Karina Friend Buck

Filmmaker Karina Friend Buck founded Genuine Buck Film in 1990 as a boutique production company specializing in high-quality "Making of" documentaries for the major film studios. Under the Genuine Buck banner, she has written, produced, directed and edited hundreds of behind-the-scenes documentaries, electronic press kits and cable specials. Her work is distinguished by its unusual depth, style and compelling story-telling.

Karina has been working in radio, television and film for over three decades, collecting a broad range of experience in both production and post. She was a pioneer of "Behind the Scenes" materials, editing many early film marketing featurettes including "Absence of Malice," and "The Breakfast Club." After a decade of staff jobs at KCET, Warner Bros. and Editel, she spent five seasons editing and associate producing a number of independent films and network dramas, including the music driven tv series, "Fame."

Today, Genuine Buck Film is recognized as one of Hollywood's premier providers of pre-release feature film programming and DVD bonus materials.

Karina is proud to be a new member of the board of The Live Arts Group, and has been an active mentor for the Fulfillment Fund since 2004.

Craig Buck

Craig Buck has been writing/producing network series, pilots, movies, miniseries and cable specials for more than three decades. In addition to dozens of produced television credits, he wrote the Oscar-nominated short film, "Overnight Sensation".

Craig has also written six nonfiction books and hundreds of articles for magazines and newspapers across the globe. Among his books, "Toxic Parents" (co-authored with Dr. Susan Forward) was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for three months and is still in print after more than 15 years. His first book, "Betrayal of Innocence" was a revolutionary work on the subject of incest and, after 30 years in print and having been translated into more than a half-dozen languages, is still a primary source for university psychology courses, for therapists and for incest victims around the world.

Craig is also an Internet distance-learning pioneer, having co-created the Internet traffic school industry and having founded three successful distance-learning businesses.

He is currently working on an independent feature film for an Indo-American co-production.

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James Grant Goldin

James Grant Goldin is a freelance writer/producer ("A Filmmaker's Journey: Making The Return of the King", "The Notebook: Pages from the Book of Love").

On cable TV, he has written on everything from travel and food ("The Great Adventure," Fine Living, "$40 A Day" with Rachel Ray, Food TV) to comic books ("Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked," History Channel, "Look Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman," A&E), to true crime ("North Mission Road," Court TV, "Women On Death Row," WE) to animals ("Spirit of the Wild Mustang," Animal Planet).

Mr. Goldin thinks that Roger Corman is way overdue for an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Edick Hossepian

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Lee Sanders

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Clay Westervelt

Clay Westervelt, graduated USC's film production program in 1999. He began his professional career shooting behind-the-scenes for Genuine Buck Film on the production of Very Bad Things. Earning multiple cinematography awards, Clay quickly earned a reputation as an accomplished DP, shooting 11 award-winning narratives and documentaries and working with such directors as Randal Kleiser, Jim Parriot, and Jeremy Kagan.

Clay became a hyphenate when he wrote and directed the short film thursday afternoon, which has won multiple awards for writing and directing after playing on television and in film festivals internationally.

Most recently, Clay has been producing and directing the episodic series Storyline Online, starring such actors as Melissa Gilbert, Esai Morales, and Elijah Wood, for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.

Zoë Elizabeth Buck

Web designer Zoë Buck is currently studying astrophysics at Princeton University in New Jersey. She enjoys looking for aliens, big telescopes, and cheese. Sometimes she makes websites.