Bio - T'chaka Anghelos Sikelianos

T'chaka has been working in film for more than 15 years. He has worked on a variety of feature and short film projects, including The Blackout, directed by Abel Ferrara, The Hot Shoe, directed by David Layton, Lonelyland, directed by Steve Collins and My Name is Buttons directed by John Merriman and Courtney Davis.  T'chaka was born in Pittsfield, Mass on July 19, 1974 at 7:53 am and has lived in many places including Manhattan, Austin, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, where he used to work for a media production company called Night & Day Studios as a 3D animator designing museum interactives and iPhone applications.  Before this he was a bartender for more than half a decade, managing a mostly African American dive bar owned by a wealthy Chinese gentleman, in Austin, Tx.   He moved to Portland by bicycle, making the trip from Albany, New York in 51 days.  He is also an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church and once legally united two people at a Buddhist peace pagoda in Grafton, NY. He paddled a kayak from Albany to Manhattan in 6 days.  He has driven across the USA 6 times, thrice by his lonesome.  He is working on music in several ways, one, on his own with a loop pedel, two, with his brother in a hip hop endeavor called The Brothers Kavalier and three with his brother and sister in a pop rock band called Sikelianos & Sikelianos.  He graduated with honors from Connecticut College.  He is writing his second film, Loop City, an animated feature about a werewolf in bedstuy, which he plans on creating himself.  He is also working on a graphic novel about Portland, Oregons, Racist/Racial History called R.O.M.E./PDX.  He is infatuated with wolves and loves his niece Aurora deeply.  He finally had his first Lucid Dream, triggered by the vision of six fingers on his right hand.  He hopes to sail around the world, but as of yet, knows not how to sail.  He no longer accepts the current Zeitgeist as a reasonable way to be, feeling it does not support equality among the living...as he often thinks to himself...it ain't no fun, if his homeys can't have none.  He suspects that the currently accepted material reality we live in has blinded us to a more magickal point of view.  His fingers are crossed that his heart remains open.

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