Faculty

After graduating from the University of Denver, Producer/Editor Nevie Owens returned to Austin, Texas to take advantage of the burgeoning film industry. From 1999-2008, she along with fellow filmmaker Buckner Cooke formed Red Frame Productions, a full-service digital video production company. Her work as a producer and editor has screened at SXSW and Slamdance. "Roberta Wells" can be found on the "2004 Best of Slamdance" DVD. Other creative work, a Willie Nelson music video "Big Boodie," aired nationally on CMT.

actress and teacher for film, television and stage- She has taught and directed in New York, Los Angeles and abroad with both children and adults. Patrice uses multiple disciplines for acting technique and works on script development as well as many workshops on Commedia del Arte. She presently teaches at the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts.

producer-has worked in some producing capacity on more than a dozen documentaries and half dozen features through her fifteen years in the film industry. For six years Rae ran the Native Program at the Sundance Institute and was a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She recently produced feature film American Monster starring Adam Beach , Gary Farmer and Udo Kier. She is also producing A Thousand Guns, The Space Between All Things, and co-producing Backroads, which premiered at Sundance in 2000.

Writer-director- was born in New Orleans and raised on a horse farm in rural Louisiana until his parents sold everything and moved onto a sailboat. They eventually settled in Maryland and Sadler went on to graduate from Vanderbilt University. He then studied acting at the American Conservatory Theatre and later received his MFA from the American Film Institute. He is the founder of The Oregon Lab, a multi-disciplinary creative retreat which meets once a year to engage in exploratory and experimental work.