President Jason Markstrom is a long-time participant in Michigan filmmaking. He directed his first feature while still attending Northern Michigan University. He has also entered and participated in many short film competitions on the state and national level. As an actor Jason has appeared in the award-winning shorts Words of Action and The Clown of Sadness, and onstage locally in Time Capsule: Sault Ste. Marie, the first performance in the Soo Theatre after its re-opening in 2005.

Vice-President Allison Youngs is an avid photographer with a BS in Mathematics from Michigan State and an MS from Purdue. She spent her formative years as the child of an Army Officer living across the United States and in Germany, eventually graduating from Petoskey High School. Allison found her way to the Sault after her parents retired there. She serves on the Chippewa County Board of Canvassers, the Sault Ste. Marie Downtown Development Authority Board, and the Music in the Park committee.

Susan James retired from Bayliss Public Library, a Superior District Library, and is living in Arizona.

Co-founder Patrick Egan is the former publisher of the Sault Evening News and The Cheboygan Daily Tribune. He spent nearly twenty years in journalism, as a beat writer, editor and publisher. He has served on a number of community boards and non-profits. He currently serves on the Lake Superior State University Board of Trustees as Chairman. He and Debra Egan live on Whitefish Bay in Bay Mills Township. Egan serves as the board treasurer.

Mark Dobias is an attorney who has practiced law in Sault Ste. Marie since 1984. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Legal Services of Northern Michigan. He has been a long-time supporter of the arts.

Helen Cho Anthos began her filmmaking career as a cinematographer and has since shot 5 shorts which have won awards in various festivals (Slamdance, Digidance, Outfest, Santa Fe), music videos, and television shows. As an app developer she developed the first comic and graphic novel reader for the iPhone which received two Apple Staff Favorite Awards and an App Store Pick of the Week. Her website is helenchoanthos.com.

Nick Childs wrote, directed and produced The Shovel, based upon a story by bestselling author Steve Hamilton and starring Academy Award-nominee David Strathairn. He also executive-produced the award-winning feature documentary, High Score. Nick has won awards for his work with Canon, P&G, the NFL, Penguin Books and, dubiously, helped create, produce and direct the “baby” campaign for E*TRADE. His website is nchilds.com.

Steve Hamilton is the two-time Edgar Award-winning author of both the New York Times bestselling Alex McKnight series and the standalone novel, The Lock Artist. He was born and raised in the Detroit area, and attended the University of Michigan, where he received the prestigious Hopwood Award. His website is authorstevehamilton.com.

Steven Wiig is an actor and musician born and raised in Negaunee, Michigan. As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Wiig has acted in numerous films including Into the Wild, Milk, and The Master, as well as the blockbuster movies Godzilla and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Steven enjoys producing and directing and is working to bring more projects to and from the Upper Peninsula, including a film based on the novel U.P. He plays the drums in the Metallica side-project Papa Wheelie and will be featured in the upcoming films America Is Still The Place, Dead Metaphors, and James Franco’s childhood-inspired Yosemite. He lives in Sausalito, California and his website is imdb.me/stevenwiig.