ABOUT US
Aviles Street Productions is an independent film company based in New York City. The company is a collaborative ensemble of talented, passionate, and experienced artists whose collective knowledge shape and re-shape both the process of filmmaking and its end result. Aviles Street Productions is dedicated to making quality films that aim not only to entertain, but also to challenge and inspire the hearts and minds of a well-deserving audience.BIOS
IDO MIZRAHY – Director
Things That Hang From Trees is Ido Mizrahy's feature directorial debut. Born in South Carolina in 1981, Mizrahy grew up in Tel Aviv. He began his acting career on stage at the Israeli National Theatre at the age of ten. Since then, he has performed in many plays including Conversations with My Father. He has also worked extensively in Israeli television with a recurring role on the television show, Saturdays and Holidays. Mizrahy also spent much of his childhood dubbing animated feature films and television cartoons by Disney and Warner Brothers.
Mizrahy went on to produce the film The Butcher from the Fields, which had its world premiere at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival. In NYC, where Mizrahy has lived since 2000, he has been an assistant director on shows at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Cherry Lane Theatre, and has directed staged readings and movement theatre Off-Broadway. Mizrahy is currently an associate director with Joseph Siravo and Fay Simpson for The Shakespeare Workshop, hosted by The Actors Center and The Cherry Lane Theatre. Ido Mizrahy is a founding member of Aviles Street Productions.
AARON LOUIS – Screenwriter
Aaron Louis, pen name T.A. Louis, is the author of a number of books including the Southern Gothic novella, Things That Hang From Trees and the screenplay for the Aviles Street Productions adaptation. His novella was very well received on a recent Barnes & Noble book signing tour, which took him to over twenty different cities.
Aaron Louis began his career as a musician, and after a few years as the principal singer/songwriter for the 11 piece acoustic band, Dandelion Wine, in 2000 he went on to release a solo album under the name Aaron Louis, called If So (Cell records/Tropia).
Upcoming works include the novel, Great Inland Waterways, and the novella, If You Can’t Act Normal, Go to Bed. Aaron Louis is a founding member of Aviles Street Productions.
JOSEPH SIRAVO - Producer
Mr. Siravo’s extensive stage, screen and television credits include acting, directing and producing. After receiving a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Theatre Program, Siravo was a founding member of New York Stage & Film Company. As Coordinator of the New Voices play development series at NYS&F, he supervised the presentation of over 60 new plays. His directing work in the theatre includes plays written by a wide range of playwrights from Shakespeare and the Greeks to Sam Shepard and Samuel Beckett.
His film appearances include 16 Blocks with Bruce Willis; Carlito’s Way opposite Al Pacino and Sean Penn, directed by Brian DePalma; Maid in Manhattan with Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez; Night Falls on Manhattan, directed by Sidney Lumet; as well as Walking & Talking, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Wise Girls, A Day in Black & White, the Disney animated feature The Wild with Eddie Izzard and the DreamWorks animated feature Shark Tale with Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorsese.
On television, he is best known as “Johnny Boy Soprano” on HBO’s legendary series The Sopranos. He has guest-starred on Third Watch, Hack, New York Undercover, The Cosby Show, and all three versions of Law & Order.
Onstage, Siravo has appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning, Grammy-nominated musical The Light in the Piazza, in Conversations With My Father and The Boys From Syracuse; Off-Broadway in Mad Forest (Drama Desk Nomination), Up Against the Wind, Dream of a Common Language, My Night with Reg, Dark Rapture, Gemini and Smashing. Regionally, he has been seen in a wide variety of leading roles in productions of Hamlet, Antony & Cleopatra, Othello, Three Sisters, Sweeney Todd, A View From the Bridge, and Last of the Boys.
Siravo is a member of both The Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Actors Center. He is the founder of The Shakespeare Workshop, where along with Ido Mizrahy and Fay Simpson, he has conducted an ongoing series of professional workshops at both The Actors Center and The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City. Several of the leading actors in Things That Hang From Trees have participated in those workshops. Joseph Siravo is a founding member of Aviles Street Productions.
JOSEPH N. ZOLFO - Producer
A New York native and fifteen-year veteran of the film industry, Joseph Zolfo contributes a wealth of experience, having worked in several key areas of production on over 50 film and television projects.
He has had the pleasure of working with some of the most celebrated directors in the business on such films as Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, It Could Happen to You, Everyone Says I Love You, Celebrity, and Mighty Aphrodite; with Mike Nichols on Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer; with Sydney Pollack on Sabrina, starring Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond; with Sidney Lumet on Gloria, starring Sharon Stone; Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco, starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp; on Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan; Barry Levinson’s Sleepers, starring Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Brad Pitt; Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men In Black, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith; Tom Cairns’ Marie and Bruce, starring Julianne Moore and Matthew Broderick; with Jonathan Demme on Beloved, starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover; GreeneStreet Films’ productions of Boaz Yakin’s A Price Above Rubies, starring Renee Zellweger; Michael Ian Black’s The Pleasure of Your Company, starring Jason Biggs; Stanley Tucci’s The Imposters; and on Luminous Motion, starring Deborah Kara Unger.
Zolfo’s television credits include the CBS dramas Without a Trace, starring Anthony LaPaglia; Hack, starring David Morse; Ernest Dickerson’s Monday Night Mayhem for TNT, starring John Turturro and Eli Wallach; and HBO’s hit series Sex and the City.
Joseph Zolfo is a graduate of SUNY Purchase where he received a BFA in Visual Arts.
MARK L. BEIGELMAN - Production Counsel
Mark L. Beigelman is an attorney in private practice specializing in entertainment law, with an emphasis on theatre, film and television. An experienced producer of plays and musicals prior to becoming an attorney in 1990, he has continued to be involved as a producer both in film and theatre. In the 1980’s he served as associate producer of Cloud 9 Off-Broadway and Nine and The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway. In 2000, he served as an associate producer of the acclaimed revival of Mae West’s classic play Sex. In 1999, he also served as co-executive producer of the motion picture Trick, a film in competition at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and released nationally by Fine Line Features in July of 1999. In 2003, he served as executive producer of the motion picture Indocumentados which is intended for a 2004 theatrical release and he is currently serving as executive producer of a motion picture entitled Pants On Fire, to be shot in Los Angeles in February, 2004. As an attorney he has been an active participant in numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway plays as well as a number of nationally released motion pictures, including Sling Blade, Star Maps, Whipped, Trick, Search and Destroy, In the Bedroom, Piniero, Kissing Jessica Stein and Junebug. For television, Mr. Beigelman was attorney on the nationally renowned TNT television special, Moment of Impact: The Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photos in 1999