Peter Appleton is a Producer, Director, Director of Photography, and Picture and Sound Editor whose more than 30 year career has included shooting documentaries for National Geographic, ABC-TV, and a variety of national commercial and broadcast clients, shooting short subjects directed by Robert Altman and Kelley Baker, shooting TV programs for Channel-4 London, and Paramount Television, editing features for Altman, and sound editing for five of Gus Van Sant's features, including GOOD WILL HUNTING and MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. He holds an MA in Communications from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sue Arbuthnot is an independent documentary producer/director with an MFA in Film Production from Columbia University in New York. Her many award-winning films include IMAGINING HOME, which chronicles the revitalization of a low-income housing neighborhood in Portland, profiles of artists produced for Oregon Public Broadcasting’s OREGON ARTBEAT series, and AMBER WAVES AND CHECKERED FLAGS, featuring a combine demolition derby in Eastern Washington.

Bushra Azzouz holds an MA in Film from San Francisco State University. Her feature documentary, . . .AND WOMAN WOVE IT IN A BASKET, an exploration of traditional Klickitat basketry, has won multiple awards. Her video short, NONEWS, is a personal reflection on the events of 9/11 and cycles of violence. She is working to build community media through the Community Media Project and other research activities.

Craig Baldwin , a special guest at this year’s Portland Documentary & eXperimental Festival, is a filmmaker and curator whose interests lie in archival retrieval and recombinatory forms of cinema, performance, and installation. He is the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Alpert Award, Creative Capital, Phelan, AFI, FAF, and California Arts Council. Over the last two decades, his productions have been shown and awarded at numerous international festivals, museums, and institutes of contemporary art. An adjunct faculty member of the SF Art Institute and California College of the Arts,he has just finished a monumental 2-hour ‘collage narrative’, MOCK UP ON MU, satirizing the impending militarization of space.

Bruce Barrow has been senior editor for national/international prouction at Oregon Public Broadcasting for a decade, editing such series and programs as HISTORY DETECTIVES, THE 1960’s: YEARS THAT SHAPED A GENERATION, ELECTRIC MONEY broadcast on PBS. A published short story writer, he has also edited two independent feature films, and segments and commercials for ABC 20/20, Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising, Honda, and others.

Mitchell Block , president of Direct Cinema Limited (www.directcinema.com) in Los Angeles, has handled the distribution and marketing of hundreds of documentary, live action, and animated shorts films. 23 have won Oscars and 60 have received Academy Award nominations. He has served as a consultant on short films worldwide, and since 1998, has consulted on short and feature nonfiction projects for HBO/Cinemax. Block is currently an Executive-Producer on the 10-hour documentary series CARRIER and the companion documentary feature which he conceived and co-created. It will air on PBS in 2008. He was Executive Producer on the 2001 Oscar-winning film BIG MAMA, for HBO. Block’s “Guide to Documentary Film Distribution,” published by International Documentary Association, is the classic resource in the field. An Emmy award-winning writer/editor, he has been teaching independent producing at USC’s School of Cinema-Television on an adjunct basis since 1979.

Andrew Blubaugh is a filmmaker and performance artist whose work has screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Vancouver Experimental Film Festival and Rhizomatica exhibition series. His latest film, HELLO, THANKS, won Second Place at the PDXFest Invitational in April and screened at Sundance this winter.

Holly Brix has two projects in development as well as other projects at MTV Films, Jerry Weintraub Productions, Phoenix Pictures, Landscape Entertainment and Benderspink. Witth an MFA in Film and Television from USC, she has taught screenwriting at UCLA Extension and now resides in Portland. She recently won the WRITTEN BY contest for best sci-fi script.

Devon Damonte , the recipient of a 2006 Fellowship in Media Arts from Artist Trust/ Washington State Arts Commission, has been making independent experimental animation for two decades. His recent work includes a solo exhibition combining works on paper and motion graphics at the University of Washington Tacoma Art Gallery, and screenings at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood (in conjunction with the "Visual Music" exhibition at LA MoCA), NY Film Festival Views from the Avant Garde, Holland Animation Festival, and Pacific Film Archive. He has taught extensively throughout the world, and has directed programming at the Boston Film & Video Foundation and Olympia Film Society.

Carl Diehl received his MFA in Digital Art from the University of Oregon, where he taught digital imaging, animation and multimedia. His work, which ranges from experimental animation to live audio-visual performance, and from short-form video essays to installation and sound collage, has screened in the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival multiple years, and in festivals and galleries nationally and internationally. He is currently working on BYOTV, with Video Gentlemen, for the New American Art Union.

Trevor Fife is an award-winning director of several short films that have screened at many local and national film exhibitions. MERIDIAN DAYS, winner of the 2002 Peripheral Produce Invitational, also screened at Sundance, Ann Arbor, and at the NW Film and Video Film Festival.

Christine Liczbinski Fletcher has been a principal designer of professional make-up and special effects for film for nearly 30 years. Her clients include 20/20, MTV, and The Disney Channelj. She holds degrees in drama and fine arts from the University of Arizona and University of Maryland.

Rebecca Gerendasy founded Potter Productions, Inc. after 25 years in television news. An award-winning cameraperson and editor, she has produced two feature length DVDs on the subject of barbecue, both recipients of 2006 Telly Awards. Her latest project, COOKING UP A STORY, one of the first television shows about food created for the web, offers stories about real people and their connections to food.

Daniel Johnson , a graduate of the Art Center College of Design, is a photographer, fine artist and digital animator who has created motion graphics for Adidas International, Jantzen, Tektronix and Johnson & Wokerton. His work can be seen at www.dj-tv.com.

Randall Johnson is a freelance screenwriter who, after more than 20 years in Hollywood, has recently transplanted to Portland. He has written for the large and small screen, in studio and independent realms, in genres from horror to historical. He has developed scripts for such directors as Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg, and actor-producer Alec Baldwin. Among his credits are THE MASK OF ZORRO, THE DOORS (sharing credit with Oliver Stone), TALES FROM THE CRYPT, and the video game GUN.

Lee Krist specializes in hand-processed film techniques and the century old tradition of the hand-crank projector. His film series BIG FILMS, has screened at the Whitney Museum and San Francisco Cinemateque. His latest work in progress is entitled TABLEAUX VIVANTS, a combination film and film-installation that explores the boundaries between photography and motion picture film.

Brian Lindstrom holds an MFA in Directing and Screenwriting from Columbia University. His documentary on Habitat for Humanity, FROM THE GROUND UP, won a Telly Award in 2003. Other projects include ITS AN AGE THING, a thirteen part series on aging for WMHT, the Albany, New York, PBS affiliate; and KICKING, a documentary on addiction broadcast on OPB and distributed by Pyramid Media.

Kathleen Lopez works as a commercial, documentary and feature film production manager with clients from Oregon and around the US. She has taught production management for over 10 years. Recently, she has produced and directed projects for Heart to Heart Productions, Steven Covey and Ocean Spray. She holds an MS in Communications from Portland State University.

Roger Margolis , a graduate of the UCLA film school and a Film Center faculty member for 30 years, has written numerous feature film screenplays and acted as a consultant on such films as THE CHINA SYNDROME and DEATH RACE 2000. He is the also the author of CONDITION RED: FUNNY STORIES FOR SCARY TIMES.

Chris Matheson , a graduate of UCLA and resident of the Portland area for a decade, is the writer, with Ed Solomon, of BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE and its sequel BILL AND TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY, the 2000 indie feature, THE WISE ONES, (which screened in the 28th Annual Northwest Film & Video Festival), and EVIL ALIEN CONQUERORS from 2003.

Matt McCormick is a Portland-based filmmaker whose work offers abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture and environment. Lauded by both ARTFORUM and the NEW YORK TIMES, his films have screened at Sundance, Lincoln Center and at the Seattle Art Museum. He is also the founder and director of Peripheral Produce, an experimental film and video distribution label, and organizer of the PDXFest .

Glenn Micallef has been providing recordings to the film and video industries as a production sound mixer for 27 years. Credits include major studio television series, feature films, documentaries and a wide range of commercial and industrial production. He has multiple Emmy and Cinema Audio Society nominations for”Outstanding Sound Mixing” for the TV series Northern Exposure. He is a graduate of the film program California State University at Humboldt. Current professional memberships: Cinema Audio Society, National Editors Guild, Hollywood Sound Guild.

Pam Minty , the Film Center’s Continuing Education Coordinator, is the co-founder of Four Wall Cinema and Lighthouse Cinema, screening 16mm films locally since 2000. She has worked as a member of the sound department for industry productions as part of IATSE local 488. She is currently in production on a documentary about the changing frontier lifestyle in Southeastern Oregon.

Shana Moulton , a special guest at the 2008 Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival, creates performance and video works that examine bodily and spiritual anxieties and their relationship to popular culture. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and attended the MFA program at Carnegie Mellon University. Her video work has been screened and exhibited internationally at the Andy Warhol Museum, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York and Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen. Moulton currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Greg Sax Greg Sax is an independent writer and film director with an MFA in Film from UCLA. His feature narratives and experimental shorts have screened at Sundance, and other international venues.

Randy Sellers is a Director and Director of Photography who has photographed over 300 projects, among them 19 feature films, including THE JUNIPER TREE, which screened at Sundance, and numerous TV projects-- movies of the week, series and commercials. His directorial credits include work for such clients as Soloflex, Adidas, GI Joes and Tyger's Heart Company.

Buck Skelton has worked on such features and tv programs as MOMMIE DEAREST and WINDS OF WAR, for which he won an Emmy for costuming. He works locally with Firehouse Theatre, CoHo Theatre, and Theatre Vertigo, and teaches at the Portland Actors Conservatory.

Enie Vaisburd is an award-winning independent film/videomaker whose experimental and personal works include UNWINDING THE THREAD, exploring geographic, cultural and emotional displacement; WHEN MY FATHER CAME TO VISIT, a reflection between father and daughter; and AGUA, about staying afloat, which screened at the PDXFest. She holds an M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Morrie Warshawski is the author of SHAKING THE MONEY TREE: HOW TO GET GRANTS AND DONATIONS FOR FILM AND VIDEO (Wiese Books) and the editor of THE NEXT STEP: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO (AIFV/New York). His clients over the last 25+ years include dozens of independent film/video artists as well as major funders of independent film.

Travis Wilkerson , a special guest at this year’s Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival, is the creator of the agit-prop “third cinema” essay on the lynching of Wobbly Frank Little, AN INJURY TO ONE, ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT: IN THE IDIOM OF SANTIAGO ALVAREZ (1999), the ongoing series NATIONAL ARCHIVE and WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? (2004). His work has screened in numerous festivals including Sundance, Viennale, and Hot Docs. In 2007, he presented the first ever performance art at the Sundance Film Festival with PROVING GROUND, a live multi-media rumination on the history of bombing. He is also the co-founder of the micro-distributor EXTREME LOW FREQUENCY, with the aim of releasing little-seen works of radical cinema, both classic and contemporary. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Boulder, where he teaches at the University of Colorado.

Wayne Woods has 25 years experience mixing features, documentaries, infomercials and commercials. He was Sound Editor for Gus Van Sant’s PSYCHO, and Kelley Baker’s indie feature BIRDDOG.