Florence Annang works with African-American Latina teenage girls at the Harambee Center, where she uses film in teaching them.
 

Kathleen Dowdey began her career as a documentary filmmaker, producing such programs as the PBS special, Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South, and the Ace-Award winning Larry King's Night of Soviet Television for Turner Broadcasting.  Her recent credits include History of Navigation for the History Channel, the Emmy-nominated A Baby Story for The Learning Channel and Going Home for HGTV.  Currently Kathleen writes and produces for the popular new daytime series, Life Moments for Paramount/NBC.

Margie English is the Co-Director of Lumina Productions.

Jim Friedrich is an Episcopal priest and "religious imagineer" -- liturgical artist, filmmaker, storyteller, musician and writer.  His innovative ministry is devoted to mediating the sacred into contemporary experience through image, story and ritual.  He has written and directed numerous films and videos, including The Story of Anglicanism, with Michael York, and A Thin Place: Iona and the Celtic Way, which Matthew Fox has called "a radiant introduction the Celtic tradition."  He also gives seminars on religion and film, having started out as a child extra in 1950's biblical epics.  Jim lives on Whidbey Island near Seattle.
 
 

Michael Hoffman has directed Soapdish (1991), Restoration (1995), One Fine Day (1996), and adapted and directed Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999).  Born in Hawaii, he graduated from the University of Idaho where he was Student Body President.

Temma Kramer is a professor of film studies at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles. 
 
 

Dr. Terry Lindvall is one of the founding faculty of the Regent University College of Communication and the Arts and is president emeritus of Regent University. He holds the distinguished chair of visual communication. He has published Surprised by Laughter and The Silents of God.

Stephanie Liss has won awards for writing the following projects:  TV - For the Future: The Irvine Fertilitiy Scandal, Hidden in Silence, Shameful Secrets, Runaway Father, David Rothenberg Story, Second Serve: The Renee Richards Story; Documentary - One Survivor Remembers-The Gerda Weissman Klein Story, Behind the Veil; Theater - The Vow.
 

Peder Morgenthaler is a Colorado-based independent film maker, graphic artist, musician, and DJ.  A recent graduate from Colorado State University, he is the design force behind Sally Morgenthaler's Sacramentis.com website, as well as a content consultant.  As the son of a pastor, with an insatiable sense of curiosity, one of Peder's endeavors in life has been to form an overarching view of the universe that reconciles the physical plane with the spiritual, while maintaining a healthy respect for the mysteries of God.

Sally Morgenthaler’s Worship Evangelism:  Inviting Unbelievers Into the Presence of God  (Zondervan, 1995) has become a touchstone for postmodern, worship-driven ministry and a work whose popularity spans denominational boundaries.  Her next work, The Uncharted Now (to be published by Inter Varsity Press) will focus on worship in a postmodern culture.  Morgenthaler has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses at Baylor University, Bethel Seminary, The Conservatory for Praise and Worship, Covenant Bible College, Denver Seminary, Gordon Conwell Seminary, Regent University, Texas Christian University, and The Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle.  Founder of Sacramentis.com (“Re-imagining Worship for a New Millennium)” Morgenthaler’s vision is to move worship beyond presentation (information, performed music and preaching) to an interactive, sacred experience involving all the arts.

William Pannell joined Fuller in 1974 as assistant professor of evangelism.  Before joining the faculty, he was the first African-American to serve on Fuller's Board of Trustees.  In 1992 he was appointed as the Arthur DeKruyter/Christ Church Oak Brook Professor of Preaching, and served as Dean of the Chapel from 1992 to 1998, and also served as director of the African-American Studies Program.  A gifted preacher and professor of homiletics, Pannell has nurtured several generations of Fuller students from classroom to pulpit.  He currently serves on the boards of Taylor University in Indiana, and Sojourners/Call to Renewal in Washington, D.C.  He is the author of numerous articles and books, including My Friend, the Enemy (Word, 1968); Evangelism from the Bottom Up (Zondervan, 1992); and The Coming Race Wars? A Cry for Reconciliation (Zondervan, 1993).

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 Minority Report. 

Tajamika Paxton serves as the Vice-President of Features for Spirit Dance Entertainment, the production company founded by acclaimed actor/director Forest Whitaker.   She was a creative executive at MTV Feature Films, working on The Wood, Varsity Blues, 200 Cigarettes, and Election.  She's a member of the Black Women's Network and the Board of Directors of OUTFEST.

Daniel Petrie, a Canadian born writer/producer/director, first entered show business as an actor.  Following a long stretch of pioneering directing work in the golden age of television, including the seminal television anthology series Studio One (1948), and The Defenders (1961), he branched into film, scoring a critical success with the screen adaptation A Raisin in the Sun (1961).  In 1976 he directed Sally Field in Sybil, her Emmy winning role that finally broke her out of the Gidget mold and in 1977 won his own Emmy for directing Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years.  His most recent directing project was the Gena Rolands/Laura Linney vehicle, Wild Iris (2001). 

Matthew Rindge is adjunct professor of Biblical Studies at Azusa Pacific University.  "Critics of the Church," a course he developed and teaches, reflects his desire to help the church and culture engage in meaningful dialogue.  He speaks at various churches and universities, often on behalf of Compassion International, an agency working with poor children in third-world countries.  He has taught Leadership classes in Chile, Argentina, Thailand, Philippines, and Papua New Guinea.  Matt has written articles for Prism and Youthworker magazines.  He lives with his wife and daughter at the Harambee Center, a community development ministry in a Black and Latino neighborhood in Northwest Pasadena.  Matt has an M.A. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, a B.A. in History from U.C. Santa Barbara, and is finishing a M.Div. at Fuller Theological Seminary.
 
 

Phil Alden Robinson worked in radio and TV news before breaking into the entertainment industry by writing episodes of Trapper John, MD.  He wrote All of Me (Steve Martin) and Rhinestone (Sylvester Stallone-Dolly Parton), directed his screenplays In the Mood and Field of Dreams (nominated for an Oscar - Best Picture) and Sneakers (Robert Redford).

Barry Taylor is a composer whose songs have appeared in Green Dragon, The Third Miracle and the upcoming Better Off Dead and Avenging Angelo.  He leads a community of faith called New Ground.    He's currently finishing a Ph.D. at Fuller Seminary and teaching at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. 
 
 

Kris Young is a Los Angeles native.  He got his BA in film from USC and was a staff R&B lyricist for five years with songs recorded by a number of Grammy award winning groups.  He's written six films for the Disney Channel, including the produced Teen Angel, Teen Angel Returns (starring Jason Priestly and Jennie Garth) and Secret Bodyguard (starring Ernie Reyes.)  He has written pilots for CBS and Nickelodeon as well as feature films for Trimark, Columbia and producers Richard Pryor and Terence Chang.  Kris received his MFA in screenwriting from UCLA in 1998, where his script Slow Boat to China won the UCLA Showcase Award, placed 2nd in the Samuel Goldwyn awards and was optioned/rewritten for Savi Media Inc.  Kris now teaches screenwriting at UCLA, the Los Angeles Film Studies Center and East West Players.  He is currently co-chair of the WGA Asian-American writers committee.