California native Illya Friedman (Los Angeles, CA) has spent the last five years as a sales rep and technical consultant to feature films, primetime television series, networks and production companies. A former freelance cameraman and a pioneer of digital video-to-film transfer tests, Friedman worked closely with major post facilities to produce film-out comparisons and helped create a popular HD workflow methodology. Last year Friedman joined the staff of Dalsa Digital Cinema in Los Angeles, and he provides the motion picture and television industries with the world's most technologically advanced 4K and HD camera equipment. Since entering the motion picture industry in 1993, Friedman has served as a trusted source for a variety of industry publications, including Action!, Film & Video, Studio Daily and Post Magazine. circle_of_confusion@yahoo.com.

Producer/director Shauna Garr (West Hollywood, CA) began her career at Merv Griffin Entertainment, where she moved up the production ladder at Wheel of Fortune. Interested in social issues, Garr left to make documentaries with South Central Los Angeles-based youth. MTV then hired her to produce MTV News in the early 1990s. In 1994, Garr won a grant from ITVS to executive-produce The Ride, one of the first doc reality series for public TV stations. That led to a development position at Buena Vista TV in alternative programming. She later worked as vice president, comedy TV for director Amy Heckerling. A meeting with actor/musician Method Man in 1999 led to producing the feature comedy How High for Universal and a partnership on several more projects, including his doc about exotic dancers called The Strip Game, which was distributed by Lionsgate. Garr also served as producer on the sitcom Method and Red for FOX. She is near completion as director/producer on 1 More Hit, an independent feature doc about a young music prodigy/record producer turned sex and drug addict living on the streets, trying to turn his life around.

Martin Kent (Woodland Hills, CA). Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Kent has made over three-dozen documentaries during his distinguished career. His work, seen by millions, has been critically acclaimed and featured on NBC, PBS, A&E, History Channel, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, Fox Sports and VH1, among others. His range of subject matter has encompassed the Civil War, World War II, the Holocaust, the Civil Rights era, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the Patty Hearst kidnapping, sports heroes, rock music, archeology, aviation and wildlife. Among his recent projects was the "making of..." special feature on the DVD for Universal Pictures' The Emperor's Club. Prior to focusing on documentaries, Kent was a print journalist whose work appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times syndicate and other noteworthy publications. From 1979 to 1982 he was editor of The Hollywood Reporter; when he left, his significant contributions to the improvement of that paper were reported in Time magazine. Kent holds a master's degree in broadcast communications from Stanford University and has taught and lectured at UCLA.

Tom Knoff (Palatine, IL) has been producing instructional, training and documentary videos and multimedia programs for the past 30 years. Since 1987, Knoff has been employed as coordinator of media production for Harper College, a community college located in Palatine, Illinois. A 1975 graduate of the Radio-TV program at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, his recent films include Janine Pomy Vega: As We Cover Streets, Rebel Roar: The Sound of Michael McClure, Thomas E. Kennedy: Copenhagen Quartet and Player: A Rock and Roll Dream. Three of these documentaries received Platinum or Gold Aurora Awards and have been screened internationally. All were produced, directed and written in collaboration with Harper College faculty members Kurt Hemmer and Greg  Herriges. Documentary and nonfiction films are Knoff's favorite genres in which to work, as well as to view, and he's constantly amazed at-and somewhat envious of-the talent and dedication shown by others currently working in the field. He always finds inspiration in the works of Pennebaker, the Maysles, Wiseman and Ric and Ken Burns.