Bio - T'chaka Anghelos Sikelianos

T'chaka has been working in film for more than 12 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 has lived in Portland, Oregon for three years and currently works at a media production company called Night & Day Studios as a 3D animator designing museum interactives.  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 performed his first marriage ceremony last spring at a buddhist peace pagoda in Grafton, NY .  Currently he plays electric guitar in a nameless band that is essentially a reincarnation of The Wind Up Birds with the newest member being Carolyn Merriman on keys, the art director of A Yeti in the City.   He graduated with honors from Connecticut College.  He is writing his second film, Loop City, a 3D-animated feature he plans on creating himself, in Cinema 4D.  He is infatuated with wolves and loves his niece Aurora more than anyone else.

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