Leila Crew

"Leila" is T. Ann Culpepper's first produced screenwriting credit having come from the world of short stories and plays. Her most recent play was the one act play "Ain't Nothin' Too Good For My Seed," directed by Harry Lennix and which was part of the 3-act play Opening Doors." "Opening Doors" is nominated for a 2006 NAACP Image award. "Ain't Nothin' Too Good For My Seed" was selected by the Lincoln Center in New York for its prestigious summer Playwright/Director workshop in 2005.

AKROSIA SAMSON (PRODUCER)

ZERESENAY “ZEE” MEHARI (PRODUCER)

BRIAN SORBO (PRODUCER)

Brian Sorbo studied Photography and Business Management at Michigan State University, and Audio Production and Photography at Lansing Community College. He worked as a freelance still photographer for a period of 15 years, shooting a wide spectrum of subject matter. His personal work emphasized portraiture and large format landscape photography.

His still work evolved into film and video projects documenting Native American human rights issues and culture, and multimedia programming for Planetarium audiences. Currently, he has worked in Computer Graphics as a Compositor, integrating real world and synthetic imagery for 10 years. He has worked for Industrial Light & Magic, Rhythm & Hues, Stan Winston Studios, and Sony Pictures Imageworks.

ANNE ETHERIDGE (DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY)

Anne is a Los Angeles-based cinematographer who works in feature film, television and documentary. Her recent credits include "Duck," a feature film starring Philip Baker Hall, Bill Cobbs and the AFLAC ducks. “Duck” received the Audience Award at the 2005 Cinequest Film festival and was the only narrative feature film selected in 2004 to receive a funding grant from Women in Film. Additionally, narrative short films that Anne has photographed have been internationally and nationally recognized, including "Desert Motel," which was selected to screen at the 2005 Berlin and Rotterdam Film Festivals; "Presence," which was selected as a Finalist in Esquire Magazine's 2004 Emerging Filmmaker Contest; and, “Sissy French Fry,” which was selected as the Comedy Grand Prize winner at the PlanetOut Short Film Awards in 2006. Documentaries that Anne have shot have aired on Showtime and have screened in film festivals around the world. A graduate of the American Film Institute, Anne is currently photographing shows for VH-1 and the Discovery Health Channel.

JOE WOO (EDITOR)

STUART ROBERTSON (EDITOR)

Stuart Robertson is a dual US/New Zealand citizen and works in both countries as an editor.

He learned the trade in New York City where he cut promos for networks and companies for 6 years. He also cut an independent feature in NYC.

He returned to New Zealand in 2001 and cut high-end commercials and music videos for three years. During this time, he cut another independent feature for a colleague from NYC, several documentaries for Discovery Channel as well as local TV programs.

Stuart is now cutting commercials in Los Angeles. In his spare time, he worked with the makers of Coda and Leila plus cut a third short with a South African director set for release in 2006.

JOHNNY POLANCO (MUSIC)

JEffrey w. toyne (SCORE)

Jeffrey Toyne has established himself as one of today’s most promising young composers for film and television. Dedicated to pursuing his interest in film and television, Jeffrey enrolled in the Scoring Department for Motion Pictures and Television at the University of Southern California in August 2000. There, he studied with industry veterans such as David Raskin, Leonard Rosenman, Buddy Baker, Joe Harnell and Chris Young, among others.

Jeffrey has gone on to work alongside respected film composer Edward Shearmur in Los Angeles. This collaboration has brought several impressive credits to Jeffrey Toyne’s quickly growing body of work. The films he’s worked on include K-PAX, starring Kevin Spacey (2001), The Count of Monte Cristo, starring James Caviezel and Guy Pearce (2002), and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu (2003).

Among his many awards and distinctions, Jeffrey Toyne counts First Prize in the Kiwaniz Music Festival’s Composition Division and the Godfrey Ridout Award from the SOCAN Young Composer’s Competition.

PRODUCTION DESIGNER (K. EMILY COLEMAN)

COSTUME DESIGNER (JENNIFER KIRSCHMAN)