Colin Finlay

My photographic career, is owed to the people, the landscapes and the animals that I have knelt before. I am witness, I am empathy and I am compassion. I honor all of those with whom I have shared time with in this beautiful world. I am who and what I am because of you. One word exemplifies each and every breath that I take on this earth, and that word is gratitude. I have been blessed with many awards and accolades, Tiffany Crystal Eagles, Emmy nods and a Knighthood. At the heart of my journey is the evolution of soul, transcendence. I'm simply in pursuit of living an authentic life. One filled with the joy of love, music, photographs and the written word. The effortless search for the divine in all that we do.

Heather McClintock

Raised in rural northern Vermont, Heather McClintock has been fascinated since childhood with recording peoples lives and their place in the world. Though working in NY was amazing and challenging, she felt no real sense of purpose or accomplishment. In Uganda, she found her passion for documenting the interconnectedness of us all - the human struggle and the human spirit, life and death, war and love.

Mark Malloy

Mark Malloy is a Los Angeles-based photographer, filmmaker, educator, and mentor. Having been drawn to street and conflict photography in his teens, Mark shot projects in the Soviet Union in 1984 and in East Berlin in the early summer of 1989. Encountering Colin Finlay’s photographs of the troubles in Northern Ireland in the late 1980’s, Mark was so inspired by them that he photographed in Belfast in 1994.

Stephen Nemeth

Stephen Nemeth formed and heads up Rhino Films, the independent film company that originated as a division of iconoclastic record label Rhino Records. He has produced and executive produced dozens of films including The Sessions (Sundance 2012 Audience Award, 2013 Academy Award nomination for Helen Hunt), C.O.G. (Sundance 2013), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Radio Free Albemuth and Spaceman. He is developing the New York Times bestselling book Confessions of an Economic Hitman as a television series with George Clooney and Smokehouse and is in post-production on Freak Power (prequel to Fear and Loathing) and in pre-production on Hunter S. Thompson’s The Curse of Lono.

Nemeth’s documentary credits include Dogtown and Z-Boys (Sundance 2001 Audience Award), Pick Up the Mic (Toronto 2005), Wardance (2008 Academy Award nomination), Fuel (Sundance 2008 Audience Award), Flow (Sundance 2008), Climate Refugees (Sundance 2010), Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story, Education Inc., Pump, Good Fortune and Logan’s Syndrome.

Nemeth is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and on the board of numerous nonprofit organizations including Friends of the Earth, Children Uniting Nations and the International Documentary Association and is on the dean’s board of the UC Santa Cruz’s School for the Arts. He is both an American and British citizen.

Sam Dlugach

Sam Dlugach has been coloring moving images for over thirty years. He worked in Nashville before moving to Los Angeles, where he has created final color for feature films, episodic television, commercials, and music videos. He counts every major Hollywood studio among his clients, and his work is seen by millions of viewers every day. A member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Colorist Society International, and the International Documentary Association, Sam is a past recipient of the Roy W. Dean Film Grant. In addition to domestic and international studio work, he enjoys working with independent filmmakers and has a particular passion for non-fiction projects that illuminate the human condition.

He spends his spare time organic gardening, beekeeping, and playing acoustic music from the 1920s and 30s.

Michael Carlin

Michael Carlin was born in Los Angeles in 1962 and began his film career at an early age, basically growing up in the entertainment business. His grandfather was a teamster whose last movie was Jaws with stories of working for Cecil B. DeMille, Howard Hughes, and Samuel Goldwyn. His father was a lighting director with notable credits of King Kong, Who Will Stop The Rain, The Fury and the series Chips. For many years Carlin ran his family’s lighting and grip company, Keylite PSI. Keylite supplied equipment on Ordinary People, Platoon, JFK, Reservoir Dogs, and hundreds of other feature films and thousands of hours of television. Recently, Michael Carlin directed American Federale, a documentary about the only American to ever serve as a Mexican Federale.

David Blum

David Blum brings a unique perspective to post production. Starting as a film editor in San Diego, Mr. Blum evolved his skills to include videotape. Moving to Los Angeles in 1978 he immediately began to focus on the use of videotape and film for visual effects.

Seeing a need for efficient tape editing for film products, Mr. Blum worked with Francis Ford Copola on “One From the Heart”. It was this pioneering effort that led him to devise his own proprietary system. Working with Universal Pictures Television Mr. Blum was the first person to edit a show on tape and return accurate film codes successfully. Expanding his software development he wrote and created the CMX EDL Optimizer, inventing “C” mode editing, which is still in use today around the world.