KEVIN ALLEN
PHILIP ROSE
SACHA GERVASI
SEAMUS McGARVEY, B.S.C.
JOSEPH HODGES
CHRIS PEPPE
MARK THOMAS

KEVIN ALLEN (Director / Executive Producer), actor / writer / producer / director, made his feature film directing/screenwriting debut with 1997's "Twin Town" (produced by Andrew MacDonald and Danny Boyle of "Trainspotting"), which screened in official competition at the Berlin Film Festival and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film garnered Allen BAFTA CYMRU Award nominations for Best Director, Best Film and Best Screenplay.

Allen traveled the world with his family until the age of eight, when his father left the Royal Navy and settled in Wales. At the age of 18, Allen attended theatre school in London and established himself as an actor. He went on to appear in productions of "Prayer for Wings" (directed by Joan Plowright), "Howard Branton’s "Berlin Bertie" (directed by Danny Boyle and also starring Diana Rigg) and "Silly Cow" (starring with Dawn French).

On British television, Allen has appeared in several award-winning comedies, including "Absolutely Fabulous," "French and Saunders," "Bottom," several episodes of "Comic Strip Presents" and Ben Elton’s police comedy, "Thin Blue Line." He also presented his own weekly BBC football magazine program, as well as creating several award-winning documentaries such as "World Cup Hellas," "On the March with Bobby’s Army" (BAFTA nominated) and "Rotten to the Core" (which inspired his first feature film). Allen is currently working on several feature scripts, including "RV" (a murder/mystery on Viagra), "Shamberg’s God" (an exposé on American television evangelist fraud) and "Cold Caller" (a black comedy about New York telemarketers).

PHILIP ROSE (Producer) has worked in many facets of television and film production. Rose has created numerous television commercials for such Fortune 500 companies as American Express, United Airlines, Miller Beer and Coca-Cola. He next segued to features, working with John Dahl on the indie hit "Red Rock West," starring Nicolas Cage and Dennis Hopper. His other feature credits include "Just Looking" (a comedy starring James Le Gros) and "The Spanish Judges" (a quirky film noir starring Vincent D'Onofrio). Other talents with whom he has worked include David Kellogg, John Singleton, David Fincher and Michael Bay.

SACHA GERVASI (Co-Writer / Executive Producer) earned a degree in modern history from King's College, London before turning down a fellowship to Harvard in order to tour the United States with Canadian heavy metal power trio, Anvil. (Of Gervasi's playing, Kerrang! magazine, Britain's hard rock bible, could only comment, "He is probably one of the loudest and indeed worst rock drummers in Western Christendom.") Gervasi co-founded alternative rock group Bush before leaving to work for British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes; he subsequently became a journalist and writer. His articles have appeared in The London Sunday Times, The Observer and Punch. In 1994, he was appointed film editor of The Modern Review.

That same year he came to Los Angeles and attended the graduate screenwriting program at UCLA Film School, where he was twice the winner of the BAFTA/LA scholarship. He has just completed writing the story of Who drummer Keith Moon, again for Warner Bros.

Irish-born SEAMUS McGARVEY, B.S.C. (Director of Photography) has several upcoming features on which he served as cinematographer: Stephen Frears' "High Fidelity" (starring John Cusack in a script co-written by Cusack), the British film "Honest" and the American motion picture version of Jane Hamilton's acclaimed novel "A Map of the World" (starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore). His additional feature cinematography credits include the British films "The War Zone," "The Slab Boys," "The Winter Guest," "Butterfly Kiss" and "Look Me in the Eye" and the British short "Flying Saucer Rock Ôn' Roll." He also served as cinematographer on the South African feature "Jump the Gun" and the German-made "Harald."

JOSEPH HODGES (Production Designer) served as art director on the recent feature films "Living Out Loud," "Rocket Man" and "Kiss the Girls." He also assistant art directed "Virtuosity" and "Tank Girl." Hodges also served as set designer on "Apollo 13," "Disclosure," "True Lies," "Maverick," "The Shawshank Redemption," "Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’" (as senior set designer) and "Hook." He also worked as set designer on the telefeature "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary."

CHRIS PEPPE (Editor) worked in London as an assistant director / assistant editor before moving to Australia. While there, he served as editor on "Young Einstein" and "Crocodile Dundee II" before relocating to Los Angeles. Since moving to the United States, Peppe has edited feature film and television projects for directors Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, Ridley Scott, Roger Avary, Charles Roven, Phil Joanou and Suzanne and Jennifer Todd.

Most recently he edited "Suicide Kings," starring Christopher Walken and Denis Leary, and the upcoming "Boiler Room," starring Ben Affleck and Giovanni Ribisi.

MARK THOMAS (Composer) previously collaborated with director Kevin Allen, scoring his feature, "Twin Town." His additional feature film scoring credits include Australia’s "Up ‘n’ Under," England’s "The Sea Change" and "Wild Justice," the Welsh-made "Y Mapiwr" and the United States’ "Trauma." His television scoring credits include the British telefeatures "Daisies in December" and "The Marshal."