THE SUBJECTS
Bosko was born in Los Angeles 1963 and raised in Southern California's San Gabriel valley among its mid-century splendor. He received a B.F.A. in 1988 from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In the mid 80’s Bosko began his quest; to revive a lost art form, to bring back Tiki as sculpture!
Bosko’s art work has been exhibited at: La Luz De Jesus, Track 16, Outré Gallery, Roq La Rue, Huntington Beach Art Center, Copro Nason, M-Modern Gallery, Beyond Baroque and others throughout the world.
Truus' musical career spans over the last 4 and a half decades. Born in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Truus was one of the early pioneers of experimental electronic music. She shot to local fame as a post-punk artist, and in 1981 she moved to New York City to continue a musical adventure that has lasted many decades. In 1998, she hooked up with Bosko and together they built and grew what “Tiki Objects by Bosko” is today.
Sven is a cinematographer and urban archaeologist. It was his love for visuals that inspired him to collect and photograph the remnants of the forgotten culture of Polynesian pop in America, leading him to identify the Tiki as its icon.
As a hunter and gatherer of lost artifacts and ephemera of this phenomenon, he began to see the pattern of a unique art form, and decided to publish his findings in “The Book of Tiki” in September 2000. Four books later, the cult of Tiki has made a spectacular comeback.
Rolly joined The Walt Disney Studios in 1952 where he quickly became one of the most multi-talented artists on Walt’s team. In 1959, he joined show design at WED Enterprises, later known as Walt Disney Imagineering. It was there that he became one of Walt’s key designers for some of Disney’s groundbreaking new attractions and entertainment, including the Haunted Mansion, the Enchanted Tiki Room and the Adventureland Bazaar.
Rolly also served as a key designer on the Disney attractions featured at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair, including It’s a Small World and the Tower of the Four Winds. Rolly would go on to contribute to the initial design of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, and aided in the master planning of EPCOT Center. He departed from Disney in 1981 to lead design on a proposed Cousteau Ocean Center Park in Norfolk, Virginia, and to launch his own firm, the Mariposa Design Group.
In 1992, Rolly returned to Imagineering as executive designer at EPCOT Center. Rolly “retired” from The Walt Disney Company in 1996, but continued to work on a number of creative projects. He released his autobiography, “It’s Kind of a Cute Story,” in 2012.
One of Imbibe magazine’s “25 Most Influential Cocktail Personalities of the Past Century,” Jeff is the author of seven books on vintage tropical drinks and cuisine, which Los Angeles magazine dubbed “the keys to the tropical kingdom.”
Esquire calls Jeff “one of the instigators of the cocktail revolution” and Food & Wine “one of the world’s leading rum experts,” while the New York Times cites him as “the Indiana Jones of Tiki drinks” and the Los Angeles Times as “A hybrid of street-smart gumshoe, anthropologist and mixologist.”
Mike is the second-generation owner of the Tiki-Ti, a bar established in 1961 by his father, master mixologist Ray Buhen. Ray was there at the start of the Tropical Drink craze at Don The Beachcomber’s legendary restaurant. Mike and his son Michael now carry on Ray’s tradition; together, they practice the “Lost Art” of Exotic Cocktail mixing in the last of the great neighborhood Tiki bars.
THE FILMMAKERS
Rob Wilson
Rob first got the documentary bug while working on Oliver Stone's 2003 portrait of Fidel Castro, “Comandante.” From there, he produced documentaries on iconic filmmakers John Ford and Howard Hawks for Paramount, and for Disney on the planning and construction of Disneyland.
Rob produced Stone’s “Untold History of the United States,” a ten-part documentary series for Showtime, as well as actor/filmmaker Richard Beymer’s documentary “It’s a Beautiful World,” about their journey to India with filmmaker David Lynch while working on his documentary “Maharishi.”
He co-produced Stone’s “Snowden,” and Jim Jarmusch’s documentary “Gimme Danger” on the legendary band The Stooges. Most recently, he produced Stone’s “The Putin Interviews,” Kurt Mattila’s, “Stuntman,” and is finishing a multi-part doc series “JFK: Destiny Betrayed,” Stone’s follow-up to his 1991 film.
Rob is a graduate of Emerson College and received his Masters in Film Studies from UCLA.
Kurt Mattila
Kurt Mattila began his professional career by creating the haunting Precog dream sequences for Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report." He went on to direct the heist film "Lies And Alibis," written by Noah Hawley for Summit Entertainment followed by several commercial campaigns for brands like Ford, Gap and Red Bull.
He recently helmed "The Hidden World" the first virtual reality film for Universal Pictures and DreamWorks that features the cast and characters from the "How To Train Your Dragon" franchise. It was awarded the Lumiere Award.
Kurt's documentary feature "Stuntman," executive produced by Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia, depicts the harrowing story of stuntman Eddie Braun as he attempts to recreate the infamous "Snake River Canyon Jump" that ended the career of his childhood hero Evel Knievel. "Stuntman" won the audience award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and is set for wide release in 2020.
Kurt's love for filmmaking is rivaled only by his passion for comic books.
Available to rent or purchase starting February 28th, 2020.