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Wendy Shuey Wendy has been in the film industry since 1997. Located in Taos after serving a decade as Lead Editor in Los Angeles, she continues to cut feature films such as Plastic Paradise, Bon In Dolpo and is currently finishing The Black Zone. She shoots and edits short form documentary projects, trailers, music videos and pilots in-between features. She has BA in Film & Broadcast from Virginia Tech Univ. She has been a producer/director for How- ard Stern Show and Live Music Channel, NYC, a music series featuring: Jane’s Addiction, The Flaming Lips, Bjork, etc. She is also a Lead Editor for various networks & post houses such as Discovery Channel, NBC Universal, MTV, VH1, M2, CurrentTV, TLC, G4, Speed, Fuel, Oxygen, History Channel, plus short docs on democracy in Egypt, Tijuana police corruption, commercials, pilots, promo vids, and film trailers. Also a drummer, Wendy has recorded several records that have been licensed for various network series ...and often wails on drums between edit sessions. You name it, she’s done it!

Ben Levin Ben Levin is a past-president of the University Film and Video Association and has served on the National Film Preservation Board by appointment of the Librarian of Congress since 1989. He is currently a professor at University of North Texas, specializing in Documentary film. Ben has been involved in numer- ous documentary productions as producer, director and/or editor. His work has received many honors including several CINE Golden Eagles, awards from the Broadcast Education Association, the University Film and Video Association and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in addition to screenings at the London International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival and two screenings at the MOMA.

Kathy Fitzgerald After a stint at working at WGBH-Boston, Kathy teamed up with her husband to form a production company which through the years has produced, among other films, John Huston’s “Wise Blood” and “Under the Volcano”, Bruce Beresford’s “Mr. Johnson”, Sean Penn’s “The Pledge” and Tommy Lee Jones’ “The Three Burials of Melchiades Estrada” and, most recently, “The Homesman”, shot in northern New Mexico in 2013. She has also worked on several documentaries, including “Otter 502” about the plight of the California sea otters. Currently in pre-production, is a film with Santa Fe’s own lyrical film director, Godfrey Reggio.

Super Shortee Thanks to our Submission Commitee Tara Lupo, Steve Kurtz, Nat Wilson, Greg Byrne, Alex Slate, Robinson James Payne, Angelo D’Agostino, Judith Witten, Dave Martin, Sam Bawcum, Tanya Turner, Lee Lysne, Norma Celentano Thanks to Daniel Hutchinson for the opening ads with Cloud Surfing 3