Leena Pendharkar. Writer/Director.
Started her filmmaking career in the world of docs, and won several awards for her work, including the Bronze Award at WorldFest Houston, for her film, My Narmada Travels, about indigenous people losing their land to a large dam. The piece also aired on Al Gore's network, Current TV. Her narrative short, This Moment, screened extensively on the festival circuit and was distributed by Ambassador Media to several colleges for courses on anthropology and cultural studies. Her screenplay for Raspberry Magic has been considered several times by the Sundance labs, placed in the top fifteen percent of the Nicholl fellowship, nominated for the ABC Talent Development Fund and a finalist for the Roy W. Dean Grant. Prior to film, she was a print journalist and web designer, winning several awards for her visionary work, including a Wired Magazine Award for Excellence in New Media. She still continues to develop interactive media propreties through her company, Spicy Mango Productions. Leena also teaches filmmaking and writing at Loyola Marymount U., Otis College of Art and Design and UCLA Extension. She earned her Master's degree in Documentary Filmmaking at the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Click here to visit her website.


Megha Kadakia. Producer.
Her film career began with Plinyminor films, where she helped strategize and market their award winning independent films, Online and Taking the Wheel. Soon after, she worked in the capacity of executive producer/investor for the following films: Here and Hereafter and Kissing Cousins. She also has extensive experience in marketing, strategy and PR for festivals and art events that spans over several years starting from WorldFest '95 at UCLA. Throughout the years, she has helped produce over ten festivals including most recently, ArtWallah 2008 (South Asian Diasporic Arts Organization), ArtWallah 2006 & 2005 and the 2nd Annual Artivist Film Festival. Megha's work experience includes Disney, Deloitte Consulting, eForce Consulting and several film production organizations in the capacity of Marketing, Public Relations, IT, Finance and Management. She has also received an MBA from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business and a B.S.in BioChemistry and Specialization in Business from UCLA. An avid proponent of art and culture, Megha's other true passion outside of film involves her dedicated training in Bharata Natyam, classical Indian dance.

Jeffrey Chu. Director of Photography.
Was born and raised in Taiwan, and immigrated to the States in 1993. After Jeffrey graduated from San Francisco State University, he collaborated on a variety of projects with Bay Area based Hotbed Media including a documentary feature, Confessions of a Burning Man.  His narrative debut, Happily, Even After, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and starred Jason Behr (The Grudge). Marina Black (Six Feet Under) and Jorge Garcia (Lost). In 2003, Jeffrey moved to New York City, where he completed a feature documentary, Pipe Dream, and a narrative feature, Bonnie Situation.  Currently, Jeffrey is based in Shanghai.  His work now includes TV commercials, documentaries and narrative features.  Milk and Fashion, his most recent work, starring Jeremy Miller (Growing Pains) and Vanessa Branch (Pirates of the Caribbean), is in the post-production phase.

Zack Arnold. Editor.
Is the president of Fix It In Post in Los Angeles, California. His body of work includes theatrical and television marketing campaigns for such films as The Passion of the Christ, Charliz Theron's Monster, Christian Bale's The Machinist, Stander, The Woodsman, Whale Rider, and he won a 2004 Golden Trailer Award with his trailer for Northfork. His feature projects include the Fox Searchlight film Phat Girlz, Beautiful Loser, Faded Memories, and Graduation (additional editor). He then edited A Dennis the Menace Christmas for Warner Bros and was later requested to cut the opening sequence for the Disney documentary Morning Light. Zack also edited the HBO First Look specials for the films Dreamgirls, The Departed, and Live Free or Die Hard. He also edited DVD content for HBO's Entourage, MGM's Flyboys, the 10th Anniversary edition of Run Lola Run, and for the HBO show The Comeback. Zack recently cut feature film/web series, The Bannen Way for Sony Pictures.

Jesse Solomon Clark. Composer.
Has a background in experimental music and sound art. Jesse composes for feature and short films, commercials and installations. Notable projects include Monday Audio which featured a new sound and music piece composed and released every week for a year. Recent work includes the score for the feature film From Busto To Robusto and Maris Curran's short Margarita. Jesse releases his own music under the alias Agents Del Futuro and is starting work on a new record featuring prepared piano and drum set.

Arthi Meera and Anand Subramanian. Fair and Kind.
Is the dream pop collaboration of siblings Arthi Meera and Anand Subramanian, featuring exquisite vocals, sparkling guitars, and lavish melodies. Their debut album, A Little Past Twilight, was self-released in October 2008. Anand and Arthi grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, singing along to The Smiths and The Sundays while shuffling between piano lessons and Hindustani vocal training. After a decade of playing solo and with different bands, they converged in Los Angeles in early 2007 to form Fair and Kind. Written in the tiny apartment they shared in Little Armenia, A Little Past Twilight, recorded by Jamie Seyberth (The Autumns, Hot Hot Heat), unites the diverse influences they shared growing up under one roof. In the summer of 2009, Fair and Kind played a tour of four major U.S. cities (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco). Now based in Chicago and the Bay Area, Fair and Kind are currently writing their second album, tentatively titled Light Music Program.

Robin Sukhadia, Tabla Artist/Instrumentalist.
A World Music MFA graduate of the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles,Robin has been studying tabla (classical north Indian drums) under Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri at CalArts and the Ali Akbar College of Music for the past eight years. His special focus on the rhythms of south Asia informs his approach to musical composition on a wide range of concert, film, and album productions. He performs and teaches extensively, in both classical and contemporary contexts, and has developed innovative music education programs at the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and Machine Project in Los Angeles. In 2010, Robin was awarded a Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies to expand his work with music education for poor children in India.

Debbie Heimowitz. Line Producer.
Is a Bay Area native who has worked in film for the past ten years. As an undergraduate, Debbie was the recipient of the Artsbridge America Scholarship, which supported her work developing educational videos in K-12 schools. Upon graduating, Debbie was awarded the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Internship in Series Development and relocated to Los Angeles to work at Disney Channel. Debbie proceeded to work on the Warner Bros. feature film Saving Shiloh for director Sandy Tung, as well as in television programming at NBC, MTV, and Carson Daily Productions. Debbie returned to the Bay Area in 2006 where she went on to create and produce the three-part Adina's Deck film series. Adina's Deck has screened nationally at film festivals and was awarded "Best Educational Film" at the 2008 International Family Film Festival. Debbie holds an MA from Stanford University and a BA from UC Berkeley in Film.

Frank Simeone. First Assistant Director.
Is a San Francisco based Producer, Production Manager and Assistant Director of feature length motion pictures, documentaries and commercials. He began his career as a production assistant at Francis Coppola's American Zoetrope where he worked through the productions of Apocalypse Now, The Black Stallion, Hammett and Rumble Fish.  He has worked as a production manager on two projects for LucasFilms, Ewoks: The Battle For Endor, a network television special, and Tiger Tales. Frank's production experience in the studios of American Zoetrope and LucasFilms has enabled him to produce or manage first features for many independent directors.  Some of these first features include Terry Zwigoff's Louie Bluie, Nina Takes a Lover and the film festival hit, Dream With the Fishes. Frank's more recent credits include work on LucasFilms' Phantom Menace, Ang Lee's The Hulk, Bee Season and X Men III--The Last Stand.