A versatile talent, Dean Jones is a director, writer and makeup FX artist with two Emmy wins for his makeup effects work on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." He currently is in pre production to write and direct the sequel to Tobe Hooper's "The Toolbox Murders" The title is TBK.

Jones was first discovered by director David Lynch while doing makeup effects his film "Blue Velvet." It was Lynch who encouraged him to move to Los Angeles, and since then Jones has worked on over eighty feature films and one hundred television episodes. His influences come from the directors he's worked for such as Tobe Hooper, Steve Minor, Michael Figgis, Sam Mendes, and Dennis Hopper.

Jones began his career in Hollywood with a two-year stint at Roger Corman's New Horizon Studios while moonlighting as a reserve police officer for LAPD. He refined his craft working on a number of small horror films before landing the seven-year run on "Deep Space Nine" that garnered him two Emmy wins and seven nominations.

Jones grew up in a small, rural mill town in North Carolina, experimenting with makeup effects and filmmaking from the time he was a adolescent. He graduated from UNC Greensboro with a BFA in acting/directing, and remains true to his roots, annually producing with his brother North Carolina's "Original Hollywood Horror Show," one of the largest haunted attractions in the United States.

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Michele was executive producer of The Ring and The Ring 2.

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A graduate of UCLA, Richard Gale has written, produced, and directed numerous award-winning films and TV shows, which have won two L.A. Area Emmy Awards, a CableACE Award, and three Emmy nominations. Gale directed and co-wrote the feature film The Proposal, starring Jennifer Esposito, Nick Moran, Stephen Lang and William B. Davis, distributed by Miramax/Dimension Films. He went on to write and direct the suspense thriller Pressure, starring Kerr Smith and Angela Featherstone, distributed by First Look Pictures. His films have received distribution in over 100 countries worldwide.

Recently creating his own production company, Gale created the pulse-pounding horror short film Criticized, soon to be produced by Gale as a feature film, which has been honored with 19 “Best Film” Awards at film festivals around the world, and widely praised by critics. In addition to producing, writing, and directing the film, Gale also served as Director of Photography and Editor. He is a member of the Director’s Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. For more info, visit www.richard-gale.com.

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Al Dickerson began his career as a prop master in the art department on an independent feature for New World Pictures.

He then segued to Roger Corman’s Concorde / New Horizons Studio in Venice California. There he worked and flourished in a variety of production positions giving him first hand, empirical knowledge of the production process. He held positions as a transportation coordinator, location manager, second assistant director, first assistant director and production manager. Al additionally line produced other numerous motion pictures and television series for various film companies up until the mid nineties. Al also worked with Allison Anders on Gas Food Lodging, and George Wang on Swimming with Sharks.

From 1996 - 2001 Al served as Vice President of Production at The Motion icture Bond Company in Los Angeles. His wealth of production and post production experience coupled with his stellar reputation among the creative community helped form the foundation for this, then nascent, Los Angeles completion bond company. He was responsible for the successful completion and delivery of over 100 motion pictures with budgets of up to $60 million, and produced annual revenues in excess of $1 million each year. Al successfully negotiated and coordinated the closing of bonds with key banks, studios, distributors, sales agents and their respective attorneys.

Prior to his current executive producer positions Al was a producer for Larry Levinson Productions where he produced more than twenty five “first run” TV movies for the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime Television and Spike TV.

One of Al's most recent projects, as a Executive Producer, is the feature film "Rogues Gallery" which starred Ving Rhames, Odette Yustman, Ellen Barkin, Maggie Q, and Joe Anderson to name a few.

Al is a member of the Director’s Guild of America. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two children.

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With more than twenty years of motion picture experience working as makeup artist in the film industry Starr Jones has a thorough and extensive background in the horror and Science Fiction genre. He began his makeup career with the famous Indy film producer Roger Corman in Venice, California. With a career expanding over two decades he has worked with such great directors such as James Cameron, Nicholas Myer, Stephan Gyllnehall, Arthur Hiller, and Tobe Hooper.

Having earned his BFA in drama with a concentration in acting he came to Los Angeles in 1989 shortly after graduation. While living and working in Los Angeles he studied and performed at the famed Second City Theatre in Santa Monica, California. He soon established an improvisational group known as The Kidneystone Cops and continues to perform in various venues on the east and west coast.

Over the last 2 decades he has worked on over eighty feature films and numerous television episodes. Some the actors that he has been associated with to name a few are Maggie Gyllnehall, James Earl Jones, Ed Harris, Ellen Burstyn, Karen Allan, Richard Roundtree, John Bon Jovi, Christopher Plumber and Jack Davenport.

With his Horror genre expertise in 1989 he and his brother established and produced one of the nation's largest haunted attractions in Snow Camp, North Carolina. Now in it's 20th season he still continues to produce the show bringing the Hollywood Magic to his home state of North Carolina.

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Los Angeles native Chad Cole began his career assisting film and television producers Gary Goodman and Barry Rosen while earning his BA from the University of California-Berkeley. Post graduation, Cole completed a yearlong stint at Innovative Artists collaborating with noted William Morris television packaging agent Bruce Brown. In 2003, Cole progressed to Evolution Entertainment assisting two-time Emmy Award nominated producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules. In 2005, he earned his first producer credit under the Twisted Pictures banner (SAW franchise) for the Lionsgate feature CATACOMBS. Most recently, Cole produced VLOG, the very first made for the internet feature from Twisted and Break.com, which quickly became the most viewed web series of all time. In addition, Cole produced the recently completed independent film CHAIN LETTER and is currently running development for Twisted Pictures/Evolution Entertainment.

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