Paulina Shagun
ACTOR / PRODUCER / EDUCATOR

Paulina is an actor writer and educator. Her work draws from her Mexican and Chicano theater experience. She has toured extensively throughout Mexico and the U.S. with Mexican Theatrical Groups Los Mascarones and Grupo Zero. Ms. Sahagun was the founding member of Grupo Zero. Both these theater groups were influential within the Chicano Theater experience within the U.S. She has performed, studied and worked with Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino. In 1998 she was awarded the Gateways Intitiative by the Rockefeller Foundation to create a multi-disciplinary, bi-national theatrical production with Mexican and Chicano artists. The bi-national theatrical production was produced by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas. Ms. Sahagun has worked and performed extensively with this premiere Latino Arts Center. She has been an artist in residence at the Center for Intercultural Performance at UCLA in 1997 and 1999.

At the Mark Taper Forum she performed for the Virtual Theater Series and for the Latino Theater Initiative. Her independent arts and movie credits include “The Blind Owl”, directed by Reza Abdoh, Guinevere directed by Audrey Wells and video/photographic works by Henry Gamboa. Ms. Sahagun tours nationally and locally with Great Leap, a multicultural performing arts company. With Great Leap Ms. Sahagun conducts theater workshops, arts residencies and tours of the Los Angeles Unified School District through the Music Center On Tour Program. She is a graduate of the Dell Arte’ School of Physical Theater and has received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Dept. of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. Ms. Sahagun teaches part-time at UCLA Chicana and Chicano Studies department and Ceasar E. Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction.

Michael W. Barnard
FILM-MAKER / ARTIST

Michael Barnard has been making films, artworks, and music for over thirty years. He most recently was Director of Photography for the independent comedy feature "Chasing Robert", and produced & photographed 2nd unit / main title footage for Disney Channel's "Tiger Cruise" as well as Sony's Jackie Chan movie "The Medallion". He also co-produced, photographed, and co-edited "Cries Of Silence", an award-winning independent feature (Best Picture - 1998 Giffoni Int'l Festival) - which stars Kathleen York, Karen Black and Ed Nelson. The award-winning feature-length documentary "Chihuly River of Glass" (produced, directed, photographed and edited) has been recently airing on the Sundance Channel. He has also created a series of photographic montage artworks called Photofields. These works have been assembled from Banard’s personal archive of images that has been collected over the past thirty years from around the world. Michael’s Photofields have been exhibited extensively over the last few years and can be currently found online at www.photofields.com.

His film works have included a series of early experimental "FieldFilms" in the 1960's and early 70's,(shown at Millennium in New York and many other venues around the U.S.), a series of educational films for an international non-profit organization during the 70's, and since coming to Los Angeles in 1978, a wide variety of films ranging from the Greenpeace film "Voyage of the Peacock", to the features "Nights In White Satin" (Director), "Against The Wind" (Writer), "The Invisible Kid" (Director of Photography), "Cries of Silence" (Co-Producer/Director of Photography) "The Outermost Place" (Writer), "The Transfiguration of Fast Eddie Rose" (Writer), as well as numerous music videos, commercials and documentaries. BoltPIX has been in existence since 1979 and produces commercials, documentaries, corporate films and Title/FX/Graphics sequences for movies, commercials and corporate films.

Barry Shabaka Henley
ACTOR / PRODUCER

Barry Shabaka Henley is an American character actor born in New Orleans. Henley has starred in many films, most often the films of director Michael Mann, having worked with the director four times. Henley had the part of Herbert Muhammed in Ali. In Collateral he made an impression as a sensitive jazz musician living on borrowed time. In Miami Vice, Henley takes on the role previously played by Ed- ward James Olmos as superior officer, Lt. Martin Castillo. He also appeared in several television shows such as Close To Home, Grey’s Anatomy, Barbershop, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Robbery Homicide Division, Providence, Crossing Jordan and many notable series within the past decade. Henley has performed in many genres, mainly comedy, drama, and thrillers. As a stage actor, Henley's honors include the Drama Desk, Obie, and Olivier Awards. He was also a member of the West Coast Black Repertory Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe.