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Andrew Molina was born in New York City. His family later relocated to Bogotá, Colombia where he attended the prestigious Catholic School Colegio San Carlos. He excelled academically with outstanding skills in theatre and art. Upon graduation, Andrew attended Chapman University. In 1999, he graduated with Departmental Honors from Chapman University Film School with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Film and TV production.

At the age of twenty one, prior to graduating from Chapman University Andrew produced the feature film Double Down, starring Jason Priestley from Beverly Hills 90210 and David Proval from The Sopranos (HBO) and Mean Streets (1973). In the year 2000, Double Down was picked up by Lions Gate Films for domestic distribution. Andrew then produced the film Sex and a Girl, starring Academy Award Nominee(r) Geneviève Bujold, Robert Hays from Airplane! (1980), and Danny Masterson from That 70's Show (TV). Sex and a Girl opened and premiered at the 2001 Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Andrew has produced music videos including Más Tequila, and Things've Changed for rock icon Sammy Hagar (Van Halen). His extensive producing experience is surrounded by directorial work on TV commercials, music videos and TV shows. In the summer of 2000, he directed extreme sports TV shows for ESPN Japan.

In 2001 Andrew Directed and Produced the film Emerald Cowboy. Shot in Colombia, the film is his strongest visual work to date, based on his experiences combined with his stylistic camera proficiency and his approach to editing.

The cinematographic collaboration between Andrew Molina and Director of Photography Byron Werner was recognized by Kodak with a feature story in Kodak In Camera Magazine that reviewed the shooting of the film and the artistic choices made in the cinematography.

In 2002 Andrew reunited with Sammy Hagar to produce his feature documentary Long Road to Cabo. In September of 2003, the film was released theatrically and on DVD.

In 2004 Andrew produced the film Sumas y Restas, by renowned director Victor Gaviria Rodrigo D (1992), and The Flower Seller (1998), both Cannes Film Festival contenders. Sumas y Restas was invited to premiere at the San Sebastián Film Festival in Spain in October of 2004. It was also selected for the 2004 Rio de Janeiro Film Festival.

In 2005 Andrew will Direct Sangre de Toro, a film about a man unraveling the cultural underground in Colombia, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

H i r o k o  P a t r i c i a  H a y a t a
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Hiroko Patricia Hayata was born in Miami, Florida. She moved throughout the United States and Latin America during her childhood eventually settling in Tokyo where she graduated from St. Joseph's International Academy and completed her undergraduate studies at Temple University of Japan. Internationally raised and of multi-ethnic background, Hiroko is trilingual and considers her diverse cultural roots equally American, Japanese and Latin American.

Hiroko began her career as a DJ for the music giant HMV in Tokyo, Japan. She climbed her way up to Head DJ and VJ for HMV Japan. Collaborating with names like Warner Music and BMG, her involvement in the industry evolved beyond the DJ booth to include both producing and songwriting. Her skills led to music consulting on award-winning advertising campaigns for companies like Coca-Cola, Konami and Formula One. More recently Hiroko produced and co-wrote “United”, the R&B inspired theme song for the United Nations’ Youth for Human Rights.

Additionally, Hiroko maintained a successful modeling career during her time in Tokyo. She modeled for brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Levi’s, and regularly appeared on covers and within leading magazines. Hiroko was spokesmodel for ScubaPro Asia and appeared in major TV commercials for names like Shiseido, Toyota and AU Global Communications.

In 2001 Hiroko relocated to Los Angeles to work behind the cameras in film.

B y r o n   W e r n e r
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Byron Werner grew up in Northern California and from an early age, knew exactly what he wanted to do. As early as middle school he learned how to use the closed circuit television, video cameras and editing equipment. While in middle school, he wrote, directed and shot short stories and at the young age of 13, Byron decided he wanted to be a director of photography. He lived to operate the camera, pick the angles and all the other things directors of photography do.

After middle school, Byron went to Junipero Serra High School, where, as a freshman, the head of the video department appointed him the head of the video yearbook. Anytime he didn't have his nose in the books or wasn't playing one of many sports, he spent his time shooting video for the yearbook. Concurrently, Byron and his friends spent any remaining free time making home movies. He shot with his hi-8 video camera and edited using 2 VCRs. His lucky break came his junior year when he obtained an internship with Sega of America. He was a 17-year-old kid testing and making video games for the biggest and best video game brand. For someone like Byron, a more perfect opportunity could not have come along.

Byron gained invaluable experience on his first game, Jurassic Park, assisting with shooting blue screen, editing sequences for the game, supervising the Cinepak compression process and many other duties. Byron impressed his superiors and was put solely in charge of video for the game Joe Montana Football.

With an abundant amount of experience under his belt for his age, Byron went on to attend college at the prestigious Chapman University, where he was introduced to cinematography. Taking this new-found goal very seriously, he shot many films in college including his first feature film, Just Add Love starring Wendi Malick from NBC's Just Shoot Me. He earned the Best Cinematography award his junior year and the Einstein Award (award to the top film student of the year) his senior year. Byron graduated Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors with a BFA in Film and Television.

Byron has since photographed over 100 narrative films and numerous commercials, music videos, corporate videos, and industrials.

Recent productions include the feature Seizing Me; Starkweather, based on 50's Spree Killer Charlie Starkweather; the Zombie Horror film Death Valley: The Legend of Bloody Bill; Mind's Eye, shot on location in Oklahoma City; and Commercials for Cabo Wabo Tequila.

Byron has experience with blue and green screen, miniatures, aerial and underwater photography, and HiDef. Byron's Television experience includes shooting for ESPN, Fox Sports, MTV and other networks.

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Joe Kraemer studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he was awarded for both film composing and songwriting. After graduating with a degree in Film Scoring, he moved to Los Angeles to begin writing for film professionally.

He scored his first feature film in 1995, after penning music for the television series Land's End, and contributing a song to the MGM/Rysher film Kingpin. He has continued to score films, working on such projects as The Way of the Gun, The Hitcher 2 and Framed. His score for The Way of the Gun was named both "Sleeper Score of the Year 2000" and runner-up for "Best Score of the Year 2000" by Video Watchdog Magazine. Music from the Movies.com voted him "Film Music Newcomer of the Year 2000" in their annual poll, and Film Score Monthly.com named it one of the top five scores of 2000.

Other projects include The Underworld, written by Christopher McQuarrie, Burn, winner of the Special Jury Prize at Slamdance 1998, produced by Bryan Singer and David Hayter of The X-Men, We Married Margo, written and directed by J.D. Shapiro, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, and the symphonic piece An American Childhood: A Tone Poem For Piano And Orchestra.

Joe has collaborated with directors Chris McQuarrie, Bryan Singer, The Farrelly Brothers, Diane Keaton, Richard Benjamin, Louis Morneau, Daniel Petrie, Jr., Rod Holcomb, The Russo Brothers and Charles Russell. He has also worked with film composers John Ottman, Marco Beltrami, Andrew Gross, and Freedy Johnston.

As a singer/songwriter, Joe performs in Los Angeles and has released "joe kraemer," an album of original songs. He has produced recordings for artists Dylan Kussman, Lisa Donahey, and Valerie Peterson.