Caryn Waechter, Director/Editor Caryn Waechter, a native Californian, recently completed her Masters of Fine Arts in Directing at Columbia University. Sparked by positive comments over a super 8mm short ("Dream Trip") created for a film course at Boston College, she was urged to explore film as a career path. Having grown up in Austria and Germany, and having traveled extensively in her youth, Caryn delights in exploring different cultures and customs. Inspired by dance and music, her style has been described as "lyrical," "musical," and "intuitive" in her short film "BEAT." This super 8mm film, which was recognized at festivals throughout Europe and the U.S., was an experimental sequence taken from the first pages of her feature-length screenplay of the same name. Caryn enjoys writing screenplays, collecting vinyl, listening to electronic music, roller-skating, running, snowboarding, dancing, travel, and photography. When she can afford another turntable, she plans to teach herself to spin and mix records. Since music and movement have had a considerable effect on her films, she plans to keep developing the bridge between these two rhythmic, influential, and inspiring media. Alex Twersky, Producer Alex Twersky is a co-founder and principal at Kinetic Arts, a New York-based film and television production company that specializes in developing the talents of new writers and directors, as well as adapting award-winning short films into features. Alex draws on a diverse media background which includes publishing, media strategy consulting, and work as a freelance author. In film, Alex has worked on features, shorts and documentaries that have run and prized at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto and Clermont-Ferrand. Alex and Kinetic Arts are currently developing a slate of over 10 features, based on Academy-Award winning shorts, profound literary properties, and the richly textured scripts and ideas developed by the Academy-Award winning writers and directors with whom the company is proud to be aligned. Alex received his BS in Marketing and International Business from NYU's Stern School of Business. Chris Spanos, Producer Chris Spanos is an entrepreneurial producer who has co-founded two industry-leading production companies, Animators at Law and Kinetic Arts, and is currently founding a third, Chien Lunatique Films. His varied career has included the great privilege of working with such luminaries as John Lithgow, James Garner, Tony Danza, Dennis Miller, and two-time Academy Award-winning director Martin Strange-Hansen. His most recent project was producing the acclaimed film Welcome to Life, an official selection at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and a regional finalist for the Student Academy Award. Dennis Lee, Writer Upon graduating from the University of Chicago, Dennis Lee joined Teach for America, a non-profit organization that places recent college graduates in rural and urban school districts experiencing chronic teacher shortages. During his years in the classroom, Dennis taught kindergarten, 1st grade, and co-founded an art-based charter school for at-risk middle students in Houston, Texas. He then moved to New York City in the fall of 1999, to attend Columbia University’s M.F.A. Film Program. While at Columbia he has written several feature scripts and has directed a number of short films. Completed in the spring of 2003, his thesis film, "Jesus Henry Christ," has received numerous awards. The film will continue its festival run through the fall of 2003, concluding in the summer of 2004. Dennis is currently a partner in Kulture Machine LLC, a production company that is developing Jesus Henry Christ as a feature film. He is also currently in pre-production to direct a film for New Line Cinema entitled, "Slay the Bully." Damian Ward, Cinematographer Consumed by the notion of light and dark, Damian began work as an artist exploring the realm of commercial art. Mass media eventually interceded creating an overwhelming impression of movement. With due time, he began working in the field of direction and cinematography challenging the standards of conventionality and embarking on the studies of theosophy. Simon Taufique, Music Composer Born in England and raised in the U.K. and America by Indian parents, Simon’s musical journey began when a pediatric nurse observed the length of his newborn fingers and declared in a proud Jamaican accent, "This child will make music!" Simon wasted no time stretching his creative muscles: writing narrative stories at the age of fifteen, along with future director Spike Jonze, for Freestylin’ Magazine, and then at NYU, learning about the marriage of film and music through his close friendship with M. Night Shyamalan. After graduate studies (NYU) in music & technology, Simon was commissioned to write additional music for Shyamalan’s film, Wide Awake. Simon also contributed music to the film, Temps, for the Burton Sisters. Since then, Simon has composed original music for film while also providing creative insight to the music of box office blockbusters and independent films alike. Simon continues his musical journey by harmonizing his Western surroundings with his Eastern and Spiritual heritage. The result is an organic sound that reflects the cultural, technological, and psychological realities of our time. Brian Kim, "Harold" Brian Kim is a happy nine-year-old boy residing in Long Island with his Korean parents. "God is Good" marks his acting debut. Brian loves video games, comic books, frogs, television, and "Sonic the Hedgehog." Lauren Singleton, "Mina" Lauren Singleton is nine years old and in the fourth grade at Woodland Elementary in Kansas City, MO. She was born in Cherry Point, NC, the middle of three girls. Her parents are both United States Marines, so she is used to traveling and making new friends. She is a veteran of children's theater and has several television and short film appearances under her belt. She has a natural curiosity for science and a great love of nature. Her parents expect that she will grow up to be a forensic scientist or an archaeologist. She has recently embraced music and taken up the violin. Gigi Jhong, "Jung" Gigi Jhong is a Seattle native where she received her BA at the University of Washington. Most recently she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland where the play "Boy Steals Train" won Fringe First and Best Ensemble at the London Stage Awards. Her regional theater credits include "Wit" at the George Street Playhouse; Off-Broadway "Worm Day" at DR2; "Ballad of Yachiyo" and "Fitting In" at Seattle Rep; "Harvest Moon" at the Group Theater (Seattle); and "An Unhappy Woman" and "Octect" at NJ Rep. Some of her other theater involvements include La Mamma Annex, Norwest Asian American Theater and ReAct. Her film work consists of "Surplus", which was part of the Asian American Film Festival NY in 2000, as well as Ten Million Women (Indie) and several student films that won school awards. Gigi also was in an MTV "Rock the Vote" promo with pop star Jessica Simpson. Jae Choe, "Jin" Jae Choe is a rising young actor currently residing in Hollywood, California. By way of Korea, Jae was raised and educated on the east coast. Born into a martial arts family, he holds a 5th degree black belt. He is also the lead-singer for an alternative rock band, Karmakolektiv. Jae now appears in feature films and commercials in both New York City and Los Angeles. Visit his website at www.heyjae.com for more info.