David Mallin is a cinematographer, documentarian, and mentor based out of California. David received his MFA in Cinematography from AFI. Working in partnership with Cloudchaser Films, his work has taken him to dozens of countries around the world, from Hollywood, through Asia, to refugee settlements in the African bush. He shoots film, digital cinema, high definition, and with DSLRs.

David's narrative work has screened at numerous festivals, including the San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Francisco & DC Underground film festivals, Cine Gear Expo, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Method Fest, and Coney Island Film Festival. His documentary work has been broadcast on KRON in San Francisco and in China, earning him a Telly and other awards. The AFI thesis he shot, "Lucky Lotus", was licensed to HBO for their video on demand service, a first for an AFI thesis film. When he isn't shooting, David teaches cinematography and documentary production at the university level.

Andre Brunger has been a craft editor for over three decades. After several years of foreign assignments with ABC News in Europe and the Mid-East, he was a senior editor for many years for major facilities in Toronto, working on thousands of documentary, commercial, music video, magazine, corporate and dramatic productions, as well as on feature films such as Fly Away Home, K-19, Take the Lead, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

In 1999 Andre founded the software company 3Prong, developing utility applications for video and film editors. Avid Technology has licensed 3Prong's WaveScope product for use in all its editing systems. He also has experience shooting, directing, and writing documentary programming for network television broadcast.

Lawrence Espinosa is formally trained in Theatre Arts and holds a degree from the University of the Philippines. He has appeared in prominent theatre companies such as Tanghalang Pilipino (Cultural Center of the Philippines), Bulwagang Gantimpala Theatre foundation (Metropolitan Theatre) and Dulaang UP and UP Repertory Company. Additionally, he has appeared in television commercials, telenovelas and film productions. Lawrence is also experienced and knowledgeable in all aspects of the business of acting, directing, stagecraft, sets and props, make-up and production. He regularly is invited to speak about the craft of theatre production both locally and internationally.

Lawrence's belief in training a good actor is embodied in Donald Sinden's words: "An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling." He is currently the Program Director for Acting and an acting mentor at IAFT.

Ms. Hansen is an EMMY-nominated screenwriter and consultant who has had a varied writing career, that has taken her from the newsrooms of the Los Angeles Times where she had her own "Byline," to the classrooms of Brigham Young University where she taught screenwriting from 1994-2000 as well as helped focus and define their Screenwriting Program.

An experienced writer, she has written for nearly every film and video venue in the business: feature film, short film, television (long and short form), corporate video, documentary, as well as musicals and straight plays for the legitimate theatre.

She has spent numerous years as a script consultant, first with the Pasadena Playhouse, where she reviewed new and established scripts which were under consideration, as well as with Entertainment Business Group, an entertainment consulting company where she worked on "Campaign Breakdowns" and "Comparative Picture Analyses," and is well acquainted with the campaign elements that make a film "commercially viable."

Ms. Hansen holds an MFA from the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies, has won the prestigious Writer's Guild of America Award, was a finalist for the Humanitas Prize for excellence in children's television programming, and has been awarded two Crystal Awards for excellence in corporate video writing, as well as a Telly Award for her work with the Foundation for a Better Life.

An alumna of the University of Southern California's prestigious School of Cinema-Television, Ashley Jordan has succeeded in producing and developing award-winning films. Most notably, Ashley produced West Bank Story, a film that won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short during the 79th Annual Oscar Awards Ceremony. The film has screened at 112 festivals in 21 countries and has won 25 film festivals to date. She also produced My Lunch With Larry staring Lisa Edelstein and Greg Germann (San Diego Film Festival), Miracle Mile (Heartland Film Festival) and The Gamers (M.P.S.E. Golden Reel Awards). Ashley worked as production coordinator on The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing for Stars Encore, a documentary that features Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese.

She offers five years of development experience working for Red Wagon Entertainment under Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick, Live Planet under Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Tollin Robbins Productions under Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin, and most recently, as an executive at Varsity Pictures. During her film career she has contributed in the development and production of films such as Memoirs of a Geisha, Bewitched, Jarhead, Gone Baby Gone, Wild Hogs, Norbit, and the upcoming Meet Dave starring Eddie Murphy.

Frederick Bailey made his debut as a feature director in 1999 with a story about a sword-wielding superhero in 'Shogun Cop' (Bushido Pictures). He also wrote "Quick", the highly successful action thriller which premiered worldwide on HBO in 1993. He co-wrote "Terminal Justice" a science-fiction thriller for Spectacor/Promark starring Lorenzo Lamas, Peter Coyote and Chris Sarandon premiering on HBO in 1996. He also collaborated on the film "Goodbye America" for Quantum Entertainment in 1997 starring James Brolin and Michael York. Frederick has a long list of credits to his name and his experience as a director, screenwriter and actor allows him to share his real-world Hollywood experience with students at IAFT.

Jeff Bacon grew up and attended college in Nebraska before moving to Los Angeles where he studied screenwriting at UCLA. While working day jobs at movie studios such as MGM and New Line Cinema, Jeff wrote and directed three films: "Birth of a Salesman" (1999), "My Life is a Movie" (2002), and "Distorted" (2006). Jeff served as the Program Director of Filmmaking at the International Academy of Film and Television where he also taught screenwriting courses and was the head staff writer for Bigfoot Entertainment. Most recently, Jeff directed all episodes of "Asshole Camp" (2011), a comedy web series he wrote and created with Joe Davidson.

Blioumis boasts of experience that goes beyond his specializations of directing and producing. Having worked in most of Europe, he has been actively involved in all areas of filmmaking, acting included.

His experimental feature film 13th God received several awards in the 5th Thessaloniki Independent Festival, while Omega won the Best Greek Feature Film Award in the 8th International Panorama of Independent Film and Videomakers in December 2006. He is currently pursuing further studies in film directing and producing.

Axel was born in Solingen, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany and studied screenwriting at Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg, Ludwigsburg under some of the country's most successful producers and writers. In 2001, he accepted his first position as a screenwriting teacher at the Stuttgart Screenwriting School. In 2004, Axel received his first credit on a major motion picture, "Abgefahren." In the same year he was invited to teach screenwriting at the Mallorca Film Academy in Palma de Mallorca, Spain where he remained for the following three years. His next move took him to the University of Zurich in Switzerland to continue his teaching career. In total, Axel has written fifteen feature length screenplays, many of which have been optioned, subsidized or sold.

Zachary Kaplan graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from The George Washington University, where he focused in directing and received a cash grant for playwriting. Fueled by an ongoing interest in film, he attended a one-year advanced directing program at the New York Film Academy, where he directed a 30-minute short film. After working in the entertainment industry as a certified assistant editor, voice-over talent agent's assistant, literary agent's assistant, a script reader, as well as three development internships, he attended UCLA's professional screenwriting program. He continued to USC, where he received a Master's degree in Screenwriting.

Since then, Kaplan has been signed by the Barry Perelman Agency, and shopped his two screenplays, Eclipse and The Hills, to some of the biggest production companies in Hollywood. Eclipse is currently being packaged by CAA. Zack began his teaching career at LA's inner city Manual Arts High School, where he taught film production and writing.

From Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Diego Romero has had considerable experience as Director of Photography in several countries, counting his home country, Belgium, London and Los Angeles. Containing film and television, to music videos and documentaries, he holds a long catalog of credits that include many short and feature length films that have made the rounds in renowned film festivals.

Romero was Director of Photography of the 2005 short film Africains Poids Moyens, which was recognized by the 2005 Sithengi Cape Town World Cinema in South Africa with the Best Short Film Award. As, As In (2003), of which he was also Director of Photography, won the Ken Russell Short Film Award at the 2004 Clerkenwell Film and Video Festival.

Dechen Roder started at Lovett Productions in New York as an assistant editor. After producing, directing, filming and editing a documentary for SNV-Bhutan, she then worked with UNICEF-Bhutan and the Youth Development Fund of Bhutan, producing, editing and doing more documentary and video work. She edited the behind-scenes footage of the feature film Love, and also became part of the teaching staff of New School University focusing on Final Cut Pro Video Editing.

Roder also shot, produced and edited several specialized video reports for Die Zeit, the online version of a national German newspaper, and was an editor for Elan Artists in New York.

A video artist who incorporates sound design, algorithmic editing and computer technology in his works, Tad Ermitano has participated in such international film festivals and conferences as the Image Forum and Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center Videogramme Single Screen Video Art from Asia, Antimatter Festival of Short Film and Video, Asian Videoart Conference and at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Ermitano has also participated in such group exhibitions as Dime A Dozen (Lopez Museum), Cinema Purgatorio (NCCA), Katawan (National Institute of Education, Singapore) and Interruption (Big Sky Mind Gallery). He is also a Gawad CCP winner and has received the Award for Excellence at the Southeast Asian Festival, Tokyo, Japan.

As an actor, Dan Shor boasts an impressive list of projects that he has been part of. In the last three decades, he has been involved in such movies as Air Force One (Harrison Ford), Black Moon Rising (Tommy Lee Jones), Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Keanu Reeves), Red Rock West (Nicholas Cage) and Mesmerized (Jodie Foster). He has also been part of such TV shows as Cagney and Lacey, Star Trek Voyager, Beauty and the Beast and Dark Justice, and has appeared in episodes of The X-Files, Judging Amy, Murder She Wrote, Knotts Landing and Star Trek: Next Generation. His work in theater includes A Comedy of Errors (Old Globe), Equus (National Company), Mooncalf (Culver Studios) and Spec (New Met Theater) among others. He has won Dramalogue Awards for Twelfth Night (Old Globe), Orphans (Old Globe), High Tide (Powerhouse Theater) and The Sport of my Mad Mother (Cast Theater), and a L.A. Weekly Award for Plato's Symposium (Powerhouse Theater/Court Theater).

Shor's work as a video writer and director is also quite extensive having worked in such videos and shows as Life On Film: Rock, Ecomaniacs, State of Liberty, Fish Out of Water and over 30 short videos for the Saipan and Guam Visitors Channels. His recent work includes Bigfoot Entertainment and Fashion TV's reality show Screen Test.

After ascending through the Hollywood ranks, Hank currently is a production manager and line producer. He has worked on projects in this capacity including "Forbidden Secrets," a series for the PAX network with Lee Majors, and features Boltneck with Ryan Reynolds, I'll Remember April with Haley Joel Osment, Dinocroc for the Sci-Fi Channel and Day of Miracles for the Armed Forces Network and TBN. He is also credited on Black Scorpion for Showtime, High Voltage for HBO, and three seasons as key 2nd assistant director on the Emmy-nominated, #1-rated children's television series, "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" on Fox. Hank also AD'd Jamie Kennedy's first feature, The Road to Flin Flon, and Dragon Gate with Oscar-winning actor Dr. Haing S. Ngor. Hank has worked with magicians Penn and Teller, Judge Reinhold, Oscar-winning actress Faye Dunaway and Shannon Elizabeth. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America.

Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Hank has now traveled to over 20 countries. He holds a B.A. in General Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Columbia College in Chicago, IL, where he studied filmmaking. Hank also served in the U.S. Navy in Europe and South America and speaks French fluently.

Ivan C. Kintanar has worked in the VFX and Post Production Industry for over eight years as a VFX Supervisor, Post Production Supervisor, Creature TD, CGI and VFX TD and Senior Compositor. He has over 30 film and TV VFX credits and has been a key contributor in the development of VFX workflows and pipelines for the companies he has served. These include the areas of creature pipelines, matchmoving, dynamics and simulations, digital painting-sculpting, mentalray rendering, previs, roto-paint, VFX data/filme management, color management/color pipelines and onset VFX supervision

An award winning Director and Producer, Politsch is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Film and TV program and was a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute. Her undergraduate film 'The 28th Instance of June, 1914,10:15 a.m', was nominated for a Student Academy Award. Her films have received honors in competition in international film festivals including the grand first prize in San Francisco and St. Petersburg, Russia. Her work was also acquired into the permanent collection of the Hirschhorn Museum (Washington) and shown in several museums around the world.

Politsch is also the recipient of the Robert A. Daly Award (Warner Brothers) for exceptional talent and of numerous other academic honors. In the production field, she has worked for Good Machine, New York and the History Channel. She has directed various short films, documentaries, music videos and commercials.

A writer/producer from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Yvette Garcia Davila obtained a Master of Fine Arts at the Film School Conservatory at Florida State University. She has produced and collaborated on numerous short films including "Zeke" which screened at Cannes in 2003 and won both a Student Emmy and Student Academy Award. Another film, "3 a.m.", earned her the ASC Heritage Award, a second Student Emmy, a Kodak Enhancement Grant and a first prize at the Screamfest Film Festival. She also produced 'Misfortune', a Triggerstreet Film Festival winner that screened during Sundance 2003.

Davila has worked in many TV and Film productions such as Weeds, The West Wing, The Hoax, Midnight Meat Train, Freedom Writers, Just Friends and Wild Hogs in both production and development. Her experience and knowledge in filmmaking has made her an expert in the areas of editing, cinematography, sound and production design. Furthermore, she worked as a correspondent at the Herald Standard and was co-winner in the annual Robert Frost Essay competition.

Alan Lyddiard is an award winning theater writer, director and producer. His work has been seen in London, Paris, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Jerusalem and New York as well as many other cities throughout Europe and the United Kingdom. Among some of the theater productions and world-class directors he has worked in and with are A Clockwork Orange (adaptation), Twelfth Night, Black Eyed Roses, The Tempest, Dracula, Lev Dodin, Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Calixto Bieito and Alain Platel.

Lyddiard was artistic director and chief executive for Northern Stage (Newcastle), artistic director for the Tag Theatre Company (Scotland) and associate director for the Dundee Repertory Theatre. A member of the Scottish Arts Council, Lydiard is currently on a two-year bursary from Arts Council England to develop a range of creative international collaborations and develop new working methods.

A young editor, Fiorella finished her Bachelor of Arts, major in Visual Arts at the Ramapo College of New Jersey with her name on the Dean's List.

She is proficient in Final Cut, Photoshop, Illustrator, DVD Studio Pro, Dreamweaver, Mac, AfterEffects and Avid. She has worked for Fox Searchlight Feature film "The Savages" in 2006.

Tim Cruz's fierce passion for film has driven him to produce and direct a wide spectrum of projects, including a short film based on the book A Child Called It, which was included and honored along with his other short films at such festivals as Woodstock, Angelus, Sarasota and New York Underground. While honing his skills at both the SVA and NYU film programs, he continued to work on outside projects like Spiderman 2, War of the Worlds and Cinderella Man, where he worked as Assistant Camera, in addition to doing grip and gaffer work which eventually led to co producing low budget independent pictures. He has also been privileged to work as a segment producer for The Apprentice 5 and The Amazing Race as well as doing coverage and story analysis for Miramax and The Weinstein Company.

Cruz is currently involved in music videos, producing for 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Nas, Jessica Simpson, P DIDDY, Bjork, My Chemical Romance and other pop stars. He is currently in development for City Nights with Hell's Kitchen Entertainment and City Pictures for his directorial feature debut.

As an award-winning freelance producer and production manager, Kohle produced episodes for Marienhof, one of Germany's most popular soaps with a daily viewership exceeding the six million mark. In collaboration with the Ludwigsburg Film Academy in Germany, he published the media handbook Medienmacher Heute. His passion in teaching includes working with young offenders as well as aspiring filmmakers.

His recent projects include post-production management on feature film for Studio Babelsberg, Berlin for productions such as Wim Wender's Soul of a Man and Jackie Chan's Around the World in 80 Days in addition to various German sopas such as Notruf 110 and Tatort.

In addition to filmmaking, Robert Milazzo teaches acting, directing and screenwriting for various film programs including Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, Rutgers University, Stanford University, and the Lee Strasberg Institute for Film and Theater. He also served as writer/director David Mamet's project associate for two years, in addition to having worked with William H. Macy, Mike Nichols and Sidney Lumet in a similar capacity. He also served as the assistant to executive producer for NBC's Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Most recently, he produced the music video "Almost Always" marking the directing debut for actor Mike Myers (Austin Powers).

Milazzo also produced and directed The Guru Pitka's Four Laws of Happiness starring Mike Myers at various venues in New York City. He recently wrapped his feature-film War Eagle starring Brian Dennehy, Mare Winningham and Mary Kay Place.

With more than 30 years of experience under his belt, Malcolm Cromie has built an impressive body of work in all areas of production and post production sound for film and television. Most notably, he was involved in various units throughout Peter Jackson's acclaimed and widely successful movie series -- The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He was also involved with such international hits as Peter Jackson's King Kong (as main unit pick up shoot mixer), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (relieving main unit mixer) and Bridge to Terabithia (relieving main unit mixer).

Cromie's extensive resume also includes such television shows and movies as Hercules, Xena: Warrior Princess, P.E.T. Detectives, Spin Doctors, Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, Deceit and Street Legal 2, documentaries for the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and National Geographic, and hundreds of national and international TVCs. He is also involved with the soon-to-be-released movie 10,000 B.C. as splinter unit mixer.

Malcolm Young is a senior film and television executive, having been in the film and television business since 1975. He spent his first years in the industry producing, directing, writing, shooting and editing television commercials, lifestyle program segments and documentaries.

As Head of Television for TVSN, he established a complete new broadcast studio and uplink facility in Shanghai, China and served as Executive-in-Charge of Production for the Hong Kong and Singapore based Bang Productions, whose major clients include Discovery Communications, Inc, National Geographic Channel, Celestial Pictures and CNN. Malcolm Young now runs his own production company, Firefly Films (Singapore) Pte, Ltd.

Brian Tyree is a prolific screenwriter who has written for the screen in various genres such as: Epic Drama, Live Action, Romantic Comedy, Adventure, Family Drama, and Comedy-Horror.

For television, the web and animation he conceptualized and wrote for Disney TV - ABC the "House of Mouse". He studied at University of Southern California's School of Cinema & Television and majored in Writing, Directing, Production & Animation.

Among this German Director of Photography's long list of credits are: the 1993 film Estelle, the 2001 B-52 (2001), and Uprising '89, Dresden, which won the Golden Dove award in the International Week of Documentaries and Short Films in Leipzig. His film education is just as extensive. In 1994, Langhoff graduated Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg, and in 1996, he completed another MFA, this time from the California Institute of the Arts (CALARTS), Filmschool.

Langhoff acquired a special internship in photography with John Bailey, ASC and Laszlo Kovacs, ASC for the movie As Good as it Gets (Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Cuba Gooding, Jr.), and with Harold Ramis for Multiplicity, starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell. Just as impressive is his scholarship with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.), the award-giving body responsible for the Oscars.