The son of Argentine and Chilean immigrants, Antonio was born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He graduated from Stamford High School with Highest Honors and then attended Middlebury College for one year. He then served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Toronto, Canada where he worked with Hispanic communities. Upon his return to campus he majored in International Studies with a concentration on Latin America and Western Europe. During his undergrad experience he spent over a year living and studying abroad in Paris, Madrid, and Argentina.

In the summer of 2000 moved to New York City with aspirations of acting and writing. He wrote and co-starred in his first feature film, Anne B. Real (2003) by the spring of 2002. The piece is a coming of age Hip Hop story of a Dominican girl that dreams of being a rapper, and who finds her voice and inspiration through the Diary of Anne Frank.

Since its release the film has garnered critical acclaim around the world and inspired audiences from all walks of life. the culmination of festival awards came on December 3rd 2003 when the IFP nominated Anne B. Real for a Spirit Award under the John Cassavettes award given to Best Feature under 500K.

After completing filming on Anne B. Real, Antonio went on to co-star in the independent features Turn and Uneasy. During the fall of 2003, Antonio was the youngest artist and first ever screenwriter invited by the prestigious Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico as an artist-in-residence.

Aw, what can you say about Fritz. A quiet man, doesn't like to be seen much, but a heck of an editor. He has edited everything that Tucker has ever done. And he's very talented and hard to get. Thanks Fritz.

Salt Lake- based actor Trent Maddox, for example, had the gut-wrenching experience of being called back -- twice -- as a finalist for the supporting role of Kori Swenson.

"I totally think I've got it," he'd said with the passion of a winner as he emerged from his initial call back. "I've never felt like this before!"

Maddox, whose experience includes local commercials and modeling gigs, has striking features that seem to suggest the potential to become the LDS version of superstar Tom Cruise. The chance to break in, he said, was more about the opportunity to make a difference than to attain fortune or fame. The 27-year- old husband and father of a 3-year-old son has arranged his life around his dream of breaking into film. That's why he sells real estate. The flexible schedule allows him to earn a living while pursuing acting opportunities.

"I've never really let on how much it means to me," he said. "It could change my life."

Inside sources said the role of Kori Swenson was particularly difficult to cast, meaning there was more than one "final" audition. It wasn't till the day shooting began that Maddox learned casting directors had hired someone from out of state for the role.

"I thought I had it," a visibly disappointed Maddox said.

Cheri just released her first album, Crossing Avenues, in May of 2001. The album features her own collection of songs in a pop-folk style. Her well-crafted lyrics express her thoughtful side and her sense of humor. Cheri writes about experiences that she has encountered while crossing the avenues of life. Cheri is a native of Wisconsin. She graduated from college in Utah and is currently showcasing her music there.

Cheri released her debut album, "Crossing Avenues" in May 2001. The album features all original songs in a pop-folk style. Her well-crafted lyrics express her fun-loving and serious parts of her personality. Cheri writes about experiences that she has encountered while crossing the avenues of life.

Cheri is a native of Wisconsin. She graduated from Brigham Young University in April 2001 with a BA in media music. Currently, she is taking a break from performing to serve a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Portugal.

Rachel [Jacobs] and Sparky performed the commercial as brother and sister. They would work again together int he fall. They not only became friends, but so did their parents. In fact, we thought so much of the nice family from Pasadena that we sent in a missionary card to the California Anaheim Mission headquarters... full-time missionaries paid a visit to the family. Before very long, some good Lutherans became good Mormons. Unbeknown to the Issoglio family in California, at the time of their conversion, their other children, in other parts of the country, were also investigating the Church as well. Eventually, they all joined The Church about the same time. Part of... Skeets [Sparky's mother] conversion was an experience of Saturday's Warrior as performed in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. They came away from the performance definitely impressed.

I am your man for getting the job done. I do it all... Quick learner and your best buddy while on location... Jack of all trades... Skilled in the arts of Audio Visual mediums... Sound boards, mics, cabling, recording, editing... Lighting skills... Camera/video operator... Carpenter... Electrician... Props... Computers... Data Projectors... Projectionist... Rigging... Stage/studio mechanic/technician or stage projectionist/audio technician for United Concerts Inc. Utah Theatrical Union, Local 99, Oasis, stage werks, Capitol Theatre, Kingsbury Hall, Salt Palace Convention Center. Has worked live events for numerous artists, shows and acts, including Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Phantom of the Opera, Grease, CATS, Sundance Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and the Association of Governors.

Marler started his career on the road to producing right out of high school at The Record Lab in Provo, learning sound engineering. He spent the next ten years doing live sound for several local bands such as Sun Shade & Rain, The Justus Brothers, Avatar and Ike Egan. During this same time he opened his own recording studio, Premier Info. He produced several recording projects such as Talon, Flight Upon Light and Kynda. Marler has commissioned two other screenplays to be written, Turnabout and Other Side, which will be going into production this coming year.

Audio producer. Voice specialist. Partner.

Brent oversees all of Metropolis' audio production. Before Metropolis, Brent owned and operated WT Recording Studios for 21 years. In the summer of 1998 he purchased the building that is now Metropolis and oversaw the renovation of the entire 10,000-sq. ft. facility in the fall of 1998.

Russell Martin's Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica, and the Masterpiece That Changed the World will be published by Dutton in the fall of 2002. He is the author of Beethoven's Hair (2000), a U.S. bestseller and winner of the Colorado Book Award, which has been published in fifteen editions around the world and will soon be the subject of an international television documentary. His highly acclaimed 1994 book, Out of Silence, was named by the Bloomsbury Review as one of fifteen best books of its first fifteen years of publication. A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (1989), won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize.

He also is the author of the novel Beautiful Islands (1988); The Color Orange: A Super Bowl Season with the Denver Broncos (1987); Matters Gray and White: A Neurologist, His Patients & the Mysteries of the Brain (1986); Entering Space (co-authored with Joseph P. Allen, 1984), and Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West (1983). He has edited two anthologies of contemporary western writing, Writers of the Purple Sage (1984) and New Writers of the Purple Sage (1992).

He is a graduate of The Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where he has returned to teach for eighteen years. He also has taught courses at conferences including Writers@Work and the Desert Writers workshop. He spent a postgraduate year on a Thomas Watson Foundation fellowship in Great Britain and Guatemala and worked as a newspaper reporter in Telluride, Colorado for a number of years before becoming a freelance writer. In 1995, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by his alma mater.

Armed with a repertoire of high energy original music, Cannibal Buffet regularly performs for audiences in the greater Salt Lake area... Included in the Cannibal Buffet lineup is visual artist and keyboardist Matt Marxtyyn, designer of CB's multimedia performance which includes: original film, 35 mm slides, and computer animation. Cannibal Buffet's first show was on May 7th, 1996. Since then, they have played with such acts as Hate Dept., The Vandals, Kevorkian Death Cycle, Mentallo & the fixer, and Spahn Ranch, in hopes to expose their audience to a broader musical experience.

Brett Mathews is the son of a Latter-day Saint bishop in the rural town of Erda, Utah. He was also a member of the U.S. Air Force, patriotically serving as First Lieutenant and nuclear missileer from 1996-1998. However, due to the military's policies on gay servicemembers, Brett was ousted after a grueling 16-month investigation. Although he finally received an honorable discharge, Brett lost his top secret security clearance and was stripped of all veteran's benefits.

When Brett came out as gay to his family in 1999, their relationship became estranged. Since then, Brett's family has sent a steady stream of letters encouraging him to change his "condition." Angry at their response, Brett ignores their pleas although he knows that his father's duty is to judge and punish any church member who is homosexual, including family; as a bishop, Brett's father is the common judge and presiding high priest of his ward. Brett is a direct descendent of the original Latter-day Saint settlers of the Tooele County, Utah region in the 1850s and his family has since maintained a leadership role in the community.

Brett joined the Board of Directors of PFLAG-LA (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Los Angeles). Through their Speakers Bureau he gives public talks about his experiences and coming out.

Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988): A veteran of the Vietnam War, Leonard Matlovich challenged the US Air Force policy on automatically discharging homosexual service members as "unfit for military service." A speaker at several Affirmation events, Matlovich died of AIDS complications in 1988. His famous epitaph at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC reads, "When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."

Suggested readings: Bell, Jay, "Sgt. Leonard P. Matlovich: Patriot, Mormon, and Activist." O'Donovan, Connell, "Leonard Matlovich Makes Time."

He invented the Wheelo -- the "Stringless Yo-Yo" -- the second best-selling toy in the United States in the late 1950s and later gave some of the most surreal testimony of the anti-communist hearings when grilled on the toy as part of hearings regarding his admitted perjury as a paid "expert witness" for the FBI and Senator Joseph McCarthy. He also ran election campaigns for McCarthy and gave speeches on his behalf and his second wife was Arvilla Bentley, ex-wife of Senator Bentley and a large contributor of McCarthy's.

After his work with McCarthy he left his work as a witness and read the Book of Job, and embraced Christianity and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He never stopped being Jewish to the core though and loved to sing prayers in Hebrew, even converting biblical texts from English to sing in Hebrew as he thought it was a beautiful language.

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