Amanda Larson
Amanda Larson graduated from Oberlin College with a visual arts degree focused on filmmaking. She quickly found her way to NYC working in the commercial post-production field, and crewing on any set she could find. After burning out on the cutthroat pace of the East Coast, she relocated to Seattle where she found an incredibly supportive and creative community of multi-talented video artists at 911 Media Arts Center, where she currently teaches animation and editing. Her most recent video was part of a dance performance entitled MOLT, by local choreographer Paige Barnes. MOLT was presented at On the Boards as part of the Northwest New Works Festival. She is currently working on a short documentary about the festival and its impact on local artists. Amanda creates and edits documentaries, shorts, and animations through her company, tiny orange.

Ann Hedreen
Ann is an award-winning filmmaker and writer specializing in social and environmental issues. Her 25-year career has spanned television news and documentary production (including Quick Brown Fox: an Alzheimer's Story and many other projects with her husband, Rustin Thompson), radio and print journalism and a wide range of public affairs assignments. Her long list of awards includes three Emmys and two Tellys. She has produced and written documentaries and advocacy films on subjects ranging from the abortion battle to the Peace Corps and in locations ranging from Alaska to Central America and the Caribbean. Among the narrators who have recorded her scripts are Sissy Spacek, Tom Skerritt and Aaron Brown. She is also a writer of fiction and essays. Ann began her career at the City News Bureau of Chicago and United Press International. She is a member of Women in Film Seattle, the Northwest Film Forum, 911 Media Arts and the Northwest chapter of NATAS and is a graduate of Wellesley College.

Brian McDonald
Brian McDonald has been working in the film industry for 20 years, and has shot animation and special effects for feature films, television and music videos in both Seattle and Los Angeles. Credits include Return of the Living Dead, Part 2, Night of the Creeps, and The Resurrected. He is also a freelance comic book writer, and has written Tarzan for United Media Syndicate, The Predator, a comic book series based on the hit film, and Colors in Black, an anthology book published by Dark Horse Comics in cooperation with Spike Lee. Most recently he did Lost in Space, the comic book sequel to the current film. Brian has also performed stand-up comedy in clubs around the country and appeared as a guest on the Comedy Channel. You can learn more about Brian and his work at http://members.aol.com/natcole.

John Sinno
John Sinno is the founder and owner of Arab Film Distribution, a distributor of feature films and documentaries based in Seattle. John has over twelve years experience in the industry as an independent distributor, and has spoken extensively on filmmaking and the business of cinema. He recently produced the award-winning documentary, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006.

Todd Hanna
Todd began his career as a studio and location recording engineer for WJHU, Baltimore's National Public Radio affiliate station. With his move to Seattle in 1992, he worked as an electronics test engineer for the audio equipment manufacturer Symetrix before joining Microsoft. There he worked as a project manager for a number of groups including Microsoft Studios. Recently, his work has focused more on local films, including the Northwest Film Forum's Start-to-Finish Award winning Buffalo Bill's Defunct, and a kids action-adventure feature titled Max Rules.

Alex Perrault
Alex has worked in the Seattle film and TV scene for more than 10 years, spending most of his time as an editor on one TV program or another. Among his credits are shows for National Geographic, Discovery Networks, and A&E, as well as PBS. He has also given lectures at the UW, American University, and the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival.

Dickey Nesenger
Dickey Nesenger began her work in the film business in 1973 as a documentary and commercial film editor in New York. After moving to Los Angeles in 1978, she began a 17 year career as a script supervisor, working in television, on feature films, commercials and music videos. Also a screenwriter, she sold her film Commercial to Lighthouse Productions in Los Angeles. As a playwright, her plays have been staged at The Producer's Club, Looking Glass and American Globe Theatres in New York, The Met and City Theatres in Los Angeles, New Jersey Repertory, Minneapolis Playwrights' Center, Boston's Theatre Works, and throughout Washington State. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing through Goddard College, and teaches play and screenwriting at Antioch University in Seattle. Her short play, Montana Moon, produced last year at New Jersey Repertory, has been optioned for a short film to be produced by the theatre.

Kevin Tomlinson
Kevin Tomlinson works as a producer/director, and cameraman for the past 20 years, primarily with broadcast News (NBC News, ABC, CBS, FOX-TV, PBS, etc) and corporate clients to produce news magazines, documentaries, international travel series, marketing, electronic press kits for feature films, training, and corporate communications programming. His camerawork has been seen on 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II (CBS), Dateline NBC, 48 Hours (CBS), 20/20 (ABC), The Today Show (NBC), Good Morning America (ABC), Rick Steve's Europe (PBS), Pro Sieben & ZDF Television (Germany) and RAI TV (Italy).

Mike Anitas
In addition to his production work in Photoshop, InDesign and PageMaker; Mike teaches for NPower, Seattle's South, North, and Central Community Colleges, and one-on-one for individuals. Previously, he worked at Adobe Systems supporting, writing, and training for Photoshop, PageMaker, ATM, and the type products. Mike's passion is in teaching Photoshop and his mission is to help people understand their software by bringing a personal touch to training.

Peter Mitchell
Peter Mitchell is a working artist crafting animation, motion graphics, video, music and creative web media. He is currently employed at a boutique ad-agency and freelancing for a variety of clients. Do you like to look at the world-wide-inter-web-net-TV? If so, go here: www.petenice.com.

Roy Wilson
Roy Wilson has had a prolific and varied career in TV & Film production. In New York he directed and produced with Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV. Roy has also taught at well-known institutions such as NYU, Rutgers and the School of Visual Arts. In addition to his teaching and freelancing work in shooting and editing, Roy currently serves on the Media Services staff at 911, and as an instructor and mentor with the Young Producer's Project.