Diane Lake has been a working screenwriter since 1993 when she sold her first story idea. Since then she has been commissioned to write films for Columbia, Disney, Miramax and Paramount. In addition, she has written a mini-series for NBC and created a half-hour series for CBS. She has also written work for numerous independent producers as well as actors like Dustin Hoffman and directors like Harold Becker. Projects currently in active development that Diane is most excited about include Distance, the story of Berthe Morisot, the French Impressionist painter, optioned by Blue Collar Films; Chandler, a film noir set in 1930s Los Angeles where the writer Raymond Chandler becomes involved in the kind of murder cases he only writes about, being packaged by Roth/Arnold Productions; and A Thousand Cranes, an epic love story set against the backdrop of the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII, produced by Digital Domain Studios. Diane's film, Frida, opened the Venice Film Festival in 2002, was named one of the 10 Best Films of 2002 by numerous top 10 lists, including the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. Frida was also nominated for 6 Academy Awards in 2003. Diane is also a screenwriting professor at Emerson College.

Mitch Brian has written teleplays for all of the major networks as well as HBO and FX. He co-created and wrote episodes for Batman: the Animated Series and co-wrote the NBC miniseries The '70s with Kevin Willmott. He has written screenplays for directors Chris Columbus, Oliver Stone, Luis Mandoki, and Robert Schwentke, as well as for producers Geena Davis, Mike Medavoy, and James Ellroy. His literary adaptations include Far From The Madding Crowd, The House of Usher, The Totem, and Seven Days in May. He is a visiting vssistant professor at UMKC where he teaches screenwriting and a course in film genres.

Dana Andrews is currently an Instructor of English at Missouri Western State University, having joined the English, Foreign Language and Journalism Department in August of ’07. Prior to that, he taught English, Film, and Screenwriting at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado. However, Dana’s second life as a college instructor comes after twenty-plus years of experience in Los Angeles. Most notably, Dana was Executive Story Editor in Development for NewLine Cinema—where he helped develop installments of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. As well, he was instrumental in developing Torch Song Trilogy, and The Hidden, among other projects. Prior to being at NewLine, Dana wrote episodes of Family Dog and The Fitzpatricks, for CBS-TV prime-time. In addition, he was Executive Story Consultant on the Pilot episode of The Larry Sanders Show for HBO and for numerous Movies of the Week for all three major networks.

David Strohmaier was a film history buff long before he graduated from the University of Iowa film school in the early 1970s and started his career at Warner Brothers. He has worked as a film and Avid editor on many TV movies, pilots, and series over the last 20 years, for major studios including The Walt Disney Company and 20th Century Fox. Special Projects have included editing two of the CircleVision films and EPCOT documentaries for Disney theme parks. Some of his more notable editing credits are Northern Exposure, Dangerous Minds, and three Alien Nation TV movies. His most intensive and personal project to date, Cinerama Adventure, marks David's debut as director and writer. While serving as historical consultant to Paul Allen's Seattle Cinerama Theatre restoration project, David is working in cooperation with Pacific Theatres (owners of Cinerama Inc. and its assets) in efforts to preserve and promote the Cinerama legacy.

One of Randy Gitsch's first jobs in Hollywood was as a staff researcher in the RKO Studio Archives, which led to his ultimately becoming that collections' manager. There, Randy assisted the BBC in their 6-part studio history, entitled "Hollywood; The Golden Years", and veteran director, Richard Wilson, with the restoration of a "lost" Orson Welles feature, "It's All True". After RKO's liquidation, Randy worked as a film sales librarian for both the Sherman Grinberg and Energy stock libraries. Reacting to the film deterioration he found him- self dealing with daily, he produced and co-wrote, with director Mark McLaughlin, his first documentary on the subject of film preservation and restoration, the critically acclaimed, "Keepers of the Frame". He subsequently teamed with David Strohmaier to produce "Cinerama Adventure", and to bring preservation awareness to this rare format and the films made in it. Most recently, he worked again with Mark McLaughlin as an associate producer on the feature documentary and multi-part television series, "Hollywood Singing & Dancing". In addition to making motion pictures, Randy is a film inspector for Pro-Tek Media Preservation Services. He has been interviewed on the subject of all things-RKO in such programs as "The Passions of Howard Hughes" (Passport DVD) and "History Detectives" (PBS), and on film preservation on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition".

Jon Moritsugu was born in Honolulu, HI and attended Brown University, where he made the short Der Elvis, chosen by the Village Voice as "one of the top 50 films of the 80's."He has since completed six features and four more shorts which have screened worldwide to critical and popular acclaim. His most recent movie, Scumrock, has won two awards on the festival circuit and is currently being released theatrically in the US and Europe.