Newcomer Kasey Kelly began acting at the age of nine while attending the Ventura Academy of Dramatic Arts in Ventura, CA. She continued to hone her performance skills as a student at Buena High School where she appeared in several productions including “Popeye,” “Harvey,” “My Fair Lady” and “Romeo and Juliet.” Her biggest achievement was landing the lead, Sally, in a never before done on-stage production of Tim Burton’s “Nightmare Before Christmas.” Since then, Kasy has been in a number of independent films as she continues to hone her skills in formal acting classes.
After graduating high school in Immaokalee, FL, Mark DeLisle pursued a bachelors degree in pre-law while attempting to launch an acting career. An extra casting agent took notice and signed him to a deal and promptly sent him off to work. His first day on a set, doing background, Mark was pulled aside to audtion for the part of Zachary Ty Brian in the film, “Held for Ranson,” starring Dennis Hopper. He won the role which led to work as an actor in several television, movie and commerical productions throughout Florida.
In 2005, Mark made the move with his wife, Deanna, to Los Angeles. Mark was most recently seen as MP Towers in the film, “Astronaut Farmer,” opposite Bruce Willis. In addition, he has had recurring roles on ABC’s General Hospital.
Rising star Robert Sloan was born in Great Bend, Kansas. Growing up in the middle of Kansas is a far cry from Hollywood but that didn’t stop Robert from getting bitten by the acting bug at a very young age, making his stage debut at the age of 8. In high school, he began participating in school and community plays. It was then that he was cast in his first independent film, “Deconstruction”. The film won first prize in the Kansas Film Festival that year and began to generate some buzz for the young actor. A year later Robert received a theatre scholarship to attend Barton County College in Kansas. A few years and a few more films later, Robert received a scholarship to the University of Kansas where he was nominated for the Irene Ryan actor of the year award.
While in school Robert was also pursuing acting on a professional level in Kansas City. A chance encounter with a talent scout from Los Angeles drove him to move to Los Angeles to pursue his dream full time. Within three months Robert had booked the lead in an independent film and had a recurring featured role on the ABC show “Commander in Chief”, starring Geena Davis.
With an ever-growing resume, a co-starring role on the hit show “Criminal Minds”, and ongoing training with renowned acting coach Ivana Chubbuck, Robert Sloan is making a name for himself as one of Hollywood’s newest up-and-comers.
For the past 20 years, Chuck Michael has worked in Post Production as a sound designer, supervisor, editor and mixer on over 60 major Hollywood motion pictures including Ghost, The Usual Suspects, Donnie Darko, Men in Black, Waterworld, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mean Girls, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, X-Men: The Last Stand, Apocalypto, Red Eye, Shutter and What Happens in Vegas.
Proud to be from the Heartland, Chuck was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He filled much of his childhood time by writing short stories, teaching himself computer programming and building plastic models then blowing them up with fireworks while filming the explosion with his parent’s super 8 camera. He figured he was destined to settle for a mundane career as there certainly was no way to blend those odd interests. Then one day he had an epiphany - the Entertainment Industry!
So after two years jumping between creative writing and computer science majors at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Chuck headed out to Los Angeles to study at the reknowned University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. There, he descovered post production sound and the rest, as they say, is history - although it’s a history only known to those who actually stay and read a film’s end credits.
Using the exposure to the storytelling process which had been afforded him through his work in sound, Chuck continued to write in what little spare time he had between films. Finally, in 2007, he decided it was time to make his first short film since his days at USC.
Aside from all aspects of filmmaking and storytelling, Chuck remains fascinated by computer programming (”Computers do exactly what you tell them to”) and still squeezes in an hour a week to be tutored in the Japanese language, which he’s been trying to pound into his head over the last 10 years.
JOE KRAEMER has composed music for over 40 feature films, television movies and episodic series. He has conducted orchestras in Seattle and had his music performed by symphonies in Europe. He performs as a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, and has produced albums for several artists.
Joe studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he was awarded for both film composing and songwriting. After graduating with a degree in Film Scoring he moved to Los Angeles to begin writing for film professionally.
He scored his first feature film in 1995, after contributing music to the television series LAND’S END, and writing a song for the Farrelly Brothers’ movie KINGPIN. He has continued to score films, working on such projects as THE WAY OF THE GUN, RALPH NADER:AN UNREASONABLE MAN and THE THIRST.
Joe has collaborated with such directors and filmmakers as Bryan Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, The Farrelly Brothers, Diane Keaton, Richard Benjamin, Louis Morneau, Daniel Petrie, Jr., Rod Holcomb, The Russo Brothers, John Putch, Mark Altman, Heidi Van Lier and Frank Q. Dobbs. He has also worked with film composers John Ottman, Marco Beltrami, Andrew Gross, and Freedy Johnston.
His score for THE WAY OF THE GUN was named both “Sleeper Score of the Year 2000″ and runner-up for “Best Score of the Year 2000″ by Video Watchdog Magazine. Music From The Movies.com voted him “Film Music Newcomer of the Year 2000″ in their annual poll, and Film Score Monthly.com named THE WAY OF THE GUN one of the top five scores of 2000.
As a singer/songwriter, Joe performs in Los Angeles and has released “joe kraemer”, an album of original songs. He has produced recordings for artists Dylan Kussman, Lisa Donahey, and Valerie Peterson.
Additionally, Joe has worked as an actor, most notably appearing in the film CHI GIRL, directed by Heidi Van Lier, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance ‘99, and the film MONDAY, also directed by Van Lier, which screened at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2006.