Jack Perez is a 20-year veteran of the motion picture and television industry. He has directed nine feature films, is the recipient of awards for both writing and directing, and has received the critical praise of Roger Ebert, Harry Knowles  from Ain’t It Cool News, drive-in critic Joe Bob Briggs, Fangoria, Film Threat, The LA Weekly, The Austin Chronicle and The New York Times.
       
Mr. Perez graduated with honors from New York University’s Department of Film and Television. In his early career, he was hired by Sam Raimi & Universal Studios to direct the pilot for the popular television series, Xena: Princess Warrior.

Ryan has written on the TV shows I’m In The Band and Scrubs, has consulted on South Park, and has sold animated pilots to 20th Century Fox and Comedy Central.  He was also invited to pitch jokes and ideas to Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Da Ali G Show) for Cohen’s film, Brüno.  Ryan wrote and directed the short film, The Fifth, which screened at over 60 film festivals worldwide, and garnered a myriad of awards along the way.  He also wrote and directed the horror-comedy short film, Tour de Fright, after winning financing from Boost Mobile’s “Create The Next Horror Villain” Contest.  He is currently working on a screenplay based on this short film.

John Landis is one of the most successful movie directors, writers and producers of the past thirty years.   Among other films, he directed Kentucky Fried Movie, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, Spies Like Us, Three Amigos and Coming to America.  His television directing credits include Psych, Masters of Horror, Dream On, the documentary, Slasher, and the Emmy-award winning documentary, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project.  His latest directing project was the feature film, Burke and Hare, starring Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis, released in October 2010.

Michael has built an impressive resume, starting his career under the tutelage of the legendary James L. Brooks (The Simpsons, As Good as It Gets). From there, Michael leveraged his experience to form Wormser Cupid’s Arrow, the feature length documentary, Hollywood Desperado and the Jake Kennedy’s Penance, starring Michael Rooker, Tony Todd, Graham McTavish, James Duvall, and Marieh Deflino.

In 2009, Michael formed Level 10 Films, where he executive produced Tease, alongside Peter Marc Jacobson (The Nanny), a scripted pilot for Fox Television Studios. Other credits include the pilot, The Horrible Terrible Misadventures of David Atkins, starring Janeane Garofalo, Orlando Jones, Thomas Lennon, Gary Coleman, and French Stewart.
Michael is currently in pre-production on Gravy, written and directed by James Roday (Psych) and starring Mary Kate Olsen, Thomas Haden Church, Gabourey Sidibe, and Jena Malone, and in development on The Fever, and Bleed.

After graduating college, Micah moved to Los Angeles where he landed production positions on Jeopardy, UPN’s Half and Half, and Fox’s Union Jackass. He also served as a writer’s assistant on the Gene Simmons Comedy Roast.

Since then, Micah has teamed up with Peter Marc Jacobson (co-creator of The Nanny), and Michael Wormser, to write and executive produce, Tease, a nighttime soap pilot for Fox Television Studios. In addition to his television work, Micah teamed with Michael Wormser to produce the horror film, Penance, starring Michael Rooker and Tony Todd, and directed by Jake Kennedy. Micah is also in development on a comedy web-series titled, The Mooch, directed by Dave Rogers, a director and Emmy-award winning editor from NBC’s The Office.

After graduating film school, Kristin began her filmmaking career working for Disney’s Touchstone Pictures and Buena Vista Group.  She served as an executive assistant to the Vice President and then to the President of Production.

In 2002, Kristin joined forces with Hip Films, an independent production company based in Hollywood.  She served as the development and production producer for Hip Films for over 4 years, producing a number of films and TV shows.  Kristin was instrumental in the growth of the business that made Hip Films one of the only full turnkey operations in Hollywood, with their own fully-equipped sound stages and post-production studio.

In 2005, Kristin produced the award-winning The Double, starring Eric Roberts and Shannyn Sossamon.  This was followed by Love Made Easy, starring Martin Landau.
During this period, Kristin also served as supervising producer and writer for two seasons for the TV Guide Channel’s show Close-Up.

In 2006, Kristin created, directed and produced In Session, an original music television pilot with Grammy award-winning music producer, Linda Perry.  Kristin went on to work with Hu-Man Element Productions as their head producer.

Kristin wrote treatments, commercial and video concepts and worked closely with the clients, storyboard artists and editors to execute that vision.  She has produced over 50 commercials, videos, music videos and EPKs for major label acts.

In 2008, Kristin co-produced Deadline, starring Brittany Murphy and Thora Birch.  She is in post-production on All Together Now,with executive producer Daniel Dubiecki. 

After graduating from the film program at Loyola Marymount University, Shawn began working with ZM Productions, where he met several directors, including Peyton reed, John Schultz and Jack Perez.  Under Schultz’s direction, Shawn shot his first feature, Bandwagon.  From there, he went on to DP films such as The Big Empty, La Cucaracha, Bring It On, Like Mike, The Honeymooners and Black Dynamite.  Recently, Shawn has worked as DP on Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, and Vampires Suck.  

Chris graduated from Columbia College with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema. Soon after, he joined the U.S. Army and served honorably for 4 years, attaining the rank of Sergeant.  During his enlistment, he served in Saudi Arabia, helping to enforce the no fly zone at the completion of the first Gulf War.

While in the military, Chris saved enough money to buy a non-linear editing system, and when he returned to civilian life, he began editing actor demo reels and corporate industrial videos. Shortly thereafter, he had the opportunity to cut his first feature film, Extreme Honor, starring Michael Madsen and Michael Ironside. 

In the years since, he's cut nearly 30 feature films and television series.  In 2006, he had the opportunity to direct his first feature film, Evilution, which has won awards at a number of international film festivals.

Zach has worked as a Production Designer, Art Director, Boom Operator, Propmaker, Carpenter and Stunt Driver.  Zach’s film credits include:  An American Crime, An American Zombie, Simon Says, Special and Don’t Come Knocking (directed by Wim Wenders).  He is currently working as Art Director on the big-budget film, Drive Angry 3D, starring Nicolas Cage.  (Editor’s Note:  There’s nothing this man cannot do.  It’s quite remarkable.)

Oliver Dear was raised in the entertainment industry and exposed to the nuances of film, television and video production.  From an early age, he quickly developed a passion for the visual arts and a keen eye for the quirky.  In particular, his love of comic books and the art of Wallace Wood and Jeff Jones.  Oliver later pursued this interest within his study of fine art painting and storyboarding. His extensive experience as a storyboard artist includes Volcano, Batman and Robin, the pilot episode of Ally McBeal, and the Discovery Channel miniseries, Dinosaur Planet and Alien Planet.  He has also created numerous “comic book style” artworks for such films and shows as Simon Says, Sandlot 3, HBO’s Flight of the Conchords and My Name is Earl.  Currently, Oliver is developing images for the 2011 film, The Smurfs.

Ben and David run Juniper Post in Burbank, CA, an audio post-production house providing a myriad of services, including sound design, sound mixing, sound recording, foley, dialogue editing, music editing and ADR.  Their recent credits include:  Gentlemen Broncos, The Killing Room, Black Dynamite, The Vicious Kind, James Cameron’s Aliens of the Deep, James Cameron’s Expedition Bismark, The Foot Fist Way and The Great World of Sound, among hundreds of other films and TV projects.  Ben and David won Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Sound Editing for James Cameron’s Expedition Bismark, while Ben was also Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Sound Mixing for the same project.

Patrick arrived in LA from Chicago in 1999.  Ever since, he has built one of LA’s most prominent DJ and entertainment companies (Dubgypsy), as well as spun tunes for red carpet events and placed music for some of the hottest shows on television.

After completing a music supervision course at UCLA in 2008, Patrick began working at Talent House.   Shortly thereafter, he joined Gary Calamar (KCRW) and the Go Music team, where he has worked as a music coordinator – choosing music for True Blood, Dexter, House, Men of a Certain Age, The Beautiful Life, and Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards. Outside of the core work at Go, he has also spearheaded the beginning of Go Music Advertising Department, where he has recently worked on Purina, Chrysler, and Stoli.  In early 2010, Patrick began Red Light Music Supervision with his partner/co-supervisor Sanaz Lavaedian.