Edward Symes is a producer, director, and founder of Here and Now Films. He has produced and directed over 40 web documentaries, commercials, political, corporate, and art videos. Edward has made documentaries from over half a dozen countries including Rwanda, Ethiopia, Peru, Guatemala, and East Timor. Focusing his efforts towards web distribution, he has created online videos for media clients Current Television, Yahoo! Assignment Earth, Time Magazine, as well as political films for the labor union SEIU, and immigration reform organization Center for Community Change. He specializes in creating the "multi-part web series" and completed a five part series on the USS BOXER Navy Ship in 2008 with global health organization Project Hope and a six-part media series package for OXFAM America on the mining industry in Peru with fellow filmmaker Melinda Binks. He has a strong focus in global health work. In 2008 he premiered a 30 minute documentary film, Los Medicos, at the Jackson Hole Film Festival as well as edited the 26th Annual United Nations HIV/AIDS conference video. As a cinematographer he has filmed subjects including the global film 1 Giant Leap (19 Entertainment), New York Firefighters post 9/11, artist Alex Grey, homeland security contractors for Time Magazine, as well as musicians Eugene Hutz, Baaba Maal, Boots Riley, and Michael Stipe. Most recently, he co-directed, shot, and edited a 5 minute video installation art video for UK fashion designer Sue Stemp and online XXXX art magazine collaborating with fashion photographer and producer Indira Cesarine. He is currently editing "On the Campaign Trail" a five part multimedia web series including photos by photojournalist Caroline Bennett and video that he shot on the Obama and McCain campaigns in five states over the past year. Edward often collaborates with music composers AW Bullington and Doran Danoff. Edward has taught documentary filmmaking with Barefoot Workshops and the Maine Media Workshops. He attended Kenyon College and NYU Tisch School of the Arts in London UK.
  A.W. Bullington is a musician and film composer with over three full motion picture soundtracks to his name and over a dozen commercial multimedia web pieces. An alumni of the Berklee College of Music, Andy has been a composer, guitarist and teacher for over 25 years. In 2007 he composed an album for the film soundtrack Los Medicos. The following year he scored the music for the documentary web series Ship of Hope. Just recently, A.W. scored, recorded, and designed the music and soundscape to a series of short films from Peru for OXFAM America. In 1998 he composed and performed the score for the first full performance ever of Percy Shelleys "Prometheus Unbound" at the University of Texas. From 1983 until the spring of 2001 he spent his winters in Austin,Texas performing, composing and teaching music. In the 1997 Clarksville Jazz Festival his trio performing his original compositions won "Best New Group". Andy has become a year round resident of Nantucket with his wife, photographer Cary Hazlegrove, and daughter, Virginia Page. He performs in solo and group settings and teaches. Andy's work can be heard at: www.andybullington.com
    Malcolm McLean, is a filmmaker from the Southeastern United States. In 2005 he worked on the A&E Network documentary series Random 1, as a camera operator and assistant story producer. The following summer he served as field producer and camera operator for the feature film Lost In Woonsocket. Most recently he collaborated with longtime friend Edward Symes for Edward's film Los Medicos. Be on the lookout for Malcolm's camerawork in the upcoming feature The Rock Prophesies.
  Melinda Binks is a filmmaker based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She has worked for a range of international research organizations and non-profits, such as The Academy for Educational Development , Land O’ Lakes (sponsored by USAID) in Palestine, The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation in Rwanda and Vista 360 in Jackson, WY. She was the assistant to world-renowned wildlife photographer and filmmaker Tom Mangelsen . While working for Tom, Melinda had the great opportunity to photograph and film in Rwanda, Tanzania, the Seychelles and Madagascar. After realizing her passion for storytelling through film, she attended The Maine Media Workshops to learn about documentary film under the tutelage of Michael Rabiger, who wrote "the bible" on documentary filmmaking (Directing the Documentary). Her most recent projects have taken her to Central America, Africa and Australia. When not working on a project or traveling, she can be found in Jackson Hole, Wyoming enjoying the snow and rock. More of Melinda's work can be viewed at the website for her company Fall Creek Productions.