Elliott's To Do List - Creative Team

HELENA DRIZHAL - Writer/Director

Helena Drizhal has spent most of her life in the wondrous city of Los Angeles, California, with a three-year stint in "Keeping it Weird" Austin, Texas. She has written stories and poems since she was able to hold a pencil. Having been bullied in her elementary and middle school years, she found that for her creative writing was therapeutic, and a productive way to work through personal challenges. She has taken many creative writing classes, attended an intensive summer workshop on creative and screen writing with acclaimed poet Kelly Grace Thomas, and was a member of the Valley International Prep poetry slam team which won first place in the 2015 city-wide Get Lit Classic Slam competition under Thomas’ leadership. Helena has written numerous poems, short stories, and three screenplays. ELLIOTT’S TO DO LIST is Helen’s first produced short film, and she looks forward to many more to come!

BRAD SERRENO - Director of Photograpy

Brad Serrano's lighting and camera work has been seen on HBO, CBS, ABC, NBC, A&E, E!, Discovery, Style, Disney, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, TNT, Spike, CNN, the History Channel and others. Some of Brad's credits include the highly-acclaimed television docu-series "Years of Living Dangerously" (NatGeo), "After the First 48" (A&E), "Gangland" (The History Channel), ABC's "Good Morning America" and "20/20," "E! Investigates" and "True Hollywood Story" (E!), HBO's "Real Sports," CBS' "48 Hours" and "60 Minutes" and many others. He has also worked on HBO's Emmy-Award winning documentaries "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" and "Finding Fela." When he's not behind the camera, you can catch Brad spending quality time at home with his wife and daughter and their dogs, or at the beach surfing with friends.

LAUREN GOLD COULTER - Assistant Director

Lauren Gold Coulter has produced a wide variety of projects for the last several decades. She has travelled to five of the last Olympic games to produce promotional pieces for Nike, VISA, and General Motors among others. She has line produced numerous commercials and sales videos, and stage manages and coordinates international live broadcasts such as Live Earth and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum.

DAVE COULTER - Co-Producer/Sound Director/Editor

Dave Coulter is a production sound mixer and editor in Los Angeles with over twenty years mixing everything from episodes of 60 Minutes to commercials for Fruity Pebbles. His work has appeared on most national news programs, advertisements for Ford and State Farm Insurance, sports coverage at the Olympics, and can also be found on DVD bonus documentaries such as the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. He occasionally volunteers his time on compelling short film projects.

LUDEK DRIZHAL - Executive Producer/Music Supervisor/Sound Designer

L udek Drizhal has written and produced music, and created sound design for videogames, recording artists, and films such as Alabama Moon (starring John Goodman, Clint Howard), Badland (starring Joe Morton, Vinessa Shaw) and Simon Says (starring Crispin Glover and Blake Lively). He has worked with renowned directors from all over the world such as Tim McCanlies, William Dear, Jeffrey Travis and Jacek Bromski as well as performing artists Spencer Gibb (54 Seconds) and Olimpia Lucente. Ludek is thrilled to lend his talents to ELLIOTT'S TO DO LIST, and to collaborate with daughter Helen to bring her vision to the screen.

ASA LIVINGSTON - Script Supervisor

Asa Livingston is a script supervisor and production manager. She has worked on television shows, live events, commercials and now a short film with companies such as NBCUniversal, FOX, CBS, Univision, Nike, Golf Channel, Miss Universe Organization, Dell, Blizzard, E!, Syfy, ABC, Oxygen, The Oscars, The Emmy’s, G.L.A.A.D. and more. When she’s not working, she enjoys camping and going to the beach with her dog.

SPENCER GIBB - Producer/Graphic & Web/Photographer

Spencer Gibb is an award-winning musician, photographer and actor. Raised in London and New York City, he quickly fell into his father’s (Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees) footsteps and began performing at age 14. After fronting the critically acclaimed rock band 54 Seconds for many years, he has now become a solo artist, while also producing music for film. His love of movies, as well as having a background in theater, led Gibb to pursue acting and has appeared in numerous short and feature films. Also a prolific photographer, specializing in black and white portraiture and street photography, Gibb can almost always be seen with a Leica camera around his neck.

RACHEL POLLEN- Costume Designer

CHIQUITA BATTLE- Makeup Artist

MARCELLO FRISINA - Story Boards/Concept Artist

TIM JACKSON - Producer/Script Advisor

Tim Jackson is a working writer, producer and director who splits his time between his home in Little Rock, AR and an office in Studio City, CA. Jackson co-founded Category One Entertainment Group in 2004. The company quickly produced a couple of award-winning short films and began developing features. Through Category One Tim has produced such projects as THE LAST RIDE which was distributed by Fox, the art-house favorite, ETIENNE!, and the award-winning documentary, LOOKING FOR LURCH.

JOE MORTON - Associate Producer/Mentor to Director

Joe Morton is an American stage, television, and film actor, writer and director. He worked with film director John Sayles in The Brother from Another Planet (1984), City of Hope (1991) and Lone Star (1996). Other films he appeared in include Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Of Mice and Men (1992), Speed (1994), Apt Pupil (1998), What Lies Beneath (2000), Ali (2001), Paycheck (2003), Stealth (2005) and American Gangster (2007). In 2014, Morton won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Eli Pope, Olivia Pope's father, in Scandal, and is known for playing the role of Henry Deacon on the popular TV series Eureka.

AMY WILSON DRIZHAL - Executive Producer/Production Designer/Casting Director

Amy hails from Austin, Texas. She received her BS in Film and TV production, and her MFA in Theatre- both from The University of Texas at Austin (UT). She worked for several years in television at the Austin NBC affiliate, and taught theatre at UT Austin and at Zachary Scott Theatre before moving to Los Angeles. Amy has worked for the past 15 years as a fundraiser, mostly in higher education, and briefly for the Sundance Institute. Amy is excited to have the chance to bring her creative and fundraising experience together to support ELLIOTT'S TO DO LIST.