Amanda Pope, Director.
Amanda Pope's career in film and television spans several decades. Her credits include the PBS award winning documentary "Potraits of Jackson Pollock" and "Stages: Houseman Directs Lear". She also coproduced the Wright Brothers drama "Orville and Wilbur" for PBS and the BBC. She is currently on the faculty at the prestigious University of Southern California School of Cinema-TV.

Nick T. Spark, Producer.
A filmmaker and writer with a keen interest in history, Nick produced and directed "Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines" which appeared on Discovery Channel Europe. His articles have appeared in Naval History, Wings, Proceedings, Airpower, the Annals of Improbable Research, the Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society, and elsewhere. He holds a master's degree from the University of Southern California and was a two-time winner of the student Emmy Award for non-fiction and educational television.

Stuart Sperling, Production Sound
Director, writer and visionary, Stuart Sperling also finds the time to do production and post-production sound. Director of the acclaimed short film "i", Sperling is currently hard at work on his next project.

Clay Westervelt, Director of Photography
Clay Westervelt began his professional career shooting behind-the-scenes on the production of "Very Bad Things". The winner of multiple cinematography awards, Clay has worked with such directors as Randal Kleiser, Jim Parriot, and Jeremy Kagan. He wrote and directed the short film "thursday afternoon", which has won multiple awards in film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.

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