Christopher McGilvray is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in Santa Cruz, CA.

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His directorial debut, THE SILENCE, took home awards for Best Short Film Editing and Best Western at the Action on Film Festival in 2009. His subsequent short films screened at the Sonoma International Film Festival and Cinequest. In 2010, he began working full time as a branded content

filmmaker.

His current company, Nomadic Bear Productions, has produced branded content for a wide variety of companies including Ridge Vineyards, Oracle, EMI Records, and Mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf’s Oakland Promise.  Learn More

Doug Blush is an award-winning director, producer, editor, writer and cinematographer whose work includes over 130 feature and television projects. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as well as the American Cinema Editors (ACE).

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Credits include as Executive Producer the 2020 Critics’ Choice Award and 2022 Peabody Award-winning MR SOUL! , the 2019 Academy Award-winning PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE , the 2018 Academy Award-winning ICARUS , and, as supervising editor, the 2013 Oscar winner 20 FEET FROM STARDOM .

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Recent projects include JUSTICE which premiered at Sundance this year and THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS , which was awarded the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film at the 95th annual Academy Awards this year.

He is also a longtime film educator with classes and seminars at USC, UCLA, Syracuse University and the YoungArts Foundation in Miami, as well as exchanges and panels in Indonesia, Brazil, New Zealand, Armenia, Malaysia, Nigeria, China, Latvia, The Netherlands and more. Doug co-owns MadPix Films , a Los Angeles-based production and post production company. Learn More

Isiah Flores is an award-winning Director of Photography, Steadicam Operator, and Associate Member of the Society of Camera Operators (SOC). With a BFA in Motion Picture Cinematography from the Academy of Art University SF, Isiah brings over 15 years of on-set experience, specializing in handheld, steadicam, and capturing naturalistic human images. He continues collaborating with various creative agencies and prominent brands such as Forbes, Facebook, Samsung, Google, Under Armour and Vice. Isiah has lensed projects that have been recognized at film festivals like Tribeca, LA Shorts, SF Shorts, Independant Shorts Awards, Indie X Fest, Venice Shorts, Kickstarter Film Fest and Cinequest.  His journey into cinematography began in the early '90s, inspired by his father's cameras and fueled by a passion for capturing reality and the magic of modifying images. A martial arts enthusiast from a young age, Isiah earned a 3rd Degree Black Belt and founded the martial arts tricking team "Loopkicks" at age 12 in 1999. Moving to SF at 18, he honed his skills, formed lasting artistic connections, and eventually established a collective of camera creatives. Today, Isiah continues to inspire and elevate the next generation of filmmakers, while pushing creative boundaries in cinematography with his unique perspective. Learn More

Alex Kelly is a San Francisco based cellist, composer, electronic musician and conductor. He has composed for and performed with major symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras, new music ensembles, string quartets, cello quartets, big bands, jazz combos, rock bands, hip-hop crews, Klezmer/Balkan bands, theater companies, radio productions, ballet companies, modern dance companies, and circus troupes.

He has also composed film scores and video game music. Alex orchestrated a concerto for four soloists for tabla guru Zakir Hussain that was premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in 2011. Alex is the author of the cello technique book "The Seven Points" which teaches fingerboard mapping techniques. His live-looping solo show has been seen in a variety of venues ranging from Davies Symphony Concert Hall to Yosemite mountaintops. Learn More

Richard Ross is an award-winning independent Sound Designer, Composer, Audio Post Production Specialist, Podcaster, and owner of Threshold Studios in Sebastopol, CA. He has worked with notables such as Ken Burns, Peter Coyote, Goodby Silverstein and Partners, Ashton Gleckman, Las Vegas Raiders, and Michael Desante.

His audio production credits for Independent and Hollywood film directors and production companies is more that 200 film projects. His music audio production credits include, Mystic Roots Band, Top Shelf, Volte, and Crystalline Dream.  Richard holds a MA in Music Composition and Theory from University of Oregon, Eugene.  

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