Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor are Cape-based filmmakers who own A.S. Films International, located in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Their short film, Clam Pie, won the "Audience Award for Best Short Film" in the 2009 Cape Cod Filmmaker Takeover. It was accepted into the Boston International Film Festival and will screen as part of the festival’s official competition this month.

Rory Magnus is an independent filmmaker who lives in Centerville. He was born and raised on the Cape by what he warmly calls eccentric, but loving parents. He earned a double bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and Visual Media Production at Framingham State College in 2007. Then he spent a year studying Film Production at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. His film, Robot Dreaming, was shown in the W.H.A.T. Cape Cod Filmmaker Takeover last month in Wellfleet. Following nearly a dozen other short films and video works, Robot Dreaming was his first major project using stop-motion animation. The film has been officially selected by film festivals in Australia, New Mexico, California and Alaska. Magnus currently is collaborating on an animated short film with his former professor and now friend, Jason Harrington.

Matt Burke got his start in film at an early age, taping selectmen’s and town meetings on Cape Cod so that he could use the town of Sandwich’s cable access equipment to make shorts.  He currently is a news reporter for the Cape Cod Times, but also has written for The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, the Boston Herald and the Associated Press. He has won multiple New England Press Association awards, and multiple Massachusetts Industry Committee awards for his work at the Globe covering violence in Boston’s urban community. He currently lives in Barnstable and is hard at work on his next short film, Old Man of the Mountain, which will be released in Summer 2010.

Sean Manton is originally from Boston. He attended Ithaca College in upstate New York, where his major was Photojournalism. Manton switched his major to Cinema, and graduated in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Photography. Sean moved to Los Angeles after college and worked as an assistant to the Vice President of Productions at Walt Disney Studios. He also practiced acting, where he landed roles over the next two years and worked with Panasonic, before trying his hand at short films. He lives in Bourne and is the proud father of Jacklyn Violet Manton. Sean owns his own high dynamic range imaging company called Imagii. His short film, Most Wanted, will be presented to many of this summer's film festivals on the Cape.

Richard Bellamy lives in West Barnstable and is a writer and teacher. He says he would love to consider himself a filmmaker. Bellamy has been a professor of English at the Cape Cod Academy in Osterville since 1986. In addition, he has been the head of the Drama Club and has directed students in Grades 7 through 12 in 22 full-length productions. In order to widen opportunities for his young actors and to explore filmmaking, Bellamy instituted the Drama Club Film. Since 2006, he has written, directed, and edited seven student-performed short films. Blood Sky is Bellamy’s contribution to the screening.

Derek Young lives in Sagamore. He has been a fan of film since he was a child. After his father suffered a heart attack, Derek and he watched movies together every night. Derek made his own movies as a child, filming his neighborhood friends as they dressed up and ran around the yard. He could always be counted on to be the filmmaker for family gatherings and weddings. Derek’s father is his biggest fan and greatest source of inspiration. Derek’s short film, Random, is a cowboy movie dedicated to his father, who loves westerns and comedies.

Dylan Silvia produced The Seeker with a little help from some good friends, Ben Trask, Forrest Hopkins, and Cameron Bissell. Their film was produced last year for a Video Production class at Nauset Regional High School. Dylan and Ben both harbored long-time interests in making movies and used their class time to hone their talent. While both take turns editing, directing, and filming projects, Dylan performs many of the lead roles and Ben does a majority of the effects. Forrest and Cameron have cameos in The Seeker and both helped Ben and Dylan write the film.

Nathaniel Chapman grew up on the Cape. His foray into film beginning at the age of 11 when he purchased his first camera by washing car windows in parking lots. Chapman split his time between theater and filmmaking throughout high school. He made several short films that won awards at the Cape Cod Film Festival, The Woods Hole Film Festival, and the Barnstable Film Festival. Cape Cod Times film critic Tim Miller rated The Wicked as one of the top ten films of 2004. For the stage, Nate directed productions of Cyrano De Bergerac and Julius Caesar. The Massachusetts Drama Guild gave him five awards for his work in theater. He has been awarded The Dean’s Award from New York University and the Boston Screenwriting Award. He worked with Scott Rudin Productions, responsible for several Academy Award winning films. such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Chapman currently is developing his own production company, Dependent Films, and a half-hour comedy show, as well as other short films.