Rose
Stoller
Jamie
Lazan
Maayan
Amiran
Meet The Creators
Jamie Lazan
Producer/Poet/Actor
Jamie Lazan is a multidisciplinary artist and creative changemaker passionate about bringing to life stories that provoke thought and foster creative connection, introspection and expansion. Her educational background includes studying with Stella Adler Studio of Acting to generate new works + stories and earning a BA in Human Services with focus in film + theatre from SUNY New Paltz. Her interest in healing and transformation has furthered her training in trauma and resilience with Creative Arts Therapy. Intrigued by the intricacies of our human condition, the desire to lessen the gaps between us and amplify creative expression + wellbeing, she founded The Human Arts Collective. This has led to several roles: producing an arts festival, featuring creative work at Queens Museum, directing multimedia stories, experimental films, and leading creative programming designed to liberate the creative human spirit. She is excited to share this poetic story to hopefully inspire young artists as they lean into their own dreams with creativity and playful curiosity.
Lea Pfandler
Writer/Director
Lea Pfandler is an award-winning international filmmaker, writer, and director. Being Swiss by passport, but grown up all over the globe, she considers herself a citizen of the world speaking multiple languages. She studied film studies at the University of Zurich and has a degree in Acting. Lea has written, produced, and directed several short films which have won her awards such as Best Screenwriter, Best Film of the Festival, Best LGBT Film, Best Thriller, Audience Choice Award, and Best Emerging Storyteller. She is a proud member of NYC Women Filmmakers and participated in the inaugural all-female film challenge ‘Women’s Weekend Film Challenge’. She believes in telling stories that move the heart and touch the soul. Stories that advocate social and inner change and provoke thought.
Rose Stoller
Musician/Actor
Rose Stoller is a NYC based multidisciplinary artist. She works as a jazz vocalist, experimental musician, theater artist, and more. She performs regularly in a variety of different groups from jazz duos and trios, solo singer-songwriter style, to pop/rock bands. She has played music at notable venues in both NYC and Upstate New York such as Rockwood Music Hall, The Bitter End, The Bowery Electric, BSP Kingston, The Falcon, etc. Lead singer of former jazz fusion band, RoseGold, which was featured in both 2017 and 2018’s Jazz In The Valley festival in Poughkeepsie, New York. Since graduating from LaGuardia High School in 2015, Rose has co-founded a production company, Rascal Arts (@Rascalartsnyc) where her and her closest collaborators have produced art gallery shows and benefit concerts. Rose continues this collaboration through her artistic work with Expressive Art Project as an artist and hopeful healer.
Maayan Amiran
Actor
Maayan Amiran lives life as an emergent theater artist and pleasure activist. She holds a BA in Theater Arts with a minor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz and is currently studying at East 15 Acting School in the UK where she will graduate with an MFA in Acting in 2021. In undergrad, Maayan focused primarily on movement work having been movement director for an original student production titled Oedipus Recalls. She also acted as an ensemble member in SUNY New Paltz’s 2018 performance of Ready Steady Yeti Go. This coming December Maayan will perform in an ensemble lead production of As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London. Maayan is grateful to have shared her debut film role with Jamie Lazan, Rose Stoller, Lea Pflandler, and everyone else in the cast and crew in their short film, When Will the Chameleon Speak.
WHEN THIS CHAMELEON SPEAKS, YOU SHOULD LISTEN...
FRAME LIGHT REVIEW
The editing style of the film is apropos to its lyrical, poetic themes, and the cinematography brillantly captures the somber, alienated world of each girl's life as a young creative.
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TAKE2INDIEREVIEW
The smallness that Brendan Fahy Bequette's cinematography suggests gives off an everybody knows everybody feel and infinite possibilities narrow to serve the film's intended destiny.
...The film masterfully forces the drama to a crescendo.
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INDY REVIEWS
The highlight of the film has to be the song 'I Am The Chameleon' which is a credit to Stoller and Lazan's musical/lyrical capabilities. When Will The Chameleon Speak is an inspiring film of poetic possibility.
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In Loving Memory
We dedicate this film and its artistic beauty to Brendan Fahy Bequette (DP and Cinematographer) who we tragically lost, and who brought so much love, talent and spirit to this collaboration.