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Colleen Nystedt, MovieSet's CEO, President and Founder is a motion picture producer and production executive who drew on her extensive 20+ year experience in physical production, finance, business affairs and creative development to engineer a platform and toolkit that seamlessly brings the traditional motion picture Industry online.  ??First recognized in 2006 with the Vortex Award for Excellence in New Media Innovation by the Marshall McLuhan Festival of the Future, MovieSet continues to receive accolades for its disruptive technology and inventive business processes. 

MovieSet’s mandate is to build core audiences around film and television projects beginning while they’re being made, in order to capitalize on fan’s insatiable appetite for behind-the-scenes content.  MovieSet’s suite of production tools efficiently integrates with the actual production process, making it possible to mine content in real time and thereby provide an authentic view to fans.  MovieSet’s social media strategies help build core audiences for evangelizing, and real-time market testing, with the ultimately aim of producing more successful film and television properties.

Some of her producer credits include: “THE LAST STOP” starring Adam Beach, Jurgen Prochnow, Rose McGowan, “A COOLER CLIMATE starring Sally Field, Judy Davis, Winston Reckert, “MR. RICE'S SECRET” starring David Bowie, Bill Switzer, “INSPECTORS” starring Lou Gossett, Jr., Dennis Considine, “BIG & HAIRY”starring, Richard Thomas, Robbie Burke, “ABDUCTED:A FATHER’S LOVE” starring Chris Noth, Natalie Cole, “FEAR” starring Mark Whalberg, Reese Witherspooon, “BEYOND THE STARS” starring Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone, Olivia d’Abo, ?Robert Foxworth, , F. Murray Abraham, William Taylor

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John Paul Rice producer - Mr. Rice attended Georgia State University in 1997 with a focus on Business. In 1999, while at college, Mr. Rice was given a rare opportunity to work on Jerry Bruckheimer's Remember the Titans. After working almost three months on the film, John returned to school and directed his studies toward learning the history of cinema. Mr. Rice gained hands-on production experience by working on a handful of micro-budget independent films between courses before moving to Los Angeles January 2001 to pursue a career in film production.

By mid 2001, John landed a position at the Los Angeles division of the German distribution company Senator International (which later became Mandate Pictures) lead by industry veteran Joseph Drake (Juno, The Grudge, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, 30 Days of Night, American Psycho). Under Joe’s mentoring, John developed an interest and dedication to producing feature films. John left Mandate in the fall of 2005 to form No Restrictions Entertainment LLC with filmmaker Edgar Michael Bravo.

In 2008, Mr. Rice produced his first feature One Hour Fantasy Girl with Edgar Michael Bravo directing, Levi Obery co-producing. In 2009, the team produced formed a new production entity, Bravo-Obery-Rice Productions, producing their second feature film now in post production, The Magic Stone, a supernatural/psychological thriller about an 18 year old homeless boy who was raised by a violent schizophrenic mother and believes he's been given a stone that allows him to enter and control the minds and bodies of people.

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Edoardo Ballerini recently completed filming the feature film “No God, No Master,” opposite Academy Award Nominee David Strathairn. Also in 2009, Edoardo was seen in “The Caller,” with Frank Langella, “Corrado” opposite Tom Sizemore, and in the ensemble “Life is Hot in Cracktown” with Kerry Washington and Illeana Douglas.

Edoardo has been called “an actor to watch” (Variety), “a most promising actor” (Los Angeles Times), and a ‘heartthrob” (The Hollywood Reporter).He has appeared in over forty films and television series, including the blockbuster “Romeo Must Die,” the highly acclaimed indie “Dinner Rush,” co-starring with Danny Aiello, and in a memorable recurring turn in “The Sopranos.”

Actor Kenneth Johnson made his feature debut in The Forbidden Dance, and then starred for five years as Detective Curtis “Lemonhead” Lemansky on the critically acclaimed FX show “The Shield”.

This led to the part of spiky haired pilot Lt. Butch 'Burner' Barnes on the action/adventure series "Pensacola: Wings of Gold," and the recurring role as drug counselor Joseph on the crime drama "Cold Case."

In the TNT series “Saving Grace”Kenny costars as Detective Ham Dewy opposite star Holly Hunter as Grace. He also made sitcom appearances on "Grace Under Fire," "Caroline in the City" and "Sliders" and has also guest-starred in such hit drama series as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”, “Smallville” “Sons of Anarchy” “NCIS”and “Boomtown”.

Johnson appeared in the the film “Desolation Canyon” opposite Stacy Keach. He starred in the indie thriller “Zzyzx”. Johnson also stars in the film The ‘Ungody’ with Wes Bentley. Other credits include “Blade”, opposite Wesley Snipes, and “Major League: Back the Minors”.

He is currently developing a film based on the life of boxer Jerry “The Bellflower Bomber” Quarry.

In addition, Johnson received a Silver Medal for Excellence award at the Park City Music and Film Festival for a short film, in which he directed and starred entitled “I Heard the Mermaids Singing”.

He was born in Connecticut and raised on a 40-acre farm in Vermont. He attended Central Connecticut State University, where he played football and baseball.

He started acting in plays locally in Vermont, most notably in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He worked modeling and in commercials before getting his first television role. Stay tuned to Rex Sikes Movie Beat for other great archived interviews, cast and crew listings, events, festivals, premieres, and more at http://www.rexsikes.com

Eric Morris is one of the most controversial and exciting acting teachers in the history of American performance. Author of 5 best-selling books on acting, and having taught over 20,000 students in the last 40 years (including some of Hollywood's biggest stars), Eric's craft process is clear, specific and compelling. Eric goes far beyond the Method in dealing with the actor's instrument in the belief that it is virtually impossible for an actor to learn or execute a process of acting without first eliminating the blocks, tension, fears, inhibitions, and other obstacles to expression. He teaches you how to deal directly with freeing the instrument, allowing you to become a "professional experiencer." Eric Morris began his involvement in theater at Northwestern University, where he graduated with a degree in Dramatic Arts. His acting career of over one hundred Equity plays, twenty major motion pictures, fifty network television episodes, and running roles on two syndicated TV series led him on a search for new and workable acting techniques. Eric's techniques are rooted in the Method, yet they distinctly represent his own approach, placing him among the most recognized acting coaches in the country. His books, No Acting Please, Being & Doing, Irreverent Acting, Acting From the Ultimate Consciousness, and Acting, Imaging & The Unconscious are used in colleges, universities, and private schools all over the world.

Eric Morris lives and teaches in Los Angeles but also travels regularly to New York and other cities around the country to conduct workshops. He has founded the American New Theater, a company of bi-coastal actors who have a common approach to acting and a common goal of carrying that approach into theater and film.

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