Grace Melon began her acting career at the age of thirteen after signing with Gray Talent Group. She has since performed at over a dozen Chicago theaters and made her feature film debut in 2014 when she was cast in Stephen Cone's coming of age movie, Henry Gamble's Birthday Party. After working on an episode of Chicago Fire and another independent feature, Grace began writing screenplays of her own. Her first short film, Bath Salt, premiered at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival and was deemed a finalist by USA Film Festival International Shorts Competition. It went on to screen in several cities across the country including New York and Chicago. Her most recent short, Purgatory, is currently in post-production following a four-day shoot in Los Angeles last September. Purgatory will be completed by the start of 2020.

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Ricardo Herrera's interest in films started at an early age. When he was twelve he wrote and directed his first short film. Sure, it wasn't very good, but it was his start. Nearly a decade ago, he drove from Naples, Florida to Los Angeles, California and has been steadily working alongside industry professionals ever since. Now an award winning filmmaker, his goal is to write and direct feature films that spread across varying genres, and to travel the world in the process.

Over the past 27 years, Trevor has appeared in dozens of films and tv shows and has had the opportunity to work with master filmmakers M. Night Shamalyan, Joe Johnston, Steven Spielberg, and David Fincher. Throughout his long career, he has cultivated friendships with many talented working professional actors, cinematographers, and editors who help him on his personal projects including the award-winning short Margaret and the Moon. Margaret screened at Academy Qualifying festivals including Heartland International Film Festival, LA Shorts and Palm Springs International Shorts Fest as well as the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival, Twister Alley Film Festival, Sene Film Festival, and the Windy City International Film Festival which nominated Trevor as Best Chicago Director. Margaret and the Moon won Best Fantasy at the Mexico International Film Festival; received nominations for Best Drama, Best Director, and Best Actress at Twister Alley; and won first place and the Audience Award at the Elgin Short Film Festival.

Roger's creative journey started late in life. He didn't realize his passion for the theater arts until his 30th birthday.

Growing up in rural Minnesota, Roger focused on school and work. He loved going to the movies and often spent the entire day going from one movie to the next. Little did he know at the time, but these experiences were trying to tell him something.

It wasn't until his 30th birthday that he finally realized he wanted to be a film maker. He started by studying acting. In 2003, Roger moved from Dallas, TX to Los Angeles, CA to pursue his dream.

Roger enjoyed acting success in those years, booking The Bernie Mac Show, Men's Fitness Magazine and a series of promo spots for CSI reruns on Spike TV among his credits.

Not long after, Roger next discovered a passion and talent for screen writing. He'd spent parts of 8 years studying Robert McKee's "Story" teaching and seminar and finally had the opportunity to put that teaching to practice. He co-wrote a half hour comedy, web series and a feature film.

During this period, that familiar itch came back and Roger realized it was time to expand his horizons and pursue directing and producing. At first he found little time and even less opportunity to do that while in Los Angeles. So in summer 2013, Roger and his wife moved back to Dallas,.

Just before moving, Roger's first feature film screenplay, "The Ritual", was optioned by Reaper Films in Tampa FL.

In his first year back in Texas, Roger started Force of Nature Films and teamed up with Wendy Crouse to co-produce "The Hunger Stat", a documentary about Roger's own personal weight loss journey. He also produced The Forces of Horror Anthology Series Volume I which will be completed in 2017. In addition he's written two other award winning screenplays, Faith Based Drama "The Sacrifice" which will be produced later this year, "The Zombie Effect", a genre bending zombie film which provides a plausible, though science fiction theory about the cause of the creation and behavior of zombies.