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Sweet Victory Group
From left: Randy Green, Tim Mattson, Cesar Gracia, Dan Wiener
Tim Mattson
President, Director, Cinematographer, Editor, and Animator
Favorite Quote:
“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play” – Warren Beatty
Likes:
Challenges, Technology and Movies
Dislikes:
Laziness, Excuses and Bad Acting
Top 3 Movies:
Delicatessen, The Big Lebowski, 12 Monkeys
Top 3 TV Shows:
Party Down, Fringe, Flight of the Conchords
Education:
The Evergreen State College ’02, B.A. in Film, Video and Animation
Bio:
Tim’s first video production experience was in the 8th grade. His Health class project was to make a short video about the dangers of drug abuse. Using a Fisher-Price PXL 2000 camera he shot a minute and a half anti-cocaine ad in his parent’s military-issued basement. After seeing his classmates’ reactions and hearing their laughter he was soon bit by the performing arts bug.
He has worked on a variety of film and video productions ranging from short films to documentaries and puppetry & stop-motion animation.
As a producer of ZooToo.com’s “Pet News”, Tim has helped these segments routinely top the Google rankings. His short documentary “The Tutu Fairy” was shown at the Hot Springs Film Festival ’07, where it got overwhelmingly positive reactions from audiences. He has won Best Director two years in a row in the New York City Film Race, where his films have routinely been recognized among the best. Tim feels fortunate to have worked alongside so many talented artists.
Dan Wiener
Vice President, Actor, Writer, Devil’s Advocate
Favorite Quote:
“It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.” – from A Clockwork Orange
Likes:
Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream, vodka tonic, temperate seasons
Dislikes:
Hypocrisy, Closed-mindedness, Jimmy Fallon
Top 3 Films:
A Clockwork Orange, The Big Lebowski, Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Top 3 TV Shows:
Arrested Development, Spaced, The A-Team
Education:
Rutgers University, B.A. – Theater Arts
Bio:
Dan is a Jersey boy, having grown up just outside the reach of the shadow of Manhattan. Proving to be inept at most athletics (though a competent bowler and ping pong player), Dan turned to performing in order to build up some sort of self esteem. Throughout high school and college, he played lots and lots of great roles in a bunch of plays and musicals. After college, Dan continued acting, sometimes even getting people to pay him for it. He balanced this with such jobs as a teacher, a director, a server at Chili’s, a clown, and an Elvis impersonator. Still yearning for satisfaction, Dan auditioned for and was cast in a large New York improv group, Revolution Improv. Things didn’t work out so well there, so Dan and some of his fellow improvisers formed a sketch comedy group, Cubicle. Cubicle played to sold out crowds in New York, Philly, and D.C, and was named New York’s Funniest Sketch Group (National Comedy Theater, 2005). In 2008, Dan and his fellow Cubiclites Cesar, Michael, and Randy, joined forces with their filmmaker friend Tim to form the production powerhouse known as Sweet Victory Entertainment, and the rest, as they say, is history. Dan currently lives in Manhattan. Thanks for listening.
Randy Green
Creative Director, Writer, Actor
Favorite Quote:
“When you do things right people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”
Likes:
Sports Talk Radio, Video Games, Comedy
Dislikes:
Dentists, Politics, Spiders
Top 3 Movies:
Wet Hot American Summer, Clerks, Boogie Nights
Top 3 TV Shows:
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Futurama, Party Down
Education:
Marist College, BA in Communications (Radio/TV/Film)
Bio:
Randy Green grew up in the peaceful Jersey shore town of Oceanport. While always thinking of himself as having a good sense of humor, he never tried his hand at comedy until joining the on campus comedy group in college. Since then, he has performed award winning improv, sketch, and stand up comedy throughout New York and New Jersey.
Cesar Gracia
Creative Director, Writer, Actor
Favorite Quote
“The Only reason history repeats itself, is because no one pays attention to histoy”- Cesar Gracia
Likes:
Warm weather, Circus performance, dancing, music, mozzarella sticks, curly fries, cigars
Dislikes:
Cold weather, Reality shows, Gin, and cheddar. Misspelling of my last name (it is GRACIA, not GARCIA)
Top 3 Movies:
The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Tango & Cash
Top 3 TV Shows:
The Daily Show, Happy Days, Que Pasa USA?
Education:
Studied film at Miami Dade Community College, TV Production at Miami Lakes Tech
Bio:
Cesar grew up in Miami FL, where he performed in the short form improv group Laughing Gas and also provided the voice of “Col. Sanders” from KFC in Spanish for Latin America, all while working for Univision as a camera assistant. In 2002 he came to New York and studied sketch writing at the Second City and performed in the Second City revue, “Start Spreading the Booze” That same year he studied long-form improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York. Cesar began performing stand-up comedy clubs in the city, then in 2005 started writing and performing with the sketch group Cubicle, which won the NY Funny competition (National Comedy Theatre) also in ’05. While performing with Cubicle, Cesar developed and ran his own one-person show, “The Al Pacino School of Acting”, for three months at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater.