Beth Ann Carr
has years of experience in media, marketing and management. With
a background in television producing, she has worked for broadcast
stations throughout the United States, holding executive positions on
both the creative and fiscal sides of management, and has been the
principal in a communications consulting firm based in Washington State.
Bob Dahlin
won a student Academy Award for his first short film. He then
wrote and directed Monster in the Closet with John Carradine, Stella
Stevens and Howard Duff. Based in Los Angeles and Chicago, he has
worked as a 1st A.D. for Robert Altman, Norman Jewison, Jonathan Demme
and other major directors. He has worked on dozens of television
series for ABC, NBC, CBS, LIFETIME, Warner Bros., HBO and Trimark
Pictures, as well as several independent features.
Billy Higgins was the Executive Producer for The Perfect Man with Hilary Duff and Honey, starring Jessica Alba. He was recently line producer on Two For The Money,
starring Al Pacino, and Proof, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony
Hopkins. His production management experience spans 20 years and
includes the following films: The Game of Their Lives, Ali starring Will Smith, High Fidelity with John Cusak, and US/French/ British co-production The Straight Story with Sissy Spacek. He has worked with many veteran directors including Michael Mann and David Lynch.
Todd Norwood
is Project Director of our Multimedia Story App Department as well as a
writer/director with a number of films to his credit, including the
feature films The Wayfarers, Blackwater Farm, and Tricks of a Woman staring Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos) and Natasha Lyonne (Slums of Beverly Hills) which won Best Film at the Monaco Film Festival. His work in Web Series include Meet the Mayfarers, Bad Guy Guide, and The Salinger Spies. His work can be found at: www.toddnorwood.net
Brenden Dannaher has a Bachelor of Arts (Mass Communication-Film) from Macquarie University, Sydney. His first film as director, Under the Glass, was awarded Best Documentary at the 1996 National Student Film and Video Festival. Eloise,
his first feature, won the prestigious jury prize at AUSFEST 2002, the
Australian Digital and Video Film Festival. He has worked as a subtitle
editor for Australia's SBS-TV for several years, during which time he
has had the opportunity to study films and filmmaking techniques from
all over the world. He currently has two feature films in development;
a biopic of a prominent Australian woman, and The Witches' Coven, a horror film set in a Catholic college for young ladies.
Linda Voorhees
is an award winning writer with vast experience in the entertainment
industry. Credits include writing assignments and projects at the
following studios: ABC, CBS, NBC, TNT, USA, Disney Cable,
Lifetime, Hollywood Pictures, Columbia, Paramount and Universal.
She wrote the TNT Movie of the week, Crazy from the Heart, (Ace and Emmy award nominations, Imagen award) and Two Mothers for Zachary (Vanessa
Redgrave and Valerie Bertinelli). As a student at UCLA, she won
the Jack Nicholson award, and now teaches in the UCLA-MFA Film
School. Also a consultant, she is considered one of the
pre-eminent experts on film structure in the industry. Linda is a
popular and frequent lecturer at Pixar University, working with the
creative minds at Pixar Studios. She has taught advanced
screenwriting at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and
provided professional consultation for scripts in progress to be
submitted to the National Film Commission of New Zealand.
Lindsay Chag
has cast projects for both studio and independent film producers for
the past 10 years. She has cast 29 feature films, five short films, and
22 television pilots and television movies to date. Casting has
included actors Gene Hackman, Mel Brooks, Winona Ryder, Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Diane Lane, Sam Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Mimi Rogers, Tippi
Hedren, Dennis Hopper, Jason Alexander, James Gandolfini, Christian
Slater, Selma Blair and Anthony Hopkins.
