STEPHEN SIMON (Director / Producer) was mentored by Hollywood greats such as Ray Stark and Dino De Laurentiis. He is a highly regarded and well-respected veteran producer in his own right, with over 30 years experience in the entertainment industry. He has produced and/or supervised the production of more than 20 motion pictures and has presided over three major Hollywood production companies.

Simon's feature film work includes the Academy Award® Winning WHAT DREAMS MAY COME (starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr.), the classic SOMEWHERE IN TIME (starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour), ALL THE RIGHT MOVES (starring Tom Cruise) and BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (starring Keanu Reeves), among many others.

For the smaller screen, his television credits include executive producer of the Emmy® nominated made-for-television movie “From Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story” and the executive producer of “The Linda McCartney Story”.

Simon is also an author. He wrote The Force Is With You: Mystical Movie Messages That Inspire Our Lives (Hampton Roads, 2002), and he co-wrote Spiritual Cinema: A Guide to Movies That Inspire, Heal, and Empower Your Life , (Hay House, 2005) with Gay Hendricks, both of which are indispensable works on the genre of “spiritual cinema.”

In addition, he is a co-founder and spokesperson of Cinema Circle, Inc., the parent company of The Spiritual Cinema Circle, a monthly DVD subscription service for motion pictures and the Transformational Book Circle, a monthly book club.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH’S (author Conversations with God) life was transformed when (in 1992) he fired off an angry letter to God, asking the questions from his heart and to his great surprise, received an answer. This divine dialogue lasted for over three years, and became a book that has astounded seekers all over the world with its simplicity and truth. The dialogue has continued, and has now expanded into five volumes of wisdom and insight.

Neale Donald Walsch has been a newspaper reporter and managing editor, a radio station program director, public information officer for one of the nation's largest public school systems, creator and owner of his own advertising and marketing firm, and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. He has now "retired" from his career in communications arts to pursue his vision of a world in which people no longer live in fear of God, or of each other.

Walsch travels extensively throughout the world, speaking to audiences and sharing the messages of the Conversations with God material. His newest book is Home with God, in a Life That Never Ends, published by Simon and Schuster.

GAY HENDRICKS (Executive Producer) is the author of twenty-plus books in the areas of relationships, business and personal transformation, including such bestsellers as Conscious Loving and The Corporate Mystic. With his wife of twenty-five years, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, he has co-founded several organizations, including The Hendricks Institute, www.hendricks.com, which offers seminars in relationship transformation and body-mind wellness.

Dr. Hendricks, along with Stephen Simon, is one of the founders of The Spiritual Cinema Circle, www.spiritualcinemacircle.com, which offers inspiring features, shorts and documentaries to members around the world each month.

ERIC DELABARRE (Screenwriter) began his career with Executive Producer Dick Wolf on NBC's Law & Order . After six years with Law & Order , Eric left Universal Television to become a freelance writer/director. He went on to write, produce and direct “ Stop the Cycle,” a national anti-smoking commercial for the American Lung Association.  Subsequently, DelaBarre was nominated for Best Director in the national commercial category for the ITS Monitor Award.

In 1999, he wrote, produced, and directed his debut film Kate's Addiction and was awarded Filmmaker of the Future at the Newport Beach International Film Festival. His work has been seen on HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Starz, Encore, and the USA Network.

More recently, DelaBarre's debut book, Why Not: Start Living Your Life Today has been endorsed by NY Times best-selling authors Mark Victor Hanse and John Gray as well as ABC News, Awareness Magazine and Publisher's Weekly.  

SHERRIL SCHLESINGER (Film Editor) began working in film in the mid ’80s in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. In the budding industry of Southern Africa she got to work in many arenas of film, both in production and post-production on international and local features.

In 1990 Schlesinger relocated to Los Angeles and has worked as an editor, visual effects editor and post production coordinator/supervisor on features, documentaries and a stint cutting theme park films which involved working with 70mm circle vision, and 3D-animation, and included It’s Tough To Be A Bug (It’s A Bug’s Life spinoff) for Disney and Pixar.

EMILIO KAUDERER (Composer) Latin-Grammy award winner Emilio Kauderer’s film credits include the score Culture Clash in AmeriCCa directed by Emilio Estevez; God by Momo, directed by Leo Ricagni (Mojo-A Band Apart) and A Place in the World, Oscar Nominee as Best Foreign Film.

In collaboration with Stewart Copeland, Kauderer composed the main title song and additional music for Showtime’s “Dead Like Me” series, a 2004 Emmy nominee for best score.

Kauderer was also the recipient of The Sundance Institute’s fellowship to the Composer’s Lab. He was honored by the New York’s Jewish Heritage Museum, who selected him as the composer of the music for main exhibit piece.

JOAO FERNANDES (Director of Photography) is a native of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He has lived in the U.S. for the last 35 years, first in New York where he attended New York University Film School, then in Los Angeles, and now in Ashland, Oregon.

As a director of photography, over the years he has worked in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the U.S. on some 18+ feature films including ONE MAN'S HERO with Tom Berenger, GIDEONS WEB with Charlton Heston and Carroll O'Connor and ROAD TO GALVESTON with Cicely Tyson and Piper Laurie, as well as fifteen television movies and three television series.

RENEE PRINCE (Production Designer) left academia for show business after earning a graduate degree researching dolphin intelligence and the nature of consciousness.  She worked as an art director, set decorator, scenic artist, and sculptor on over thirty feature films including THE ABYSS, PACIFIC HEIGHTS, WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW, INDIGO, ROSE RED, ARMY OF DARKNESS and ALAN QUARTERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD .  She also worked on the popular television series “The Wonder Years”, as well as Madonna's controversial music video for the hit single “Like a Prayer” .

MURIEL STOCKDALE (Costume Designer) has enjoyed a varied career in the entertainment industry for over 26 years and has created outstanding costumes for some of the finest producers of film, TV and live entertainment. Among these are Disney, CTW, NBC, CBS, PBS, ABC, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, The Public Theatre and dozens of US and European regional theaters.