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Lisa James Larsson has worked as an editor, director, and writer in television and short film projects.

In 2008, Lisa completed her graduation film Pussyfooting, staring Kate Dickie and Terence Beesley.

More recently, Lisa completed her short film Little Children, Big Words about a seven year old boy that tells his class mates what he wants to be when he grows up starting an uncomfortable discussion about the meaning of an unknown but loaded word, revealing the teacher’s story of victim and offender.

Little Children, Big Words premiered at Palm Springs International Shortfest, and garnered a number of international screening and awards.

Little Children, Big Words is also shortlisted for Oscar nomination for the Academy Awards 2011.

An Emmy nominated filmmaker, Thomas Burstyn, has over thirty years experience as a cinematographer. Tom trained at the National Film Board of Canada as a documentary filmmaker, before moving into feature films, which include: The Lost Tribe, When Trumpets Fade, City of Industry, Population 436, and The Boys & Girl From Country Claire.

Tom's film company, Cloud South Films is a film company created by Tom and his wife, journalist Barbara Sumner Burstyn. Cloud South Films is committed to sustainability, both personal and professional in their documentary filmmaking in films including, One Man, One Cow, One Planet and This Way of Life.

One Man, One Cow, One Planet is story of Peter Proctor's trek to India to help restore traditional farming there. 

This Way of Life is about Peter Karena, his wife Colleen, their six children and many horses who live almost wild in the stunning beauty of New Zealand's rugged Ruahine Mountains and their struggles with Peter's father and life's challenges in their way of life. 

Both films have won screened worldwide and won many awards.  This Way of Life has also been shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In 2004, composer Steve Lynch created, Stellarsound, an award winning music company that specializes in commercials and films.

Steve's notable work includes Let’s Dance (a David Bowie cover) for Ballygowan, which also won a Gold Shark Award for best use of music. 

Steve has composed for countless commercials, short films and documentaries that have been shown both nationally and internationally, including a two hour score for Cromwell in Ireland - an HD documentary for the History Channel UK and the Smithsonian Channel in the US, which was recorded in Bratislava with a 40 piece orchestra.

Steve's scores for award winning short films in a variety of genres include: An Teanga Runda, Of Best Intentions, Spota, Mr. Foley, and Crossing Salween.

German animator Moritz Mayerhofer, was accepted into the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany, to study animation.

After three years, Moritz took up an exchange program at Gobelins, Paris. There he started the visual development and design for 'Urs', which was his thesis-project. He has since graduated with that film at the Institute of Animation at the Filmakademie.

Urs, is a touching and atmospheric CGI animated film about a son helping his aging by carrying her up a mountain to find a better life for each of them. Urs has garnered several awards globally and is a finalist in the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.

Shane Sutton, artist and filmmaker, has worked extensively with a variety of media, including illustration and computer-aided design, and his original passion, painting, producing work that is at once highly appreciative of the medium of oil paint, yet informed by the technicality of his graphic work. 

Shane co-directed and edited Fight or Flight, a documentary which follows a Dublin man as he ventures into the world of Thai boxing. Shot over two years in Thailand, the film has been shown in film festivals in Europe, the United States, garnering awards around the world. 

Shane was also selected to participate in the Berlin Talent Campus.  He has also created the short film, Fail?, about a man, Kevin, a darkly comic short film depicting his life  after years of stress and heartache, along as contributing on shooting and editing work on Malgorzata, and The Video Box.

Adam Taub is a documentary film director from Colorado whose films include, Don Angelo, La Quinceañera, and El Duque de la Bachata (The Duke of Bachata).

Don Angelo, is The story of Angelo Chavez, a retired U.S. naval officer who spends his retirement years driving to Tijuana, Mexico to help those in need.

La Quinceañera, explores the issues of family, faith, and coming of age, and is a portrait of a Mexican family's love and devotion to each other.

El Duque de la Bachata is Adam’s more recent documentary following Dominican bachata and merengue musician Joan Soriano as he works to accomplish his dream of a hit song and fame as an artist.

Adam is also working a documentary on the people, music and geography of the Island of Cape Breton, called The Cape Breton Fiddler.
 

For over 25 years, Clark Hunter has worked as a production designer on a wide range of films including the Billy Bob Thornton-directed films: Sling Blade, All the Pretty Horses, and Daddy and Them.  

Clark has also worked with The Polish Brothers and M. David Mullen, ASC on The Astronaut Farmer, Stay Cool, and The Smell of Success. Clark also has designed films like Carriers, an interesting twist on an apocaltypic thriller.

Clark’s range of film credits also include:  Clay Pigeons, Suicide Kings, Niagara, Niagara, The Badge, Beerfest, Old School, Road Trip, and Piranha 3D.

Clark's recent projects include: Seven Days in Utopia starring Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, and Melissa Leo, based on an inspirational book about life lessons from golf learned on a real golf course in a remote area of Utopia, TX, and Salvation Boulevard from director George Ratliff, Set in the world of mega-churches.

Amy Weber, advertising director and filmmaker has also developed numerous award winning television and film projects with her company Radish Creative Group and her first feature film directorial debut, Annabelle & Bear. 

Annabelle & Bear is the product of a 100% Michigan cast, crew and soundtrack.  Amy showcased the local film community, featuring the talent in Michigan during tough economic times for the state. 

Annabelle & Bear is the dramatic, tender story of a man who finds himself thrust into the struggles of unexpected fatherhood taking him on a journey leading to life-altering love found in the heart of his young daughter.

Mark White, an American production designer, began his career as a Toy Designer before moving into Theatre Design. He shifted gears into film as Set Designer on Twenty-Nine Palms and then as Art Director on Boiler Room. 

As Production Designer, Mark’s credits include: Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, The Ten, Tully and the Comedy Central series, Stella. 

He also was production designer for Morgan J. Freeman’s film, Homecoming, and the film Transamerica, featuring the Oscar-nominated actress, Felicity Huffman.

Mark was recently the production designer on two major independent films, Please Give and Winter's Bone.

Please Give is directed and written by Nicole Holofcener, a perceptive and darkly comedic take on modern life’s contradictions, good intentions, and shaky moral bearings, starring Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt.

Winter’s Bone is written and directed by Debra Granik is about 17 year old Ree Dolly who sets out to track down her missing father, who has put their house up for his bail bond, which will lead to the family’s eviction if he can’t be found. Winter’s Bone won the Best Picture Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

UK film composer, Alex Heffes, has created film scores that include many of award-winning films for director Kevin Macdonald such as One Day in September, Touching the Void, and The Last King of Scotland.

Alex has proved successful in a variety of genres including the comedy The Parole Officer, the action film Out of Reach and Kevin Macdonald's political espionage thriller State of Play.

Alex’s scores have been nominated for BAFTA, Ivor Novello, European Film Academy, and ASCAP awards. Alex always conducts his own orchestral scores.

Some of Alex’s more recent film scoring projects include the documentary Inside Job directed by Charles Ferguson, and Justin Chadwick’s debut feature The First Grader.

Sam Green is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker whose feature film, The Weather Underground, was nominated for an Academy Award and broadcast nationally on PBS. 

Sam’s other award-winning documentaries include Lot 3, Grave C, Pie Fight ’69, N-Judah 5:30, and The Rainbow Man/John 3:16. 

Sam also teaches at the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Recently, Sam has co-created Utopia in Four Movements, which uses the collective experience of cinema to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century, in a singular, poetic essay that stretches the very norms of the nonfiction genre and musical performance.

In a special episode, Evan chronicles the 24 hours he spent participating in Extra Life, Sarcastic Gamer's charity marathon benefitting the Children's Miracle Network. Things get pretty grim. He also talks to his fundraising teammates Mitch Dyer, Ken Wesley, and Brian Taylor about their marathons, and why this event is so important.

Stay tuned till the end for something...special, maybe? Sure, why not.

Nico Mensinga is the screenwriter for the short film, Watching, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about the ability to spot where truth lies, and lies begin with 2 main characters, Josh and Carrick, portrayed by Ian Hart and Charlie Cattrall. 

Watching took home a number of awards around the world and won best screenplay and the Silver Medal audience award and in the prestigious Manhattan Short Film Festival.

Nico previously worked as a production intern at Number 9 Films on films like When Did You Last See Your Father?, based on an auto-biographical novel by author and poet Blake Morrison, starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent.

Nico has developed other feature length screenplay work including the upcoming film, Titus, the story of an African American jazz legend lost in London, find a way back to the music that has kept him alive this long.

Australian filmmaker, Mairi Cameron’s graduate film, Milk, screened at Cannes and garnered many awards.  Milk is about an old man that  lives on his own, and doesn't go out except to buy milk that has a daily ritual visit and request for milk from the downstairs Woman.

Over the years, Mairi has had commercial work including music videos for the Aussie band Washington and the mockumentary series (s)Truth. Mairi is also film instructor at the JMC Academy in Brisbane.

She directed many other shorts over the years including the more recent short film, Seersucker, about a nine-year-old girl who has to wear a seersucker dress made from a tablecloth in 1962.

Mairi has screened around the world as a finalist in the global film festival, the Manhattan Short Film Fest, with her film Push Bike, about a woman, Michelle, whose clothes are stolen from the pool changing room one night that must brave a nude ride home on her old bike.

Greig Fraser is an award winning cinematographer originally from Melbourne, Australia now based in Los Angeles.

In 2002 Greig shot Glendyn Ivin’s acclaimed short film Crackerbag.   In 2005, he won an Australian Film Industry Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film Jewboy. In 2006 he shot the feature film Out of the Blue, based on the Aramoana Massacre in New Zealand. 

Greig has worked a number of features including on Scott Hicks’ film The Boys Are Back, Bright Star directed by Jane Campion, and Glendyn Ivin’s film Last Ride.  He has continued working on shorts as well including Nash Edgerton’s short films Spider and Lucky and Netherland Dwarf and Crossbow for David Michod.

Most recently, Greig was the Director of Photography on Let Me In, Matt Reeves’ American adaption of the Swedish  thriller, Let The Right One In, about a bullied young boy that befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.

Danielle Fillios has edited more than 40 films, a wide mix of narrative and documentary features and some short films, some of them nominated and awarded for highest honors.

Mi Mejor Enemigo, a heartfelt film about the war between Chile and Argentina in the 1970s, and Johnny One Hundred Pesos were both nominated for the Goya.  Also, B-Happy which picked up 2 awards at Berlinale. 

Danielle won the Golden Kikito at Gramado for Captain Pantoja and the Special Services for her editing work.  She worked on films from France, Spain, Chile, Venezuela and Perú.

Recently Danielle worked on The Maid by Sebastian Silva, a drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years, which won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film. 

Danielle also edited the recent short film, Blokes, one of 9 short films selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

In Stockholm, Magnus Von Horn worked on distributing a variety of films for Sonet and as an assistant script reader and as a light and camera assistant.

Magnus then left the Swedish film industry to pursue his film directing dreams at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School.

He has produced several short films in Poland including the documentary short Radek about 25 years old, ex-convict and former drug dealer and thief who attempts to cope with his aggressions with obstacles.

His narrative short, Echo, is about a police investigator re-constructing a brutal murder, hoping to learn how two young boys could have committed such a crime and what results in the process.

Echo has received numerous awards, including the Best Film Award at Munich International Festival of Film Schools, the Grand Prix at the Open Student Film Festival in St. Petersburg, and is a finalist in the renowned Manhattan Short Film Festival.

Magnus is also working on Without Snow, a 30 minute fictional short, and The Doctors, a 25 minute documentary.

Chris Gill started out as an editor for television, winning Royal Television Society Best Editing awards for the programs Touching Evil and Crime and Punishment.  He has admitted to being seduced by the art of editing.

Chris made his debut as a feature film editor with Danny Boyle’s film, 28 Days Later.  Chris has since worked on other films for Danny including Millions and Sunshine.

Chris’ editing spans genres from the horror/thriller The Daisy Chain to the classic period drama Brideshead Revisited for Julian Jarrold to the Ricky Gervais’ comedy The Invention of Lying. Chris makes time to edit short films as well. 

Chris’ most recent editing work includes the films Centurion, a historical action-adventure directed by Neil Marshall and the psychological thriller, Locked In with Ben Barnes.

Kimberly Reed started her career working as a commercial editor and traveled the world directing and producing travel documentaries. 

Kimberly became an early expert in the field of digital filmmaking and post-production. After transitioning genders, she moved into the world of publishing, as editor-in-chief of DV Magazine.

Kim's first feature-length documentary film, Prodigal Sons, tells the story of three siblings, their rivalries, and their search for identity. 

Prodigal Sons has won many honors and have connected to many in film festival audiences worldwide, including its winning of the Audience award at Palm Springs and it is available on DVD, Netflix, and iTunes.

Critically and internationally acclaimed Canadian writer and director, Ruba Nadda has written and directed over a dozen shorts, including Aadan, Unsettled, and Do Nothing.  Ruba's films have been shown over 500 times in film festivals around the world with over 30 retrospectives of her work.

In 2005, Ruba wrote and directed her first feature film, Sabah, which had Atom Egoyan as an executive producer and starred Arsinee Khanjian.

Ruba's 2nd feature film, Cairo Time was filmed on location in Egypt.  Cairo Time is a love letter to a city intertwined with a love story about a woman.  It stars Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig. 

Cairo Time had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won Best Canadian Feature Film and has enchanting audiences in cinemas worldwide.