Writer/Director
Sean Harrison Jones was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He has been a professional actor since the age of ten when he was cast in his first commercial, educational video and stage show. That same year, he was nationally recognized after winning an Arkansas State Contest for an original screenplay. After years of working on the stage, he landed his first major screen role in the Hallmark Made for TV Film, John Grisham's "A Painted House." Upon visiting schools on the West Coast, Sean was signed with a Hollywood agent. He was accepted to the UCLA Theater, Film and Television Department where he graduated with a degree specializing in Acting. He then worked on films with students from the USC and UCLA Film Departments. After playing various roles on the stage and screen, he decided to return to his childhood passion of being behind the camera.
Cinematographer
Born and raised in Washington State, Nathan Haugaard moved to Los Angeles to continue pursuing a career in filmmaking and cinematography. After viewing the technical achievement in Nathan’s short film “Adalyn”, producers for James Cameron’s 3D company offered Nathan a position as a 3D Camera Technician. Nathan has had the opportunity to work and study under many great cinematographers including Robert Elswit, ASC, Amir Mokri, Donald M. Morgan, ASC, and Vince Pace, on such projects as Transformers 3, Cirque Du Soleil 3D, and many more. Most recently Nathan was in Haiti filming a documentary about their youngest generation and how life is after the earthquake. The journey through Port-au-Prince took Nathan and his camera crew into the heart of the Haitian crisis, including a trip into the infamous Cite Soleil.
Associate Producer
Jeff Callaghan is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. He has produced plays in Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as several highly-rated sketches for FunnyOrDie.com, and the Wirefox Studio short film Baggage. He moonlights as an administrative professional at a local university.
Editor
John-Michael Powell is an award-winning editor of feature film, commercials and music videos that have played on networks, film festivals and theaters world-wide. In 2007, he worked with famed director Jerry Zucker (Airplane!) cutting the TBS pilot Already in Progress, starring Bob Saget. In 2009 he edited the feature film Obselidia, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. Obselidia went on to win the Alfred P. Sloan Prize and the Excellence in Cinematography prize at Sundance, as well as garnering two Spirit Award Nominations. In 2010, he cut the award-winning documentary In Organic We Trust, that was purchased and distributed by Warner Bros. In 2011, John-Michael cut the indie hit The Brass Teapot, starring Michael Angarano and Juno Temple, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012, where it was bought by Magnolia Pictures and released in theaters nationwide. Recently, John-Michael has cut the documentary No Cameras Allowed, produced by Josh Schwartz (The OC) and starring Mumford & Sons, Jay-Z and Coldplay. He’s currently cutting a Jonathan Schwartz and Andrea Sperling (Like Crazy) film titled The Wilderness of James, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Isabelle Fuhrman, Danny DeVito and Virginia Madsen.