The award-winning film “World Without Waves,” a provocative look at love, lust, self-deception and redemption, stars Will Foster Stewart (“Training Day” “Sex and the City”) as Louis, an electrically challenged television executive, and Tara Bast ( 'Third Watch'') as Louis' lover, Sarah. Also in the movie are Jeff Kober (''China Beach,'' ''Coyote Moon''), Fort Worth native Steve Bruton (''The Alamo'') and Brad Leland (''Cadillac Ranch,'' ''The Patriot,'' and ''The Stars Fell on Henrietta.'' Winner of Best Southwest Film at the Santa Fe Film Festival, “World Without Waves“ debuted as an Official Selection at the Moscow International Festival.
About the Director
J. Mitchell Johnson has been responsible for creating more than 100 hours of documentary
programming that has been broadcast and sold worldwide. As a producer and director, he
has won numerous top awards at film festivals across the United States. He has recently focused on enlightening productions highlighting historical footage through Russian Archives Online, including producing and directing “Yanks for Stalin” for The History Channel, and through Abamedia's critically acclaimed “Red Files,” produced for prime-time PBS and distributed worldwide by Buena Vista Television and Home Video. “Red Files” won the "Best Limited Series" award from the Los Angeles-based International Documentary
Association (IDA).
Mr. Johnson is the founder of Russian Archives Online, a public-private initiative that has
provided ground-breaking access to the Russian State Film and Photo Archives. He also
founded Snapsē, a collaborative, streaming media editing and exchange system that serves the emerging cloud market for video creation, mash-ups, and other multi-media use. Snapsē provides digital rights management to global content owners by linking rather than copying digital media content.
Johnson began traveling to Russia in 1994 in a media co-venture with ABC News in New York. He was the architect and executive producer of a groundbreaking news magazine series based on “20-20” that aired all over the former Soviet Union. In 1996 he founded Abamedia, LP. Abamedia eventually became the Russian Government’s trade representative for its State Film and Photo Archives at Krasnogorsk, one of the premiere audio-visual archives in the world.
Johnson has been Chairman of the Media Panel for the Texas Committee for the Arts and
President of the Texas Independent Producers Association. Currently he serves on the board of Fort Worth Sister Cities International, the Lone Star Film Society, and in 2005 chaired the Education and Technology Panel of the 2nd Annual US-Russia Exchange Symposium, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia.
About the Cast
Will Foster Stewart is a native of Boston, currently living in Los Angeles. His acting credits
include Disney's “Playing God” starring David Duchovney, “The Price of Kissing”,“Goodbye
Lover”,“The Dogwalker”, and “Training Day”.
Originally from Oklahoma, Tara Bast's credits include numerous theater productions off
Broadway and regionally, as well as television appearances on “55 Mercer”, “Third Watch”,and “Law & Order”. Her filmography includes “Sleep” and “The Family Web”.
Jeff Kober has been acting for more than two decades. His many credits include: “Gold Coast”, “Coyote Moon”, “Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life”, “Tank Girl”, “Alien Nation”, the television series “China Beach”, and “Falcon Crest”, as well as many notable television guest appearances, including “Star Trek: Voyager”, “Walker, Texas Ranger”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”,“The Pretender”, and “The Twilight Zone”.
A native of Lubbock, Texas and currently residing in Dallas, Brad Leland has appeared in such films as “American Outlaw”, “Dr. T and the Women”, “Abilene”, “The Patriot”, “The
Underneath”, “Love and A .45”, “Cadillac Ranch”, “The Stars Fell on Henrietta”, “Silverado”,
and “Ruby”. He has also appeared in numerous miniseries and movies of the week, and has been acting for more than twenty years.
Well-known in the music industry as a recording artist, songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, Fort Worth native Stephen Bruton appeared in “The Alamo” released in 2004. His additional film credits include “The Perfect Specimens” and “Heaven’s Gate”.
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