Born in St Petersburg, Russia and having lived in New York City since the mid 1990s, Alex Budovsky is well known for his distinctive style of animated music videos.   

These include Bathtime in Clerkenwell for The Real Tuesday Weld and Return I Will  to Old Brazil from Geoff Muldaur.  

His videos have won a number of awards including from the KROK International Animated Film Festival in Ukraine and the Boston Underground Film Festival in addition to Sundance Online and the Ottawa International Animation Festival.

He has also worked on a number of other commercial and educational animation projects for Sesame Street and Greenpeace.

Trevor Jimenez is an animator and an alum of the prestigious Sheridan College Animation Program in Oakville, Ontario.

Trevor is the creator of a uniquely drawn 2D animated film, Key Lime Pie.  

It is a 2D animated spin on the noir genre, and the story basically revolves around this character who is obsessed with key lime pie.

Key Lime Pie has been screened in many film festivals including Toronto After Dark, The Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and The Animation Show.

Cecily Gambrell began performing at the age of six, born from a theatrical family, and whose great aunts were Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc.

Some of Cecily's other work includes acting on Desperate Housewives, and High Hopes for which she wrote the shooting screenplay and co-stars with Edward Furlong, Lacey Chabert, and David Faustino.

In the Spring of 2004 she began writing and producing the award-winning documentary Champion, profiling the life of actor and ex-convict Danny Trejo with director Joe Eckardt through The Film Emporium. Also featured are Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Steve Buscemi and Robert Rodriguez.  It was released nationwide in 2007.

Cecily is also scheduled to co-star in the comedy feature A Happy Death, which she also wrote, and which also stars Chevy Chase, Mercedes Ruehl, and Snoop Dogg in 2009.  High Hopes will be released through Lion's Gate on DVD in November 2008.

Since receiving his B.F.A. in Drawing from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Joel Trussell worked as an animation director in Seattle, animating online projects for clients including Disney, Napster, and the band Devo.  Joel has also directed animated television commercials for companies including Esurance and Nicorette.

Joel has also directed several music videos for popular artists such as M.Ward, Morcheeba, Coldcut, and Jason Forrest, for which he won a number of awards, including the Ottawa International Animation Festival's Best Music Video. His music videos have been featured in dozens of film festivals and have been featured on MTV2, MuchMusic, and MTV Europe.

Joel Trussell recently made his television directorial debut with three segments for Nickelodeon's hit kids’ show YO GABBA GABBA!  He has created the intro to The Animation Show.

Kevin Watkins is a freelance art director, editor, and motion graphics designer in advertising and filmmaker from NYC originally from South Africa.

Kevin has worked as both a Associate Creative Director and Senior Art Director for a variety of major clients including: American Express, AT&T Wireless, Heineken, Lego, Sprite, and RCA.

He has won awards for his artistic work in advertising including the Cannes Silver Lion and Best of Show at the New York Advertising Festival.  He has directed several award winning short films including String, You Were Perfectly Fine, and Hose, an animated film about a garden hose.

Hose is screening at several film festivals including the Newport International Film Festival, The Kids First! Film Festival, and the Nantucket Film Festival.

Mary C. Taylor is a designer, editor, and animator from Kansas City, MO who directed the 2 minute animated short How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole.

She has worked in graphic art and video editing for PlattForm Advertising.  She has also worked in television in design for FOX and NBC networks in addition to multimedia design for National Cinema Network, a subsidiary of AMC Theatres.
 
Her other projects include web design and creating music videos for the Southern Country Rock band, The Gaslights.

How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole has screened at the Phoenix Film Festival, the L.A. and San Francisco International Children’s Film Festivals, and was featured on the front page of Yahoo!.

Julie Stevens works in many aspects of theatre and film as an Actress, Director, Voiceover Artist, Singer, Studio Teacher, and a Private Coach for children.

She began her performing career at age ten, appearing on Broadway in the musical Annie.   Over the years, she has appeared in several films and commercials, TV movies, recording projects and stage productions.

Julie is also the creator of a new product called Acting Outside The Box, coaching cards for actors.

Julie co-directed her first feature film, Life After Tomorrow, a documentary about the experience of child actors in Broadway productions of Annie. She and partner, Gil Cates, Jr., won awards for Best Director and Best Documentary at the 2006 Phoenix Film Festival.

Life After Tomorrow premiered on Showtime in late 2006 and is now available on DVD through Arts Alliance America.

Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir is both an author and the director of the Jewish music archival documentary, From Shtetl to Swing. 

From Shtetl to Swing is a collective journey from synagogue choirs to Harlem hotspots, from Yiddish theater to musical extravaganza, from klezmer to ragtime, from symphonic jazz to swing from the Bowery to Tin Pan Alley to Broadway to Hollywood.                     
  
From Shtetl to Swing has screened several film festivals around the world including:
Golden Prague Film Festival where it was awarded the Czech Crystal, Jewish Motifs Festival where it was award the Warsaw Phoenix, Toronto International Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco International Jewish Film Festival, and the Melbourne International Film Festival.

It also screened as part of the Great Performance Series on PBS. 

7th Art Releasing can be contacted with any requests for theatrical distribution of the film. 

Originally from Pune, India, Arjun Rihan studied Computer Science and Economics as an undergraduate at Stanford University and then purused his MFA in 2008 at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.  His professional experience includes a Technical Director internship at Pixar Animation Studios.
   
He is the director, writer, and animator of the acclaimed 3 minute short, Abridged.  Abridged is a romantic comedy set on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA.

Abridged has screened several film festivals around the world including: the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, the Alaska Ocean Film Festival, Anifest in the Czech Republic, Annecy in France, and it received the 2008 USC Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Award.

French teacher and documentary filmmaker Aurelien Foucault found a job teaching French that would allow him to live abroad, where he has lived in Scotland, Russia, and Siberia, where he met his wife.

Having worked enough to get a video camera and a good computer, he met Cédric Quennesson in China and worked on his first documentary short Of Shadows and Men under the production company Wuhan Films.

Of Shadows and Men is about a theater, a teahouse, and an ancient art that takes place and brings magic back into everyday life in Yunmeng, a rural city in the Hubei Province.  It had its world premiere in the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC.