THE FILMMAKERS
ROY SZUPER
Writer / Director / Producer
A native New Yorker, Roy Szuper initially started working in live music production where he found the topic for his first documentary. “Concert Joe: A New York Story” (IMDB). A fusion of comedy and music inspired by “This is Spinal Tap,” the film follows one man’s ridiculous quest to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for seeing the most concerts. The film was featured on MTV and VH-1. Szuper’s next short film was a more personal story titled “Charcoal”(IMDB) that was based on an event that happened to his family in the days after 9/11. It screened in Cannes and Buenos Aires in 2007.
Szuper’s first feature, “Gonzo Music Diaries, NYC” (IMDB) was a documentary that featured Tom Morello, Michael Franti, Vernon Reid, and CGGB’s founder Hilly Kristal. Gonzo was screened at Anthology Film Archive’s New Filmmakers Series, CBGB’S, and Vision Du Reel DocFest in Switzerland. Szuper’s documentary short “Revolution in Motion,” about a car that runs on air, was profiled in the Daily News in 2009.
In addition to Can’t Let It Go, Szuper has recently finished his first novel titled “Rites of Passage: Evolution of A Rock n’ Roll Dad”, which is loosely based on his life as a single father in New York.
JAMES IVORY
Executive Producer
James Francis Ivory is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. For many years he worked extensively with Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, his domestic as well as professional partner, and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. All three were principals in Merchant Ivory Productions, whose films have won six Academy Awards; Ivory himself has been nominated for four Oscars, winning one. Ivory’s most notable directorial work includes A Room with a View (1986), Maurice (1987), Howards End (1992), and The Remains of the Day (1993).
For his work on Call Me by Your Name (2017), which he wrote and produced, Ivory won awards for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Writers Guild of America, the Critics’ Choice Awards, and the Scripter Awards, among others. Upon winning the Oscar and BAFTA at the age of 89, Ivory became the oldest-ever winner in any category for both awards.
MIGUEL AMORTEGUI
Co-Producer / Director of Photography
Miguel Amortegui is an award winning film-maker. Originally from Colombia, Miguel moved to London in 1998 where he studied film production and direction. He works as a DoP, producer and director.
He has worked on a number of featured films, shorts, educational films and documentaries.
In 2014, he spent time living with the indigenous San people in Botswana and was DoP on the award winning documentary: “Voices of the San” Often his projects are socially driven highlighting causes such as migration, refugees and gang violence.
Miguel is based in the UK but frequently travels for projects.
TONTXI VAZQUEZ
Executive Producer
London based and a UK Cannes Producers Network 2009/10 select, he specializes in getting the best production value from lower budget feature films and creative documentaries. Vazquez’s successful background in licensing film and photographic content culminated in partnering with top archives and libraries such asThe Image Bank, Third Millennium Films, and Nonstock, Currently, he is developing a slate of projects including current production collaborations with NY writer/director/producer Vagabond Beaumont’s (AVT) creative documentaries HARLEM’S LAST POET/Abiudon Oyewole and SIX SHOOTERS selected for the 2018 London Production Finance Market (PFM) New Talent strand.