T'chaka 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 four years and has been laid off for a bit, from a media production company called Night & Day Studios where he was a 3D animator designing museum interactives and iphone applications. 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 . He graduated with honors from Connecticut College. He is slowly writing his second feature film, Loop City, which he plans on creating himself, in Cinema 4D. He is currently collaborating musically with his sister, brother and niece. He recently kayaked the Hudson River from Albany to Manhattan in six days with his buddies Ian and Bill. He is also working on a graphic novel called ROME/PDX (which stands for Random Order Man Excursions, Portland Oregon) about a black man who orders a cup of coffee and begins hallucinating an ostrich, and together they try and get at the heart of why Portland, although an amazing city, seems to be populated with mostly white people. He recently drove across the US making it three times this year, twice alone, a fact he is a bit too proud of.