David Abramowitz is a writer and producer whose credits include: Cagney and Lacey, MacGuyver, Spencer for Hire, Twenty-one Jump Street, and Murder She Wrote. Currently he has a feature film entitled Dancer in pre-production. Ron Austin is an Emmy Award winning writer and producer, and a former member of the faculty of the School of Cinema at USC. Scott Derrickson was Writer/Director of Hellraiser: Inferno, co-writer of Urban Legends: Final Cut. Guido Fink, an Italian Jewish child survivor of the Holocaust, is a professor at the University of Florence, Italy, currently Director of the Italian Culture Institute of Los Angeles, and a writer and a lecturer on various aspects of Jewish literature and films. William Fraker has been called the "Dean of the New Breed Cinematographers." Last year, the American Society of Cinematographers gave him their coveted Lifetime Achievement Award. He has garnered five Academy Award Nominations and credits that include Bullitt, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Paint Your Wagon, and Rosemary's Baby. John Furia is the Director of the Screenwriting Programs at the University of Southern California School of Cinema. He is past president of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Writers Guild Foundation. His credits include the series Hotel and Kung Fu and the feature film The Singing Nun. John Goldingay is a Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author four books on the Sacred scriptures. Chante Griffin is a Media Studies graduate of Pomona College. Her work focuses on representations of women and minorities in media. Marcia Reines Josephy is Director and Curator of the Jewish Federation’s Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Tom Kelly is the Chair of the Film Department at Loyola Marymount University. Temma
Kramer is a professor of film studies at Mount St. Mary’s College
in Los Angeles.
Eugene Mornell is the Executive Director of the Skirball Institute on American Values. Dr. Thom Parham is Associate Professor of Radio-TV-Film for Biola University's Department of Communications. Dr. Thom Parham has an MA in Dramatic Communication, and a PhD in Communication Studies from Regent University. He has written episodes of JAG (CBS) and the sitcom Big Brother Jake (The Family Channel). Joe Park is a native of Houston, Texas and a graduate of Davidson College. His varied production credits include Hook, The Flintstones, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Men in Black, A.I. and the upcoming Minority Report. Marion
Skeete is a screenwriter and freelance writer and editor with
a BA in Communications. Her articles have appeared in Upscale
Magazine, Urban Beat, and LA Focus. Marion is currently
completing her Masters of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary.
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Wes
Craven is the Writer/Producer/Director of such films as Last
House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.
Craven has created some of the most successful horror films of the last
30 years.
Fr.
Peter Malone is a Sacred Heart Father from Australia living
in England. In 1998 he was elected preseident of the International
Catholic Organization for Cinema (OCIC) and is a member of the Pontifical
Council for Social Communications. He has served as a juror at major
film festivals throughout the world, including Cannes, Venice and Montreal.
Peter is also an expert on the Myers-Briggs Personality Types and Spirituality.
He is the author of Movie Christs and Anti-Christs and co-author
of Cinema Religion and Values and is a regular columnist for The
Universe, a Catholic newspaper in the UK. His newest book, written
with Rose Pacatte, FSP, is Lights, Camera... Faith: A Movie Lectionary,
Cycle A (2001, Pauline Books & Media). 
Dr.
Marie Anne Mayeski teaches historical theology at Loyola Marymount
University and does research in the early Middle Ages, with a particular
focus on the contributions of women. She is the author of three books,
including
Women: Models of Liberation and Dhuoda: Ninth Century
Mother and Theologian. She is also the recipient of the Fritz B. Burns
Distinguished Teacher Award for 1994.
Sr.
Rose Pacatte, fsp, is the founding Director of the Pauline Center
for Media Studies in Boston. She teaches media/film studies to adolescents,
parents, teachers and clergy. Sr. Rose has an M.A. in Education in
Media Studies from the University of London, UK. She is a founding
member of Cine & Media (USA affiliate of O.C.I.C.), a member of the
executive committee of Unda-USA, the national Catholic association for
communicators, a member of the Religious Communications Council and the
Catholic Press Association. Rose recently co-authored Lights,
Camera... Faith: A Movie Lectionary, Cycle A (2001, Pauline Books &
Media) with Fr. Peter Malone. 
Dr.
William D. Romanowski is Professor of Communications Arts and
Sciences at Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, MI. He is an internationally
recognized expert on the entertainment media, and the author of the award-winning
InterVarsity Press title, Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of
Entertainment in American Life.