Pietro D'Alessio is a Producer, SAG Actor and Casting Director. He is President of Alexius OmniMedia and Producer of the online series "Round the Square," the travel show, "Two Days In..." and several short films and features. Previously he was with Chiopolis Entertainment LLC, Yo Soy Irini Productions, Inc., Time Warner/AOL, CPM Creative Management and Mandalay Sports Entertainment. He is the Producer for the New Hampshire Film Festival, Founder of the Humboldt Park Film Festival and previously worked with The Saints & Sinners Film Festival in St. Petersburg, FL as well as is involved annually with the Sundance Institute & Film Festival.
Current acting credits include National Lampoon's "The Legend of Awesomest Maximus," the web series "Round the Square," and the award winning Cannes short film "A Death in Progress." Current projects as Producer include the romantic comedy “Six to Sex,” the horror/comedy “Slayers,” and the drama “From May to December.” Recent casting credits include “The Techsorcist,” “TGIFriday’s,” and ABC’s “Supermanny.” He also is one of the keys with Shortstream.tv, an online network with original programming. He began his career with the Tampa Bay based community theatre, Plant City Entertainment, and studied with Corinne Broskette at Venue Actors Studio in St. Petersburg, FL. A staunch advocate of volunteering, he also has participated in the Great American Teach-In and sat on various boards including the East Hillsborough Historical Society, Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council and Lions Club International. Also a writer and international traveler, he is currently based in New England. Pietro is managed by Heather Kuipers at Diversified Management. His Publicist is David Jannone of Shilo Public Relations.
Brenda Nieborsky
Brenda Nieborsky is Director of Film Festival Services for Openfilm.com where she works directly with festivals all over the world providing customized technology services to each. Prior to her work with Openfilm, Brenda was with the Miami Short Film Festival, and was a short film producer. She has worked with many of the industry’s best, including producer Michael Waxman, and directors Michael Apted, Doug Liman, Griffin Dunne, David Koepp, Gina Prince-Bythewood and others.
Courtney Orr
Courtney Orr has 12 years nonprofit experience including government and public relations, marketing, event coordination, volunteer management, community outreach, promotional activities, training, development, writing and editing, and helping to build strategic partnerships. She began as a journalist then became very involved in the nonprofit arena from working at an international student exchange organization to serving children of the world at Kiwanis International to helping enhance the community of Clearwater as the Vice President
Radames Pera
Perhaps best known for his portrayal of “Grasshopper” throughout the original Kung Fu TV series (1972-75) and then as Mary Ingalls’ love interest/writer “John, Jr.” in Little House on the Prairie (1975-77), Radames’ roles ranged from schizophrenic (Night Gallery – “Silent Snow, Secret Snow”) to Russian Radar Tracking Specialist “Sgt. Stepan Gorsky” in the cult classic, Red Dawn. Starting in his Kung Fu days, Radames has made short films and then live psychotronic video performance with wife, Marsha Mann for the seminal performance art band, Freshly Wrapped Candies in the late 80’s and early ‘90s.
Since moving to Austin, TX in 2004, Radames has been an active member in the local alternative film community acting and crewing in several productions, and since September of 2009 he has been teaching filmmaking twice a week to underserved High School students through the Austin Film Society.
Jeffrey Lynn Ward
Jeffrey Lynn Ward started his career with producer/financier Bill Sharmat (War Games, Arthur, Caddy Shack, Carrie, Hooper, The Thorn Birds, etc.) where he served as vice-president of Creative Affairs.
Mr. Ward then became Production Executive for Howard International Film Group, working on five feature movies; Prettykill, Blue Monkey, Nightstick, Dark Tower, and Street Justice, all in the $2 to $5 million range and all shot partly in foreign countries. As Production Executive, he oversaw budgets, scheduling and postproduction work.
Mr. Ward has also worked for HSN, one of America’s largest cable companies. He has also served as adjunct professor at the University of Tampa and on the Advisory Board of the International Academy of Design & Technology (IADT) in Tampa, Florida. He wrote and directed the feature, Black Reign, starring Burt Ward and Michelle Bauer (currently in post production) and the feature, Hallows Point, starring David Naughton and Christa Campbell. Mr. Ward has also co-directed and co-produced several television pilots.
In addition to his produced scripts, Mr. Ward has had several screenplays optioned. He has been a finalist in several screenplay contests. Recently he has served as a script consultant for a large budget fantasy motion picture currently in development with a prominent producer. He is also serving as production consultant for an independent vampire movie to be shot this year. In addition to film and TV production work, Mr. Ward provides independent marketing consulting through his company, JW Media, LLC.
He is a graduate of Columbia College-Hollywood. He currently resides in Clearwater, Florida.
