Angiello, Nick, America Under Attack
Nick Angiello was been working in film since he was young and aspires to become a successful director in Hollywood. Over the past four years, he has worked on a public access show in Peoria, Illinois, The A.J. Show. His production company, NCA Productions, has made many short films and commercials in Central Illinois.

Baliva, Zach, Graduation Day
Zach Baliva is a Chicago-based freelance filmmaker. He enjoys working in various mediums including 8mm, 16mm, and Mini-DV. Graduation Day is the debut film from Baliva and his production company, CrosseyedPictures.com. In April, 2002, Crosseyed Pictures will start Under the Sun, a film loosely based on Ecclesiastes.

Busbee, Ron, Addiction
Ron Busbee did it all for this music video, concept, camera, editing, and special effects, for the band Judas. Ron is a producer for Ronald James Television, a production company that makes commercials, music videos, and other programming.

Casper, Jeremy, Follow You
Jeremy Casper graduated from the Los Angeles Film Studies Center in the fall of 1996 and interned on the film Titanic. Casper lived and worked in Hollywood before pursuing a masters degree in Filmmaking from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Casper is currently writing several projects and plans to begin production on his fourth short film this summer..

Clark, Mary Ann, The Makeovers
MaryAnn Clark is a recent graduate of Regent University, achieving her M.A. in Communication, and specializing in film directing and editing. She has B.A. from the University of Maryland in English LIterature. The Makeovers is her first foray into the world of film festivals.

Collins, Joe, The Road Home
Joe Collins worked in television for fifteen years before going to work for Fellowship Misionary Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Road Home was created for a Christmas Even service at the church.

Garrett, Jason, Dang
Originally from North Carolina, Jason graduated from Lees-McRae College with a B.A. in Theatre Arts. He then went on to get his Master's Degree in Filmmaking from Regent University in Virginia Beach. Jason wrote and directed the award winning, short film DANG!, available to order from Barefoot Road. He moved to Sioux Falls, SD in July of 2001 to cut pictures together for Vision Video, but no matter how much he likes the town he refuses to say "Pop" instead of "Soda."

Hertenstein, Mike, All in His Hands: Backstage at Cornerstone
A long-time writer for Cornerstone magazine, Mike has created promo videos for Cornerstone Festival and also produced and directed more than a dozen music videos for Grrr records artists like Glenn Kaiser, The Crossing, Crashdog and Resurrection Band. Mike spends his spare time converting his screenplay ideas into novels and then back again.

Hillis, Rod, Samson the Nazarite
Rod, his wife and three kids provided most of the voices for this claymation account of the life of Samson. The family also shared in the creation of the sets and clay figures. "Each of us created our own clay characters for the opening 'bedtime story' scene," Rod says. "My daughter who was six at the time made her clay figure much larger than the others, so my wife traded with her. The entire video was captured one frame at a time directly to the hard drive of my computer. Rod also has made a claymation video on the life of David.

Klassen, Bevan, Absent
Bevan Klassen has been making small films in Winnipeg, Canada since 1997. He is married with three children. Bevan's films are character-driven narratives concerned with alienation and childhood. He hopes to direct a feature film some day.

Mariano, Joel F., Yolk, Ripple Chase , and Ray Beats
Joel Mariano is an independent artist who got his MFA from the Experimental Animation program at the School of FIlm/Video at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, in 1987. He has been working professionally in computer graphics commercially since 1988.

Makinney, Katherine, destiny
After moving to L.A. four years ago to pursue her dream as a filmmaker, Kathrine Makinney graduated from the UCLA Professional Screenwriting Program. She was a finalist in the UCLA student competition and optioned one of her scripts. After working as a Production Asisant on a few AFI shorts, she helped to produce the award-winning Glory Girl, then wrote, directed and produced The Limited, which won several awards at festivals, including the Best of Show at the 2001 Dahmah International Film Festival.

Masucci, Dan, Murphey's Law
After spending time on the west coast writing a feature script, Dan headed back to Upstate New York where he and his brother Joe formed the filmmaking fraternity of Fountainhead Pictures and shot Pistole di Morte. The Masucci brothers' run and gun method of filmmaking is one they call pistole shooting. He finds that it keeps his creative eye open for opportunities on location.

Nikkel, Kevin, Letters to Grandma Matilda , Shedding Your Skin, 1307KM: A Microdocumentary and We're Tired of Getting Screwed
Kevin Nikkel is an independent filmmaker from Winnipeg, a city on the mostly frozen Canadian prairie. He has a growing list of short video projects under his belt and is saving his pennies to shoot more stories on 16mm stock. When he is not making indie films, he is helping run Catacomb Microcinema, and when he is not doing that he is trying to keep up with his day job as a high school English teacher.

Osterbauer, Dwayne, Bad Bug Bee and the Pirate Ants
Stan Osterbauer is a writer/producer/director at Daniel Four Motion Pictures and an executive producer at Triad Video. Bad Bug Bee was created with Adobe Premiere and CorelDraw, which required over a year to animate.

Rust, Carl, Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen
Carl Rust was born and raised in the Midwest, was a theater major his first time in college, got married, had kids, sold insurance, worked for a newspaper, got divorced, became a pro wrestler, became a college student again, made some videos in college, became a teacher, rediscovered faith, wrote some novels, began playing bass, wrote some songs, got married again, learnt guitar, wrote some more songs, worked with students and filmmaking, joined a band, quit the band, made a CD, joined another band, got a master's degree, decided to make a movie.

Sorrentino, Vinny, Pillar: All Day, Everyday
Vinny Sorrentino started producing film in 1988. He produced The Sidewalk Motel a docudrama about homelessness that started CHristopher Hewett and won a Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival. Sorrentino also won a Director's Choice Award for his short documentary, The Modernization of New Jersey Steel. Vinny created Hollywood christian Films to produce films that will promote positive messages of the Bible by using contemporary music and themes.

Stranz, Judah, Lint in My Pocket
Born in 1977, Judah Stranz has worked as a graphic designer for an international Christian ministry since he was 18. At age 19, Judah took up the call to spread the good news of Christian Alternative music to the teens of South Bend, Indiana, through concert promotion. Recently, Judah has jumped into digital video with serious aspirations for future film projects.

Waitman, Lon, Evolution
Producer/Director Lon Waitman is one of God's 'gypsies.' His background includes acting, directing, producing, mime, juggling, writing, video editing, web design, animation, and street performing in various nations. He presently lives and ministers in Atlanta, GA with his sweet wife Katherine.