution of diversity and complexity in GFP-like fluorescent proteins, and adaptation or reef corals to climate change.
During a recent NOAA Deep Scope Expedition, at around 1820' deep in a submersible, for the first time ever, Misha not only came across, but managed to film a fluorescent shark! Never seen before, this is a world first...
http://www.bio.utexas.edu/research/matz_lab
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PROF ROY L. CALDWELL PhD. - PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY & DIRECTOR, UC Museum of Paleontology, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
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Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chancellor’s Professor, U.C. Berkeley, 1998-2001
Research interests lie in invertebrate behavior and ecology, centering on the behavioral ecology of stomatopod crustaceans, focusing on how the evolution of potentially lethal weapons influenced stomatopod biology and expanding to include the evolution of mating systems, interspecific communication, sensory ecology, prey selection, the biomechanics of the strike and larval biology. Students in his laboratory are currently studying octopus behavior, monogamy in stomatopods, remipede biology, and the function of inking in mid-water squid.
Roy has written numerous papers, publications and press articles and has advised on several films for the BBC, National Geographic & Discovery.
http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/caldwell/
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