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Conor Ferguson has worked as a copywriter in advertising in Ireland for several years. Conor has mastered the art of short film with 2 award winning poignant short films, The Wednesdays and Atlantic. These have been produced as part of the Irish film production company, Park Films. The Wednesdays is about a retired couple who manage to re-ignite the love they’d almost forgotten about through unconventional means.

Atlantic, starring Liam Cunningham from The Wind That Shakes The Barley, is an atmospheric tale of a lonely farmer passing his days, unaware of the letter that’s on its way from the woman he once loved. Both films have screened worldwide to enthusiastic audiences. Atlantic is also an official selection in the MergingArts Short-Short Story Film Festival in the Heartstrings Program.

Brett Harvey is President and founder of BKS Crew Productions, a Vancouver based multimedia production company.

Brett has worked as a director of photography on a number of film and television projects including two recent projects for the Canadian national television network CBC – Secrets and Lottery On Ice.

He has made the move from DP to director with his new film The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, a documentary film which explores the 7 billion dollar per year business of marijuana in British Columbia and the history and current impact of cannabis prohibition.

The Union is available on DVD via Amazon.

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Emile Bokaer comes from a family of conscious and creative people in Ithaca, NY. As a child, he worked at his parents’ art house movie theater Fall Creek Pictures. While studying Math and English at Oberlin College, he fell in love with documentary filmmaking. He is pursuing an MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University.

Emile has made a wide range of documentary films locally and internationally.

These include: a film about a small town skateboard park, the relationships between various institutional lifestyles, collectives of Guatemalan women who work to preserve native species of corn, and a technical theater program at a girl’s school in Cleveland. His recent documentary film short

Looking Back is about Albert Lewis who struggles with drug addiction and with memories of war, using photography to help him survive in a supportive community of homeless veterans. Emile has also collaborated with Geoff Pingree on the forthcoming documentary feature, The Return of Elder Pingree and has worked on worked on the Student Academy Award finalist film, In Circles.

Nicolas Entel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His latest project is the documentary Sins of My Father, which tells the story of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his only son, as well as the sons of his most prominent victims. Nicolas directed the award winning documentary film Orquesta Tipica filmed in Argentina and locations around the world. He is also a founding partner in Red Creek Productions, one of the largest Latino owned production companies in the US. Red Creek has offices in New York, Buenos Aires and San Jose de Costa Rica. Red Creek has provided production services for the likes of Discovery Channel, BBC, and Turner Networks, produced hundreds of spots for major clients, as well as music videos for such artists as KT Tunstall and Wyclef Jean.

Daniel Wirtberg was born in Karlstad, Sweden. He started filmmaking at the age of 12. At 18, he was accepted to the Czech Film Academy. Daniel has freelanced as a writer, director and producer and is a filmmaking teacher. He has created a variety of projects from music videos, promos, and slide shows to short films of different genres including: Julia, Apple, and The Intruder. Daniel’s film Love Child was featured in a number of prestigious including one of the 10 selected shorts in the worldwide traveling Manhattan Short Film Festival along with over 50 other festivals around the world. It is about a young girl who enjoys the perfect life of being the only child, when one day a new family member arrives.

Julius Onah has worked for filmmakers Marc Levin, Spike Lee, and with acclaimed playwright Robert Alexander on the hip-hop play A Preface to the Alien Garden. He has also worked on as an NBC Page and was an editor on the documentary feature Lockdown, USA.

His award winning shorts include: She Waits In The Restless Horizon, Linus, and the documentary, Szmolinsky.

Julius' short film The Boundary starring Alexander Siddig was selected by Amnesty International as one of its Movies That Matter, screened world wide as part of the Manhattan Short Film Festival, and is airing on HBO.

He completed the short film Nie Patrz Wstecz (Don’t Look Back) in Lodz, Poland entirely on a mobile phone. It won the Jury Award for best film in the Nokia Mobile Movie Competition and premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.

Gregg Helvey received his M.F.A in film production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, and his B.A.s in English and French from the University of Virginia.Gregg has traveled the world to film in countries such as El Salvador, China, Kenya and England on projects ranging from independent fictional films to National Geographic and BBC1 documentaries. His award-winning work includes the documentary, Overexposed, which examines how pornography affects men. Gregg wrote, directed and produced Kavi, the winning film of the 2009 Student Academy Award® gold medal in the narrative category. Kavi was filmed entirely on location in India and tells the story of a young boy who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave.

Michael Ferreira, a native New Yorker of Portuguese immigrant decent, has performed in various theatrical mediums including: theater, television, film, and live cabaret performance, and also as his celebrated alter ego, Carmella Cann.Michael is a strong presence in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community of New York City, and an advocate for the prevention of child abuse. Michael is also contributor to the published book Straight Talk with Gay Guys: What Girlfriends Can't Tell You and Straight Men Won't by Daylle Deanna Schwartz. He has based his film, It’s Me Matthew!, on a fictionalized account of his life story. Michael decided to act in a lead role and write, produce, and direct the film in order to help others like Matthew, with unresolved losses.

Sean Baker is best known for co-creating the cult television show Greg the Bunny. Take Out, Sean's second feature which he co-directed, won the Regal Cinemas Dreammaker Award and Best Feature award at the Nashville Film Festival. Take Out is about an illegal Chinese immigrant that falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt.

Darren Dean wrote, directed and produced the award winning short film Sleep Over for under $250.

Born and raised in Northern New Jersey, Darren is a published author, editor and journalist. He was also the front-man for the popular NYC band, SHOT, which contributed music to the behind the scenes featurette for the Sundance award-winning film Acts of Worship.Prince of Broadway is Sean Baker's 3rd feature film and Darren Dean’s 1st feature as producer and writer. It premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature. The film went on to win awards at a number of other major film festivals. Prince of Broadway is the story of Lucky and Levon, two men whose lives converge in the underbelly of New York's wholesale fashion district.