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Heather Lind was born on 22 March 1983 in Upland, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Mistress America (2015), Boardwalk Empire (2010) and Demolition (2015).- Actress
- Producer
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Danielle Ryan Chuchran was born in Upland, California, but moved to Utah shortly afterward. She started her career with some ads before she won her first role at age 7 in "Little Secrets." With her part as Thing One in "The Cat in the hat" she consolidated her position as child actress and did several films and series afterwards. Since "Minor Details" she has appeared in most of projects of John Lyde and Mainstay Productions.
Danielle is quite sporty. She is an accomplished rider, and besides several other hobbies she loves to go shooting, both guns and archery. She likes to perform her own stunts and fighting scenes for her roles, a passion that started all the way back with her Thing One role, and today includes some serious rock climbing in her newer movie "Survivor." She is also an animal lover and enjoys spending time with her dog and her horses.- Actor
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Gary "Litefoot" Davis, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, has been a notable figure in Indian Country for nearly 30 years. First recognized for his considerable achievements in music, film and television with eight award winning albums, as well as award-winning starring roles in such films as, The Indian in The Cupboard (Paramount Pictures) and appearances on television programs such as, House of Cards (Netflix) and numerous inspirational concert tours which have taken him to nearly every tribal nation in the United States.
Mr. Davis recently launched IndigiStudios, an indigenous film and production company focused on a slate of theatrical, episodic, and documentary projects all centered around the company's mission of reclaiming the indigenous narrative in film and television. The first project released by IndigiStudios is the documentary short film written and directed by Davis, Strong Hearts: An Indigenous Love Letter To My Sons. It will be followed by several other film projects he intends to either write, direct or produce.
In 2022, Davis will lend his voice acting talents to various roles in an upcoming animated indigenous children's cartoon series for Netflix.
In addition to his pursuits in the arts, Mr. Davis has served as the chief executive officer at prominent national tribal economic development organizations, is a member of the Forbes Finance Council and is a seasoned entrepreneur having started his first business in 1992. His consulting firm, Davis Strategy Group, serves an array of tribal and corporate clients.
His ascension in national tribal economic development began in 2007, when he became Vice-President of U.S. Native Affairs for the Triple Five Group (owners of the Mall of America) and co-chair of the National Indian Gaming Association's, American Indian Business Network. He has since led the largest annual gathering of tribal and indigenous entrepreneurs in North America, operated multiple federal programs, and led various initiatives related to business and entrepreneurship across Indian Country.
He has twice testified before the U.S. Senate and is astute at policy matters related to Indian Country. He is a relentless advocate for tribal sovereignty and advancing business in Indian Country and has been appointed as an ambassador for the U.S. Department of Energy's Minorities in Energy (2015) and Equity in Energy (2020) initiatives as well as an appointment to the U.S. Small Business Administration's Council on Underserved Communities (2016).
He is an accomplished international public speaker and has presented to audiences ranging from colleges and universities, major corporations, to serving as the featured keynote speech at the World Indigenous Business Forum in Guatemala City, Guatemala and providing remarks at Hannover Messe, the world's largest trade fair for industrial technology, in Hannover, Germany.
Mr. Davis is a recipient of the prestigious Sevenstar Award from the Cherokee Nation Historical Society and received the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency's National Director Special Recognition Award in 2015. Mr. Davis was also recognized by Scholastic Books in their publication "Native American Heroes" in 2019.- Actress
- Producer
- Editor
Christina Bennett Lind was born in Upland, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Fireworkers (2017), Grown (2009) and The Talk Man (2011).- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Taylor Kalupa was born and raised in San Dimas, CA. She began dancing at the age of 3 and became involved with competitive dancing at the age of 7. She danced and competed at Just Plain Dancin & Co which was named the Number 1 dance studio in North America. She was discovered by International Fashion and Editorial Photographer Kimberly Metz during a photo shoot for a specialized dance troupe called Team Rave L.A. which was designed to perform at non-competitive, non-profit venues in California. Shortly after she signed with a top children's agency for modeling and dance.
She was cast as a principal actress in Dave Navarro's music video Rexall which was produced by Emmy Award winning Honey. She was picked by renowned fashion photographer Robert Erdmann for a Japanese Vogue photo shoot with actor Tobey Maguire. Taylor was then cast in the BBC's Drew Barrymore Story as one of Drew Barrymore's friends. Next Taylor worked on Lifetime's Blush: The Search for America's Greatest Makeup Artist (2008), in which she portrayed Marilyn Monroe. Taylor stars as the lead female role in a movie from the producers of God's Not Dead (2014) called The Pastor (2024), which also co-stars actors Kevin Sorbo, T.C. Stallings, and Hector Echavarria. She portrayed the true story of Olympic bi-athlete Kari Swenson in Into the Wild (2017).
Taylor is most known for her role as Jessica Meyer in the 2019 ABC drama, The Fix (2019), produced by famed O.J. Simpson case prosecutor Marcia Clark, her role in The Menendez Murders: Episode 7 (2017) / The Menendez Murders: Episode 8 (2017) on NBC, in which she portrays Lyle Menendez's fiance/wife Anna Eriksson, and her role as Cassandra in the global hit television series The Chosen.- Actor
- Composer
- Producer
Justin Johnson is widely recognized as a pre-eminent blues guitarist of our time. With followers numbering in the millions and endorsements from some of the most respected brands in the music industry, Johnson has firmly established himself as one of the most vital guitarists of his generation.
Born in Upland California, Johnson's grandfather was a trumpet player in the US Army Band and a lifelong music teacher. His mother was a DJ, whose abundant catalogs of music were of constant inspiration to him during his youth, and cultivated in him a deep appreciation for an astounding range of genres. That early passion led to Johnson training as a Jazz Guitarist at UNC Wilmington.
A prolific producer and guitarist, Johnson has independently released an impressive 11 full-length albums, including three double albums. Justin Johnson's debut album, "Smoke & Mirrors," saw it's official release in March of 2014, as Johnson took the stage to present his signature guitar style to thousands of fans at Port Fairy Folk Festival in Australia, thus ushering in Johnson's first international tour, which spanned mainland Australia and Tasmania, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. Johnson's original song "Midnight at the Crossroads," from that debut album was licensed to Florentine Films for Ken Burns documentary film "Jackie Robinson (2016)" (2016). Johnson's recording of "In the Pines" from the same album was licensed to ad agency Wieden + Kennedy for the "Dodge Brothers" national ad campaign for Dodge Motor Company (2016). Johnson's recording of "Grinnin in Your Face" from 'Smoke & Mirrors' is featured on NPR Back Porch Music's "Best of Back Porch Music Vol. 18: Old Enough to Know Better" (2015).
Johnson's original music has also been licensed to a host of other networks and organizations, such as The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, PBS, and others.
In 2019, Justin Johnson co-wrote, co-produced, and performed the award-winning score for John Carter Cash's short film Dragon Song (2019). The following year, Johnson co-produced, co-wrote and performed on Carter Cash's "Hey Crow" album. The two worked together yet again in 2021 on a collaboration with Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) when the three co-wrote and produced the single "Heart Made of Steel" for the Netflix film "The Ice Road (2021)." In 2020, Johnson acted as session guitarist and co-producer on several tracks for the Johnny Cash "Forever Words" album, putting music to previously unreleased poetry written by Johnny Cash.
In 2017, Justin Johnson collaborated with funk legend Bootsy Collins, acting as co-producer, co-writer, and session guitarist on Collins' "World Wide Funk" album (2017). The two collaborated again on the song "Rollin'" from Johnson's "Drivin it Down" album (2017).
In 2017, Johnson was asked to collaborate on the "For The Love of King" 16 part LP and 12 part CD album series, dedicated to the legacy and revival of the King Records studio in Cincinnati, OH. As part of this expansive project, Johnson contributed to 3 albums, joining music legends such as Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Delbert McClinton, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Knopfler, Ralph Stanley, Bootsy Collins, and others.
Justin Johnson is hailed not only as a performer, but also as a music educator and a promoter of the history and culture of guitar. In response to worldwide demand for instruction in his stylistic approach to guitar, Johnson has released an expansive instructional series on guitar technique and theory. Johnson is also featured in Strung Together (2015) the feature-length documentary film on American Roots instruments, produced by Jon Miller (2015).- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Eric was born in Upland, Ca to the parents of Gene and Effie Walker. In 1972 his family moved to the San Fernando Valley city of Sherman Oaks where his father worked as senior programer analyst for the Sunkist orange company. It was always his mother Effie's dream to get her children into acting. The break finally paid off, when Eric was choosen out of a group of kids at age six to be in a Jack In The Box commercial. On February 6, 1976, it was cut short by the death of Eric's mother. Having nothing but his mother's dream, Eric bugged his dad to get him into acting for the next four years. Finally his sister Teressa came up with the idea to ask a friend that she went to school with who was into acting, for a couple of agents phone numbers. She called a couple of them and the first agent she called signed Eric. Some of his earlier credits include: The Television Series, Webster(TV)as the football player. Having It All with Dyan Cannon as Peter her nephew. Little Spies for Walt Disney. Eric's big break came when George Lucas cast him in the lead role of Mace Towani in the spin off to the Star Wars Saga, The Ewok Adventure. Since then he has appeared in the films Less Than Zero, She's Out of Control, And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991). And the Television shows: The Marshall Chronicles, and Miracle Alley. In 1992 Eric formed his own production company Starlight Entertainment, and is working on several Television and Film projects.- Jordyn Raya James was born in Upland, California. Having a diverse ethnicity of African-American, Korean and Caucasian, Jordyn began her performance career at the age of 18 months modeling for Carter's and made her first T.V. appearance in 2014 on the second season of ABC's Bet on Your Baby. No stranger to the camera Jordyn has grown with a passion for performance, arts, and music with a strong affection for playing the piano. Jordyn's short film debut was in the role of "Young Yuna", the Malaysian Indie R&B singer/ songwriter for the She's Mercedes International Women's Day campaign for Mercedes Benz called the Female Bond.
Jordyn now reoccurs on the web series Kids React, People vs. Food and Try not to Smile or Laugh produced by Fine Brothers Entertainment. Commercial spots include Doc McStuffins baby nursery Ap and Disney Aqua Beads. Besides acting and modeling, Jordyn loves gymnastics and swimming - Actress
- Soundtrack
Aundrea Fimbres was born on 29 June 1983 in Upland, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Danity Kane: Damaged (2008), So You Think You Can Dance (2005) and All About Aubrey (2011).- Jim Bray was born on 23 February 1961 in Upland, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Roller Boogie (1979) and The Big Show (1980).
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- Additional Crew
- Art Department
Bayley Ellenburg is known for her work in various independent films and her principle roles in various Disney related photo shoots and commercials. She began acting at the age of seven. She started with community theatre and then moved up from there. Cast as the lead role in various independent films, Bayley discovered acting was her true passion. She now currently studies the dramatic arts and film production at the University of Southern California (2014-2018).- Connor Webb was born on 15 September 1995 in Upland, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The O.C. (2003), Grapple! (2010) and Gambil (2012).
- Keri Caye was born in Upland, California and grew up in Pomona, Los Angeles, and Anaheim, California. She is of Irish and French-Jewish ancestry. Caye made her acting debut in "The American Sportsman" fishing off San Diego's Guadalupe Islands (1969) and later launched her career in such films as "Surrender" (1987) "Baby Girl Scott," "Snoops" (1989) "The Slap Maxwell Story," (1987), "Frank's Place" (1987-88).
- Ryan Olsen was born on 5 May 1979 in Upland, California, USA. He is an actor, known for A League of Their Own (1992).
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- Composer
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Tangelene Bolton was born on May 29, 1991 in Upland, California. She grew up in Flemington, NJ in a musical household. Her mother is from the Philippines and her father is of English, Irish and Scottish descent.
Tangelene first got her start working for A-list composers Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Interstellar), Henry Jackman (X-Men, Captain America), and Bobby Tahouri (Game of Thrones, Iron Man). A Berklee College of Music Film Scoring graduate, Tangelene's distinct music style is a mashup of Neoclassical, electronic, folk, and jazz. She boldly turns classic and traditional sounds into exciting and new territories.
Always on the grasp of the next new innovative idea, Tangelene loves deep and thought-provoking collaborations that push the envelope in how we tell stories that transform our culture and future.- Actor
- Director
- Stunts
California Born, Montana/Michigan raised, Justin found his footing on the stage in 1997. Moving to Manhattan in 2002, New York City was his home for 14 years. He currently resides in Los Angeles as an Actor, Producer and an Award winning Director. His work in Film, Television, and the Web Series ranges from the USA to Europe, Korea and China. Television Work includes the Emmy nominated History Channel original series 'The Men Who Built America' as Thomas Edison. His film work has also been critically acclaimed, most notably for his performance in the Cannes Film Festival Indie 'A Proper Violence.'- Composer
- Editor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Adam Fazel was born on 28 June 1988 in Upland, California, USA. He is a composer and editor, known for Attempt 15 (2009), The Other Room (2010) and Criminal Minds (2011).- Bob Ralston was born on 2 July 1938 in Upland, California, USA. He has been married to Josephina "Fietje" Tangel since 3 March 1963. They have two children.
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- Producer
- Writer
James Runcorn was born on 31 May 1974 in Upland, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Love Is (2007), Dumplings (2023) and Unplugged (2014). He has been married to Tena Runcorn since 18 December 1993. They have seven children.- Producer
- Production Manager
- Director
Lance W. Lanfear is a Producer, and DGA Award-winning member of the Directors Guild of America. As a Line-Producer and DGA Unit Production Manager (UPM), Lance has overseen many successful productions (TOUR de PHARMACY, FREAKISH, ALL NIGHT, FOURSOME, DANGER FORCE) on various media platforms in multiple genres and was Emmy nominated for his Supervising Producer role on the critically acclaimed, ZAC & MIA. Recent credits include the Teen Supernatural Drama series LIGHT AS A FEATHER on Hulu, as Producer, UPM, and Director, and the Peabody nominated bilingual hit show GENTEFIED for Netflix. After many previous DGA Award nominations, Lance recently took home the 2022 DGA Award for Apple's BEST FOOT FORWARD in Children's Programs.
He received his degree from Claremont McKenna College (within the Claremont Colleges consortium), where he dual majored in Film Studies and Psychology. Eager for more hands on camera experience early in his career, Lance started his own Fearless Productions, to showcase his talent and develop his film-making skills. He completed a Directing focused program with the New York Film Academy at UCLA, and won Best Comedy/Parody Short at Comic-Con International Film Festival, producing THE VINYL BATTLE.
Lance has amassed twenty+ years of professional experience in all aspects of feature, television, and commercial production. As an Assistant Director, he's helped schedule and coordinate many memorable projects for the big and small screen (ARGO, SUPAH NINJAS, DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG, FRED: THE SHOW, GORTIMER GIBBON'S LIFE ON NORMAL STREET, BONES, SMOSH: THE MOVIE, ANOTHER PERIOD). But in the last year, he just finished producing Netflix's THE VINCE STAPLES SHOW.
Known for staying levelheaded and calm when faced with challenges, Lance's strength is in his consistent, creative and budget-minded approach to each project's unique story and vision. He is proof that hard work, dedication, and passion pay off.
Lance resides in Burbank, California with his family. When he's not pushing to elevate a script to screen, you can usually find him coaching and playing baseball with his three young boys - Ben, Carter, & Dylan.- Shannon Gayle Esparza was born in Upland, California. At age 14, Shannon and her family moved to New Orleans, where she studied theatre in both high school and at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. After earning her Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Conservation from LSU, she moved back to California in 2004. A few months later, she booked her first-ever feature film audition.
Shannon is a performer in several Los Angeles based cirque troupes: The Lucent Dossier Experience, L'Unkles Boink, Bijoulette, The New Fangled Opry, Fire Groove Entertainment, The Grande Artique, and various other collaborations. She has performed at numerous festivals and venues; including Burning Man, Lightning In A Bottle, Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas), Electric Forest (Michigan), The Hollywood Improv, and in Italy, Copenhagen, Costa Rica, Australia, Fiji, and the UK.
Shannon resides in Los Angeles, California. - Actor
- Script and Continuity Department
Colin Axford Guthrie was born on 16 March 1992 in Upland, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Pocket Change, The Fergusons (2011) and Medium (2005).- Actress
- Writer
Shell Danielson is an actress and screenwriter, better known for soap opera roles. She played the characters Laken Lockridge (in "Santa Barbara"), Dominique Stanton (in "General Hospital"), and Bunny Hutchinson (in "The Young and the Restless").
As a screenwriter, she was one of the main writers of the original "Power Rangers" television series, and also contributed to a number of sequels and spin-offs. Her career highlight was co-writing the film "Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie" (1997). The film earned a worldwide total of $9.6 million at the box office.- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Writer
James Marcus Haney was born on 7 April 1988 in Upland, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Viola (2006), Austin to Boston (2014) and Just. (2007).- Cinematographer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
Jack Couffer was born on Dec 7, 1924, in Upland, California. While growing up near the foothills in Glendale, he became fascinated with natural history and raised hawks, owls, squirrels, skunks and coyotes. During his high school years he worked afternoons as a student assistant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. It was on his 17th birthday, during a museum collecting trip to California's Channel Islands, that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The museum party was marooned for two weeks on Santa Rosa Island, as all West Coast ports were immediately closed following the attack. At the museum Jack's mentor, an expert on bats, was approached by the War Department to research a secret project that would use bats as carriers of miniature incendiary bombs. As part of this team Jack was drafted into the army in June 1943, a few months before high school graduation. Half of his military service was spent on this seemingly nutty, but surprisingly valid, idea. Jack has written of this bizarre scheme in his book "Bat Bomb, World War II's Other Secret Weapon". The remainder of his military duty was as a crewman on high-speed PT-type air-sea rescue boats.
After the war he worked for a few years as a commercial fisherman and paid crewman on yachts. In December 1947 he married Joan Burger. Shortly thereafter, while living aboard their schooner, he enrolled at the University of Southern California to major in zoology. However, he attended a lecture in the new Department of Cinema Studies and fell to the exciting teaching gift of department head Slavko Vorkapich. Jack collaborated with two fellow students, Conrad Hall and Marvin R. Weinstein, in a class project that won the first (now annual) ASC student film award and sold to TV. Flush with this success, the partners formed a production company, Canyon Films, and became entrepreneurs while still university students. At USC Jack became friends with practicing filmmaker/instructors Irving Lerner, Andrew Marton, Laslo Benedek and Stirling Silliphant. Lerner employed the partners of Canyon Films as the production team on a feature shot in South Carolina called Edge of Fury (1958). There Jack met young actress Jean Allison, who 45 years, three husbands (and two wives) later he would meet again. His son, Mike Couffer, now a biologist, was born January 7, 1962, and, as a teenager, collaborated with his father on a series of natural history adventure books for children.
With his abilities as both a naturalist and film maker, Jack joined Walt Disney Studios as a cameraman on the early "True-Life Adventure" series. One of the great experiences of their early careers was a Disney assignment in what was then one of the most remote and least-visited spots on earth. Jack and Conrad and a helper sailed a 32-foot ketch to the Galapagos Islands where they lived off the land and filmed wildlife for nearly a year. Jack worked at Disney for more than ten years in a variety of functions--writer, director, producer, cameraman--and participated there in the making of more than two dozen movies. He separated from Joan in 1975. Since then, he has worked on TV and feature films for most of Hollywood's major production companies and many independents. He has published 11 books of both fiction and non-fiction. His travels took him to Africa in 1972, where he fell in love with the country and a lady at the same time. He lived in Kenya for 32 years and 'Marchesa Sieuwke Bisleti' was his companion until her death in February 2005. Jack is now sharing his life in California with retired actress Jean Allison (Toorvald) who was the ingénue in the first feature film he shot.