Robert Carradine
is best known for portraying Lewis Skolnick in the
successful Revenge of the Nerds
series of comedy films and Sam
McGuire on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire.
Carradine
made his film debut in 1972 in
The Cowboys with John Wayne. He made an appearance as
a killer in the Martin
Scorsese film Mean Streets alongside his brother
David; again with David in The
Long Riders
about the Jesse James Gang, and was in Massacre at
Central High in 1976. His dad
was the actor John Carradine,
and he is the brother of Keith and the late David Carradine.
Fu-Ding Cheng now dedicates his
time to elevating consciousness through art, films, books and
seminars. While teaching Film Directing
at the North Carolina School of the Arts, he created a ground-
breaking new curriculum, "Shamanic Tools
for the Filmmaker." Based in Venice, California, he is
currently launching the feature film,
Maya, a mystical love story inspired by transcendent experiences
gained from his Toltec practices; and
Long Day's Journey Into Light, a memoir in the form of
transformational tales complemented by
24 photo/watercolor paintings.
Gary
Conway has an extraordinary creative background from
the fine arts to the arts of
viticulture and
winemaking, it was in television where Gary first became
recognized worldwide,
initially starring in the TV
series "Burke's
Law," then
"Land of the Giants,"
the world’s most
successful TV series. Besides
starring in series and a multitude of episodic
television shows and
TV movies for the three networks,
he starred in many motion pictures. He is also a
prominent
screenwriter with such credits as
“Over the Top,”
and the “American
Ninja” series. He
currently directed
and starred in the acclaimed film
“Woman’s Story.”
Len Del'Amico directed and/or
produced many concert films and music videos with
such artists
as Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, the
Allman Brothers Band, Linda Ronstadt, Blues Traveler,
Carlos Santana, Ray Charles, Reuben Blades, Bonnie
Raitt, and of course, Grateful Dead. Len first
worked with
Grateful Dead in 1980 on "Dead Ahead," the
band's live TV
broadcast and platinum
home video. He was the band's "film
and video guy" for the next 11 years. Dell'Amico
and Jerry
Garcia co-directed "So Far,"
the top-selling music video of 1988, which won the
American Film
Institute's
award for best long-form music program.
Chloe Domange is the Vice
President of the new Production company based in Los
Angeles,
Hollywood Dreams Pictures.
She has done acted in independent movies, television, voice
over,
commercials, theater, modeling,
hosting, music videos and is a writer. Her book entitled
“How to
become a real L.A girl!”
Synopsis: So you’ve just moved to this amazing city
called Los Angeles
from another State or country.
She graduated from Law School in 2006 with a Masters in
International Taxation.
Chloe is a Producer and the Lead character of the
Psychological thriller
"40 Sundays" currently shooting
in Los Angeles.
Joe Estevez is an
American actor, director, and
producer. Starring in
well over 150 films, he has
a very large cult following, he
is a sought after voice-over actor, and has hosted numerous
documentaries.
He is the younger brother of
actor Martin Sheen and the uncle of Emilio Estevez,
and Charlie Sheen.
Joe loves to go back to
his roots as a stage actor when time permits. Joe
will do a Q & A after the
screening of the movie PrimeMates, a story of four men,
cigars and why
they cheat. He will join
his friends at Luck Films for some fun in Paso.
Christopher Felver is a
photographer and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited
internationally,
and his works are collected by numerous libraries and
museums, including Stanford University
Special Collections. He participated in the 53rd
Venice International Film Festival, and screened
films in festivals and
museums around the globe, including presentations at the Library of
Congress,
he received the Best Art Documentary Awards at the Cinema Arts
Centre Independent Film Festival,
and he was a Visiting Artist at the
American Academy in Rome.
Rich Ferguson
is a magician, entertainer and poker columnist.
He is current spokesman
for a Dream For Kids, a local, San Luis Obispo California
charity. Rich's humorous and original
magic has enchanted audiences all over the world. Rich
combines magic, hypnosis and mentalism
to create a style of magic that is highly intriguing and
sets him apart from the rest as a world-class
magician. His slogan is "Where Magic & Mentalism Join
Hands." He performs for high profile
events, award shows, magic clubs, theatres and his hands are used as
extras in movies for cheats,
gambling, hustles, pick pockets and various manipulations
Mick Jackson recently won
the Prime Time Emmy for outstanding directing for the HBO
movie
"Temple Grandin", which swept
the Emmy Awards with 7 wins. Jackson is from England and
started
directing with the British
documentaries "The Ascent of Man", "The Age of Uncertainty"
and
"Connections" after becoming an
editor for the BBC. Jackson made his American feature
debut with
the dark comedy "Chattahoochee"
(1990) starring Gary Oldman. Subsequent feature work
includes
the gentle and offbeat "L.A.
Story" (1991) with Steve Martin and "The Bodyguard" (1992),
which
paired Kevin Costner and Whitney
Houston. We are honored to present the Festival's
HUMANITARIAN AWARD to Mr.
Jackson.
Dan Jones
was recently Chairman of the Ponca Nation, Oklahoma. He was a Field
Producer on
the Emmy nominated documentary
500 Nations, working with Kevin Costner. He worked
for Disney
Imagineering on the Disney America
Project,
and performed with Sammy Davis Jr. and Wayne
Newton at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts.
Jones' television
productions
include producing The World of American Indian Dance,
which premiered on NBC in 2003.
In
2001 Jones was the
co-host and co-producer of the First Americans in the Arts awards ceremony
webcast, with broadcast
partner Yahoo.com. In 1993 he received the Muse Award from the
Association of
American Museums for a work produced by the new Smithsonian National Museum
of the American Indian. Jones is a traditional
straight dancer and resides in his hometown of Ponca
City,
Oklahoma.
Brenda and Marc Lhormer
for a number of years produced the Sonoma Valley Film
Festival, and
are said to made it a top of the
line event, and are now venturing to produce the Napa Valley
Film
Festival in 2011. Brenda
and Marc coproduced the feature film
“Bottle Shock”—a “factional”
2008
retelling of the events
surrounding the 1976 “Judgment of Paris,” when Napa Valley
wine beat
French vintages in a blind
tasting, and brought Napa Valley and California wines to
National
attention. Brenda and
March have several films slated for 2011, and will stage an
reenactment of
the "Judgment of Paris" at
thePDFF, with Napa Valley and Paso Robles wines in
competition.
Bela
Lugosi, Jr. Lawyer specializing in the protection of intellectual property rights of
famous
celebrities. He was the plaintiff
in a landmark case involving the estate of his late father, famed
`Dracula' character actor Bela Lugosi Sr Lugosi also was involved in the enactment of the
California
Celebrity Rights Act of 1984. He is often retained to represent heirs of well known celebrities in
litigation over ownership and enforcement of intellectual property rights and
recently served as one
of the attorneys involved in the nearly five month-long
jury trial on the rights to "The Three Stooges."
Bela has been president of Lugosi Enterprises since 1963, and from 1995 to August 1999 he was
the Director and Executive Vice President, Corporate Acquisitions and
Development of C3
Entertainment Incorporated.
Bela will do a Q & A after the
screening of his dad 1931 version of DRACULA. And, Bela is
here
as a vintner, and representing the new
Lugosi Vineyard.
Paula Nelson
The daughter of a Texas music icon
is releasing her fourth CD entitled "Little City"
and most were recorded in Austin with
her band. All songs, except for a duet she sings with her
famous dad, were written by her.
Paula will perform during the Film Fest Concert Sunday, and
talk about music videos during the screening of
some videos she has recently produced with
Luck Films, including her new
DVD of "Have You Ever Seen the Rain"...and maybe we can get
her
to talk some about her stunt
work in the movie business.
Ryan Page
is a film producer/director based in Arizona. Page's films
have been shown at the
London
Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Sundance Film Festival,
Queen Elizabeth Hall,
Tokyo's
Shibuya Cinema Society, Los Angeles Grand Performances
Series, BorDocs Foro
Documental
Tijuana, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Cleveland
Museum of Art,
Chicago's
Gene Siskel Film Center, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Miami
Art Central, Salina Art
Center, IAF
Video art Festival Tijuana, Săo Paulo International Short
Film Festival, as well as
theaters
across the globe.
Nathan Phillips- Currently
best known for his role as backpacker Ben Mitchell in Wolf
Creek.
He worked entirely in television until 2001, with
roles in Child
Star: The Shirley Temple Story (TV),
"Something in the Air"
and The Saddle Club. In 2002 he began his movie career with a role
in.
His next role, top lining Australian
Rules
saw him nominated as Best Actor for the 'Film Critics
Circle of Australia' award.
Since then the he has starred in the Australian films Take
Away, One
Perfect Day and Under
the Radar (2004). Wolf
Creek
has introduced him to an international
audience and big things are predicted for the Sunbury
born actor. Phillips will be seen in his
American film debut Snakes
on a Plane, opposite Samuel L.
Jackson, in 2006.
Patrice Poujol is the director of Box
Productions, a digital media production and distribution
company based in Hong Kong and Ireland,
which produces and promotes film content to Asia.
Patrice
has just completed as Project Manager on the
1st Irish Film Festival in China, and is on the
board of the 1st Chinese film festival in Ireland
organized by the Confucius Institute. As a PhD
researcher
on the film business in China, and workign on
the publication of his book: Film
Distribution in the Digital
Era: A Chinese Perspective. Patrice has just released his new film
TASTE and screened in
China and several film festivals. He is
presently working with thePDFF
producer Benford Standley on a
film festival simultaneous film festival in Las
Vegas and Macau,
China early 2011.
Christopher Pomerenke is a musician and filmmaker based
in Phoenix, AZ. Pomerenke made
his
documentary directorial debut with The Heart Is a Drum
Machine, which uses NASA's Golden
Record as a
device to talk about, "What is music". Pomerenke interviewed
over one hundred artists
and
academics for the film including John Frusciante, Elijah
Wood, Juliette Lewis, Isaac Brock,
George
Clinton and many more. He
recently Co-Directed
Blood Into Wine, the
widely anticipated
documentary that shares the story of
international platinum recording artist Maynard James
Keenan and his quest to bring the wine
industry to Northern Arizona.
John Andres Parks is a Songwriter's Songwriter, a Poet, and a Storyteller. Park's melodic
narratives run from windblown prairies and old jalopies to shooting stars across
the cosmic canvas.
As Kenny Rogers once said on an NBC Television Special, “John
Andrew is one of the greatest
singer/songwriters I’ve heard in 20 years,
and whether or not you like this song you have never
heard anything like it
before!” Willie Nelson has him on his list of favorite songwriters.
Kenny
Rodgers produced Park's Plant Texas in a video that was well well well ahead of its time using
music, film footage and animation. John recently performed for 600 million people on China TV.
Jim Fogelsong, a Lifetime Achievement Grammy winner, commented: “John Andrew Parks’
influence will be felt for a decade to come."
Francesco Quinn may best
be known for his breakout role as the underground drug lord Rhah in
Oliver
Stone's "Platoon", but like his father
the legendary Anthony Quinn, he is an actor of many faces. His
versatile acting style has landed him
multiple television guest star roles. The most recent was on
CBS'sThe Fugitive as Victor Gutierrez.
For the last year and a half Francesco was a permanent
fixture on CBS's hottest soap, Young and
the Restless. He was nominated for an ALMA Award as
Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Soap
Opera for his work as Tomas Del Cerro. He has appeared in 23
feature films, including several with
his father, including "A Star For Two" with Lauren Bacall.
