Chad & Cecilia Rinn: co-directors, writers, editors

As a team, Chad & Cecilia formed the production company Full Tilt Boogie LLC and have worked on many creative projects, including the feature film adaptation of Chad’s first novel “Half Ass Jig”.  They also wrote and illustrated the majority of episodes of  “Half Ass Jig” the comic strip that ran in the Boise Weekly from 2003 to 2004. 

Cecilia has been dancing professionally since 1995.    Before falling in love with Middle Eastern dance, Cecilia studied ballet, modern, jazz, flamenco, and choreography for 18 years.  Along with dancing, Cecilia is an award wining filmmaker & graphic artist.   Cecilia is also a professional seamstress and costume designer under the name of Star Belly Creations.

Chad has been a published writer since 1995.  His stories have appeared in several publications such as FASTER than SHEEP and Equilibrium.  His first novel “Half Ass Jig” was self-published in 2004.

 Their award-winning collaboration on the dance short “Full Circle” has shown at several film festivals.   Together they have been active and integral parts of the formation of several groups in Boise’s artistic community such as Gypsy Flames, Catalyst News, Small Pond Films and Cairo Fusion.

Jacob S. Rinn: Assistant Producer,  Photographer, Actor

Jacob was the production photographer for BELLY, and took all the pictures for the opening credits. Jacob has acted in the feature films “Half Ass Jig”, “Pizza Man Vs The Dude” and, “Le Divan Vert”, Jacob has also played roles in the short films “Gray: The assassins of Logos” and, “Breaking Cycles”, which premiered at the 2004 Idaho international Film Festival.  “Thai Chicken” was Jacob’s first leading role.  Jacob has also worked as a production assistant and assistant director on many local productions. Jacob is currently working on the script for the sequel to Thai Chicken, with his father, Chad A. Rinn.