THE MISSION:

THE MAN: The Down and Dirty DV Project is the brainchild of Anthony Q. Artis (prn. /ant-nee art-iss/). Anthony originally hails from the city of Baltimore, Maryland, but has made his home in New York City for most of the last 15 years. There he has honed his skills as a straight up digital guerrilla. He has worked professionally in positions as diverse as producer, gaffer, cinematographer, special-fx make up, sound mixer and location manager just to name a few.

Anthony is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Since graduating, he has worked on a variety of documentary and narrative films on both coasts and toughed through more low-budget projects than he cares to admit. His feature films and tv shows have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, the IFP Market, Slamdance, as well as on MTV and The Education Channel. Anthony can be seen in action in the feature documentary, Paper Chasers, which chronicles the hip-hop music business and the behind-the-scenes making of a digital guerrilla doc.

Through the years he has organized numerous student film festivals and trained hundreds of aspiring guerrilla filmmakers for major institutions including New York University, New York City's famed LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and Baltimore County Public Schools. Anthony is presently the manager of the Film and TV Production Center at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts where he coordinates the technical training and production equipment for all film and tv students. He remains an active guerrilla filmmaker, educator and "artrepreneur".