“Music helps us to be free; it moves the soul; it may also be the only art that is capable of clearly expressing what we feel about God. . .   Music is an absolute reflection of the world we live in.”  Madonna

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Klaus Badelt

Composer Klaus Badelt started his musical career writing and producing music for dozens of highly successful movies and commercials in Germany. In 1998, Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer invited him to move his musical home to Media Ventures in Santa Monica, CA. Since then, Klaus has composed scores on his own film and television projects as well as collaborating with Zimmer and other composers.

Working with Zimmer, Badelt contributed music to the Oscar-nominated scores for Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000), Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line and Dreamworks' The Prince Of Egypt. Klaus collaborated with Zimmer on the music for Mission: Impossible II (2000) with producer Tom Cruise and director John Woo, Ridley Scott's Hannibal (2001) and Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor (2001). He also co-wrote the score to Sean Penn's The Pledge (2001) with Zimmer.

Recently, Klaus has completed the scores for Dreamworks' The Time Machine (2002) and Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean.  

Jason Clark and the cast and crew of Killer Diller

Jason has brought his producing skills to several successful projects including Homegrown (1998), Happy, Texas (1999), Stuart Little (1999), and Stuart Little 2 (2002).  Killer Diller (2004) is his latest film.

Craig Detweiler

Craig is Associate Professor of Mass Communications at Biola University. He is an accomplished screenwriter whose movies include Extreme Days (2001).  In 2003, he co-wrote A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Popular Culture with Barry Taylor. 

DJ Jyro

Jyro Xhan is a recording artist, producer and programmer. He has released 13 albums under various monikers (Mortal, Fold Zandura, and Juggernautz). He is currently producing Crystal Lewis' next album and does a weekly laptop set at Immersion in Capo Beach, California.

Laura Dunn is the executive director of the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL), the non-profit organization for professional film & television composers, songwriters, and lyricists. A classically-trained musician, she studied music at Westmont College and San Francisco State University, theatre at San Francisco Theatre Academy, and theology at Fuller Seminary. While working as contract administrator for Paramount Pictures' film and TV music department, she completed UCLA's film scoring program. She has composed music for independent films and video games, but has spent the last four years growing and developing the SCL.

Robert K. Johnston

Rob is Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and Co-Director of Reel Spirituality.  Along with teaching courses in systematic theology, theology and literature, and theology and film, Rob is the author of three books on the relationship between faith and film: Reel Spirituality (2000), Useless Beauty (2004) and Finding God in the Movies (2004).

Brad King

Brad King is an experienced entrepreneur and filmmaker. He was an early pioneer in the Internet and sold his company to Ask Jeeves, Inc. in 1998. He has produced two independent feature films. His last, Teknolust starring Tilda Swinton, was invited to Sundance, Toronto and Berlin film festival and was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan award. He wrote and is producing The Prodigal with Paul Zaentz (The English Patient, Talented Mr. Ripley). Brad also founded Voice Films Institute, supporting youth in digital filmmaking.

Brian McLaren

Brian is the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church.  A popular author and speaker on topics such as postmodernism, church growth, and art and music, he is a fellow with Emergent, a growing generative friendship among missional Christian leaders.  Two of his most recent books are A Generous Orthodoxy (2004) and More Ready Than You Realize: Evangelism as Dance in the Postmodern Matrix (2002).

Travis Reed

Travis is the Founder and President of Highway Video, a ministry that produces visual media for "the dialogue of faith." Highway produces film-shorts in the form of comedies, "man-on-the-street" documentaries, and interpretive/music videos that are relevant tools for the emerging church. Travis says that he is one of the idiots God uses to make the world look foolish. He's married to Lara, Jackson's and Brady's father, a renter, invades comfort zones, always injured, bald, kind of overweight, but surprisingly "cat-like," an underachieving disciple of Christ, and saved by grace.

Davin Seay

Norman Stone

Norman is the president of 1A Productions in Glasgow, Scotland and the director of both Man Dancin’ (2004) and the BBC’s Shadowlands (1985).  His wife, Sally Magnusson, also works in media as a national television broadcaster and journalist.  On their farm, they have five children, two chickens, and one crazy dog.

Barry Taylor

Barry is co-director of Reel Spirituality, adjunct professor of popular culture and theology at Fuller Seminary, a professional musician, film composer, painter, and the leader of New Ground, an alternative worship gathering in Los Angeles.  In 2003, he published his first book A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Popular Culture with co-author Craig Detweiler.     

Rebecca is director of the Los Angeles Film Studies Center and the pastor of Tribe of LA.  She also serves on the executive committee of the City of the Angels Film Festival.  Her husband, Dave, is a professional musician. 

Graham Ward

Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology at University of Manchester.  The question that currently dominates his thinking is what makes belief believable?  Convinced that religion is developing new visibility in our contemporary, post-secular setting, Ward is working to establish new ways for Christian theology to engage the issues of globalization, internet culture, affirmations of violence, and other issues in the wider cultural context.  Much of his research focuses on the relationship between literature, religions, politics, and culture.  His two most recent books are True Religion (Blackwell, 2002) and Cities of God (Routledge 2000).  For ten years, Ward has served as the senior executive editor of the Oxford University Press journal Literature and Theology. 

Rev. Scott Young is the 2004 Chair and Co-Founder of the City of the Angels Film Festival. He is the director of Faculty Relations for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the Southern California region. Scott is an instructor at Fuller Theological Seminary and Biola University. He served on the ecumenical jury at the Berlin International Film Festival and is active in religion and arts projects.

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