CREW

Rob wrote Beyond the Rush, the feature screenplay; he also Wrote, produced and co-directed the original short film version, which screened at numerous film festivals, winning the prestigious Director's Choice Award for Best Overall Short at the 2017 Rincon International Film Festival in Puerto Rico.

Rob has been in the Film and TV business for 26 years and has many writing, casting, and production credits on films such as The Devil Wears Prada and Across the Universe, as well as The VMAs, Fashionably Loud, Woodstock '99, NBC’s The Marriage Ref, E! Network's Ice Loves Coco, and James Beard’s award-winning culinary show, Food Trip with Todd English.

Rob also authored The Dividing Line, published in 2005, which he has adapted into a feature screenplay.

Rob is also a serial entrepreneur who just maneuvered through the worst pandemic to hit the world since the flu of 1918, to keep his Manhattan restaurant alive and thriving.

Jayce is a filmmaker and actor known for Suburbia, Spider-Man, and When They See Us. His screenplay The Cake Eaters, directed by Mary Stuart Masterson, received critical acclaim. He wrote, directed, and produced Fall To Rise, awarded at the Dance On Camera Festival, and produced Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story. Jayce also co-directed Altered By Elvis and has worked on various short films. His upcoming project is The Prince of Soho. He’s a juror for film festivals, a SAG-AFTRA panelist, and a voice on PBS' Pinkalicious and Peteriffic.

Candy Potts is an Australian-born TV professional and associate producer, best known for starring in VH1/Bunim Murray’s *Saddle Ranch* and the West Coast premiere of Judith Leora’s *Elijah*. Her theatre credits include roles in *Hedda Gabler*, *Julius Caesar*, and Samuel Beckett’s *Play*. Candy co-founded the pre-production company Pottstock with her mother, the late Australian music icon April Byron, developing pitch decks and sizzle reels for over a decade. She is also an experienced hospitality and marketing consultant, known for increasing revenues for Fortune 500 companies.

Andres Karu was born and raised in New Jersey. After studying film at Rutgers University he wound up pursuing another passion of his... music. He travelled the country as a professional musician for several years before moving to New York City to begin a career as an assistant cameraman. As a cinematographer, he has photographed features, short films, commercials and music videos for artists such as Deftones, Kanye West and Teyana Taylor. Andres has also shot several seasons of true crime tv shows for Discovery ID, Oxygen and TLC. His recent work includes the documentary, “Larger Than Life” about legendary make-up artist Kevyn Aucoin and the indie feature “Clementine”, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and has won best cinematography awards at Bend and Tallgrass film festivals. It was released by Oscilloscope Films in May, 2020.

MICHAEL BERENBAUM, ACE is an Emmy and ACE award winning editor and producer whose feature work includes Marry Me, In the Shadow of the Moon, both Sex and the City movies, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Hollywoodland and Before Night Falls.

His television credits include And Just Like That, Tokyo Vice, Sweet Tooth, Why Women Kill, Divorce, Hap and Leonard, The Americans, Marco Polo, Nurse Jackie, The Wire, The Comeback, and Sex and the City. He has worked with such directors as Joel and Ethan Coen, Kat Coiro, Al Pacino, Jim Mickle, Marc Webb, Paul Feig, Ken Kwapis, John Turturro, Julian Schnabel and Martin Scorsese.