The 2012 GYFF Filmmakers Workshop on Wednesday, January 11th. This year’s workshop will be focusing on Visual Storytelling. The workshop provides high school filmmakers with the opportunity to work closely with local filmmakers. Over the next couple days we will be profiling all of the instructors who will be leading break-out sessions at the workshop.

Filmmaker and musical composer JON FOY started planning his documentary about the mysterious Toynbee tiles with artist Justin Duerr a decade ago, and began filming in 2005. While working on the film, the Philadelphia native sustained himself by cleaning houses and participating in medical research studies. A seasoned rock musician, Foy taught himself the art of film score composition for Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, and also scored 2008′s The Chinese Room. Resurrect Dead is his directorial debut and won the “US Documentary Director Award” at Sundance 2011.