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Evan Baden is a photographer working and living in St. Paul, Minnesota. He shoots both fine art and freelance editorial. His work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Most recently his work was exhibited at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, and he has work in the Walker Art Center’s permanent collection.

Paul Bernhardt is a multimedia producer at the University of Minnesota, where he recently helped create the School of Public Health's Public Lectures podcast channel and shot several segments at the Minnesota State Fair for the School's new vodcast channel. He directed and edited a total of 60 minutes of dramatic and documentary shorts for Alcohol and College Life, an undergraduate class offered throughout both the University of Minnesota system and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. As an independent producer, Paul has edited episodes of Indique, now in distribution to PBS stations. He was story editor and editor for the short film Bollywood Billboards. A DVD of his one-day iMovie seminar is available to participants in the Minnesota Historical Society’s Greatest Generation project.

Micah Dahl grew up in Fargo-Moorhead making films as well as playing in multiple bands. This work led to organizing film and music showcases, which instilled in him a deep passion for independent film and music. Since then, Micah has focused on music videos, combining his love of music and film, but has also created numerous short films and documentaries. He has screened his work in London, UK, Toluca Lake, CA, and numerous venues throughout the Twin Cities. Among the bands that Micah has worked with are the Umbrella Sequence, Seawhores, the nina, the pinta!, His Mischief and more. Micah has called London, England, St. Louis, MO, and Madison, WI his home. He loves the Twin Cities and lives in Minneapolis with his wife Sara and their three-month old daughter Lucy. Micah is a graduate of the Film Program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and always has numerous films in various stages of production.

Val DuVernet spent many years developing Web sites and marketing plans for small businesses. Experienced with Web design tools and database programming, her clients have ranged from self-published writers and small retailers to national non-profit organizations. She currently works with Target.com managing their online product information. Val is also a filmmaker and member of IFP MN.

Terry Faust has been a photographer for twenty-five years, working as a staff photographer and freelancer for newspapers, magazines and in-house publications in the Twin Cities and New York. He has taught photography and multi-image production at the School of Communication Arts, Articulture, Minneapolis Park and Recreation and South High School’s Adult Community Education Program. He has received grants and awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Intermedia Arts, MNTV, the Loft and the Neighborhood and Community Press Association. He belongs to the National Press Photographers Association and the Minnesota News Photographers Association.

Independent documentary filmmaker Susan Marks made her first film, The Betty Mystique (2006) about branding icon, Betty Crocker. She also wrote a master’s thesis and a book (Finding Betty Crocker, Simon & Schuster 2005 & University of Minnesota Press 2007) on the same delicious topic. Now that she’s had her fill of baked goods, Susan has currently taken up with the dark side, producing, writing and directing the documentary film, Our Wildest Dreams: A True Crime Documentary of Dolls & Murder. Susan recently finished her first feature-length comedy screenplay and is working on her next screenplay.

Deborah Meyer has been an active participant in IFP MN since the 1980s, first as a student/member/volunteer, and as an instructor for the past seven years. Professionally, she works in advertising as both a photo stylist and co-designer. Her fine art photography has been exhibited locally and purchased for publication.

John Pennoyer is a freelance nature photographer whose love of the outdoors shines through the images he captures. Wildflowers, environmental scenes, birds and other wildlife are of special interest to him, especially that which is native to Minnesota. Over the last ten years he has been conducting photography workshops at the American Bear Association (americanbear.org) in Orr, Minnesota. He also teaches photography classes at various locations in the Twin Cities area. For the last five years he has been shooting totally digital using Nikon equipment. His photo credits include the magazines Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, Lake Country Journal, Bowhunter, Outdoor Life, plus many other national and regional publications. John has been a member of the Minnesota Nature Photography Club (minnesotanature.org) for twenty-seven years and was recently awarded honorary status. Since retiring from General Motors, John has been working full-time in his own photography business, Impressions of Nature (impressionsofnature.net).

Rachel Raimist is a filmmaker, educator, community organizer and mother. She is most known for her documentary, Nobody Knows My Name, about women in hip-hop, and as co-founder of B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip Hop at Intermedia Arts. She is the videographer/co-editor of the award-winning film Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme, which aired on VH1, and has produced, directed and edited music videos, documentaries, performance pieces and narrative videos. Her work has screened at South by Southwest, Slamdance, Women in the Director’s Chair and numerous international venues. She is the co-editor of Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology, has written and photographed for The Source, URB, Complex, Remix, and The Amsterdam News, and is a board member of the Hip Hop Film Festival. Rachel received a BA and an MFA in Film Directing from the UCLA School of Film and Television. She has taught video production at the University of California, Irvine and Los Angeles, women of color feminisms at Macalester College, and feminist theory, feminist film studies, and rap poetry at the University of Minnesota. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, and editing a documentary about prison poets.

Bix Skahill wrote the Warner Bros. comedy Chain of Fools starring Steve Zahn, Salma Hayek, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson and Jeff Goldblum. He also wrote and directed Columbia Pictures’ Life Without Dick starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Harry Connick Jr. Bix has developed a sickening number of movie and TV projects, written for the stage, been a commentator for NPR and played the Nighttime Parking Lot Attendant in the movie Fargo. He recently co-created and wrote the webisodic show The Biggs for hungrymantv.com.

Micah Taylor likes to think of himself as a Renaissance man, mostly because that sounds better than "jack of all trades, master of none." In his vast musical career he has shared the stage with such artists as Nickel Creek, Over the Rhine and Victoria Williams. In the studio he has had the honor of capturing the sounds of great artists such as Mint Condition, Billy Steele and Nachito Herrera.

Eric Weidmann attended the Los Angeles Film Studies Center before receiving a BA in Philosophy of Creative Media from Greenville College in Illinois. He has spent the last five years working in DVD production, freelance editing and graphic design. He currently is a DVD Designer and HD Encoding Specialist at Cine-O-Matic, a DVD production boutique in Minneapolis.

Greg Winter’s first feature film, Detective Fiction, photographed for director Patrick Coyle, was admitted to the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and subsequently distributed on the Sundance Channel and the Independent Film Channel. In 2004 Greg was the cinematographer for another independent feature, Justice, starring Roger G. Smith (K Street), Monica Calhoun and Anna Maria Horsford (Minority Report). Justice was nominated for a 2005 NAACP Image Award and distributed to Black STARZ.

In June 2005, Greg photographed Test Tube for director Ann Sorenson. In addition, a book he photographed about historic Minnesota quilts was nominated for a 2006 Minnesota Book award. Greg has been a member of the Minnesota Film and TV Board for over twelve years.

September of 2007 Greg completed a half-hour piece, Shared Sacrifice: Rock County in War, which focused on the experiences and impressions of Rock County residents during World War II. The film was featured by TPT during their broadcast schedule around Ken Burns's The War, and Shared Sacrifice was broadcast by every Minnesota public TV station on either Veterans Day or Memorial Day of 2008.

Greg is currently in pre-production on a documentary with director Craig Rice (Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks) called After War, a study of a radical new therapy for the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. He also is shooting on another with director Lee Sandberg about the jazz saxophonist Irv Williams.

Greg has been a working cinematographer, and student of film and photography, for twenty-five years.

Upcoming Events:

IFP MN 20th Anniversary Party!  Save The Date: Thursday, July 24th

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2008 McKnight Fellows for Filmmaking & Screenwriting Announced!

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Photo Show Opening Reception! The Overlooked Landscape    Friday, July 18th at 5:30pm

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NEW! Fresh Filmmakers Production Grant                 Deadline: August 19th, 2008

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