Born and raised in California, I began study of industrial arts and their relationship to my art at the age of 12 years old. All through my school years I worked to combine the two into an art form of my own. My involvement with cars came at about the age of about 16 when my father introduced me to a friend that did body work. He began teaching me the craft of metalwork without the use of plastics and with the patience to strive for perfection. As my talent grew I started to customize these cars and also began painting my completed work. After years of private study I have developed skills in drafting, illustration, painting, welding, metal sculpture, wood working. Over the past 30 years I have designed furniture, award winning custom cars, musical instruments, movie props, Set design/fabrication, Costume design/fabrication, Puppet design/fabrication, trade show exhibits, POP displays, corporate interiors, metal sculptures and functional art pieces. For the past 11 years I have lived and worked in Shreveport, Louisiana and built a successful company along with the help of my wife Christine and many local talented artists.

The eight years in the US Navy was a great place to learn, see the world and during that time frame 1981 through 1989, the Navy productions I worked on the ratio were 90% film to 10% video. During that eight-year time frame we went to 10% film and 90% video at the end. I was lucky enough to end up on the Paramount Pictures lot after the Navy and transitioned to the Camera Department as a film loader on the sit-coms “Cheers, “Frasier” and “Wings”. The average sitcom would shoot 4 cameras, 8 rolls per camera 32,000’ in three hours. In the Camera Dept. We would also train new union members in the hopes we would use them as loaders in the future and it created a large network base of people. After 16 years there, the merge with the corporation Viacom made the job not fun at all anymore. Freelancing from 2007 to now has passed like a blink of an eye. The network base of people I’ve helped from Paramount Pictures has helped me tremendously after my time there.

Hank Rogerson, SAG AFTRA, has acted in film, TV and theatre for over 30 years. He trained in Meisner in Los Angeles, and has acted in numerous theater and improv shows, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. “La Bete”, The Butter and Egg Man”, and Improv Schmimprov”. In TV he has worked on such shows as “Breaking Bad”, “Preacher”, and “The Girlfriend Experience”. His film work has included “Sicario”, “14 Cameras”, and the upcoming “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar”. He has taught acting as Santa Fe University of Art & Design and The New Mexico School for the Arts.

In his fifth decade in the entertainment industry, Director/Writer/Producer Brian Levant has been at the creative helm of some of the biggest franchises in family entertainment. Among Levant’s more than 400 television credits include being the showrunner of “Happy Days”, “Mork & Mindy” and “The Bad News Bears” series. After winning the 1989 Cable Ace Award as Best Director in a Comedy Series, for his long running “Leave it to Beaver” revival, Levant turned his attention to writing and directing feature films. Among Levant’s feature directing credits are the original “Beethoven”, the two Steven Spielberg produced Flintstones films, Jingle All the Way” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Snow Dogs”, Are We There Yet” and the2010 Jackie Chan vehicle, “The Spy Next Door”. In addition, Levant has produced, written or directed another 10 network and cable films including the Starz Network’s first original production,“The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space” and the two live action/CGI Scooby Doo films, which remain the Cartoon Network’s highest rated programs of all-time. Additional awards his works have collected include an 1981 NAACP Image Award for “The Bad News Bears”, 1987 Youth inn Film Best Series Award for “Beaver” and the 1988 International Emmy for Best Children and Young People’s Series, for “My Secret Identity”, which he created. Levant is a nationally recognized toy collector and since the late 1970’s, Levant has lectured at his alma mater, The University of New Mexico, where, he now teaches an annual “Sitcom Boot Camp” and is a Adjunct Professor at University of Arizona, where for the last 20 years, he has regularly spoken to and worked with film students, as well as making dozens of appearances at Columbia College’s Semester in L.A. program, Arizona State University, George R.R. Martin’s Stagecoach Foundation, Long Beach State, USC and The American Film Institute.

Brent Morris has produced or production managed more than seventy feature film, television, documentary and commercial projects. Brent produced James Coburn’s final performance in Alan Jacobs’ American Gun and Tony Cookson’s romantic comedy Love Happens. Line producer credits include HBO’s immigration drama Icebox, Vincent D’Onofrio’s western The Kid as well as Charlize Theron’s Oscar- winner Monster, Chris Eyre’s Sundance-winning Smoke Signals and the Diane Keaton/Sam Shepard drama The Only Thrill. A native Californian, Brent moved to New Mexico in 2006, attracted by the state’s embrace of film and media. He has worked steadily in the thriving industry ever since on films such as the comedy Frank, Neil LaBute’s Dirty Weekend, Dutch drama Jackie, German road movie Friendship!, Rachid Bouchareb’s Just Like a Woman and the Latinx feature Blaze You Out. Unit production manager credits include the upcoming Tom Hanks sci-fi film Bios as well as The Glass Castle, Shot Caller, Lemonade Mouth, Kung Pow! Enter The Fist, Hide Away and The Grand. He acted as production supervisor for the MGM pilot of Get Shorty, the NM unit of Midnight Special and indie horror film Snatchers. In 2010, he began working in documentary. Flamenco School (winner of the 2011 New Mexico Filmmaker’s Showcase award) profiles Albuquerque’s world-renowned National Institute of Flamenco. 2012’s Made in New Mexico was a crowd-funded effort to educate the public on the benefits of a strong film and media industry. Brent has also produced and production managed numerous commercials and has the union-signatory production company Indie production, LLC. After graduating UCLA with a B.A. in Theater Arts, Brent began his career as a producers assistant and story analyst and then associate produced a slate of films for producer Ashok Amritraj. He has taught workshops in production techniques in Maine and Singapore and served on numerous panels in New Mexico. A member of the Directors Guild of America, he lives in Albuquerque with his two sons, James and Ian, and dogs Thunder and Athena.