Louie Anderson

Louie Anderson is one of the most versatile and successful comedians working in Hollywood today, best known for his work in the hit series “Family Feud”. Louie first appeared on “The Tonight Show” in 1984 with Johnny Carson and has since been on Leno, Letterman, “Comic Relief” and several Showtime and HBO specials. He has guest-starred in sitcoms like “Grace Under Fire” and dramas like “Touched by an Angel” and “Chicago Hope”, and had roles in comedies like “Coming to America” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and more.

Bobby Marsden

Mr. Marsden currently works as a Broadcast Producer at the Minneapolis born agency – OLSON. Previously at Fallon Worldwide, he now brings concepts to reality for such clients as Ecolab, Bauer, University of Minnesota, United Health Group and many more. Bobby also works in independent film as a programmer for The Twin Cities Film Fest and has produced and directed several award winning films.

Eric Husband

Eric Husband is a Group Creative Director at Colle+McVoy in Minneapolis. His work has landed on the home pages of Mashable and Fast Company, appeared on ESPN’s Play of the Day and has been enthusiastically discussed on the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show. His client experience includes BMW/MINI, Caribou Coffee, Purina, Schwinn and Earthjustice—in which he helped create a film partnership with the Sundance Channel. Eric co-directed Atmosphere’s “You” music video for MTV’s 52 Bands/52 Weeks feature.

Ira Livingston

Currently the Executive Producer of the 50-Fifty Reel Challenge and part of the creative team at Morris FutureWorks, that is making Science-Fiction based on “real” science. Previously, he produced the 48 Hour Film Project in Minneapolis, making it the 3rd largest competition in the world, along with several other cities throughout the Midwest. He has made several award winning short films.

Carol Henderson

After a long career working at Minneapolis ad agencies like Campbell-Mithun, Bozell, Fallon and Carmichael Lynch, plus owning her own agency in New Mexico for 9 years, Carol currently works as a freelance creative/art director. This has given her the opportunity to work at many of the nation’s leading ad agencies on national accounts like Ford, Cadillac, Purina, Tylenol, Pizza Hut, Wal-Mart and meet a lot of cool people who don’t know anything about her past. Not that she has one. A self-proclaimed “outdoor cat”, she never sees herself returning to an agency full-time for any reason other than a disgustingly ridiculous amount of money. And a pony.

Jim Stanger

Jim Stanger, co-owner of CHANNEL Z, a leading post-production studio, has edited over 1000 television commercials. His passion for story telling is demonstrated in the film SWEET LAND, and the documentary TRAMPOLINE. He directed THE CHROMIUM HOOK, an award-winning short that played in over 50 film festivals world-wide. Jim has also become a go-to director, look for his upcoming work.

Meighan McGuire

Meighan currently works as a freelance producer, including executive producing projects through her company LUCKY Productions. Previously, she connected people as a talent representative and enjoyed a small stint with the Minnesota state film office. She loves the overuse of the word “passion” in bios (and the word “love” for that matter). Outside of work, things are kept pretty simple: drinking coffee, gardening, hunting for the next great thing, which includes great food and brilliant chefs. Oh, and knife juggling.

Michael Atkinson

Michael is a Creative Director at Clarity Coverdale Fury. Writer by trade, he has worked side-by-side with some of Minneapolis’s finest talent—at agencies like Carmichael Lynch, Campbell Mithun, Preston Kelly, Periscope & CCF. Beyond working on everything from Swedish furniture to Polish Vodka, Michael has experienced life as an amateur stand-up comedian and short film screenplay writer.

Melissa Butts

Melissa’s fascination with 3D media grew from her work producing “Future Frontiers: MARS,” a documentary following a NASA mission on a search to find signs of life on Mars. The mission spacecraft carried state-of-the-art, high-resolution, stereoscopic (3D) cameras, and the idea of engaging global audiences using life-size 3D images emerged as a revolutionary storytelling experience. Founder of Melrae Pictures, Melissa’s latest adventure is “Space Junk 3D” an IMAX 3D film launching in theaters in 2012. Melrae Pictures has grown into one of the leading producers of 3D media worldwide and currently produces 3D content for theatrical, broadcast, internet, and mobile distribution.

Oscar Oboza

Oscar Oboza is a colorist at Pixel Farm in Minneapolis with over 20 years of experience stylizing and enhancing images for commercials, music videos and independent features/shorts. His visual expertise can be found in national spots for brands such as Target, Cadillac, Payless Shoes and Subaru, as well as the films ‘Following Sean’, ‘The Unforeseen’, ‘Older Than America’ and the soon-to-be-released ‘Memorial Day’. Outside the transfer suite, he recalibrates his eyes by playing tennis and golf, traveling widely, dining and enjoying many of the diverse activities the Twin Cities has to offer.

Peter Tressel

Peter is the Interactive Creative Director at Preston Kelly. Despite his somewhat youthful appearance, Peter has been at Preston Kelly for a long time and is having a blast. Current clients include OfficeMax, HealthPartners and Mall of America. He wakes up every morning wondering what’s next and still marvels at the idea that you can make a living by thinking things up and drawing a sketch.

Scott Ferril

Scott Ferril is the owner of Rent the Sky Films, works free lance after launching the Assembly Line for Fallon, and the Chop Shop for Martin/Williams. What a waste of time. The only future for anyone, if they have anything to do with film or video, is in 3D. Scott is now mastering 3D while watching fools toil in the obsolete world of 2D. Let them eat cake. In the early 90′s, Scott worked with Michael Bay on a Vanilla Ice video and still talks about it all the time. He wishes it were in 3D, so Beevis and Butthead wouldn’t have declared it the absolute suckiest video that ever sucked the life out of all the other sucky videos.

Scott Vincent

Scott began his career as an engineer at Hughes Aircraft. He then became a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. After that he became a copywriter at Chiat/Day and Fallon and then started directing. He likes directing most of all.

Scott’s won many advertising awards and was nominated for and Emmy for directing Chappelle’s Show. He’s also directed episodes of Important Things with Demetri Martin on Comedy Central, and Delocated on the Cartoon Network.

Scott’s interests include people, dancing and horses.

Troy Longie

Troy likes to add an asterisk to every sentence he writes.* He also mispronounces asterisk as as·TRIX, like, all the time. When Troy isn’t playing puerile games (and using words like puerile), he somehow became fortunate enough to spend his working hours at mono as a creative co-chair, a.k.a. creative director, a.k.a. “Hey, look at me! I think I’m important!”*

*This isn’t true.
*He’s not important.

Geoff George

Geoff started off by schlepping a “hell of a lot of cable” in LA and moved up the ranks to gaffer then DP and now finds himself shooting and directing for his company rule62pictures based in the Twin Cities. Along the way he has had the wonderful opportunity to work with crews from all parts, foreign and domestic having shot several emmy award wining spots plus academy award nominated and winning short documentaries (that was a long time ago). “ Now, we pretty much shoot anything with a heartbeat of a budget.” When not working he is chasing his 2 year old son Max around the house, neighborhood, streets, mall, airport etc.