Norman Twain created the idea, developed the script, and produced Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark, the Principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey.

Norman was the producer of the awarding winning HBO film Boycott, dramatizing the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott, Spinning into Butter, based on Rebecca Gilman’s award winning play, and SCAR, the first 3D action horror film in 26 years.  

Norman’s latest production is My Dog Tulip, the celebrated novel by J.R. Ackerley, that is being made into a full length animated feature.  Paul Fierlinger is the film’s director, screen writer and sole animator and his wife Sandra is his background and image painter. This film will be the first animated feature ever to be entirely hand drawn and painted utilizing paperless computer technology.

Art Holliday is the co-anchor and executive producer of Today in St. Louis morning show and NewsChannel5 at Noon at KSDK-TV at St. Louis, Mo. Over the course of his career of over 30 years, Holliday has been recognized with numerous awards.

He is the Director, Producer and Writer of the documentary Before They Fall Off The Cliff: The Ripple Effect of Schizophrenia. Art also videotaped much of the documentary as well as serving as still photographer.

Art is currently working on a second documentary Johnnie Be Good - The Movie on the life of Johnnie Johnson, who helped create the musical stew which became rock and roll, and because he once hired an unknown guitar player named Chuck Berry.

Tomm Moore is co-founder and Creative director of Cartoon Saloon.  He is a lifelong comic book and animation enthusiast.

Since founding the company with Paul Young, Tomm has worked on most facets of Cartoon Saloon productions. He has directed and designed commercials for clients including Cadbury and the Irish Independent.

Additionally, Tomm has worked on illustrating graphic novels and children’s books and working as animation artist on several TV series and other filmmaker's feature and short film productions.

Tomm has completed his first feature film The Secret of Kells, a beautiful and haunting story of the young hero Brendan and the Book of Kells.  He is working on the graphic novels of the film and his animated feature film The Song of the Sea. 

Jeffrey Goodman is a director who loves learning about the cinema's different movements and transformations and wondering what directions the medium might veer off in next. 

Jeffrey ended up raising all the money for his first feature film, The Last Lullaby himself, selling the film in $50,000 units to private investors in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. He believed it would take this level of freedom to make a movie that he felt was slightly different than most things currently being made. 

The Last Lullaby was shot and told in naturalistic style, is co-written from the author of The Road to Perdition, Max Allan Collins, and stars Tom Sizemore and Sasha Alexander.

The Last Lullaby is about Price, a former hitman, struggling to cope with retirement who has left the assassination business to live the "easy life." who is brought into a situation in a world beyond his control in a mystery–filled love story.

Stascha Bader is a Swiss writer and documentary director.

He was drawn by Reggae when he had first heard it in the 1970s and based his doctoral thesis on it, “Electro-Oral Poetry in Jamaica and England.” It earned him a Ph.D. degree from Zurich University and was also published in Germany.  and was also published in Germany as “Words like Fire: Dance Hall-Reggae and Ragamuffin.”

Stascha also studied music, script writing, and directing in Berlin, New York and Los Angeles and has worked, for several years, as a freelance writer and director of television documentaries.   His documentaries have been broadcast on Swiss National Television and 3sat. Stascha specializes in music documentaries and programs.

When he reflected back on his mass collection of Jamaican recordings, Stacha was reminded of his favorites earliest Reggae songs, from the Rocksteady era (1966-1968).  The outcome is the previously untold story of Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae, which is Bader’s first feature film.

Christian Biegai, from Berlin, Germany, has written film scores for feature films, documentaries, and animated films around the world.

These films include: the short film Whistle (directed by Duncan Jones), films for Marc Meyer, and with Helena Bulaja on the animated fairytale Regoch and her experimental interactive movie inspired by
Nikola Tesla which also features Laurie Anderson and Terry Gilliam.

Working at Park Road Post as an editor, Christian contributed a string quartet piece for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee, Eagle vs. Shark and contributed to the score for the New Zealand documentary The Big Picture. He also scored Brigitte Bertele's feature film: Nacht Vor Augen (A Hero's Welcome), which premiered at Berlin.

Christian is a classical saxophonist who has played with large orchestras, small quartets, and artist collectives. He has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the clair-obscur saxophone quartet, Antony and the Johnsons, and the artist collective Edison Woods, and on the score for 3:20, written for solo saxophone for him by Gerald Busby.

Aaron Hughes' 3rd animated short film is called Backwards which is about strange love shown in reverse.  

Backwards has also won many awards including the Ruby Ram Jury Grand Prize Award in the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival.

In honor of the style of the this film, Aaron's interview was also conducted in reverse.

Previously Aaron also wrote and illustrated a weekly-published cartoon. He does still enjoy dabbling in other non-animated art-forms as well.

Aaron's animated shorts, Petunia and Fred’s Box, have screened and have been awarded in festivals around the world.

Aaron has been working professionally on a number of animation projects.  He currently teaches courses at NYU and Pratt.

Aaron lives in Brooklyn after growing up grew up in Texas after moving to NYC following graduation from the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

Born in East Moline, Illinois, Mike Roush found his way to California, earning his BFA in Animation from California State University, Fullerton.

Mike Roush has been with Titmouse Shorts, Inc., contributing storyboards, design, and animation to high profile TV, music video and
commercial clients and serves as Supervising Animator on s [adult swim]’s smash hit Metalocalypse.

Mike made his directorial debut with The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl – an innovative blend of live action elements and unconventional Flash animation. 

The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl has screened many film festivals worldwide like Annecy, Palm Springs, and the Fantasia Film Festival. 

The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl has won many awards including the Headtrip Audience Choice Award in the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival.

Conor Ferguson has worked as a copywriter in advertising in Ireland for several years.

Conor has mastered the art of short film with 2 award winning poignant short films, The Wednesdays and Atlantic.  These have been produced as part of the Irish film production company, Park Films.

The Wednesdays is about a retired couple who manage to re-ignite the love they’d almost forgotten about through unconventional means.

Atlantic, starring Liam Cunningham from The Wind That Shakes The Barley, is an atmospheric tale of a lonely farmer passing his days, unaware of the letter that’s on its way from the woman he once loved. 

Both films have screened worldwide to enthusiastic audiences. 

Atlantic is also an official selection in the MergingArts Short-Short Story Film Festival in the Heartstrings Program.

Brett Harvey is President and founder of BKS Crew Productions, a Vancouver based multimedia production company.

Brett has worked as a director of photography on a number of film and television projects including two recent projects for the Canadian national television network CBC – Secrets and Lottery On Ice.

He has made the move from DP to director with his new film The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, a documentary film which explores the seven-billion-dollar per year business of marijuana in British Columbia, as well as the general history and current impact of cannabis prohibition.

The Union is available on DVD via Amazon.