Hallie Cooper-Novack (Director/Writer/Editor) is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, actress, writer and editor. She will be starting an MFA program at the Yale School of Drama this fall. Hallie graduated from Wesleyan University in 2007, where she majored in film, studying with, among others, Jeanine Basinger. She received High Honors from the Film Studies Department for her first short, Year Like Icing. She recently finished editing The Getaway, a short film by Ellen Novack, and has edited a number of other shorts. At age 18, Hallie won the Young Playwrights Festival National Award for her play, Turn On. She has appeared on As The World Turns and Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and can be seen in the upcoming film Wah Doo Dem and the web series The Third Age. On stage, Hallie recently performed in James V (The Tank) and This Place is Always Here (Perfect Wave Gallery). Hallie has trained at ACT Summer Training Congress, The Actors Center, and Scott Freeman Studios.

Julia Simpson (Producer) has been active in film and television production in New York City since 2006. She is currently employed at Charlotte Street Films, where for the past year and a half she has been working on Freakonomics and other feature length documentary and narrative films with director Eugene Jarecki. She recently served as Unit Production Manager on Summertime Clothes (forthcoming music video for Animal Collective, directed by Danny Perez). In addition, Julia has worked on a diverse variety of projects as an Assistant Director and/or Production Coordinator, including the Nueva Estrella Awards (Latin-American musical talent competition which aired on WCBS) Frank the Rat (SAG feature film), and Dressed to Digress (Partizan produced music video for Boy Crisis, directed by Ray Tintori). She graduated with Honors from Wesleyan University, where she studied Philosophy, Literature and History. Julia is also a freelance writer, musician, and one half of the rap duo Dolphinz. Now a resident of Brooklyn, Julia was born and raised in coastal Maine.

Danielle M. Krudy (Director of Photographer/Supporting Writer) has acted as the Director of Photography for narrative and documentary projects in locations as diverse as the Catskills, Germany, New England, and Belgium. She has also filled other key crew positions on both American and German productions. She graduated in 2007 from Wesleyan University with Honors in Film Studies. As the recipient of a joint scholarship from Germany and the state of Connecticut, Danielle spent a post-graduate year studying in the camera/cinematography department at the Baden-Wurttemberg Film Academy, one of Germany’s nationally funded film schools. Since returning to the U.S. in September, she has acted as DP for Across the River (RED ONE narrative short project to premiere late this summer). She is the team shooter for Pisces Virgo Rising productions. Danielle is also a full-time prep tech at Technological Cinevideo Services, a motion picture camera rental house in Manhattan. Danielle was born and raised in Ohio, and currently resides in Greenpoint.