Edge of Seventeen - ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS/ Picture This! Entertainment starring CHRIS STAFFORD, TINA HOLMES,Written by TODD STEPHENS Directed by DAVID MORETON

David Moreton (PRODUCER/DlRECTOR)
David came to film through the unconvential path of Wall Street. After earning his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, David spent several years working for financial service companies including SEI Corporation and Kidder Peabody and Co.

In 1996 David founded Blue Streak Films. Through this company he has written, produced and directed a short film, Baby Blue, and produced and directed the hour-long documentary Straight Up and Down. David is a native of Salt Lake City and now lives in New York City.

Todd Stephens (PRODUCER/WRITER)
Todd grew up on rollercoasters and ketchup and bologna sandwiches in the Lake Erie "Vacationland" of Sandusky, Ohio. While at NYU, he and partner Michael W olfson wrote, produced and directed the award-winning short films Grampa's Twisted Hand and Thanksgiving.

In 1991 he co-founded Luna Pictures, a production company and Avid post-house devoted to independent film. Edge of Seventeen is based on Todd's coming-out experience and was filmed in his Ohio hometown. He is currently writing a new feature, Gypsy63.

Michael Wolfson (CO-PRODUCER)
Michael is a producer, writer and internet entrpreneur. After meeting Todd Stephens on the first day of NYU Film School, they went on to produce two award-winning shorts and co-founded Luna Pictures. Michael and Todd collaborated to write Count your Children, the first in a horror trilogy set in Ohio.

Karen Jaroneski (ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR)
In 1997 Karen produced the award-winning short Pepper Mills (feddy A ward, 1998 Berlin Film Festival), production managed Above Freezing (directed by Frank Todaro, produced by Dolly Hall), and finished the year with work on Edge. In 1996, she co-produced Ramin Niami's feature Somewhere in the City {Starring Sandra Bemhard) and line produced James Rosenow's Jimmy Crack Corn which was shot on location in Kentucky and Illinois.

A native Ohioan, Karen is a partner in Staccato films, an Amsterdam-based production company which has produced five shorts and seven features since its foundation in 199O, including Buenos Aires Vice Versa, which premiered at Cannes in 1996.

Craig Hobbs Shepherd (LINE PRODUCER)
Craig has served as line producer for the past thre years on such features as Rave -- A Documentary, Spell, De Sirenbus and The Deviants. He has worked in production for both Roger Corman's Concord, New Horizons Pictures and Steve Tisch's Avenue Films. Recently Craig was the UPM and lst Assistant Director on the trailer for Michael Moore's The Big One.

Gina DeGirolamo (DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY)
Gina Has been working her way through the film industry since 19S5. After graduating from Ohio State University with a degree in Communication, she fled to New Y ork City. Gina answered phones for a year and a half before finally getting onto a set where she became greatly inspired by the camera department. In 1998, she relocated to LA, where she began a nine-year career in episodic television. Starting out assisting on Freddy's Nightmares, Gabriel's Fire and Dark Justice, she graduated to camera operator on Dream On, The Client and Murder One. She got her opportunity to move up to Director of Photography in 1996 on the short film The Last Tap Dance. Next came her first feature, Jerome, followed by The Travelling Companion and Edge. Gina is currently working on the HBO comedy series Arliss.

Tal Ben-David (EDITOR)
Tal came to film with a background in photography and writing. Mter attending NYU Film School, she began her career as an editor and has been happy to contribute her skills to a number of projects. For television, Tal has edited a number of programs ranging from "National Geographic" to MTV , as well as several short films. Edge of Seventeen is her first feature.

Ivor Stilin (PRODUCTION DESIGNER)
Since moving to New York two years ago, Ivor has worked in the art departments on six independent films. High Art and Two By Four were both featured in last year's Sundance Film Festival. Born in the midwest, Ivor was able to draw upon his childhood to capture the midwestern middle class aesthetic featured in Edge of Seventeen.

Ane Crabtree (COSTUME DESIGNER)
Ane has designed numerous projects for film, television and commercials, including If Lucy Fell, Stag, No Way Home, The Sopranos, Players and Swift Justice. She became involved with Edge of Seventeen because of her own midwestern experience growing up in Kentucky and Indiana where she was raised by drag queens.

Tom Bailey (COMPOSER)
The Thompson Twins were formed in 1977 in Sheffield, England, by three Chesterfield Grammar school friends -- it wasn't until 19S2, however, after several lineup cJlanges and releases of early material on independent labels, that the band started to make a name for themselves with the release of the Steve Lillywhite-produced album "Set" and the single "In the Name of Love."
The Thompson Twins exploded worldwide with the 19S3 Alex Sadkin-produced album "Side Kicks" which spawned the singles "Lies," "Love on Your Side" and "We Are Detectives." The subsequent 1984 album carried on this tradition with the international hits "Hold Me Now," "Doctor, Doctor," and "You Take Me Up," with repeated success again in 19S5 with "Here's to Future Days" and the singIes "Lay your Hands On Me" and "King for Just One Day."

Fast Forward... 1994. Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie relocate to New Zealand and set up an impressive recording studiosituated two hours north of Auckland. Here, they put down tracks for thier new musical incarnation Babble. The group's debut album "The Stone," gamered several dance hits around the globe and re-established them at the cutting edge of club cuture.

"Ether ," the new album from Babble on reprise records, charts a strange spiritual and-sexual journey that is one of the most imaginitive offerings from Tom and Alannah. With one confirmed Top 10 Billboard dance chart hit, "Love Has No Name," Babble has created a musical experience that is both overwhelming and irresistable.

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