David Usner
Founder | Content Incubator Chair | Project Liaison Co-Chair
Screenwriter | Actor | Director | Filmmaker
David Usner is a scriptwriter, actor, director and filmmaker. His filmography can be found on his IMDB page. He produced and appeared in the feature film, Roxie, now available on a number of streaming platforms. David produced, wrote, directed and acted in over a dozen short films. He also had a principal role in an episode of TV’s Medical Detectives. David has acted on stage in Philadelphia, the Bay Area, NYC, Berlin, Vienna and Edinburgh.
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Stuart Locklear
Social Media Chair | Project Liaison Co-Chair
Cinematographer | Photographer
Stuart is a professional photographer and videographer with more than twenty years of freelance experience in the areas of marketing, event and fashion photography. His images have been featured in campaigns for a wide array of industries, including interior design, food and restaurants, entertainment, and fashion. Stuart has the proven ability to work with all personality types to produce strong, dynamic images.
Bill Shupp
Post Production Group Chair | Website Chair
Re-Recording Mixer | Cinematographer | Post Production Supervisor
Bill got his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas, where he played drums with the Grammy nominated One O’Clock Lab band. After spending time recording and touring North America and the UK with various artists, including Gemma Hayes (EMI), Ashley Parker Angel (Universal), John Doe (X), and Zack Hexum (Trauma Records), he made a switch to photography and filmmaking. His still photography has been featured in Outdoor Photographer and Digital Photographer magazines, as well as on the Huffington Post and Smithsonian Science. Bill worked as Re-Recording Mixer on the feature Poughkeepsie is for Lovers, and the award winning shorts The Agent and Freckle. He currently leads the EFC Post Production Group. IMDB Profile.
Debbie Brubaker
Executive Producer, Line Producer, Unit Production Manager
Debbie Brubaker has over forty years of experience in all facets of motion picture, television, and video production. Her specialties are producing, management, budgeting, networking talented crew members with directors / show runners, and creating environments for successful projects. Some of her work includes the television series, The Last Thing He Told Me, for Apple TV, Clickbait, for Netflix, Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle, National Geo’s Cosmos: Possible Worlds, and ABC’s shows When We Rise and Tales of the City. She has also completed many feature films such as Sean Penn’s Flag Day, the indie motion picture directed by Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother you, Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, Quantimania (Ant Man III- VFX Unit), the Spierig Brothers Winchester, and Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl. IMDB Profile
Jonathan Luskin
Video Producer, Aerial Cinematographer, Writer
Jonathan is a video producer, director, cinematographer and writer. He co-founded Flying Moose Pictures, a video production company where he has spent more than 25 years crafting visual stories for performing artists, independent filmmakers and corporations.
Previously, Jonathan worked as an animator at Industrial Light & Magic and Colossal Pictures, and taught animation and visual effects at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.
Jonathan co-founded the Angst Ensemble, a theater company. He has received play commissions from the Sloan Foundation and playwright incubator PlayGround and his plays have been staged at the Laguna Playhouse, The Magic Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the University of the Pacific, PlayGround and beyond. He is a two-time alumnus of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
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