OCTOPUS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Designer, Animator, Creative Director
Craig Donnelly is a talented and cutting edge Designer, Animator, Creative Director and Visual Effects Artist who has over 13 years professional experience. His career boasts a healthy mix of experience in the broadcast, advertising and corporate communities. Craig has had the opportunity to create work for major TV networks and shows including HBO, NBC, Viacom, SyFy, USA Networks, truTV, InDemand, ION TV, "The Today Show", and "Saturday Night Live" among others. At SNL, Craig delivered an exceptional level of work within an intense 1-2 day turnaround - a testament to his creativity, speed and work ethic. Craig's ability to consistently deliver entertaining content in an extremely fast turnaround environment impacted the show's overall look and helped SNL win multiple Emmy's.
Craig worked with the top executives at HBO in creating a show look and feel for their HBO Camera Assessment Series 2013 which premiered at NAB. Craig had the honor of creating a sizzle reel for a joint venture between Viacom and Monster DNA which opened for Alicia Keys in Las Vegas during CES 2013.
On the corporate side, his clients include Google, HP, Thomson Reuters, Bank of America, Viacom, Deloitte, Kimberly-Clark, Sara Lee, JP MorganChase, AXS, Samsung, Bloomberg to name a few. He created work for displays as large as 130 feet for live audiences of thousands worldwide.
In the field of advertising, Craig developed campaigns and pitches for major agencies and small boutique firms. Clients include Verizon Fios, American Express, Paper Denim & Cloth, Alka Seltzer, Optimum, BP, Nutrilite, MasterCard, McCormick, Dr. Scholls, Weight Watchers, General Mills, Staples, Verizon, Garnier, 92 St Y, Charles Schwab, HP, UPS and more. He's worked on projects for agencies including McCann Erickson, BBDO, Ogilvy, Havas Worldwide/Euro RSCG, MISSION, McMurry, McGarry Bowen, Silver & Partners, Barker DZP, DraftFCB, and Digitas.
Craig does not sit still, instead keeps on growing and growing, because he believes his best work always lies in the work ahead.
Emma Joan Morris is an Emmy Award winning Producer/Director/Editor whose work includes the feature documentary Something Within Me, winner of the Audience Award, Film Makers Trophy and a Special Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. She is a skilled collaborator with both directors and editors in the production of documentary films. In addition, she loves sharing her knowledge and experience with students. She has taught editing at: Columbia University, University of Iowa, Rochester Institute of Technology, Cornell University and The Film Center of the Philippines. She has also lectured on editing at New York University.
Emma is currently editing a documentary on William Faulkner. Her previous project, Denise Ho, Becoming the Song, a full length documentary on the Pop-Singer and Political Activist who stood up for democracy in Hong Kong as China threatened to ruin her career. It was honored in 2020 at the San Francisco Frameline Film Festival and Tokyo International Film Festival. The Condor and The Eagle, which she edited, won Best Feature Documentary at the 2019 Red Nation International Film Festival. Voices of Sarafina! which she co-directed with Nigel Noble and also edited, earned her an Emmy. In 2005 she co-edited Shut-Up and Sing, a feature documentary on the music and politics of the Dixie Chicks. Among her other editing credits are: the Academy Award winning documentary Close Harmony, and A Stitch for Time, which received an Academy Award nomination. She has edited films for all of the major networks including HBO, PBS, A&E, CBS, ABC, NBC and Discovery Channel.
Patty Sunshine has been editing in documentary film and television for the past 14 years in New York City. She specializes in verité documentaries and character driven docu-drama series. She is currently working on a special for the Emmy nominated series Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, airing on the Travel Channel. Other television shows over the years include Human Nature, a mini-series for PBS' NOVA, and History Detectives, The First 48 (A&E), Flip this House (A&E), Wife Swap (ABC) , Trauma: Life in the ER (TLC), and many others.
In 2008 she edited the feature length independent documentary The End of America, featuring New York Times best-selling author Naomi Wolf, directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern. This film had a small theatrical release and has shown in festivals across North America and Europe.
She grew up in Orange County, California, went to college at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before moving to NYC in 1996, she received her Masters in Fine Arts, from Massachusetts College of Art, where she studied experimental film, video and photography.
She now resides in New York City with her golden retriever, Ruby.
Shyam has worked as an Art Director at truTV for the 3 years, where he worked on the successful rebrand and relaunch of Court TV as truTV in 2008, and won 3 PROMAX/ BDA awards. He is efficient in developing and strategizing design projects while maintaining cohesiveness based on the brand. As an Art Director he initiated and managed, effective design brainstorming meetings and individual performance to build an excellent digital design team, ensuring creative concepts with consistent quality. He has experience in directing live shoot including green screen and talents.
To Shyam, location, language, and surroundings do not matter, but the process, the people and the result, do. He is always ready for an experience that would expose him to the whole gamut of frames, fields and sub-texts that define the entertainment industry. He inspires to innovate and execute at the highest quality level.