Asiel Norton

Asiel Norton was raised in a small cabin on Kneeland Mountain, CA. with no television, limited electricity, and water attained from a nearby stream. He attended the Brooks Institute of Photography, and has worked as a fine art photographer; in 2004 he graduated from USC Film School.

His first feature film Redland premiered at the 2009 CineVegas Film Festival, played at Montreal World Film Festival, won Best Debut Feature at 2009 Raindance Film Festival in London and it continues on the festival circuit. Norton was recently included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2009 as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

Links: www.liveredland.com

Chad Ross

His 13 years breakin, nine of which were spent teaching classes, give him a rare mix of technical skills and knowledge of the subject matter. While still a student at The Art Institute of Seattle he directed a series of cutting-edge breakin compilations for “Circle of Fire” that were sold exclusively in Japan.

In the past year he has shot all-access video for recording stars Duran Duran, Nas, The Fratellis, The Presets, MIMS, The Clipse, Bun B, Devin the Dude and Swizz Beatz. In August of 2007 he directed the Dyme Def “3BadBrothaaas” music video making it his fifth work of the sort.

Although the contracting work led to a preferred vendor status with Microsoft Zune, and the music videos brought media attention, his real passion lied with bigger projects. He has two feature length documentaries in production: “Walking Dreams” about painter David Garibaldi, and the feature-length documentary/tutorial the Way of the Bboy which is a collaboration with director Zak Tucker.

Links: The Chad Ross

Daniel Kremer

Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He lives on New York City's Upper East Side, attended Temple University in Philadelphia and has been involved in the productions of a great many film projects, short and feature-length, a good deal of which he directed, edited and/or photographed.

His film Crumbs from a Hard-Boiled Egg screened at film festivals across the country, and he was presented with three Best Documentary in Competition prizes for his film Yarns To Be Spun on the Way to the Happy Home (2007). His first feature-length film, A Trip to Swadades (2008), started touring festivals in 2008 and won two Best of Festival awards. He followed his feature debut with A Collection of Chemicals, which toured festivals in 2009. In early 2010, he started pursuing semicha, an Orthodox rabbinical ordination. He is now in post-production on his second feature-length film, entitled The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour, due for release in early 2011.

Links: http://confluencefilm.blogspot.com/

Doug Brooks

Doug Brooks is a Nelson, NZ filmmaker whose short films have won him festival and peer awards, as well as working in Scotish television and at the Edinburgh International film festival. He teaches Drama, Music and Science at Waimea College in Nelson and runs improv theatre and filmmaking at his school.

His experience as coordinator of the Tasman/West Coast Shakespeare Festival led him to his recent roll in “Macbeth.” Doug will be meeting with HROP students and connecting at theatre events throughout the festival.

Glenis Giles

Glenis has worked as a producer of film and television projects over the last twenty years through her company Oliver Giles Productions. She has been at the forefront of cross-media development with her 13 part science series for kids, QTV - featuring interviews with scientists and technologists throughout New Zealand. Her most recent film, Mokopuna, was directed by Ainsley Gardiner and won a medal at the Vancouver Indigeouns Film Festival. She has worked on many projects with director Clare O'Leary, they formed Gogo Media in 2007. They are currently working on a documentary about Wellington 88 year old artist, Gordon Crook.

Links: www.gogomedia.co.nz