Trent Jones (Director)

Trent Jones is a professional theatre director who recently completed his graduate school studies   and earned an MFA in film production at USC's School of Cinema.   While at USC he was named a finalist in the Coca Cola Refreshing Filmmakers Contest for his short, Wonderdog.   During the same semester the faculty selected him as one of four directors from a pool of sixty to direct a university funded short, Croak.  Prior to attending USC, Trent was a professional theatre director based in New York.    He has directed new plays, musicals, and Shakespeare in regional theatres nationally and has assistant directed on Broadway.   On Broadway, he assisted directors Harold Prince ( The Phantom of the Opera, Showboat, & The Petrified Prince ), Mark Lamos ( The Deep Blue Sea ),   and Frank Langella   ( Cyrano De Bergerac, Roundabout Theatre) among others.   He is an alumnus of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and in was awarded the Phil Killian Directing Fellowship by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Recently, his thesis film, Love Letter,   was awarded a "Student Emmy" by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.   His work on Love Letter also resulted in Esquire Magazine's invitation to join a group of ten directors chosen from a national search to participate in their Celluloid Style Contest.   His short, The Immaculate Reception, adapted from an article in Esquire, was named the runner up.    Trent is currently developing a comedy series aimed at "tweens," based on Love Letter.

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Cynthia Jones (Writer)

Cynthia Jones has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing and is now using her experience in literary fiction to write screenplays.   Her short story "Undertow" was published in Alt Pick Magazine and her short film scripts, Box Step , Love Letter and The Immaculate Reception have been produced at the University of Southern California.   She is currently developing a tween TV series based on Love Letter with her husband Trent Jones.

Borga Dorter (Producer)

Borga graduated from the USC School of Cinema-Television with a masters degree in film production.   While at USC, he wrote and directed the short film Thermopylae , which has recently won the Director's Choice Award for Best Student Film at the 2006 Sedona International Film Festival.   After Love Letter , Borga and his producing partner Samantha teamed up with Trent & Cindy once again to produce The Immaculate Reception , a short mockumentary depicting the hustle and bustle at the residence of Jesus in the hours leading up to midnight on Christmas Eve.   Borga currently works as a literary assistant at a major agency.   He has finished a screenplay in the thriller genre and is busy writing an original pilot, as well as developing a cartoon series.

Samantha Reynolds (Producer)

A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Samantha Reynolds earned a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production at the University of British Columbia.  Samantha traveled to New York to study acting at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. During that time, appeared in the World Premiere Off-Broadway production of Horton Foote's Talkin' Pictures at New York's Signature Theatre and was a fill-in host on The Late Show With David Letterman .   She has lent her voice to leading roles in animation series such as Henry in Henry's World , Ikki in the mega-hit Medabots , as well as Todd in the new Nickelodeon series Wayside School .  After many years working as an actor Samantha decided to return to school and graduated in the spring of 2005 with her MFA in film production from the USC School of Cinema-TV.   Samantha is currently writing a feature-length comedy and researching a feature documentary.   She collaborated with Trent on the award-winning short The Immaculate Reception .   Her short documentary Back To Life recently won the Cine Golden Eagle Award for excellence in filmmaking and took first prize at the Beverly Hills Shorts Festival.

Peter Mishara (DP)

A native New Yorker, Peter has spent the past five years working in the LA film industry, shooting award-winning shorts, commercials and music videos. Short format films that he has shot have garnered the DGA award for Asian-American film, won two student Emmys and have been featured at numerous film festivals around the world including Cannes and Sundance. His promotional work has been with such wide-ranging companies as MTV, Audi, Coca-Cola, A&E, G4TV and Sony. He is currently employed as a producer for Ecko TV, the new television venture from the world-renowned clothier.   Peter continues to live in LA and looks forward to the film-festival circuit with his own short Clear Blue Skies in the upcoming year.

Franklin Peterson (Editor)

Franklin was born and raised in New Orleans and has been editing movies for over a decade.   Getting a dual degree at the University of Texas at Austin in film production and liberal arts honors, he's edited over a dozen short films which have screened all over the country at a wide variety of film festivals.   Clothes Lined (2003) was runner up for the Flicker Film Festival and received the best editing award at Cinematexas.   Currently finishing up his MFA at USC, Franklin's edited numerous advanced projects and is in post on his own thesis film based on the work of Sandra Tsing Loh.

Mark Plutynski (Prod Design)

Mark is a production designer and art director living and working in Los Angeles for the past five years.   Since he started off as an art PA for the Bill Murray film With Friends Like These his career has grown in scope and creativity.   He has art directed music videos for Pigeon John, Young Heart attack and Sir Mix-A-Lot, worked on television shows such as America's Most Wanted , The Bachelorette , The Contender and has been the art department head on five feature films.   Mark graduated from the USC School of Cinema-TV in 2000 and has been lucky and proud to work with Trent on Love Letter .

Patrick Baca, CSA (Casting)

Patrick Baca, CSA brings a unique perspective to his current career as a Casting Director, having previously been an actor, talent agent and talent manager - all in that order.  Patrick cast the L.A. Law reunion movie starring Bruce Davison (NBC), the Hallmark movie Gentle Ben starring Dean Cain, and Halloween: Resurrection starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Busta Rhymes (Miramax).   Other features include the forthcoming Mercenary (Steven Seagal), and indies Hard Pill , Tweek City , Defying Gravity and Just Can't Get Enough .   Patrick cast the Comedy Central pilot and series Strip Mall starring Julie Brown.   Other pilots-to-series include 20th Television's upcoming serial dramas Table for Three and Fashion House , AMC's acclaimed The Lot and UPN's Reunited .   Patrick serves on the Board of Directors of The Casting Society of America. 

Rebecca Herron (Costumes)

Rebecca Herron started out in LA working with Ann Closs-Farley in smaller theatres such as the Actor's Gang and the Evidence Room.   Together they won several awards from the LA Weekly for their costumes.   Rebecca then found work building puppets and features for characters on the hit television series Crank Yankers , where she worked for two years.   She recently went back to school to get her cosmetology license and now works as a freelance hairstylist.

Andrew Kaiser (Composer)

Andrew Kaiser currently works as a composer writing for film, television, and the concert stage.   His recent film credits include scores for the films Flourish and Fast Money , as well as additional music in the films Taxi and Cheaper by the Dozen.   His music can also be heard on television in several shows, including hit reality series Survivor and The Apprentice.