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Kara's credits as Production Designer include: Everything Must Go, Dear John for Lasse Hallström, Polish Wedding, Guy (written by documentarian Kirby Dick), and Cold Around The Heart.

As set decorator, Kara contributed to the diverse looks of such films as French Kiss, Strange Days, When a Man Loves a Woman, In the Line of Fire, The Mambo Kings, and more recently Race to Witch Mountain.

Kara also wrote the screenplays for Killing Me Softly and A Time for Dancing, for which she earned an Emmy nomination. Her novel, Sparkle Life, was published in 2006.

A graduate of film and history from the University of Michigan, Annie went on to study at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where she got her start designing classmates' projects.

Annie’s collaboration with director Jonathan Levine, The Wackness, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Annie designed her first studio film, Cyrus, directed by the Duplass brothers and starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, and Marisa Tomei for Fox Searchlight.

Annie more recently worked with Jonathan Levine on his film, 50/50, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease, inspired by a true story.

Rob was an interviewer and videographer for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation while earning an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research.

Rob’s short film Preacher With An Unknown God won a Sundance Jury Award. Rob directed the Morgan Spurlock produced theatrical feature What Would Jesus Buy, about saving Christmas from the Shopocalypse.

Rob has since been a director, producer, cinematographer, sound recordist and editor on a variety of documentary and broadcast productions on films including: Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock, Freakonomics, and more recently, Carol Channing: Larger Than Life.

Rob is currently working on his feature documentary Training for the Apocalypse, winner of a Pacific Pioneer Grant, which is about the journeys of survivalists, truth-seekers and prophets united in their preparations for global cataclysm and the near-extinction of humanity as they struggle to make sense of the world they live in now.

Bob’s set decoration work has ranged from many horror/thriller, science fiction, and action films like: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Robocop and Total Recall, the Die Hard series, Angels & Demons, and The Expendables.

Bob is also known for his work on period pieces like: Days of Heaven, Melvin and Howard, Newsies, Rambling Rose, Master and Commander, and more recently The Artist.

Bob received Oscar nominations for his set decoration work on the both Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and more recently Oscar winning film, The Artist, which won for Best Picture.

Mike started out directing music videos for such bands as Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Blood Brothers, and The Cave Singers.

Mike made his first feature film, Analog Days about young adults in the small town of Newhall, CA, 30 miles north of Los Angeles, and the documentary, Kid Icarus, about a young man, Leigh Harkrider, that lives in a trailer park on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where with an obsession for Steven Spielberg, who sets out to make his cinematic debut with limited knowledge of what it takes to make a great film.

Mike's more recent feature film, Littlerock is a drama that examines culture shock, the universal yearning for connection, and the impact of history on ordinary people in the tale of Atsuko and Rintaro, Japanese siblings who come to California to visit a World War II-era internment camp.

Littlerock is followed up by the feature film, Pearblossom Hwy, co-written and starring Atsuko Okatsuka of Littlerock and also starring Cory Zacharia from Littlerock and Kid Icarus.

Mike currently teaches film directing at the University of Southern California.

Evan moved to California in his early 20s with a group of close friends to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker. Evan worked for Internet start-up STIM TV where he conceptualized and starred in the edgy sitcom Boss Of The Glory.

Evan has directed many music videos and worked as a cinematographer on feature-length horror film Placebo and the shorts Before Breakfast and Savanna.Bellflower, an intensely personal story incorporating many real life events, was Evan’s feature-length directorial debut. Bellflower became Evan’s true labor of love, causing him to sacrifice almost everything, including selling off all of his personal belongings and living in an abandoned wing of an office building to fund the film.

Bellflower follows two friends as they venture out into the world to begin their adult lives. While waiting for the world to end, their call to excitement comes unexpectedly when one of them meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love.

Quickly integrated into a new group of friends, they set off on a journey of betrayal, love, hate, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies which in Bellflower are filled with cool customized cars, flame throwers and home bult wepons of mass destruction.

Daniel is a Screenwriter, Director, and Actor from Canada. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and was educated in Halifax and Toronto. Daniel started the theatre company da da kamera in Toronto for whom he has written, directed, and acted. Daniel is now one of Canada's best known playwrights.Daniel has written, co-written, acted, and directed several independent films, which are usually made in his home province of Nova Scotia. They include: Past Perfect, Marion Bridge, Wilby Wonderful, Whole New Thing, and more recently Trigger.Wilby Wonderful which he wrote, directed, and acted in is about 24 hours in the life of the small town of Wilby, where the municipal festival is in preparation as development comes to the island and threatens to change the world around them. Whole New Thing, co-written with Amnon Buchbinder, is unconventional coming-of-age narrative of a 13 year old boy, Emerson, who lives with his counter-cultural parents and develops a crush on his teacher, Don Grant, played by Daniel.Trigger was written by Daniel and directed by Bruce MacDonald, starring Tracy Wright and Molly Parker. Trigger is the story of two rock n' roll women who once shared a friendship, a band and a chaotic lifestyle. A dozen years later they meet again, and over the course of one evening rediscover friendship, remember their rock n'roll days, and reignite chaos.

Joined by Paul Elsnau, co-producer and editor of Spoiler Alert Radio, we discussed the 2012 Academy Award short film nominees for live-action and animation.The Oscar nominated shorts play in theaters around the US and around the world throughout months prior and after the Academy Award ceremony courtesy of Shorts International.

There were many great shorts selected from around the world and some of our favorites included: Time Freaks and The Shore (for Live Action) and A Morning Stroll and The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (for Animated).

Arnau has had several years or experience editing and collaborating on musically based films, commercials, music videos, and documentaries including: the documentary, A.Visualist and the animated Oscar nominated music laden feature film, Chico & Rita, He has working for several years on projects in collaboration with Javier Mariscal.A.Visualist is a documentary about behind the scenes look at the philosophies and practices of VJ performance art and is noted for its unique style of non-linear editing.Chico & Rita is about is a young piano player with big dreams, Chico, and Rita, a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.

Max's director of photography credits include: Boss'n Up (with Snoop Dogg), and Fist of the Warrior.Max's more recent work includes: the Chinese update of What Women Want, starring Gong Li and Andy Lau, and the upcoming, The Girl From The Naked Eye, a noirish detective story about Sandy, a call girl at The Naked Eye, who ends up dead and her friend and only ally in the world, Jake, goes on a manhunt to find out who killed her.