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The Board
Christie Dinham has a background in Television
and Fashion, she graduated from North London college with a degree in Media Arts. While pursuing a career in film and television
she was discovered by designer Vivianne
Westwood thus launching a successful modeling career. Being in front of the camera
only added fuel to her desire to be behind the camera again.
She started Children Are The future Dreams to teach young
people about what she knows and about careers associated with what she knows. What Ms. Dinham knows in Fashion and media production,
she knows it like she knows the back of her hand.
John Garlington
With his background in Medical photography it
is easy to see why John Garlington pays so much careful attention to detail in everything that he does today. After graduating
from the University of Baltimore, he worked as a registered medical photographer at John Hopkins Hospital. While working
in this field Garlington continued to nurture his interest in broadcast and the visual arts, an interest which began in college
when he created and stared on his own community radio show.
As his involvement in this media increased, Garlington
relocated to New York and utilized his photographic skills in a new area. He joined Invision Photo Services, where he had
the opportunity to work with noted clients such as Young & Rubicam and Burson-Marsteller among others. In addition Garlington
was involved in many of the company’s broadcast and print advertising campaigns for clients including Juicy Fruit,
Kool
Whip, Wendy’s and Alfa Romeo.
It was on one such assignment that Garlington first worked with a fashion model, the
experience strengthened his interest in fashion photography and he landed a position as assistant to noted fashion and portrait
photographer Francesco Scavullo. After working with Scavullo and learning about the industry, Garlington decided on further
technical training and returned to school where he studied television, media and video production.
Since completing
his training some years ago Garlington has worked independently in the visual media.
He is the Founder/CEO of On the Block
Production, and works freelance on projects and events for clients in the music, television and film industries.
Always
an advocate for children, Garlington first volunteered with the Offender Aid and Restoration Group, an organization that supported
children in the criminal system and offered them alternatives to incarceration. He was so moved by the tragic results of the
tsunamis that devastated Southern Asia in December 2004 that he spearheaded a benefit to raise funds. In early 2005 he became
program director for Children Are the Future/Dreams Do Come True Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation which was launched
with an event to benefit children who had lost their families and communities to the deadly floods.
Garlington strongly
believes in giving back to those in need – particularly children, and through the foundation and his technical expertise he
assists youth and young adults in making positive life choices by offering training and workshops in visual media which can
be applied to future careers in the broadcast, print and fashion media.
Garlington’s current project, The Block is
due for release in January 2007. The Block is a DVD with a music magazine format, featuring the hottest new music from diverse
underground and independent artists, as well as occasional coverage of artists already signed to a major record label who
have maintained a level of street creditability.
Nathan Stoll
Nathan was first inspired to make films
at a young age by the movies he saw at the local movie theater in his small mid-western town, Denison, Iowa.
As a
teenager Nathan began to train his eye by making movies with his friends using VHS camcorders and editing with two VCRs. After
playing basketball two years at a Junior College in Iowa Nathan packed his bags and moved to Telluride, Colorado. There he
was able to attend the world renowned Telluride Film Festival and learn from the films and directors.
After a year
Nathan enrolled in the film studies program at the University of Colorado in Boulder. There he was lucky enough to learn filmmaking
from Stan Brakage, who has influenced filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese. While in college Nathan got his first paid gig,
it was a commercial for a CD the rap group Dubb 100 was releasing. The group liked the work and called him back for his second
paid gig, a music video. Using that as a reel he was able to land another music video for rapper Buggy Zip.
Nathan
accomplished all this while still enrolled in college making short films for his classes. The summer before his senior year
Nathan lived on the Sun Set Strip in Los Angeles and worked on movie sets. While in L.A. Nathan attended acting and directing
seminars, and wrote his fist feature length film Dance of the Butterfly. Upon returning to Boulder he cast, and shot his first
feature film on weekends throughout the year.
After graduating with a BFA in film studies Nathan spent the next year
editing the film and preparing for his first public exhibition, which he held in his hometown. That summer he started production
on his documentary Blaze’n Trails. It took him 53 days to hike 500 miles through the Colorado Rocky Mountains on the Colorado
Trail including ascending to the top of seven mountains over fourteen thousand feet. A week after he got off the trail Nathan
moved to New York City ready to continue making films. He is currently working on film A short film about a Doctor whose career
as a surgeon ends because of an injury suffered while serving in Iraq as a reservist. Nathan embarked on his film career
early on and he has no plans of slowing down.
Deanna Gooden
Deanna Gooden began the American leg of her life’s
journey in 2000 when she made the leap across the pond from the London to New York City.
Armed with a degree in fashion
and tailoring, a background working in European fashion magazines and shoot production, and some serious courage, Gooden was
confident of a place within New York’s thriving fashion industry. She was not disappointed and, within two weeks of arrival
she had been offered two jobs, one in the New York PR offices of plus-size giant Lane Bryant and another with PR powerhouse
LaForce & Stevens. Gooden decided on the latter and over the next four years gained experience as a publicist, working on
such notable accounts as Brioni, Banana Republic and Krispy Kreme Donuts. Gooden also developed her skills for pitching and
successful product placement in the city’s most coveted fashion and lifestyle newspaper sections and magazines, event planning
- while working on new store openings for her regular client, industry media events, award shows, and of course multiple shows
during the hectic New York Fashion Week each season.
She describes her time in PR as a “whirlwind romance with New
York City,” landing as she did in the midst of planning and working events where she met almost every celebrity, journalist,
designer and influencer there is, building a powerful contact list and having fun in the process.
In early 2004, Gooden
decided to change gears and began to explore alternative careers within the fashion industry, becoming an artist’s agent seemed
a natural next step and so she accepted a position as an agent at Jed Root, Inc.
Gooden remains at Jed Root, Inc.
today, representing some of the most well-known and influential fashion stylists in the business, enjoying the challenge of
sharpening her negotiating technique among some of New York’s most brilliant agents and producers – “pitching people instead
of products.”
In addition Gooden is a talented writer presently working on two novels “for fun,” while keeping
her technical skills sharp by writing professional bios, sponsorship and event proposals, as well as publication treatments
for friends and business acquaintances. Gooden also writes fashion articles, most recently covering the Caribbean Fashion
Week in Jamaica for the Associated Press Caribbean bureau.
Gooden currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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