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 has over 30 years experience as a film producer, executive and educator. He served as President of Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss' A&M Films, Robert Redford's Wildwood Productions, and Norman Lear's Act III Productions. As an educator he has been a member of the Faculty at the Master of Professional Writing Program (MPW) at the University of Southern California, and the School of Film and Digital Media at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Mr. Meyer is currently a Partner with Producer Stratton Leopold and Michael Kistler in Springboard Films, a film production company based In Savannah, GA.
Notable among the many films he has produced, Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and The Breakfast Club was named by Entertainment Weekly as the "Best High School Movie of all time."
Some of Mr. Meyer's other films include The Milagro Beanfield War (directed by Robert Redford, starring Christopher Walken and Sonia Braga), Better off Dead (directed by Steve Holland, starring John Cusack), Bring on the Night (directed by Michael Apted, starring Sting), Breaking In (directed by Bill Forsythe, starring Burt Reynolds), Promised Land (directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Meg Ryan and Keiffer Sutherland), One Crazy Summer (directed by Steve Holland and starring Demi Moore and John Cusack), Pyrates (directed by Noah Stern, starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick) and Birdy (directed by Alan Parker, starring Matthew Modine and Nicholas Cage). Birdy was selected as the recipient of the Grand Prix Special Jury Prize at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. In 2006 he produced Baby Blues, shot in Effingham, GA.
Mr. Meyer began his career at A&M Records promoting records and tours for the label. He was soon promoted to become the International Director of Publicity for the company. In 1981 he convinced the owners, Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, to start a separate film division, A&M Films. Mr. Meyer was named President of A&M films and the first picture produced was The Breakfast Club. In the mid - eighties Mr. Meyer was named President of Wildwood Productions, Robert Redford's film production Company. With Redford, he oversaw the production of The Milagro Beanfield War and Promised Land. Mr. Meyer was then hired by television producer Norman Lear to start a new feature film production company, Act III Productions; a division of the parent company, Act III Communications. Mr. Meyer spent the next several years producing pictures at Act III, the most notable being Fried Green Tomatoes, shot in Juliette, GA. Mr. Meyer joined the Faculty at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004.
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(born in Kansas City, Missouri) has been making films for the last six years. His unique style and sensibility typically focus on the underdog or the disillusioned. His pieces always find the humor in serious topics, and Trey relishes the socially awkward. His films have focused on a teenage double amputee, a wheelchair bound lover of the open road, and a pair of astronauts who witness the destruction of life on Earth. Trey has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Film and Digital Media at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
is a documentary producer, writer and social medialite. Her life and work are heavily influenced by her unusual upbringing. From the ages of 4 to 17 she lived on the Navajo Reservation in North Eastern Arizona, where her mother still lives and works as a midwife. She went on to study film and video at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. While at Hampshire she produced experimental and documentary films and videos, and co-founded the Women's Film and Video Collective. The group produced a weekly live variety cable television show as well as several short documentaries. After graduating from Hampshire in 1994, Taymar moved to Tucson, Arizona for several years where she worked as a freelancer and television news editor. After moving to California in 2003, Taymar acquired additional skills in print, multi-media and web design through the Interactive Media Certificate Program at the San Diego New Media Center. She now lives with her son Caspian in Santa Barbara, California where she owns the independent production company, Pixley Flix Productions, and runs a cooperative for local independent producers.
is a 33 year old Toronto based director who grew up in Denmark. He is educated at Super8, a private filmschool located in Aarhus, Denmark. He has made the award-winning shortfilm 
