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Edmund Messina: Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
Edmund Messina MD, a native of New York City, is a
practicing neurologist and filmmaker in East Lansing, Michigan.
In his early 20's, he moved to France where he was a free-lance writer/translator who began to study film at the University of Lyon and later to study screen writing at Columbia College in Chicago. His experience with actors began when he directed actors from the National Academy in St. Etienne, France, for his many16mm shorts. He has written, produced and directed many educational films, videos and experimental pieces in France and the United States, and has produced multimedia educational projects in Chicago prior to attending medical school at the University of Illinois and a Neurology Residency at Washington University in St. Louis. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, which he considers a very useful preparation for directing characters with complex psychological issues in his films. He has a very strong interest in visual and narrative experimentation and holds a patent for an artificial intelligence engine which can construct narrative video streams customized to personality of the individual viewer. He and his son Dan Messina, a television editor in New York, jointly produced and directed "Life and Migraine", a 2005 documentary for PBS, which won the Media Excellence award from the National Headache Foundation. Now that Lily's Mom is completed, he is working on several ideas for additional films which deal with the emotional aspects of illnesses and personality disorders. His experience with dramatization and his medical background make him uniquely suited to produce "believable" medical dramas.
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Kimberly Harsch: Lead Actor: "Mary"
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Connie Cowper: "Therapist"
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Don Cochran : "Mike"
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Chris Goeckel : "Dr Caldwell" Chris Goeckel was born in Buffalo, New York and
calls Cleveland home but has lived in East Lansing, Michigan for 27 years.
With a career in the trucking industry now spanning 30 years, Chris took
up the hobby of acting in community theatre in 2003. |