The Team
Main Team
Jamie Catto (Executive Producer): Jamie Catto is an activist, singer, art director, and co-founder of both the music group Faithless and the award winning One Giant Leap, a project to explore human nature through musical expression. — www.jamiecatto.com
Başak Sirena Ç. (Producer): Başak has worked in all areas of filmmaking in the last 10 years. Nowadays, she is focused on producing social issue films, working in distribution to help independent filmmakers get their films out there.
Nick Broad (Director): in 2007, Nick founded Undercover New York, a website promoting buskers in New York City. After curating of a six-week street performing program in central Manhattan in 2010, he decided to take his interests worldwide with The Busking Project.
Chris Smith (Project Manager): Chris Smith’s non-fiction, based on his time living and working in Nepal, Portugal, and Madagascar has appeared in a range of publications throughout Europe. His fiction has appeared in anthologies and literary journals internationally and online. www.chrismithonline.com
Belle Crawford (Artistic Director): Belle Crawford has degrees in Studio Art and Creative Writing. She’s worked as an editor, an educator, and a visual artist. A collection of her work was included in “Return to Sender”, a collaborative art project for artists living in South Carolina. www.bellecrawford.com
Terran Olson (web developer): Working on intranets and automated test systems in Silicon Valley taught Terran the importance of well-structured code and the benefits of open-source frameworks. When not writing code he can be found in recording studios or touring with Kayo Dot. webtech.halfcadence.net
All-Purpose Volunteers
Mardy Malika: Mardy is an aspiring activist and a documentary film maker with a 6 years experience in TV production with the local television station in Singapore. She day dreams of being that electrifying dancer on the corner of your street but The Busking Project has saved the world from that misadventure.
Giles (Gino) Roberts: Gino is a journalist and documentary filmmaker who stumbled across The Busking Project via ‘Tito’ a street performer, clown and the subject of his filming in 2009. Aiding as the ‘Latin American fixer’, interviewer and all round film crew, Gino aims to help TBP support Street Art in any way, shape or form.
Dawn Dreams: Dawn is our resident street performer and youtube film star. She has been contact juggling on the world’s streets for 6 years. Since joining TBP, she has been whipping our social network into shape. And when she isn’t with us, she’s volunteering her time with Spark Circus, entertaining underprivileged youth. — www.dawndreams.ca
Volunteers
Catarina Oliveira (editor): Catarina is a Bristol based freelancer. She has worked as a filmmaker and video editor in several projects in the UK, Portugal, and Palestine. Her involvement with the Busking Project derives from her interest in street performance, a practice that is strongly present in her hometown, Lisbon. www.catarinaoliveira.co.uk
Axie Blundon (editor): Axie is The Big Apple’s Busking Bagpiper. He has busked across the US, UK and Europe and so is right at home with TBP. He has temporarily satiated his wanderlust by returning to NYC to pursue his music and work as a freelance writer/designer to fuel his dream to travel the world and spread the word through music.
Craig Coole (editor). Craig has made several videos for The Busking Project in 2012, and we hope many more in the future. See his album here: vimeo.com/album/1881788.
Stephen King (editor)
Drea Davilla (editor)
