Craig McKay is an award-winning feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer. Recognized with two Academy Award nominations for editing Reds and The Silence of the Lambs, and an Emmy Award for editing the NBC miniseries Holocaust, he has edited more than forty films including Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate, Cop Land and Maid in Manhattan. His directing credits include the Emmy Award-winning Bubbe Meises, Bubbe Stories for PBS and HBO's The Red Shoes, written by John Guare. Story consultant credits include Bravo's Haiti: Dreams of Democracy, Academy Award-nominated Mandela, and PBS's award-winning Witness: Voices from the Holocaust. McKay has served as a creative advisor at the Sundance Institute Filmmaker's Lab and is also an executive producer on the award-winning feature length documentary A Normal Life. He is a member of the DGA, AMPAS, WGAE and Local 700. McKay has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.

Annie has been an integral part of the independent film community in New York City for the past sixteen years. She brings a depth of experience in multiple facets of the industry especially as a producer and filmmaker.

Annie has produced, co-produced and/or line produced nine independent films, including the highly successful comedy, Super Troopers (Fox Searchlight) and the award-winning Acts of Worship (Independent Spirit Award Nominee, Sundance Selection). She is currently producing the film, "My Time with Betty", which won the 2007 IFP/Seattle Spotlight Award.

She also produced and directed the feature documentary, Anne and Tony: Lives Truly Lived, the story of Anne and Tony Fisher, New York philanthropists, who tragically died in 2003.

In addition to her project work, Annie is a consultant to producers and filmmakers, often in conjunction with Offhollywood Digital, a production and post-production company specializing in high definition technology.

As Vice President of Film Development & Acquisitions at CameraPlanet Pictures, Annie headed the development and acquisitions division for feature and documentary films. In this capacity, she helped conceive and launch the documentary film series that teamed the Discovery Network with the award-winning documentarians Barbara Kopple, Peter Gilbert and Michael Apted.

Early in her career, Annie founded Sapphire Blue Productions, a company dedicated to developing independent film projects featuring new writers and directors. The company also sponsored a “First Look” development deal for the award-winning students at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Annie began her film career at Columbia Pictures Entertainment as part of the Management Associates Program. Dividing her time between New York and London, she managed a range of advertising, publicity, distribution and production assignments at Columbia Tri-Star Films, RCA/Columbia Home Video, Columbia International Television and the company’s Corporate Communications/Investor Relations department.

She is also an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts where she teaches a course she created on independent film producing and the role of a creative producer.

A graduate of Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts in performing and fine arts, Annie is a member of the Independent Feature Project, New York Women in Film and Television, Film Society of Lincoln Center and Georgetown Entertainment & Media Alliance.

Steve Kodish’s work on documentaries, feature films, commercials and corporate videos has earned him a CINE Golden Eagle, The Communicator Award of Excellence, and three Tellys. His recent credits include work as producer on The Hope, a documentary about Jewish Rock star, Rick Recht, co-producer/production manager on the 3-part PBS documentary series The Meaning of Food, pre-production producer on the independent feature film Hedda Gabler, and associate producer on A Journey of Spirit, a documentary about singer, songwriter and guitarist Debbie Friedman.

Heather began making films in 2001 when she won the Flicks on 66 (now Duke City Shootout) Screenplay Competition with her short script 101 Days. She's participated in 911 Media Art Center's New Voices Documentary Producers Program and the SIFF Fly Filmmaking Challenge with the short documentary Lipstick Men. She's been a cowriter on several award-winning short films, including The Delivery, directed by Virginia Bogert, and winner of the 2006 SIFF Fly Screenwriting Competition and Anybuddy Home? directed by Joe Shapiro, which won the 2005 Seattle 48 Hour Film Project Audience Award for Best Film. She was awarded a CityArtists grant from the Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs earlier this year.

Heather holds a B.A. in history and social sciences from the University of Washington. Her greatest spiritual awakenings . . . giving birth to my son, climbing Huayana Picchu in Peru, and now.

Ixaac is a Seattle-based writer. He cowrote “My Time with Betty,” which won the 2007 IFP/Seattle Spotlight Award. He also co-wrote The Delivery, directed by Virginia Bogert, and winner of the 2006 SIFF Fly Screenwriting Competition. He also cowrote Anybuddy Home? directed by Joe Shapiro, which won the 2005 Seattle 48 Hour Film Project Audience Award for Best Film, and Suicide Run, directed by Andy McCone.

He has extensive experience working on independent films and corporate productions, including numerous film and television shows, such as Cooking Under Fire, The Amazing Race, and Boy Culture. He spent years as a corporate and wedding videographer and editor. He now works as an assistant negative cutter at Deluxe Digital, an award-winning post-production facility based in Seattle. He graduated from Evergreen State College in 2005.

Sean’s visual style is a culmination of over 10 years of cinematography, lighting, and photography working within a variety of narrative, experimental & commercial formats. Recently he photographed the international documentary feature Sweet Crude (WIP screening, SIFF 2007), Shut Eye (SIFF 2008) and The Blakes’ video for their single Don’t Bother Me [debuted on MTV2].  Sean’s 2nd Unit Director of Photography credits include the upcoming feature True Adolescents starring Mark Duplass, The Dark Horse, We Go Way Back, The Gits, and Cthulhu. 

Sean’s lighting talent landed him collaborations with Sean Kirby on the Cannes success, Zoo, and with Kat Westergaard on True Adolescents.  Sean also engineered set mechanics for Guy Maddin’s The Brand Upon the Brain! and is constantly pushing the envelope by innovating lighting and camera tools and techniques for many of the films he works on.  Sean graduated from the University of Washington, majoring in Media Production & Design where he photographed some of the DXARTS program’s leading student work.  When he’s not on set Sean runs an independent grip and lighting company, Swingset Film & Audio.

Joy is an award-winning production and costume designer, editor and photographer. Her film work includes features, short films and music videos. Her credits include: Dear Lemon Lima, The Off Hours, Numb, Merely Mouthpiece, Alexandra, Manquer, and music videos Lolita (Throw Me the Statue) and White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes). Samples of her work can be found at www.joyandrews.com.

Joe is an accomplished editor with a decisive edge. He served as film editor and post-production supervisor for the Sundance feature Police Beat (2005), directed by Robinson Devor. The film was shot on 35mm Anamorphic with a Digital Intermediate. It won Best Editing at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2005. Joe re-teamed with Devor for the Sundance and Cannes Film Festival favorite Zoo (2006), serving as film editor and post production technical advisor. His other work includes editor and post production supervisor for the 35mm Tall As Trees (2006), directed by Virgilio Ponce; editor and producer for the 16mm Borrowing Time (2005), directed by Webster Crowell; and editor for the Super-16mm The Naked Proof (2003), directed by Jamie Hook. The Naked Proof won a Special Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival; Best Debut Feature at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival; and Best Undistributed Film in 2003 by The Village Voice. Joe also has experience as a director and producer. His short film Anybuddy Home? won the 2005 Seattle 48 Hour Film Project Audience Award for Best Film and the Jury Awards for Best Editing and Best Directing. He also codirected (with Andy McCone) and edited the Audience Award-winning Death & a Salesman, created for the 2006 Seattle 48 Hour Film Project. In his former life, Joe was one of the original authors of Microsoft’s FrontPage Web Creation Software.

Naomi is one of those people that experimented with makeup at a very early age. She discovered how powerful is it to establish and change the standards of beauty. Naomi has a passion for the artistry of makeup that began five years ago while working for MAC Cosmetics, which led to apprenticing under a Drag Queen variety show, and ultimately to commercials and films. She has worked with local nonprofit organizations such as Gay City Health, Langston Hughes, Mahogany Project, and Seattle Art Museum coordinating fashion shows, musical productions and makeup workshops for young girls and boys. In the past five years she has worked with several photographers and cosmetic lines such as Shu Umera, Stila, Makeup Forever, and Armani cosmetics. In the last couple of years, she made the progression to working on music videos, commercials, infomercials and independent films. She finds the collaborative process in filmmaking and working with talented artists incredibly rewarding as an makeup artist.

Alicia is a singer, composer, performer and educator based in Seattle. She started her record label in 1997 and has released 4 self-produced CD's of original songs. As a session singer and musician she has appeared on over 50 recordings. As a singing teacher she has taught hundreds of private students and led numerous songwriting workshops. Alicia has written over 500 songs and is currently working on a book about songwriting with children.

Alicia has performed extensively in the US and Canada. She continues to appear in venues including the Showbox, the Crocodile, the Tractor Tavern, and Benaroya Hall. She's also played festivals including Bumbershoot, Folklife, and North by Northwest. In addition to performing with her full band she is the founder of Electric Ladyland, an all-female collective of singer-songwriters who play solo electric sets on a shared bill. Alicia was born to a family of symphony musicians in Vancouver, BC and at the age of 18 was accepted into the prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. She recently released her latest CD, "The Secret Dream of Tigers," produced by Jason Staczek.

Tony Becerra is an accomplished Assistant Director for both corporate and independent films. His credits include Dear Lemon Lima, The Taken, A Letter to Bill Gates, Marilyn, Forever Blonde, Palweiser Label, and Boy Culture. In addition, his corporate productions include work with Integrated Talent, Pravda Studios, NxNW Productions, Alarming Pictures, and Wyoming Foods.

Since 2003, Jamie Friddle has worked on several Seattle-area films as line producer (preproduction), first assistant director, script supervisor, and production assistant. He recently wrote, directed, and produced his first short film and is drawn to stories about the human struggle to reconcile inner worlds with outer realities. When not working in film, he is a freelance writer, editor, and project manager based in Seattle.

Laurie has been working in the Northwest film community since graduating from SCCC's Film & Video program in 2002. Directly out of film school, Laurie's short film Love, Inc. won a Telly Award and screened at the One Reel Film Festival. Starting out as an Intern Set Dresser for Buffalo Bill's Defunct in 2002, Laurie has gone on to work with many northwest directors as a Production Designer & Art Director: Lynn Shelton (The Lights: Setting Sun), Christy Elton (The Suit), SJ Chiro (Third Days Child), Johan Liedgren (How To Enter A Bedroom) and Joe Shapiro & Andy McCone (Shut Eye). Throughout her life, Laurie has studied various aspects of art including printmaking, photography, graphic design, interior design, gardening and sewing, all of which aid in translating each Director's unique vision to the screen. 

Kelli Schmidt lives in Seattle and has been honing her skills as an independent filmmaker for the past five years.  Her film and video credits as a script supervisor, associate producer, and production assistant include work on three feature-length movies, a documentary feature, independent shorts, locally-produced television shows, and commercials, including: Inlaws & Outlaws, Boy Culture, Creatures from the Pink Lagoon, Do No Harm, Indymedia Presents (an interview with Sean Penn), and most recently North American. When not making films and videos in her spare time, Kelli works as a civil rights attorney.

Christian Palmer has worked in film since 1998, when local Post-Production guru Andy Pratt first hired him.  While serving as Production Manager for Deluxe Digital Media in Seattle, he has supervised the restoration of over 150 hours of television and film for MGM, from initial editorial reconstruction through HD Mastering.   Additionally, he has had a hand in post-production on nearly every local production in Seattle, usually as a negative cutter.  Credits include Farewell to Harry, Police Beat, We Go Way Back, and Outsourced. Additionally, Christian completed TV Series restoration for The Young Riders, In the Heart of the Night, and Thirtysomething.  Negative Cutting on The Devil Wears Prada, X-MEN, and Fantastic Four.  True negative cutting on Amityville Horror, Into the Blue, and Be Cool.

As a filmmaker, Christian has written and directed five short films, including Horses, Episode One: The Collie and the Lamb, Carefully Timed Explosions, Skunk Nike and Forcefields.  In the Spring of 2008, he completed Here’s to the Girl, a music video for Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death (ex-Murder City Devils, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Modest Mouse).  Christian is currently in pre-production on William Never Married, his feature-length debut as Writer/Director.

Andy McCone's first film Rent's Due, a poetic black and white eccentric silent film, has traveled the world and charmed audiences other than his family. His other films, too few to mention (Anybuddy Home, Death and a Salesman, Kung Fruit, Vice 11 and Suicide Run) have won awards and caught audiences by surprise. Andy's five year stint in the Peace Corp from ages 2 to 7 prepared him for a life rich in story. His early travels to Borneo, Sierra Leone, and Malawai informed his aesthetic and moral compass. Currently Andy and his film partner Joe Shapiro are looking to direct their first feature.