Glimpse
Portugal, 5m, Digital
Glimpse is really just a glimpse; or is it?
Director: Miguel Silveira
Writer(s): Miguel Silveira
Producer(s): Scott Riehs
Director of Photography: Miguel Silveira
Editor(s): Miguel Silveira
Composer(s): Claude Debussy
Cast: Random people on the beach
Contact: Miguel Silveira, migool16columbia@gmail.com
About the Writer/Director
MIGUEL SILVEIRA, originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, lives in NYC where he attends Columbia University as an M.F.A. candidate in film directing. After wrapping up his first feature-length documentary I Am a Visitor in Your World (Official Selection, Woodstock Film Festival and Thessaloniki Documentary Festival), Miguel completed his thesis film at Columbia University, which is a political thriller titled Devil’s Work. The short film, a follow up to his 2010 short, Rooftop Wars, is a study of war in the minds of children in America. A Jury Selects at the 2014 Columbia University Film Festival, Devil’s Work also received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production grant, the Caucus Foundation Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, as well as the DGA award for Best Short Film in its category. Miguel is currently developing and directing the Venezuelan chapter of MTV’s documentary series Rebel Music, executive produced by Shepard Fairey. He is also developing a narrative feature script titled Drophouse. This new thriller/family drama will take his interest in the political film genre to a different level. Miguel has taught in institutions such as Columbia College Chicago, EICTV in San Antonio de Los Banos, in Cuba, as well as in the non-fiction lab at Columbia University. He is also a proud sponsor of the Telluride Film Festival City Lights Program.
About the Producer
SCOTT RIEHS is an NYC-based producer and filmmaker with a background in both documentary and narrative filmmaking. His feature doc, Finding God in China, won 3rd place at the 2011 ReelHeART International Film Festival in Toronto. Scott spent four years working as a documentarian and video editor for the Ford Foundation in New York prior to becoming an M.F.A. Creative Producing candidate at Columbia University. Recently, Scott directed the short horror-comedy Demon Toast, which premiered at the 2014 Big Apple Film Festival. He just finished his thesis project in which he collaborated with a team of ambitious artists and animal puppeteers to produce the film adaptation of Terry Bisson’s Hugo-award winning sci-fi short, Bears Discover Fire.
