Earthlings - The Movie - a Science fiction Documentary film, Klingons, Star Trek, Klingon Language, Denver, Colorado film Company

Alexandre O. Philippe, Director

Alexandre Philippe - Director After several years of intermittent work and starvation as a screenwriter, Alexandre O. Philippe turned to directing. His first film, Chick Flick (The Miracle Mike Story), screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Market, the 2003 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (South Korea), the 2003 Fantastisk Film Festival in Lund, Sweden, and was the only film to sell out four times at the 2003 Denver International Film Festival. EARTHLINGS is his second Picture Show, and his third is currently in pre-production.

Philippe is also the Director of the newly-formed Denver Screenwriting Center (a partnership between Lighthouse Writers, Inc. and the Denver Film Society). He has conducted Dramatic Writing seminars for numerous universities, schools and film and book festivals. Denver International Film Festival Director Ron Henderson hailed Alexandre’s Character and Structure workshop at the 2003 festival as “the most successful screenwriting workshop in our 25-year history.”

Philippe is also a playwright, having staged original productions in San Francisco and New York. He holds a Masters Degree in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he won the Founder’s Day Award and was class valedictorian.

Steve serves as the Managing Director for SONEW Productions, a Denver, Colo.-based film, television, video, electronic media, and Internet production group with full-service media engineering capabilities.

Prior to SONEW, Steve was the Vice President of Commercial Production for the Pepsi Center, where he supervised the production team responsible for marketing professional sports teams, including the Denver Nuggets basketball team (NBA) and the Colorado Avalanche (NHL).

Steve earned a degree in Business Administration from Hawaii Pacific University, and in the past, served as a military combat helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army.

David A. Marchiori, Executive Producer

David Marchiori founded and serves as CEO of Westar International, an investment firm that specializes in the motion picture industry. David has served as Executive Producer for three films and has several film projects in various development stages.

Marchiori is a highly creative, tech savvy, business executive with over 20 years experience in the management of diverse companies and investments. In the late 1990's, David was President of MCI Direct, the international small business division for telecom giant, MCI. Prior to MCI, he was founder and CEO of PST, Inc., a telecom provider of voice and data services that was recognized in 1994 as The Colorado Company of the Year by The Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry (CACI). The Denver Business Journal also ranked PST, Inc. as one of the state’s 100 Largest Privately Held Companies.

David is active in the Denver philanthropic community, advocating for underprivileged and/or abused youth. He holds a black belt in karate and earned a bachelors degree in Marketing from Michigan State University.