Lori Allred has 30 years of broadcast experience.  On any given day you can find her producing, directing, writing, editing and even live switching a three-camera interview.  Her long list of credits include directing, producing and writing for HGTV’s,  Food Network, DIY, Discovery, Travel Channel and more.

Lori has received multiple Emmy’s, including a National Emmy for a Food Network Special, and has over a dozen Telly’s plus a New York Festivals International Television and Film Award.

She enjoys managing large crews, while bringing out the subject’s personality and writing interview-driven stories.

On the film side, Lori has directed, written and co-produced the short films “If Not Now” and “The Decision.” Both films have received distribution and are currently in the festival circuit.

Her start came in the highly competitive and fast paced realm of television news.

She also has two scripts currently in the festival circuit. The feature, "Secrets" and a short "Conversations at 35,000 Feet."

When Lori’s not working, she likes to travel the globe and play with her Corgi puppies, Merlot and Pinot.

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Carter Moon grew up in the desolate Evangelic capital of the world and responded by developing a taste in counter culture and radical politics, which eventually led to a love for filmmaking and screenwriting. He currently lives, writes, and podcasts in Los Angeles.

You can learn more about him at his website and his podcast. 

Mia McCullough is a playwright, screenwriter/filmmaker, teacher, arts administrator, and occasionally a stand-up comedian. Her short film Parallel premiered at the Midwest Independent Film Festival in August of 2016, and was nominated for Best Screenplay.

McCullough is the author of numerous screenplays and many stage plays, most of which have been seen at theatres around the country. Last year McCullough wrote and published a book on the creative writing process called Transforming Reality. Her play Wisdom from Everything, commissioned by The Goodman Theatre, is slated to open in Boulder at Local Theater Company in March. Mia taught playwriting and screenwriting at Northwestern University for ten years, and is now the Public Programs Director at Chicago Dramatists. McCullough is currently writing and co-producing a web series called The Haven, inspired by her experiences working at a domestic violence shelter. You can learn more about that web series at www.thehavenweb.com .

O. Corbin Saleken is an award-winning, Vancouver-based filmmaker whose films
have screened at festivals around the world. He has a BA in film and television
studies from the University of British Columbia. In 2010, he attended the Werner
Herzog Rogue Film School in New Jersey. In 2013, he won the Most Promising
Filmmaker award at the Spokane International Film Festival. In 2015, he released
his first feature film, Patterson's Wager, which he wrote, directed, produced, edited,
and self-funded.

Brian Dobbins has had a wide variety of experiences that he draws upon to spin tales of strong characters in unusual situations. He has written screenplays, scripts, novels, short stories, graphic novels, magazine articles, etc. His work represents different genres such as Urban Fantasy, Witchcraft, Detective, and Western.

His first screenplay, A Dead Husband In A Western Town, was shot in 2015 and was released by Ruthless Films (in association with Garnet Films) in April of 2017 as Western World.

Brian lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is currently working on his first TV series, second feature screenplay, sixth novel, and any other projects he can squeeze in and still retain some semblance of sanity..

Chris Pinner is a guy from New Orleans who’s currently living in Chicago. He graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans, and has found himself always working on various art and writing projects.

Ron Podell is a screenwriter who resides in Laramie, Wyoming. To date, Podell has written four feature screenplays and 14 short screenplays, three of which have been produced. He is currently executive producing one of his short scripts called "All Tapped Out," a Hitchcock-like mystery thriller. His scripts have won 60 top awards at films festivals/screenwriting contests, along with too many nominations/script finalist statuses to count.

Podell is included in the book, titled “Top 50 Indie Writers in the World,” that was released in early 2017 through Apple iTunes. He was named Writer of the Year at the 2016 Action on Film International Film Festival and was nominated for the Randall Greenland Screenwriter of the Year at the 2017 Austin Revolution Film Festival. He served as a panelist for the “Screenplay Contests – Paths to Recognition and Production” seminar at the Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles. He is a member of the WGAW Independent Writers Caucus.

After living and working in Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York City, Gabriel Lang currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio where he was born and raised.  You can check out more about him at www.importantholdings.com.  (That's the website for the very important film and television production company he started with his friend, Emily.)  

Born and bred on Chicago's Northside, Sean has been a professional writer, actor and producer for the past 20 plus years. As a writer he recently won Best Short Screenplay for Rockabye at the 2017 Twister Alley International Film Festival and was a Finalist at the 2016 Austin Revolution Film Festival and the 2017 Windy City International Film Festival. NASTY marks his second screenplay going to camera. His next writing projects are a short screenplay which has been completed and is in production talks called Meanwhile... and his first feature screenplay, which is still in process called Swing.

As an Actor he was honored to be in the Jeff Award winning Incident on Run 1217 with Factory Theatre. He has been featured in Machine Gun Preacher, Chicago Justice and Chicago Fire. He has been seen in various features and short films including the multi award winning The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man. His next acting project is with the super talented Fatal Funnel Films whose Cellar Door won him Best Supporting Actor also at the 2017 @Twister Alley Film Festival. He will be starring in their first feature film later next year. Last year he created Crash of Rhinos to produce film and TV projects here in Chicago.

"The aspect of writing and producing my own films came out of the desire to act in things that I wanted to push myself in. I was getting decent roles, but nothing that really felt satisfying. So I took some advice from another local filmmaker and started writing roles for myself."

-From interview with One Film Fan