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John Jeffcoat is a writer, director, and editor based out of Seattle, WA.John's debut as a documentary director was the 1999's Bingo! The Documentary distributed by Seventh Art Releasing. His feature-length directorial debut, Outsourced, is a narrative about the outsourcing experience in India, he co-wrote with George Wing and stars Josh Hamilton and Ayesha Dharker.Outsourced is available on DVD. John is also working on a feature-length documentary on the world's largest film industry, in Bombay, India, Bollywood and Me.

Michael Kang is a Korean American writer and director.

His feature film directorial debut The Motel was produced by indie veteran director Miguel Arteta (known for Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, and The Good Girl) and premiered internationally at the Pusan Film Festival and was also awarded the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker's Award. The Motel is currently available on DVD.

Michael's latest film West 32nd, produced by Teddy Zee (known for producing Hitch and The Pursuit of Happyness) revolves around John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer in New York, who takes on a pro-bono case involving a fourteen-year-old Korean boy accused of murder. It debuted at Tribeca

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Asaf Hanuka is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist, notable for his collaborations with his identical twin brother Tomer and his work with Etgar Keret in both Hebrew and English.Asaf and Tomer co-created Bipolar, an experimental comic book series which gained them nominations for the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards.Asaf and Tomer were artists on Ari Folman’s haunting animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir, about the connection with the current Israeli Army and the 1982 Lebanon War.Waltz with Bashir has toured film festivals worldwide; garnering many awards, and is in limited theatrical release. It has won 6 Israeli Academy Awards. It was also named Best Film of 2008 by the National Society of Film Critics in the United States and has won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film.

Karen Aqua has created animated films exploring the themes of ritual, journeys, transformation, and the human spirit since 1976 with her 1st animated short, Penetralia. Much of her work reflects an interest in symbols, mythology, and prehistoric and tribal cultures, and includes elements of rhythm, dance, and music.Her award-winning films have been screened nationally and internationally, at film festivals, museums, and universities. Aqua’s animation also appears regularly on Sesame Street.Karen's recent film Sensorium is a hand-drawn experimental animation exploring the relationship between music and image that is inspired by dance gestures and movements found in nature such as water and tide pools, the film is a study of sound/motion synthesis.

Terrance Zdunich is a writer, illustrator, composer, and performer from Los Angeles, CA.He has worked on a diverse set of projects including: storyboard illustration on Sean Penn's film Into the Wild, stage acting, and the illustrated book God and The Box.Terrance's most recent project is the film Repo! The Genetic Opera, which he co-wrote and co-composed with Darren Smith, which Terrance also stars in as the Grave Robber, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.Repo! The Genetic Opera is a futuristic sci-fi goth camp horror film about organ transplantation and the problems with bad loans.It is currently touring select venues around the country, with audiences in costumes followed by conversations with both Terrance and Darren Lynn Bousman.

Michael Langan grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where he began his artistic career as a professional stage actor.

He returned to his New England birthplace in 2003 to attend the animation program at Rhode Island School of Design, completing Doxology as his thesis film.

Doxology has since won 12 awards and screened at over 50 film festivals worldwide including the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Crossroads Film Festival, ASIFA-East Animation Festival, and the Animation Block Party.

Michael is currently the director of video and animation at Upper Playground in San Francisco, where he has directed over 400 short promotional films and documentaries. He continues to produce experimental animations independently.

His latest film titled Dahlia is a fast paced, visually and musically charged live action animation that debuted at Slamdance.

Nate Wragg is an renowned artist, illustrator, and animator.He left home after high school to study character animation at Cal Arts. Nate received an animation internship at James Baxter Animation Studios after his 3rd year of school, followed by an internship at Pixar Animation Studios in the art department on Ratatouille leaving school early.He has designed, developed and art directed the end title sequence for Ratatouille and was the Production Designer on Pixar’s animated short Your Friend the Rat and was a character designer on Toy Story 3. He left Pixar to move to LA to work as an artist for Dreamworks.He illustrated the feature children’s book for Ratatouille called Too Many Cooks along with plans to develop his own books.Nate’s other illustrations include a short story in the collaboration comic Afterworks 2 and for the art book The Ancient Book of Myth and War. He was accepted into the Society of Illustrators 50th Annual Showcase in New York City and was recently part of an charity art auction called the Totoro Forest Project at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.

Producer and animator Timothy Schultz and John Grigsby joined us for this week's episode.Tim Schultz went to college to study film and journalism at the University of Colorado before starting Bullhead Entertainment, LLC in 2005. Bullhead recently produced The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay and is currently in production on the feature-length documentary Chasing the Shadows, which follows Tim's journey into the world of ghosts and the afterlife. John Grigsby’s recent animations entitled, An Introduction to Lucid Dream Exploration was painstakingly created on etch-a-sketch. He is also a musician and recently toured the world as a bassist with blues musician Otis Taylor. John is the DOP and animator for The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay.The Cave has brought Plato's pedagogical story to life by shooting over 4,000 still photographs of John Grigsby's wonderful claymation. It has screened in many film festivals worldwide and has won awards including won 1st Place Animation at the USA Film Festival Short Film and Video Competition of 2008. It has also screened in the 2008 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival.

Scott Bunt has written for newspapers, magazines and standup comics, penned radio and television shows, worked in the music industry as a songwriter, producer and musician.

His recent feature film, Sea of Dust, is based on the real life villain Prester John, and his vengeful master plan to sacrifice “the psychologically vulnerable” on the altar of evil.

Richard McGuire, musician, artist, and animator, joined us on this episode.

Richard is the founder and bass player of the band Liquid Liquid.

He is a regularly contributing artist to the The New Yorker magazine.

Richard has also created comics, written and illustrated four children's books and has created award winning animation design for television for PBS Kids.

He has designed and directed the short film Mico-Loup which was part of the feature film, Loulou and other Wolves.

Most recently, Richard has co-written and directed the closing piece in Fear(s) of the Dark, a French animated feature film from a variety of animators who went back to the origins of their terrors and agreed to animate their drawings that inspire them.

Fear(s) of the Dark is currently playing in limited release in theatres in worldwide.