Allott, Jordan, Defenestration
Jordan Allott was born in Reading, England. He studied for two years at the University of Chaminade in Hawaii, and recently graduated from UW-Madison.

Baliva, Zach, Destination Sky
Zach Baliva is a Chicago-based freelance filmmaker. He enjoys working in various mediums including 8mm, 16mm, and Mini-DV. Last year, we screened Graduation Day, the debut from Zach's production company, CrosseyedPictures.com

Barberg, Kris, Psalm 51
Kris Barberg is a freelance videographer, photographer, editor, and teacher from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is currently exploring experimental and documentary filmmaking. Her area of focus is the convergence of faith and art, and the spiritual expressions which manifest through an individual's talents and abilities. Kris produces a cable access program called the Russel Show, and filmed three episodes full of concerts and artist interviews at Cornerstone 2001. She is currently shooting a behind-the-scenes music documentary about Cincinnati folk-rock band Over the Rhine.

Boswell, Daniel, epiphany

Cadenhead, Trae, The Screen
Trae Cadenhead is a sophomore Digital Media Studies major at Union University. "The Screen" is the first short film he has written and directed. Trae hopes to someday make filmmaking his career.

Donlon, Phil, Wrestled
"Wrestled" is Phil’s first film as a filmmaker. Previous directing and writing experience was for the stage with Chicago’s critically acclaimed Gilead Theater Company, which Phil led and co-founded. Before this film Phil worked in front of the camera as an actor in various indie films, commercials and TV shows including "Friends" and "Early Edition". Phil left Chicago a year ago with his wife and moved to Los Angeles because of representation with the William Morris Agency and management with Foundation. He has tested for two network pilots for NBC and ABC, and is currently working on a feature version of "Wrestled."

Dunphy, Michael S., Robohead
Michael S. Dunphey has been sober for 12 years now but was a real life Robohead for ten years -- ages 15-25. Last year, he resent his Enoch Harpazo at the Damah Film Festival and Flickerings.. He is an alumni of "Act One: Writing for Hollywood" and is working on a feature film script while continuing to create shorts. He's currently editing Gretchen is Dead and prepping to shoot Shoppers From Hell for Halloween. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, he's a descendent of those damned Celts.

Forsyth, Phil, Blink
This is the first official film project of filmmaker Phil Forsyth. Phil remains an ever-present figur ein the world of art in his hometown of Jones, Michigan, where he "teaches" art in the forms of music, cartooning and debate.

Hall, Adam, Self-Discovery
Adam Hall is a 20-year-old college student who (when he has time) doubles as an independent filmmaker. He is currently very stretched for cash, so for the time being he is making due with the equipment he has.

Klassen, Bevan, Wildlands
Bevan Klassen is a film producer, director, editor and founder of 40 Below Films and the Catacomb MicroCinema. He lives with his wife and three children in Winnipeg, Canada.

Moore, Allen, Fat... So?
Allen Moore was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a film student at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He's made two other short films called Thrifty White Drug and Week of a Loser. Currently, he's working on a hand-made film called Corporate Greed and a documentary called Waiting for the Snow

Needleman, Neil Ira, Latest Memories
Neil Ira Needleman was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1957 where he learned filmmaking on the streets. After discovering an old 78 rpm recording of Beethoven's Eroica in his Grandmother's apartment, Neil realizd that there was a rich, vital, and creative world beyond the confines of his Brooklyn neighborhood. In 1980, Neil married his college sweetheart and they almost immediately commenced with family business. The result: two wonderful children, Gideon and Thalia. Neil's wife, Duen Needleman, succumbed to cancer in 1997 after a courageous battle. That story is told in the video memoir Latest Memories

Nikkel, Kevin, Shooting Guns in Church
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.

Patterson, Graeme, Don't Ride Shopping Carts
Recently finishing a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Graeme has been focusing on a 25 minute stop-motion animation called Don't Ride Shopping Carts. Since the summer of 2001 he has been working on this production and developing his own process of digital stop-motion animation. Completed in December 2002, Dont' Ride Shopping Carts is Graeme's first major production. As an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture, painting, video, sound and music, stop-motion animation allows Graeme to incorporate many different forms of artistic expression in to one form of media.

Prins, Matthew, 12 Stories About Eileen
Matthew Prins, for some months, had been stuck between this idea for his second film and the idea of a film centered around aliens. He is not sure he made the correct decision.

Renner, Luke, Stranger Things
Luke received a B.A. in Communication from Anderson University in 1998. Stranger Things is his first dramatic film.

Rust, Carl, Downfall & Destination of Crack Man and Krusher
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.

Ryan, Shane, Isolation
Shane Ryan has been facinated by filmmaking since he was 5 yrs old (he's 22 now). Isolation is his first film (excluding the karate/gangster videos he made as a kid).

Swartzwelder, Rik, The Least of These
Rik Swartzwelder is an award-winning filmmaker with over 80 international screenings and over 25 honors to his credit, including the student Emmy for hsi master's thesis film, Paul McCall, and a Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival for his latest piece, The Least of These. Rik has sold two feature film scripts and one film treatment and is currently prepping to direct his first full-length project, Old Fashioned

Waitman, Lon, FastLane and Hear the Wind
Lon has been working professionally in live performance for years (as an actor, director, juggler, etc) and now is mainly into video and animation. He sees himself as a medic for God's army in the midst of a raging, ongoing culture war.

Wesselman, Eric, The Blood & Suffering Montage
Eric Wesselman is a senior Psychology major at Illinois State University. he began making films as a high school freshman, and continued making them seriouslyl throughout college. He will be attending graduate school next fall, studying the psychological effects of visual media as well as making documentaries and narrative films.

Winkler, Ken, Infidels
Ken Winkler's desire to make films evolved from his experience as an artist and writer. He graduated from Cal State, Long Beach, in 2001 and has since completed his first feature screenplay. The most notable success thus far is a music video that received international distribution, which he directed in school.