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BRUCE McKAY lives in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco. He first became interested in San Francisco's heritage through its architecture, then through its parks and natural spaces. Since the early sixties, Golden Gate Park's California Academy of Sciences has been his touchstone for the study of astronomy, weather, aquatic life, mineralogy, earth sciences, and, most recently, the life of birds. As for cartooning and animation, Bruce has taken inspiration from Charles Schulz, Walter Lantz, Bill Bergeron, Bud Grace, Jeff Macnelly, Chuck Jones, Steve Rude, Alex Toth, and Walt Simonson, to name a few. He cites H.G. Wells, R.A. Lafferty, Mark Twain, and Flannery O'Connor as his literary favorites.
Bruce was recently honored with second place in the "Rise Of The Graphic Novel" competition at the Commonwealth Club last April, and a residency at the Cartoon Art Museum in June.
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served
as vice-counsel in the U.S. Foreign Service, for the Domincan
Republic and has been a teacher, painter, sculptor , and
writer. He has four children and five grandchildren and
presently lives in Marin County ,California
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Forty
years ago, Stranger in Baja author John Hewitt rode third-class
buses across a spider web of Central Mexican villages
for a community development organization. Since then,
he has produced three film documentaries on Mexico, including
“Staying Lost and Found in Bahia,” which explored
the community of American ex-pats and desert rats who
retreat to the Baja desolation.
Hewitt’s writing career began in newspapers and
later switched to television. He has been on the faculty
at San Francisco State University since 1974 and also
has taught at Stanford University and in Jamaica, Jordan,
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April Faith Hirschman formed Three Sisters Presents with her two real life sisters in 2000. She was first introduced to the love of cinema by her father. An avid video collector he introduced her to the Golden Age of cinema. She fell in love with Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Fred and Ginger, and Gene Kelly, to name but a few. Her first film project came out of a gallery art show. The curator gave everyone a frame in which to put whatever art they liked. April used the frame inside her short movie about Frida Kahlo, entitled Blood and Monkey. This film won the BEST SHORT FILM category at San Francisco’s Videofest for 2006 and also showed as an audience favorite at The Berkeley Women of Color Film Festival in 2001. Her next film, Shady Bi, was well received at the San Francisco Zeitgeist Film Festival, Frameline 31, The Budapest Film Festal, and the Feminist Film Festival of Paris. She is currently working on feature film screenplays. |
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Writer/Producer/Director
http://www.vineyardproductions.com
After serving four years in the United States Army, at the rank of Captain, Paul moved to the Los Angeles, to pursue a film career . He is now the chairman of the coordinating committee of the Directors Guild of America, and has worked as a first AD on numerous films throughout the US, and Europe. Which includes working for, 20th Century Fox, HBO and Columbia Pictures. . Including the infamous Dude, Where’s my Car, and the cult classic Lobster Man from Mars. Paul has written, four screenplays and produced two short films. His short film Flashcards garnered the audience choice award at the NY International Film Festival and was selected for the Marche du Film at Cannes. Two Moons written by Paul is a coming of age film project in association with Lunaventure, and can be viewed at Paul’s web site http://www.vineyardproductions.com
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