Joseph Dutra is an active film artist and animator being a jack of all trades who has been making his own shorts since the age of 16 while still living in Apache Junction, Arizona. He decided he wanted to make films at the age of 12 when he saw Be Kind Rewind, and has progressively developed his talents behind the screen. Having worked on several shorts over the years, building up his portfolio, he shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. He's won Best Comedy for his short film, “The Locker Room Mascot Massacre”. As well as Best Editing and Best Minnesota Made Film for his short documentary, My Father, for which he took inspiration from Terrence Malick, his favorite director. He graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in May 2019 with a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts in Filmmaking.

Nick Tassoni is an amateur screenwriter living south of Boston, MA. He was recently admitted to the John Wells Writing for Screen and Television Masters program at USC. He makes the move out to LA in August for the two year program. Nick loves all things movies, and streams his screenwriting experience on Twitch.com (NickScripts) after work. His favorite movies include Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings, and Dr. Strangelove.

Vaslav J. Rice has been on a more than twenty year odyssey to become a successful screenplay writer. It started out as an impossible dream. Year after year was filled with rejections and bubble bursting experiences. Finally, in the last two years, his non stop and never give up hard work has come to fruition. Born in Miami, Florida, Vaslav lived there for his first twelve years. Then his family moved to the West-Side of Cincinnati for his formative years. A love of movies motivated his interest in script writing. In the early 2000's Vaslav's melodrama feature film script "Kravitzs' Last" was considered by Millbrook Farm Productions (Mimi Rogers' production company). He has written numerous feature film screenplays. Including "The Double Life" (Crime Drama), "Just Jim" (Comedy) and the Cindependent Film Festival nominated "The Deserters" (Western). Vaslav also turned his feature film script "Every Day But Monday" (Romantic Comedy Drama) into a stage play. It currently is being considered for a popular theater in Cincinnati for 2020. He is also currently producing his own feature film project "Scraps" (Over the Top Romantic Comedy). Where he has just filmed a promotional video for (which is in post production). Vaslav's short film "Don't Call It a Relapse" (Comedy; featured for this podcast) has been filmed and is also in post production, His current writing projects include "Fit's the Description" (Crime Comedy Drama) and is about to start "Son of a Bitch" (Comedy). Vaslav also works for the University of Cincinnati and has three grown children Alek, Sean and Sara.

Daniel Mulvaney is from Brownsburg, Indiana and is now a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio working a normal day-job while pursuing filmmaking as a full-time passion. He enrolled into the Zaki Gordon Center for Cinematic Arts in Lynchburg, VA studying directing and writing, and after graduation in 2018, Daniel moved back to Cincinnati to fulfill the dream in the Midwest. IGNORE THE CLOCK is his first short film.

Matthew Muchka was born and raised in a small town in Wisconsin. An early love of movies led to an ever-growing interest in how films were made. After graduating from University of Wisconsin Oshkosh with a degree in Radio/Television and Film Matthew moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in filmmaking.
Matthew has spent the past 10 years working in reality television for various networks and has been a part of several genre-defining programs including Fear Factor, Deal or No Deal and Wipeout.

Not feeling creatively fulfilled by his day job, Matthew began to writing in an effort to jumpstart his career in film. "A New Suit " was his first short script. Matthew is currently working on his first feature script and just finished post-production on his second short film, "Do Unto Others" which won the Shore Scripts Short Script contest in 2018.