Salvador Paniagua
Writer/Director
Salvador Paniagua is an award winning filmmaker whose work has been recognized by Ford Motor Company and Disney. He was a finalist for the 2008 Walt Disney Studios Feature Writing Fellowship Program. In 2006, he received a grant from the Mercury Latino Lens Challenge to shoot Los Tamales, a comedic and warm-hearted story about a sever year-old boy's trek across the neighborhood to run an errand for his mother.
Paniagua recently participated in Film Independent's Project:Involve Writer/Director fellowship. He was also a participant in the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) Latino Writers Lab where he developed his feature film Stealing Dreams with mentor Chip Diggins (Sex and Breakfast).
Paniagua worked as a Director's Apprentice on Alan Jacob's film Por Vida, a story about a day in the life of a talented freshmen writer from Locke High School. The film features Danny Glover, Elizabeth Pena, Derek Luke, and Snoop Dog. It recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Paniagua has also worked as a production coordinator on music videos that aired on MTV and BET. In addition to film production, Paniagua edited the first ever American Spanish Language Hip-Hop magazine before becoming managing editor of Rap Pages Magazine - an internationally distributed Hip-Hop lifestyle magazine.
Paniagua recently participated in Film Independent's Project:Involve Writer/Director fellowship. He was also a participant in the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) Latino Writers Lab where he developed his feature film Stealing Dreams with mentor Chip Diggins (Sex and Breakfast).
Paniagua worked as a Director's Apprentice on Alan Jacob's film Por Vida, a story about a day in the life of a talented freshmen writer from Locke High School. The film features Danny Glover, Elizabeth Pena, Derek Luke, and Snoop Dog. It recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Paniagua has also worked as a production coordinator on music videos that aired on MTV and BET. In addition to film production, Paniagua edited the first ever American Spanish Language Hip-Hop magazine before becoming managing editor of Rap Pages Magazine - an internationally distributed Hip-Hop lifestyle magazine.
Daniel Herman
Director of Photography
A Michigan native, Daniel works in a variety of genres and is driven to shoot compelling projects, bringing out the best in his collaborative storytellers. His knowledge and experience with film and HD formats has contributed to a number of documentary and narrative projects, music videos, and commercials – many of which have won awards in festivals across the country. Daniel's still photography is inspired by the diverse people and world around him. He began his training in Chicago and later received his MFA in cinematography from the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles, where he currently resides.
Cleveland Buckner
Editor/Associate Producer
Cleveland Buckner has collaborated with Salvador Paniagua on several projects, including Los Tamales. He served as editor on numerous short subject films, [edit] and the Tartort-Eifel Crime Festival prize winning American Night. [edit] His work extends to music videos, documentaries, corporate and educational videos and the promotional video Bear Witness for the 2000 Olympics U.S. Beach Volleyball tandem Annett Davis and Jenny Johnson-Jordan. [edit] Cleveland attended Jackson State University in Mississippi where he studied drawing and painting.
Tim Riley
Composer
Tim Riley has been writing music for film and tv in Los Angeles for the past 7 years. He has scored numerous shorts including festival-winner Space Available, as well as the feature The Wednesday Night Save the World Society. His music has appeared in numerous network and cable tv shows including Survivor, The Apprentice, The Contender, and many others. And his credits include a co-composer role on Discovery Channel’s Surgery Saved My Life. His formal music studies began at Mississippi College and continued more recently with an MM degree in film music composition from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2002.