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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.

Michael Lavelle, cinematographer, writer, and director from Ireland, has written and directed the awarding winning short films, Out of the Blue and I Hate Musicals! The Musical. He has worked as cinematographer with director Ken Wardrop on five short films, and on Ken’s debut feature documentary, His & Hers. His & Hers explores women’s relationships with men through the eyes of seventy participants, and Michael won the World Cinematography Award at Sundance for this work on it. Michael was a finalist for the Berlinale Today Award 2011 with his short screenplay Mother's Little Helper and Michael has begun work on 6 Hours, his debut feature film as writer/director.

David Boyd's film credits include work onthe films: Cast Away, Galaxy Quest, and 12 Rounds.David was also the director of photography work for the Joss Whedon TV series, Firefly, and he has worked on the HBO series Deadwood and the award-winning Friday Night Lights.As a cinematographer, David has teamed up with directed Aaron Schneider on two films, the first being the Oscar-winning short film Two Soldiers, about two brothers in Missouri in 1941, and the second being the film Get Low, a heartfelt story about guilt, loss, and forgiveness starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, and Lucas Black.

A former print journalist, Niall McKay’s work has appeared in The Economist, The New York Times and Wired Magazine. Niall won an Emmy for his documentary Sikhs in America about the challenges of being Sikh in the US, which aired on PBS stations across America as part of Asian Pacific Heritage Month. Niall also co-produced Irvine Welsh’s directorial debut, Nuts.Niall’s critically acclaimed feature documentary The Bass Player: A Song for Dad was aired on RTE and has screened in the film festival circuit. The Bass Player: A Song for Dad is a parallel journey into Niall’s admiration for his father, a jazz bass player, and his innermost doubts about love, and their conversations take on a confessional quality as they reveal their darkest moments.Niall is also the founder and director of the San Francisco Irish Film Festival and the co-founder of the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival.

Chico Colvard is the son of a WWII German-Jewish mother and African-American father raised in the segregated south of Georgia. After pursuing a career in the theatre arts, Chico went on to eventually study and teach "race, law, and media" related courses at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.Chico is the producer and director of a deeply personal and uncompromising documentary, called Family Affair.Family Affair begins where at 10 years old, filmmaker, Chico Colvard, accidentally shot his sister in the leg. This random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities that shattered his family. Thirty years later, Chico bravely visits his relatives and what unfolds is a personal film that’s as uncompromising, raw, and cathartic as any in the history of the medium. Family Affair is a story that yields insights about the legacy of abuse and attempts to understand one’s capacity to accommodate a parent’s past crimes in order to satisfy an eternal longing for family.Family Affair is a feature length documentary that premiered in competition at Sundance and was the first film acquired by Oprah Winfrey for her new cable channel, OWN. Family Affair has screened at premiere festivals around the world, winning Audience and Best Documentary Feature awards.

Nathan Larson is an award winning musician and film composer.

Nathan’s work as a musician includes being formerly the lead guitarist for the influential 1990s band Shudder to Think and the founder of the band Hot One. He was also the creative force behind Mind Science of the Mind. Nathan also has a band A Camp with his wife Nina Persson, who the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish rock group The Cardigans.

As a composer, Nathan has worked on the soundtracks for High Art, and Velvet Goldmine and has composed for a variety of independent feature films including: Boys Don’t Cry, Lilya 4 Ever, Tigerland, Dirty Pretty Things, The Woodsman, Bananas!, and The Messenger.

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.