Kevin Willmott is a screenwriter, filmmaker, playwright, actor and activist. He grew up in Junction City, Kansas and attended Marymount College receiving his BA in drama. After graduation, Kevin returned home to work as a peace and civil rights activist, fighting for the rights of the poor. He helped create two Catholic Worker shelters for the homeless and pressed for the integration of several long standing segregated institutions. Kevin attended graduate studies at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, receiving several writing awards and his MFA in dramatic writing.

His play, T-Money and Wolf, co-written with Ric Averill, dealing with the holocaust and contemporary gang violence, was selected as part of the New Vision/New Voices series produced by the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The play is published by Dramatic Publishing. As screenwriter, Kevin co-wrote, Shields Green and the Gospel of John Brown with Mitch Brian. The script was purchased by Chris Columbus' 1492 Productions for 20th Century Fox. He also co-wrote Civilized Tribes for producer Robert Lawrence and 20th Century Fox. Producer and director Oliver Stone hired Kevin to co-write Little Brown Brothers, about the Philippine Insurrection. Kevin also adapted the book, Marching to Valhalla, by Michael Blake for Oliver Stone. For television, Kevin co-wrote with Brian, House of Getty and The 70s, both mini-series for NBC. The 70's aired in May of 2000.

Kevin's film, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is his film depicting a revision of American history, depicting an America after the South won the Civil War. It was selected to for the 2004 Sundance Film festival and was sold to IFC Films. That film was also honored by Spike Lee's presentation. C.S.A. had its theatrical release in 2006. One of Kevin's newest films, Bunker Hill premiered in Washington D.C. Bunker Hill stars James McDaniel, Laura Kirk and Saeed Jaffrey. Kevin is an Associate Professor in the Film Studies Dept. of the University of Kansas.

A former Big Muddy Competitor, Sasha Waters-Freyer has screened her films and videos widely in the U.S. and abroad, including on the PBS series Independent Lens, the Sundance Channel, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival & Tour, the Woodstock Film Festival, the National Museum for Women in Arts in Washington, D.C., Videoex in Zurich and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. She has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Humanities Iowa, the Graham Foundation, the Jacqueline Donnet Fund, the Jerome Foundation, the Iowa Arts Council, the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo. In 2005, she was a finalist for a grant from the Creative Capital foundation.

Waters Freyer's recent short nonfiction experimental 16mm films have won awards at the Onion City Film Festival in Chicago, the New Jersey International Film Festival, the Humboldt International Short Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the San Diego Women's Film Festival, among other venues.

Since 2000, Waters Freyer has taught film & video in the Department of Cinema & Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, where she is an Associate Professor. She lives in a house with a big front porch in Iowa City with her husband, media artist extraordinaire John D. Freyer and their daughters Georgia and Ruby.

Kristin M. Burke (Costume Designer) was born March 20, in Orange, CA. Educated at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, she majored in both Radio/Television/Film and French Studies. Ms. Burke was trained in the art of costume design at Northwestern by Virgil C. Johnson, an acclaimed designer for opera and the theater. While at Northwestern, Ms. Burke garnered awards at the Seattle Short Film Festival, the Nimes Festival in France, and the Dallas Film Festival for her experimental short films.

She has designed costumes for over forty feature films, including Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, Sex Drive, Crossing Over, Bangkok Dangerous, The Grudge 2, Running Scared, The Cooler, The Slaughter Rule, and Star Maps. She has also designed costumes for music videos, commercials, and two television series. In addition, Ms. Burke is an internationally-exhibited artist, specializing in collage and mail art, and had her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in September, 2001.

Burke has authored two books - the first of which she co-authored with Holly Cole of Ohio University, Costuming for Film: the Art and the Craft, was published in August, 2005 by Silman James Press. It is a college-level textbook on the ins and outs of designing costumes for films. This book is also intended to reach industry professionals looking to broaden their understanding about the role of costumes in the collaborative medium of film. The second book, Going Hollywood: how to get started, keep going, and not turn into a sleaze, was published in September, 2004, and is in use at film schools and universities in 7 countries. Additionally, Ms. Burke is the creator of the website FROCKTALK.COM, a blog about film costumes, featuring interviews and film reviews.