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William J. Meyer | Director (“The House That Jack Built”)

William J. Meyer has been making short films ever since the 1980s, when he and his younger brother ran through a Wisconsin forest toting a gargantuan VHS camcorder. He first fell in love with cinema when a montage of clips from the films of Akira Kurosawa aired on the Academy Awards.

William directed “The House That Jack Built” when an eye toward DIY visual effects. Incorporating video, photography, and computer-generated images, his final composites merged the real and the unreal to create a modern-day faerie tale-horror-romance.

Ben Wydeven | Director/Writer/Producer/Editor (“The Medium”)

Ben Wydeven has been writing, directing his own movies since he was 16. He began taking his filmmaking pursuits more seriously while attending college at the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point where he earned a bachelors degree in Communications.

Ben’s latest film, a horror thriller entitled The Medium has won several awards including Best of Horror (Wildwood Film Festival) and Best Short (WYOU Film Festival, 2008). Ben recently shot and edited The Zombeatles: All You Need is Brains. He gave acting a shot with a short HD comedy called The Pick Up Line which he also wrote and edited. Ben currently lives in Madison.

Doug Gordon | Director/Writer (“Zombeatles”)

Doug Gordon is originally from Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Armed with a BFA degree in Creative Writing and a Creative Communications diploma, he’s done his best to make public radio more creative and entertaining throughout North America.

In the This Canadian Existence episode of his critically-acclaimed special radio series, New Audio Showroom, Gordon tried to answer the provocative question, “Are Canadians just Americans who carry hockey sticks instead of guns, or is there more to it than that?”

Gordon has also acted in such Winnipeg Film Group independent productions as The Exquisite Corpse and he played the title characteran adaptation of Franz Kafka’s classic short story, The Hunger Artist. Unfortunately, the craft services on this production left a lot to be desired.