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Director: Virginia Bogert 
Bio of a Jersey Girl who wanted to make movies. Born in NYC, raised happily in NJ. High School in Tony Soprano's town. Summers; Jersey shore. Other schools: Ecole Lemania, NYU - BA, MA. Got married. Bought a farm in Vermont, raised goats, vegetables, and a lovely daughter. Was a farmer, chef, painter, quilter, designer. Moved to Seattle to produce, direct, award-winning film for over 20 years. Owns Laughing Dog Pictures, LLC. Shorts: The Delivery, Tootie Pie, Both films screened at Seattle International Film Festival 2006. Documentaries: Pike Place Market: Soul of a City, for public TV (Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, NY Independent Film Festival, Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival), garnered 4 Emmys, etc. Fields of Plenty, (Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, Post Alley Film Festival, Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, included on special features The Meaning of Food DVD.) With a list of countless commercials, documentaries, high end corporate image, TV shows like The Today Show, plus credits as production manager, locations, and coordinator on Hollywood features behind her and Halos, Tellys, and Nells under her belt, including The Spirit of the Nell 2006, Virginia also teaches at Seattle Film Institute and University of Washington, curates Post Alley Film Festival, is VP of Women in Film/Seattle and makes a mean Pasta Puttanesca. |
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Director of Photography: Tim Tyler Tim Tyler got his start making movies shooting Super 8 film as a teenager in Rhode Island. He moved to New York City at 20 and worked as a location assistant on film and TV productions. Shortly after spending two months bicycling through Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alberta, Tim relocated to Seattle and began photographing independent films for first-time directors. He has been shooting professionally since the early 90's and has photographed independent features, television commercials, documentaries, and high-end corporate video. Tim has shot for Microsoft, RealNetworks, NBC, PBS, MTV, VH1, ESPN, NFL Network, Court TV, Spike, The History Channel, and the WTO protests for CNN, coming away with some dynamite footage and a tear-gassing. Tim owns and operates the Cinematography.com and SteadicamForum.com Web sites, two popular online communities for film professionals worldwide. Olympia, Washington based Inventive Pictures is his new production company. |
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Co-Producer: Gregory Wylie Gregory Wylie is currently finishing his Bachelor's Degree in Cinema Studies at the University of Washington. His interest in film began at college while reviewing films in Hollywood but traveled back home with him where he discovered the Seattle film community. Gregory has produced student films since 2000 in documentary, experimental, and narrative styles. His interests still remain in commercial and artistic film. He still writes film reviews for the UW Daily and (http://thescreentest.org.) Serving as 2004-05 President of the UW Film Club, and now as a producer, Wylie hopes to bring a stronger film production program to the University of Washington and strong independent movies to the big screen. |
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Writers: Ixaac Paul Ackley and Heather Renee Ayres Ixaac Paul Ackley is a Seattle screenwriter and filmmaker. The Delivery is the third short script he's had produced since 2005. He co-wrote Anybuddy Home? which won the Seattle 48 Hour Film Project's Audience Award last year and co-wrote Suicide Run with the same filmmaking team. He is working on several feature scripts and a short film Gerald Lost His Glasses. Ixaac is a graduate of Evergreen State College. He makes his living as a wedding and corporate videographer and editor. He and his partner Heather spend much of the time enjoying their newborn son, Aiden Tomas Piper. Ixaac has found fatherhood immensely fulfilling and relates to infants, at least his own, quite naturally. Heather Renee Ayres is a Seattle screen writer, filmmaker, and ridiculously happy mom. The Delivery is the fourth short screenplay she's had produced. She co-wrote Anybuddy Home? in 2005, which won the Seattle48 Hour Film Project's Audience Award. Her short script 101 DAYS won a screenplay competition in 2001 which earned her a production deal in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Heather was selected for the 2004 Seattle International Film Festival's Fly Filmmaking Program and created a short documentary Lipstick Men which played numerous queer festivals, including Out on Film, Chicago Reeling, and the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Her first short documentary Sharing the Sheets aired on KCTS The Public Network and was produced as part of 911 Media Art Center's New Voices Program. Heather is currently working on a short film Shekisses and several feature screenplays. She and her partner Ixaac are the gushy parents of their newborn son, Aiden Tomas Piper. |
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Editor: Cindy Sangster After growing up in a town of 60 people in North Texas, Cindy went to Baylor University, determined to become the next Sandra Day O'Conner. Her career in law was cut short when she applied at the college radio station. Rock & Roll was much more alluring than the debate team. Cindy discovered film editing by accident and loved it from the start. She edited friends' Senior films (mostly horror movies in which all died gruesomely in a building that looked remarkably like the Journalism School). Cindy moved to Seattle in 1985 with the standard issue Southern Gal collection of 35 suits with matching pumps and handbags. After recovering from the shock of living in the fleece and Gortex Capital of the World she soon was back in advertising, working at a large agency as producer and editor. In 1991 she started Flying S Editorial, named for her childhood ranch in Texas. It is a company of one and meetings are short. Cindy has edited commercials for the likes of NIKE and AT&T, at least 500 projects for Microsoft, and countless independent films. (cindysangster.com) |
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Composer: Rebecca Wolf-Nail Rebecca Wolf-Nail composes music from classical and jazz, from orchestral to solo piano. She studied with Emmy-award winning composer Hummie Mann in the Pacific NW Film Scoring Program. Rebecca learned composition and orchestration at Seattle Pacific University and earned a BA in Music at Portland State University. She is a member of the Seattle Composers Alliance and resides in Seattle, Washington. |
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Casting: Stephen Salamunovich CSA Stephen Salamunovich began his professional life as a musician performing and recording as a vocal soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Opera Company, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, performed on the soundtrack of "The Godfather" and the Disney recording of "It's a Small World". As a studio drummer, keyboardist and vocalist he has worked and recorded with numerous artists including contemporary jazz artists Gerald Albright and Peter White. In 1984 he worked with Anderson, McCook & White Casting in Los Angeles, the first casting company to form when the studio system dissolved. What began as a part-time interest became a full-time passion. After a five-year apprenticeship under Nancy McCook and Catherine White he moved to Seattle in an effort to embrace a better quality of life and founded Complete Casting. Stephen has worked with Academy Award-winning directors Milos Forman and Bernardo Bertolucci. His television credits number well over two thousand. He is the recipient of a 2005 Artios AwardŽ, casting's highest honor bestowed by his peers in the Casting Society of AmericaŽ. He is on the boards of The Seattle Theater Group and IFP and is a strong advocate for arts education and outreach programs that support the involvement of youth in the arts. (CompleteCasting.com) |
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Shawn Telford - Stuart 
Shawn Telford is a recent graduate of the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program. His favorite roles include Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Haroun in Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Regional credits include Grapes of Wrath at the Intiman in Seattle, Michal in the Pillowman, and Van Gogh in Vincent in Brixton, both at A Contemporary Theatre. Shawn originated the role of Wilson in the Seattle Children's Theatre adaptation of Red Badge of Courage and was an acting apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville appearing in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Shawl and a solo performance of 'Night Sweet. Shawn has performed his solo show Menu for audiences in Seattle and NY. Film credits include: TTY, Gimme Music, Gimme Shelter, Home/Land, Bullets, Blood and a Fistful of Cash, 8 Minutes to Love, Professional Courtesy, Buffalo Bill's Defunct and the TV series The Fugitive. In 2005 Shawn won a Footlight Award for excellence in acting. Prior to that his only other notable achievement was being "The Most Inspirational" member of his high school Cross Country team for three consecutive years. In addition to acting Shawn writes music and concert reviews as well as related stories for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Eye Heart Music Dot Com. Aside from music journalism and singing in the shower he has no musical abilities whatsoever. |
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Natasha Sims - Grace 
Eager to begin her journey, Natasha Sims was born 3 months premature in Gainesville Florida on January 11. Her namesake being Natasha from Tolstoy's "War and Peace" set the tone for epic ambitions. Always preferring the game of make-believe, at the age of 3 she began performing on tabletops and announcing that when she grew up she was going to be a "Movie Star." Natasha explored her primary education in Dallas Texas where she first performed onstage in school productions: a quiet child who came alive on stage. In high school she explored her artistic interests in theatre learning how to transform herself and solidifying that her passions indeed lay in storytelling. Natasha relocated to Seattle where she attended the Evergreen State College earning her BA in Theatre Arts. She continues her journey on stage and screen. Films: Natural Possession, The Big Bogey, The Delivery. She loves that there is always so much more to learn as an actor. Each new character she takes on teaches her a different way to look at life and hopefully changes a few others as well. |
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Richard Sanders - Philippe Would any Seattle-based production be complete without Richard Sanders to grace it? We are happy he lives here! The Delivery, Expiration Date, Circus of Infinity, (in which he amusingly plays God), Stephen King's Rose Red, The Fugitive, The Beans of Egypt, Maine! Accomplished actor Richard's filmography is lengthy. Although best known for his role as the fastidiously geeky news director Les Nessman in the delightful series WKRP in Cincinnati, 1978-1982, (Les also wrote five episodes), he has been in countless TV films and series. Here's just a few: Designing Women, Men of Honor, Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace, Growing Pains, Knots Landing; Murder, She Wrote; Fantasy Island, Spencer, The New WKRP in Cincinnati, ALF, Married... with Children, Roots: The Next Generations, Newhart, The Rockford Files. As Philippe in The Delivery, Richard has more lines than anyone else. |