RALPH WINTER //

Ralph Winter's most recent work includes producing PLANET OF THE APES and X-MEN. Other work includes STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY and STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME, which was nominated for four Academy Awards.

His award winning short film is entitled OPIE GONE MAD. Ralph is still married to his high-school sweetheart. "Short films are great fun, having made several myself. This type of film needs more recognition."

STEPHEN McEVEETY//

Steve was born and raised in Southern California, studied film at Loyola Marymount and started his career as an asst. editor and production manager. He’s been making films for nearly 25 years, producing numerous films, including BRAVEHEART, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, ANNA KARENINA and 187, to name a few.

HUNT LOWRY //

Hunt Lowry is the CEO/ President of Roserock Entertainment which has several feature film projects in development. He recently completed production on the family dramas Dreamer and Duma. Prior to the formation of Roserock Films, HUNT LOWRY served as the CEO/ President of Gaylord Films and produced the box office hits A Cinderella Story; What a Girl Wants; A Walk To Remember,; The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood; and White Oleander.

Lowry also executive produced the critically acclaimed film Donnie Darko starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Prior to Gaylord Films/ Pandora, Lowry produced such films as The Kid, Instinct, and Hounded for the Walt Disney Channel. Lowry also produced A Time To Kill; First Knight; Revenge; My Life; The Last of the Mohicans; Only The Lonely.

In addition, Lowry produced Career Opportunities, Top Secret, Get Crazy, and associate produced Airplane. Lowry also either Executive produced or produced the TV dramas Baja Oklahoma, Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Dream West, His Mistress, Wild Horses and Surviving. Lowry lives in Hancock Park with his screenwriter wife Christine, their son Oliver and daughter Libby.

SCOTT DERRICKSON //

In 1999, Scott wrote URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT for Phoenix Pictures, and HELLRAISER: INFERNO for Dimension, which he also directed. Scott also did an uncredited rewrite on the Dimension movie DRACULA 2000.

In 2000, Scott wrote a big budget horror film called GHOSTING for Dimension, with Scott attached to direct. Scott also wrote a science fiction time travel picture called FUTURE TENSE for Artists Production Group.

In 2001, he wrote a spiritual thriller called THE MYSTIC for Disney. In 2002, Scott wrote “Beware the Night,” a book adaptation for Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, which should be in production this year. Currently, Scott's latest film, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, starring Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson is in theatres.

HOWARD KAZANJIAN //

Howard Kazanjian produced two of the highest grossing films of all time: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and RETURN OF THE JEDI. He also managed production on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Kazanjian has worked as an Assistant Director with such legends as Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, and Billy Wilder. Kazanjian is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and is still active with his alma matter, the University of Southern California.

SIMON SWART //

Simon Swart is Executive Vice President of Sales at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Prior to this appointment, he served as Senior Vice President of Sales and achieved record-setting revenues and profits. Under Swart's guidance, Fox Home Entertainmet has garnered numerous accolades from its retail partners. Most recently, Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world named Twentieth Century Fox its Vendor of the Year. The company also received Best Buy’s “Best Of The Best” Award, marking the first entertainment company to earn that distinction. Swart and his group have been instrumental in growing the company’s catalog business to record profits and launching the TV-DVD business with dedicated retail sections across key accounts. Previously, Swart held positions of increasing responsibility at Warner Home Entertainment and Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

JANET SCOTT BATCHLER //

Janet Scott Batchler co-wrote BATMAN FOREVER with her husband and writing partner, Lee Batchler. They also wrote SMOKE AND MIRRORS, starring Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones and MODESTY BLAISE, a 40-year old cult favorite comic strip heroine in the tradition of James Bond. Batchler was one of only a dozen women accepted into the prestigious Directing Workshop for Women of the American Film Institute in 1996.

JONAS McCORD //

Jonas McCord is a dual Emmy, Peabody, and special Academy Award winning Director/Writer/Producer with over twenty years experience on stage, screen, and television. As Executive Producer/Writer of the TV series "THE YOUNG RIDERS", "EARTH FINAL CONFLICTt", and "THE DIRTY DOZEN", as well as the award winning movies "WOMEN OF VALOR", starring Susan Sarrandon, and Stephen Spielberg's "CLASS OF '61" McCord has supervised the production of over 100 hours of television. McCord's feature writing debut, "MALICE", starring Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, opened number one domestically in the late nineties. His most recent writing/directing effort "THE BODY", starring Antonio Banderas, bested New Line Cinema's "LORD OF THE RINGS" to win the prestigious Movie Guide award as the most spiritual uplifting film of 2001. In 2003 McCord Executive Produced Robert Altman's "THE COMPANY", starring Nev Cambell, as well as "EULOGY" starring Deborah Winger, and will direct Joshua II (In The Name Of God) for Crusader Entertainment.

KANJIRO SAKURA //

Kanjiro has been involved in movie production since 1978 with his independent movie production company. He has produced 15 movies from 1978 to 1997 and many of them became hits in the Japanese film market because of his ability to create great stories complimented by great casts. In 1998, he formed his own production company "Cross Media Inc." and produced "White Out" which became the second most successful movie in history of the Japanese movie industry. He is also the producer of the indie hit "All About Our House" which has been translated into English.

MICHAEL MEDVED //

Michael Medved is a film critic, best-selling author and has a nationally syndicated three-hour radio talk show, emphasizing the intersection of politics and pop culture, reaching more than 1.8 million listeners in 124 markets, coast to coast. Born in Philadelphia, raised in San Diego, Mr. Medved graduated with honors from Yale and then attended Yale Law School-where his classmates included Bill and Hillary Clinton.

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BARRY COOK//

Barry made his feature film directing debut on the 1998 animated Disney film MULAN following a 17-year career at the Disney Studios and culminating a lifelong desire to make films. Barry served as an effects animator on the film, TRON and supervised effects for Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE LITTLE MERMAID, and ALADDIN. Among his other credits, he has directed two previous Disney shorts – the 1992 computer animated OFF HIS ROKERS, and TRAIL MIX-UP, a 1993 short starring Roger Rabbit.

He is currently writing the screenplay for a computer-animated feature film titled, THE CAT & THE FIDDLE.

DAVID WILCOX //

Wilcox says, "What I want people to get from my music is to wake up that place in their heart that's been sleeping, to give them power to change what needs to change in their life, and to help them believe that there is hope. I believe in the power of the humble song to give somebody a vision of what's possible for their life… It's medicinal music."

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MICHAEL RAMIREZ//

Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the news with a captivating drawing style to create consistently outstanding editorial cartoons. Ramirez, who studied premed at the University of California, Irvine, originally considered journalism a hobby. In addition to the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, Michael counts the 1996 Mencken Award for Best Cartoon among his many honors. He is based at the Los Angeles Times, where he moved after seven years at the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. He has been syndicated by Copley News Service since 1988.

CHRIS WILLMAN//

Chris Willman is a senior writer for Entertainment Weekly magazine, profiling celebrities and reviewing music, DVDs, theater, films and books. His cover stories have included "Walk the Line," Coldplay, the Dixie Chicks and U2. Prior to joining EW 11 years ago, Willman was a critic and feature writer for the Los Angeles Times for more than a decade, penning Sunday Calendar cover pieces on figures from Martin Scorsese to MC Hammer. He's garnered some critical acclaim of his own with a new book, "Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music" (about which Stephen King claimed, "You won't read a better book about American music this year or probably, a better one about American political thought").

ANDI CHAPMAN //

An Actress, Filmmaker, Theatre Director (Dramalogue Award winner for Outstanding Direction). She has helmed such productions as Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias, at Hollywood’s Actors’ Co-op, for which she garnered a Dramalogue Award for Outstanding Direction. Other stage credits include Leslie Lee’s The Ninth Wave, which received rave reviews at Hollywood’s Lillian Theatre, Amiri’s Baraka’s Dutchman, Alice Childress’ Florence, Sheri Bailey’s A Summer Memory, and a gospel musical – which she also created – entitled For This Reason. Andi’s work at the Mark Taper Forum includes Haiti’s Children of God for the Blacksmiths new works Festival, she also has been an Assistant Director for The Mark Taper’s world premiere of new works including Mules, Love is Blind, and Magic Fire, and for The Taper’s Shakespeare workshop of Antony and Cleopatra. She was also the Assistant Director for The Los Angeles Theater Center’s production of Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky. In addition to Memorial Street, Andi experienced great joy in directing two other short films entitled Elijah’s Song, and Why. . , A couplet of 16mm & Super 8 short films, which she also wrote, at LACC film school.

Andi’s approach to directing for the screen isn’t solely the product of her theater work and the valuable education and experience she was afforded by the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Her insights, sensibilities, and talents are also informed by two decades’ experience as a professional actor who has worked with stage, screen, and television directors who are among the industry’s finest. One who has ever been inspired by her great love for music, it’s no surprise that Andi’s most recent Producer credits include, the soon to be released concert film DVD of Grammy Award-winning Jazz Vocalist Dianne Reeves.

As an actor, Andi’s television credits include many movies-of-the-week, as well as guest-starring and recurring roles in series such as Commander and Chief, Six Feet under, Without a Trace, The Shield, ER, NYPD Blue, The Practice, X-Files, The Division, Providence, City of Angels, and Family Law to name a few. Her film credits include everything from Robert Altman’s Short Cuts to Roland Joffe’s Goodbye Lover. Among her stage credits are Gorki’s Lower Depths, Lorca’s Blood Wedding, and On Stripping Back from Myself, a one-woman show celebrating the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. Andi, is a proud graduate of New York’s High School for the Performing Arts, holds a B.F.A. from City College of New York’s Davis Center for the Performing Arts and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama, and now a proud alumna of AFI Film School.

CHRISTOPHER LOCKHART //

For almost a decade, Christopher Lockhart has served as the Executive Story Editor at ICM, a leading talent and literary agency in Los Angeles. Working along side co-president and legendary talent agent Ed Limato, Chris looks for potential projects for a small roster of "A" list clients including Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington and Steve Martin. He also coordinates the prestigious ICM Trainee Program.

Chris collaborates with producer Julie Richardson ("Collateral") and has set up several projects, including "A Rhinestone Alibi" ( Paramount) and "The Midnight Man" (Dimension). In his spare time, he created "Story Conference," a series of free screenwriting seminars and earned an L.A. Area Emmy nomination for his writing workshop, "The Inside Pitch," which aired on TV station LA36. The subsequent DVD release won the 2005 Aegis Award and is used in film schools around the world. Chris has authored several articles, including "I Wrote a 120 Page Script But Can't Write a Logline: The Construction of a Logline ," which has become a definitive reference for new writers.

He teaches a popular screenwriting class at Los Angeles Valley College and reaches out to writers globally via www.twoadverbs.com and his Q&A blog, "The Inside Pitch." He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and has judged for their national awards. Judging duties have also included the Final Draft Screenwriting Contest and the Sacramento Film Festival. Originally from Staten Island, New York, Chris earned an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was awarded the University's Public Service Prize. He lives in Sherman Oaks, California, with his wife Sarah, a chiropractor.