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Dr. Thomas Parham is a WGA screenwriter, script consultant, and partner in Dos Negros Entertainment. He has written for the CBS drama JAG and the Family Channel sitcom Big Brother Jake and served as a writers’ assistant on Touched by an Angel. Thom is a professor of Theater, Film, and Television at Azusa Pacific University and has directed stage productions of Dinner With Friends, Dracula, A Few Good Men, Return To The Forbidden Planet, and The Skin of Our Teeth. He has executive produced several award-winning student films and TV productions including American U, Giving Her Away, and Jaded, and he co-wrote Inside Out and Steeplechasers, stage plays the drama ministry team toured throughout southern California and Phoenix, Arizona. Thom is widely published and contributed a chapter to the Act One book, Behind The Screen. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he received his doctoral degree from Virginia’s Regent University.
Genevieve Parker completed the Act One Writing Program in 2007 and the advanced Act Two Program in 2009. Born in Virginia and raised in Kentucky, Texas, Washington State, and North Carolina, she graduated from Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina with a B.A. in Creative Writing and a minor in Professional Writing & Presentation Media. A professional screenwriter and occasional actor, Genevieve enjoys collaborating with talented and passionate filmmakers.
Leo Partible has worn many hats in the entertainment industry: writer, artist, singer-songwriter, comic book creator, filmmaker, public speaker, and pop culture analyst. He moved to Los Angeles and began in the entertainment industry as a storyboard artist, mentored by legendary comic book and animation artist Nestor Redondo. In the film industry, Leo started as an assistant to a producer at 20th Century Fox and then eventually became a film executive for a production company, developing comic books into feature films. As a writer Leo contributed to several books including Behind the Screen: Insiders on Faith, Film and Culture, The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Pop Culture (with a Forward by Stan Lee), Filipinas: A to Z, and co-wrote the story for the comic book series Killer Stunts, Inc. Leo has also written for InfuzeMag.com and IESB.net online and Risen Magazine in print. His public speaking includes panels and lectures at U.C. Berkeley, Azusa Pacific University, Palm Beach Atlantic University, and Biola University, as well as pop culture gatherings such as the Damah Film Festival, the San Diego Comic-Con, and the Sunscreen Film Festival. Leo has been interviewed by National Public Radio, The Atlantic Monthly, Publisher’s Weekly, World Magazine, The Washington Post, Fanboy Radio, Apologetics.com on KKLA and many other outlets. He now uses his experience and talent to create new pop culture experiences for a digital age, working on screenplays and graphic novels and moving into film directing.
Peggy Patrick, a top literary agent, guided the careers of more than two hundred writers, directors and producers as the Vice President of premiere Hollywood agency Shapiro-Lichtman. She and her husband later launched their own company, Patrick Medberry Associates. Together, they represent a number of high profile novelists and writers. Peggy is also an Associate Professor of Writing and Entertainment Business in the Mass Communications Department at Biola University , and has been a featured speaker at many entertainment venues, including the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, The Biola Media Conference, Flash Forward and the Hollywood Screenwriting Conference.
Korey Scott Pollard is a DGA first assistant director on the NBC/Universal television series Life. Korey’s previous film and television credits include the critically acclaimed USA television series Monk, Deadwood, House, Grey’s Anatomy, Boomtown, CSI, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids 2, And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself, Thirteen Days, Waterworld, Clear & Present Danger, Eye For An Eye, GI Jane, and That Thing You Do among others. He co-produced his first film in 2006, an independent adaptation of the Robert Whitlow novel, The List. Korey has been a guest lecturer at University of Texas, Austin, Biola University, Los Angeles Film Studies Center (L.A.F.S.C) he is on the Advisory boards of Compass Film Academy, Grand Rapids and Hollywood Connect,
Los Angeles.
Ryan Provencher is the Director of Exhibitor Relations for Summit Entertainment (Twilight, Knowing), working with theaters across the United States to promote their upcoming releases. He began his career at Miramax Films as the Second Assistant to the Vice President of Promotions and quickly advanced to
become the Assistant to the Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs. Six months later, he was offered the opportunity to become a booker for the Executive Vice President of Distribution and was eventually promoted to Coordinator of Exhibitor Relations. It was soon after that he was promoted to manager. After seven years at Miramax he was offered the job to run Exhibitor Relations at Summit Entertainment and has been there for a little over a year. Ryan
holds a degree in Film from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Tom Provost is writer/director of The Presence, a film starring Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino, Justin Kirk and Shane West, currently in post-production. Tom wrote the screenplay for Under Suspicion, a thriller starring Oscar winners Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman. The screenplay was nominated for an Edgar Award. He is also an award-winning editor, cutting films, network television shows and hundreds of promos for The WB and BRAVO. He is a graduate of the Plan II Honors Program at The University of Texas at Austin and is the founder of Khartoum, a Los Angeles based film-company. More information can be found at www.khartoumfilms.com.