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Alice Brooks has had a love of images since her childhood, spending long hours making photographs in the darkroom. After graduating from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, she has worked extensively as a cinematographer on both the east and west coasts. Her work includes award-winning features and short films, commercials, and music videos, spanning formats from Super16 to anamorphic 35mm to HD24p. Most recently she has completed an independent feature entitled The Hillz, starring Paris Hilton and Jesse Woodrow, and an HD short for Paramount Pictures starring Bruce Davison and Fisher Stevens. Alice is represented by Jay Gilbert and Hilarie Roope of The Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann Agency.

Matt Smith graduated with a BA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema Television in the Spring of 2001. He turned his eye towards the world of post-production. With an Assistant Editor credit on the graduate thesis film Hope Abandoned, he came to Charlie 2.0. Currently, Matt is working as a post-production assistant on the Fox television show Malcolm In The Middle.


Lori Lovoy-Goran was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She received a BA from Georgetown University where she studied philosophy and photography. Following graduation, she spent a year studying Buddhism at Tassajara Zen Center in California. Afterwards, she worked as a freelance editorial and commercial photographer. She has an MFA in film production from the USC School of Cinema-Television. She directed in between days, a short documentary about adolescent girls coming of age in Los Angeles, which won "Best Short Documentary" at the 2002 South by Southwst film festival, as well as a 2001 DGA student film award. She just recently directed awake, a narrative short about the parallel lives of three female characters who wake up at the same moment on the same day. She currently works as a writer, director & editor, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband Michael Goran, and their daughter Coco.


Sally Bower Levi grew up in New York and Los Angeles. In the past few years, she has pursued a variety of filmmaking interests. Sally has produced an independent feature, a number of shorts, and directed a major music video for a Universal-signed band. In addition, she has served as Production Designer on several projects and has compiled a growing number of original screenplays. Sally currently resides in Los Angeles and is a student in the film program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.


Thao Vu graduated from UCLA with both a BA in Fine Arts and a MFA in Costume Design. Since receiving her MFA, Thao has closely worked with many award-winning costume designers including Deborah Scott and Ngila Dickson on films such as Ali, Minority Report, and the upcoming The Last Samurai. Thao is currently working on the on the latest Trey Parker and Matt Stone Project, titled Team America.


Joseph Tsai studied sound design while a student at the USC School of Cinema-Television. Soon after graduating, he began working at Soundstorm in Burbank, CA, and has been there for the past two years. Joseph is currently a sound designer for video games and films. In his spare time he is also doing pre-production for Cremaster 6.


Gerard K. Marino is a Los Angeles-based composer and producer of music for film, television, and new media. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Theory and Composition from Stetson University in Florida and then the University of Southern California's Graduate Certificate in Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television. He has produced music for some of the biggest composers on film, including Christopher Young and Paul Oakenfeld. His professional credits include Composer for the 2002 cult hit Lethal Force; music for aTerminator 3 trailer; Orchestrator on the Medal of Honor: Rising Sun video game; Electronic Score Producer for Swordfish as well as Synth Programming and / or Score Mixing for The Glass House, Sweet November, The Gift, The Warden, and Bless The Child.


Cathy Reinking, CSA graduated magna cum laude from UCLA with a degree in Theatre Arts and was the Casting Associate on Frasier for 8 seasons. She was also the Casting Director on Baby Bob, Movie Stars, and the films Sin (starring Gary Oldman and Ving Rhames), Bad City Blues, Jackie's Back (Robert Townsend, director), Screenland Drive and the associate on A Night at the Roxbury. Other credits include According to Jim, In Laws, Charlie Lawrence (starring Nathan Lane), Dag, Stark Raving Mad, Wings, The Naked Truth, Encore! Encore!, Almost Perfect, Nothing Sacred, Newsradio, Early Edition and many, many pilots for all of the major networks. Her theatre credits include Do I Hear a Waltz?, Light Up the Sky, and ASK New Play Weekend 2001. Cathy is also an award-winning writer, whose screenplay, Lessons Learned, was a finalist in the Nissan Focus Awards. She has directed and stage-managed numerous stage productions in California, Oregon, and Kansas, many of them world premieres, and was a member of the full-time staff at South Coast Repertory for many years. Recently, she directed the LA premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s Sunday on the Rocks at the Company of Angels, David Mamet’s The Woods at the Met Theatre and Alice Gersenberg’s Overtones as part of an evening of theatre entitled “Spit Out The Madness”. She also teaches acting and audition techniques from a casting director’s perspective and travels throughout U.S. and Canada leading workshops. She’s currently working on a new comedy on Fox, Arrested Development, as the casting associate.


Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Caryn Mamrack received a BA in Theatre and English from the University of Michigan. She spent four years teaching high school in Detroit before attending USC where she received her MFA in Cinema-Television Production in 2002. While at USC, Caryn worked on a number of advanced productions as a producer, assistant director, and director. Currently, she is working for Parkway Productions and spends her free time writing a feature script rooted in her teaching experiences.