Rodney Vance is the Producer and Writer of NAPA VALLEY 3Dreams, and Manager of NAPA VALLEY 3D, LLC. Mr. Vance is the Director of the Pacific Union College Film and Television Program, in the Napa Valley. Mr. Vance has sold or been hired to write three screenplays (OPERATION BABYLIFT, UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS, THE FINISH), has had two others optioned (RAVEN CHASE and TOKEN) and wrote the libretto for an opera (IMMANUEL). He has been the Head Writer on two award-winning television series (THE EVIDENCE and LIFETYLE MAGAZINE), an Associate Producer on a Spanish-language television series (DESCUBRA), and the writer of seven stage plays, one of which (TOKEN) won the Judge’s Choice Award in the Edward Albee International Playwriting Competition. He has produced more than thirty stage plays and events, including an event for the Pan American Youth Congress at the Mexico City Sports Palace and one for the World Congress of Seventh-Day Adventists at the New Orleans Superdome. Mr. Vance is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Dramatists Guild, and, ahem, MENSA.
Keith Melton is the Director for NAPA VALLEY 3Dreams. Mr. Melton has directed more live-action 3-D films than anyone and is slated to direct the upcoming (2012 release) feature film GODZILLA 3D for Warner Bros. His 70mm James Bond simulation film, LICENSED TO THRILL, is the most complex live-action simulation film ever created. It includes motorcycle chases, train-top fights, exploding helicopters, skydiving and jet skiing. His MYSTIC INDIA, narrated by Peter O’Toole, is so good Sony is using it to showcase the quality of their 4k digital projectors. His CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: JOURNEY OF MAN, narrated by Ian McKellen, won Best Film from the Giant Screen Theater Association. He experiments with the boundaries of the movie experience with such films as ADVENTURES IN AUDIANA, an adventure into the land of music created for Panasonic, and SENSORIUM with unique opticals, surround-sound and interactive scents released in sync with the picture. Mr. Melton is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science (A.M.P.A.S.) and The Giant Screen Cinema Association.
Ray Taliaferro and his golden voice have literally owned the San Francisco Bay Area's overnight radio listening audience since 1986 when his KGO NEWSTALK AM 810 talk show moved to the 1 to 5 a.m. time slot. Ray, who joined KGO Radio in 1977, has been in broadcasting for nearly 30 years. He started in talk radio in 1967 at San Francisco's KNEW. Shortly thereafter, he also got into television, commuting every day to Burbank to host a show on KHJ-TV before accepting a news anchor position at San Francisco's KRON-TV. When Ray joined KGO Radio, he also co-hosted KGO-TV's AM Weekend program. Ray was the first black talk show host on a major market radio station in the country. He helped found the National Association of Black Journalists in 1975, and was honored by the San Francisco Black Chamber of Commerce in 1994 with the Black Chamber Life Award, recognizing him as a "forerunner in broadcasting." Broadcasting is just one part of Ray Taliaferro's life. Among his many achievements, Ray served as president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP and the Frederick Douglas Symposium. Because of his tremendous efforts to help raise money for leukemia research, he was named board president of the Northern California Chapter of the Leukemia Society of America for 1995-2000. He was the Mayor's Commissioner of the War Memorial Trustee Board from 1992-2000, and he headed up the San Francisco Art Commission for 16 years.
A Commissioner on the San Francisco Film Commission, Debbie has thirty years of experience with all facets of motion picture and video production and has held a producing role on more than 30 films. From conception, script breakdown and budgets, through production, post and distribution, Debbie is a seasoned producer in the world of “indie” feature films and 'godmother' of the San Francisco Bay Area independent movie arena. Debbie practices the "Ten P-s" - Perfect Pre- Production Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance in Post-Production! As a result, of the myriad films she has worked on, none have ever gone over budget. Her combination of experience, connections, and affability make her the perfect co-producer for Napa Valley 3Dreams.
A collection of innovative companies and divisions that offer award-winning creative services to the major motion picture studios, independent filmmakers, television studios and production companies, Kerner specializes in the conception, development, and production of practical special effects and emerging 3D technologies. Kerner was originally the practical effects and camera engineering departments of George Lucas’ world renowned Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). In 2006, after relocating ILM’s digital effects team from the Kerner campus, Lucas sold the Kerner-based divisions in a management-led buyout that would allow the new Kerner team to branch out and create its own destiny. Today, the group is comprised of a number of exciting creative companies and divisions uniquely positioned to move Kerner's 30-year legacy even further into the 21st Century. Located in San Rafael, just north of San Francisco, the studio provides world-class production technology and experience only an hour from Napa Valley.
Discovered after an extensive search by Director Francis Ford Coppola, Mr. Milaimare is rapidly establishing himself as one of the world’s foremost cinematographers. Born and raised in Romania, Mr. Coppola brought him to the United States and has worked with him on his two most recent films: YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH, a film for which Mr. Milaimare won an Independent Spirit Award as Best Cinematographer, and TETRO, the film Mr. Coppola describes as his most personal. Both of these films are filled with images of haunting beauty and stylized spectacle that live long in memory. A Napa Valley resident, Mr. Milaimare will capture the heart of this Valley as no one else can.
Harry Miller has edited fifteen feature films and seventeen series, mini-series and movies-of-the-week for television, including: DUNE; FLATLAND; and CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL. Mr. Miller has also edited a number of Giant Screen and Live-Action 3-D documentary films, such as: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: JOURNEY OF MAN; MYSTIC INDIA; and MUMMIES 3D: SECRETS OF THE PHAROAHS.
Wendy Kutzner is in charge of the bank account so it’s important to know she has worked as Production Coordinator, Manager, or Supervisor or as an Accountant on films as wide-ranging as THE ISLAND, CHARLIE’S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE, SPANGLISH and GODS AND MONSTERS.
Maestro Raboy has been the Music Director/Conductor of the Napa Valley Symphony since 1990. Under Mr. Raboy’s baton, the Symphony has taken its place as one of the premiere North Bay Area symphony orchestras. Mr. Raboy is also an accomplished Music Director/Conductor for musical theater, having earned five prestigious Dean Goodman Awards for musical direction.
The Film and Television Degree Program at Pacific Union College (PUC), the only Film Program in Napa Valley, offers a conservatory-style education built around a belief in the power of learning by doing, especially when students can learn by working alongside professionals in the Film and Television industry. NAPA VALLEY 3Dreams will be the second production enabling students and professionals to work together. RAINBOW PARK, the first production to bring to together PUC students and experienced professionals, is a half-hour animated kid’s television series using stories and songs to teach simple life lessons, such as the importance of taking out the trash. The pilot for RAINBOW PARK is currently in production. Students are animating the series and nationally known voice-over actors are creating the character voices. Many PUC students have been placed as interns with such highly respected production companies as Zoetrope and DreamWorks Animation.
Bianca Bezdek-Goodloe is a U.S. and European Union registered attorney. Having worked at the top global and magic circle law firms Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP and Linklaters (in Prague, Berlin and London), Ms. Bezdek has years of experience in film finance, intellectual property, corporate, finance and entertainment law. She has also worked in development at Mandalay Pictures (New York), production at Stilking Productions (Prague), and talent representation at Empire Entertainment Inc. (New York).
During her tenure as a film finance attorney, Ms. Bezdek’s past clients have included Paramount, New Line, Universal, Miramax, Warner Bros. and Endemol, for whom she has collaborated on the advisement of the structuring and allocation of over 1 billion U.S. dollars in international feature film private equity investment into films including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Core, The Fighting Temptations, Marci X, Looney Tunes Back in Action!, Malibu's Most Wanted, Paycheck, among others.
Bezdek has been a name partner in two boutique entertainment law firms, has been one of the three founding members of Global Media Capital, the predecessor of Grand Army Entertainment, both media production tax incentives financing companies who are responsible for the investment of over $500 million U.S into independent feature films by an institutional investor. She is also an adjunct professor of film finance at University California Los Angeles and New York University. She is a graduate of New York University (BS) and New York Law School (JD).