Tom Nunan

Tom Nunan is best known as founder and partner of Bull’s Eye Entertainment, a mid-sized independent film and television production company in Los Angeles. During his oversight as a partner in Bull's Eye, Nunan has generated a television and film slate of more than 50 projects, including creating a strategic alliance with Sony Pictures TV. Nunan and his partners achieved worldwide fame and success as producers of the Academy Award-winning Crash, which was named Best Picture in 2006, as well as other beloved titles including The Illusionist, Thumbsucker and Employee of the Month. Nunan also supervised the creation and production of many high-profile television projects such as the Starz cable network series adaptation of Crash, the Lifetime series Angela's Eyes and the CBS comedies All Grown Up and The Papdits.

Prior to forming Bull's Eye, Nunan was president of the United Paramount Network (UPN) now known as The CW. Nunan grew the network from two nights a week to its present schedule of six nights and had oversight of many departments including development & programming, scheduling, marketing and business affairs, and had a “dotted line” oversight of affiliates and sales. Nunan supervised more than 70 employees in the Los Angeles-based national headquarters, but also consulted and helped supervise the local programming efforts of many major market stations that comprised the UPN web of stations. Nunan's accomplishments as president of UPN included building successful “event night” programming: a highly rated African-American skewing Monday night; a female teen-drama skewing Tuesday night; a science-fiction based programming grid on Wednesdays; a hugely successful WWE franchise on Thursdays; an original movie night on Fridays; and a mix of younger-skewing comedies and event dramas on Sundays.

To run a network such as UPN successfully, it must include the delicate integration of all departments. Nunan's experiences as the president of NBC Studios perfectly prepared him for the task. While in charge, he grew the tiniest vertically integrated production companies into NBC's largest suppliers of programming, and oversaw a budget of more than $80 million in development costs, which led to the production of some of NBC's most cherished programs including Will & Grace, Profiler, The Pretender and even the CBS hit The King of Queens, which was generated at NBC Studios. Nunan oversaw a staff of more than 45 employees, ranging from business affairs and development to production and marketing. NBC was the No. 1 network at the time and Nunan was surrounded by some of TV's most enduring and successful executives including Don Ohlmeyer, Warren Littlefield, Steve McPherson, Jamie Tarses, Kevin Reilly and David Nevins, among others. Many on this team went on to run other networks and studios, as Nunan did UPN.

NBC’s initial interest in Nunan stemmed from the work he did helping to expand The Fox Broadcasting Company from a two-night-a-week to a seven-night-a-week service. While at Fox, he ran its enormously successful comedy department — leading the way with shows such as The Ben Stiller Show, Martin, Living Single, In Living Color, Mad TV and Flying Blind. His success as a comedy executive ultimately led to him overseeing all of Fox's primetime — including reality, comedy, drama and late night.

Prior to successfully running longform development and production for Jerry Weintraub, Chuck Fries and the Guber/Peters Company, Nunan began his network-programming career as the vice president in charge of movies at ABC.

A graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Nunan is now a member of the School's steering committee and teaches annually in its Graduate Producers Program. He is the former president of the Hollywood Radio & TV Society and is currently chairman of the Joyful Heart Foundation, created and founded by Emmy- and Golden Globe-award winning actress Mariska Hargitay.

Rodney Barnes

Award-winning screenwriter and producer Rodney Barnes is currently Executive Producer for HBO's Showtime series, which chronicles the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Showtime Lakers, and also Showrunner/Writer/Creator of Things That Make White People Uncomfortable at HBO Max. Mr. Barnes' versatile voice has not only brought authenticity, but also success to a long list of projects, including Wu-Tang: An American Saga, The Boondocks, Everybody Hates Chris, American Gods and Runaways. He will next tackle a mini-series based on the life of golf icon, Tiger Woods, and he has also formed Zombie Love Studios, a graphic novel production studio that will both adapt and create original graphic novels published through his publishing company, Amazing Comics Publishing. Currently, he writes Killadelphia for Image Comics and is scheduled to release three new titles through Image Comics in the Spring of 2021.

Kimberly Ann Harrison

Kimberly Ann Harrison is a Showrunner, Writer and Producer with multiple broadcast television credits, including the FOX hit, STAR. As a Showrunner, Kimberly Ann Harrison has her hands in all aspects of making a television series. Her first step in realizing her TV dreams was taking Tammy Trujillo’s broadcasting class at Mt. SAC. After beginning her career as an assistant on Friends, she spent eight seasons working on the acclaimed fan-favorite, Criminal Minds. Kimberly later joined Lee Daniels co-creating, STAR; writing the most episodes throughout the span of the series. Following the show's success, she spent a year showrunning the procedural drama Deputy for Fox Television and shortly after, created the show Trap Queens for BET, a spinoff of the Network's successful anthology series Tales. Mrs. Harrison is currently an Executive Producer on the hit CBS legal drama All Rise, while developing multiple projects through her production company Based on a True Story. Her latest projects include the feature film That Girl On a Train, currently being developed with Escape Artists and the explosive coast guard procedural Interceptor, written for Fox Television. Together with her sister Erika, Kimberly is part of an organization of black female TV writers called Black Women Who Brunch (BWB) which aims to be a practical support and career network for other Black women working in the industry.

Stephen McFeely

Screenwriter and Producer behind some of world's most successful and enduring films, including Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: First Avenger, and Thor: The Dark World, as well as all three Chronicles of Narnia films and The Gray Man, now shooting for Netflix. Mr. McFeely also fosters a strong voice in television ,writing and executive producing the series Agent Carter, and he won an Emmy Award for HBO's The Life and death of Peter Sellers.

Sheila Hanahan Taylor

Sheila Hanahan Taylor founded Practical Pictures in 2004 with Craig Perry. Past projects include Universal's American Pie franchise; New Line Cinema's Final Destination franchise; Warner Bros’ Cats & Dogs franchise; Universal’s Breaking In; Village Roadshow’s Oddball; Sony Pictures’ Little Black Book and The Big Hit; and Helkon Media's RepliKate. Worldwide, they have grossed over $2 billion at the box office. Upcoming projects include a sixth installment in the Final Destination franchise; horror film Sisters of Samhain, in partnership with Bloody Disgusting and Grade A Entertainment; and the high-tech thriller Entry Level, in partnership with Culmination Films and 13 Films.

Erika Harrison

Erika Harrison is a successful Television Writer and Producer, and a Mt.SAC alumnus. Born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Erika developed a passion for TV storytelling while attending Mt. SAC. It was here that she received a hands-on, comprehensive education that would prepare her for the entertainment industry. Her career in television began soon after graduating from Mt. SAC when she landed an internship on the sitcom Friends. After a year in the comedy world, she moved on to the show Third Watch, where she found her love for writing drama. She continued working on TV shows including Gilmore Girls, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, and Crossing Lines. Erika then spent five seasons writing and producing the ABC drama How to Get Away With Murder. She is currently a writer and co-executive producer on the CW hit, Nancy Drew. Together with her sister Kimberly, Erika is part of a network of black female TV writers called Black Women Who Brunch (BWB) which aims to be a concrete force of support for other Black women writers in the industry.

Zack Stentz

A screenwriter & producer, Zack has co-written Marvel blockbusters Thor & X-Men: First Class as well as original movies such as Rim of the World, written & produced over 100 hours of television including The Flash, Fringe, & Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, & created Netflix’s current animated hit Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. Zack also co-authored the acclaimed young adult novel Colin Fischer and teaches screenwriting techniques at venues from Sony Animation in Culver City to Wanda Studios in Beijing to the Nepal International Film Festival in Kathmandu.

Augie Max Vargas

Augie Max Vargas is an Emmy Award winning Television Producer with over 30 major credits ranging from The Oscars to The Disney Holiday Singalong. He is also an alumnus of Mt. SAC. After his education at Mt. SAC, Augie Max Vargas, a first-generation Filipino-American, began his career in Television Production. Starting from the very bottom of the ladder as a Production Assistant, running errands like picking up food and dry cleaning for producers while working on The Oscars. His over 20-year career features credits including The Grammys, Kids' Choice Awards and the Super Bowl Halftime Show, working with legends like Beyonce, Paul McCartney and Prince. Augie climbed his way up, learning from the best in the industry, and eventually claiming the most coveted prize in TV, a Primetime Emmy award, as a Producer on The Oscars: All Access.

Rafael Agustin

Rafael Agustin is a Writer/Producer/Performer and Mt.SAC alumnus whose work has won awards for advancement of social justice in the arts. He was a writer on the award-winning The CW show, Jane The Virgin. He is a Sundance Fellow for his TV family comedy, Illegal, based on his life as a formerly undocumented American. Rafael co-created and co-starred in the national touring, award-winning autobiographical comedy, N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk, which received acclaim from the LA Times, New York Times, Denver Post, and won awards for its advancement of social justice in the arts. Rafael currently serves as Executive Director of the Latino Film Institute (LFI), where he oversees the Youth Cinema Project, their statewide project based learning educational film program, and the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF). In 2018, the LA Weekly named Rafael one of the fifty most essential people in Los Angeles. Also in 2018, the United Nations invited Rafael to speak at their 70th Anniversary Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Rafael is currently writing his comedic memoir for Grand Central Publishing with the same Executive Editor that did Mindy Kaling and Amy Schumer’s memoirs.

After transferring from Mt. San Antonio College, Rafael received his BA and MA from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television, and is an alumnus of the CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase.

Luke Flowers

Luke has illustrated more than sixty children’s books. Most notably, the New York Times Best-seller “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” poems by Fred Rogers, the award-winning “Unicorn Day”, by Diana Murray, and Disney’s “The Muppet Christmas Carol” storybook. He is also both author and illustrator of “Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: A,B,C Storybook” and the “Moby Shinobi” series with Scholastic. The Moby Shinobi book series has sold over a million copies since book #1 was published in 2016.Luke Flowers graduated from RMCAD in 2000. After graduation, he spent 10 years as a designer, illustrator and creative director for Young Life. In 2010 he launched his own studio, Luke Flowers Creative. At that time he began focusing his creative journey on children’s publications. By 2015, Luke Flowers illustrated his first published children’s book with Penguin Random House and the Smithsonian Institute.Luke’s pop-culture themed artwork has been featured more than 50 gallery shows in New York, Los Angeles and various galleries in Colorado.When Luke isn’t illustrating or writing in his creative cave he enjoys puppetry, playing banjo, basketball and outdoor adventures with his family. He lives with his wife and three children in Colorado Springs. Colorado. Learn more about his story, books and art at lukeflowers.com.

Orlando Arocena

Orlando Arocena (Mexifunk) is an artist and graphic designer who works in traditional and digital mediums. After graduating from Pratt Institute in 1994, he drew his way through Europe, co-founded Uptown Arts, and discovered he had a knack for digital commercial communications. In addition to a 20-year track record of delivering creative solutions for some of the world's most recognizable brands he has established himself as a non-conventional vector illustrator who explores cultural iconography, pop culture, and speculative narratives.

His vector art has also been commissioned by Adobe to be the face of their Illustrator CC 2014. And is a recipient of a 2017 Gold Clio Entertainment Award for his 20 title “Dia de los Muertos” Horror dvd take over with Twentieth Century Fox and MGM studios.

In addition to commercial endeavors, he has exhibited his artwork at Miami Art Basel, The New York Armory Show, The U.S Embassy in Prague, The Museum of Western and Eastern Art Odessa Ukraine, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, plus a multitude of official movie / pop-culture gallery events.

He is currently a Global Brand Ambassador for HP’s new creative line up of mobile workstations called ZbyHP.

Orlando Arocena’s studio is based in Bogota, Colombia.

Jay Perez

Jason Perez is a photographer and a tenured faculty member at Mt San Antonio College, specializing in photography and media production through traditional and advanced imaging techniques. His work spans 21 years working in editorial, advertising productions for clients like Travel and Leisure, Conde Nast, INC Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Angeleno Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Netflix, General Electric, Con-Agra, Nabisco, Nordstroms, American Express Publishing, New York Times, Knoff Publishing, Nioxin, Stater Bros, Ralphs, Walt Disney Co., Emmy Magazine.

For the past six years, he has been working with advanced optical and laser scanning cameras to create 3D and 360VR content on international historical protection and preservation projects in the Armenian and Nagrmo-Krabagh regions. His work focuses on sites from the work 5th to 11th-century and Soviet Modernism architecture.

Ryan Carrasco

Ryan Carrasco is an Emmy and LA Press Club award winning Director of Photography and Editor for Anaconda Street Productions . For more than a decade, Ryan has helped guide film and television projects from concept to completion. His credits include LA Stories with Giselle Fernandez, Countdown to the Grammys: A Spectrum News 1 Special, and Hollywood Reimagined (Spectrum News 1); Extra, TMZ, and TMZ Investigates - Tiger King: What Really Went Down (Warner Bros.); Strut (44 Blue Productions); Bad Dog! (Cheri Sundae Productions), and films like The Contractor starring Danny Trejo.

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Marcus Martinez

www.marcusandrewphotography.com

Hello! I’m Marcus Martinez, a commercial photographer/videographer and FPV pilot specializing in Real Estate Photography. It all started in high school when I joined the video production program in my sophomore year and became more invested in all things video editing and learning how to shoot. I came to Mt. SAC in 2009 for a few years and took a long break to figure out what I wanted to do. When I came back I dove head first into the Mt. SAC photography program where I learned a little bit about everything from the technical side of photography to the business side. I am lucky enough now to be running a still growing but successful business in Real Estate Photography where my knowledge in video, photography, and business/client management all comes into play.

Jordan Zoberest

www.jordanzobrist.com

Fashion and advertising photographer based in Los Angeles, Jordan Zobrist specializes in creating print and digital marketing materials for women's fashion, lifestyle, and beauty brands. Working in the industry since 2012, she has developed a distinct style that includes loud colors, unique props, sharp angles, and a whole lot of light. Jordan is an avid educator of fellow photo-takers and loves teaching others how to create their signature style. She believes that every image should say just as much about the artist behind the camera as it does about the subject in front of it.

Trisha Zemp

www.trishazemp.com

Trisha Zemp is a stop motion animator and entrepreneur. She has worked for a diverse group of clients including Warner Brothers, Pepsi, Martha Stewart, Paramount Pictures, Pinterest, Twitter, and more. She loves telling stories, and teaching others the magic of stop motion.

Jose & Lindsay Alvarado

www.joseaalvarado.com/weddings/

We are Jose and Lindsay, husband and wife team, and we are fine art wedding photographers based in Pasadena, CA. Our cameras have taken us to some amazing places; including, Chicago, Utah, Dominican Republic, and Mexico to name a few. Our photography journey began over 12 years ago when we both wanted nicer photos while dating. So we bought our first Canon DSLR together. 6 years ago we started our business and we never looked back. Our work has been featured in Style Me Pretty, Joy Wed, Southern California Bride, The Knot and more.