Scott Rice, Director, Co-Producer

Showtime, Atomfilms, PBS, Slamdance, HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, and the Directors Guild of America have showcased Scott Rice’s work, which has garnered 300 official festival selections and won over 90 awards internationally. He entered graduate film school at the University of Texas at Austin in 1999 where he made three award-winning films: Pillowfight (2000), The Adventures of Mad Matt (2003) and Perils in Nude Modeling (2004). His short films have been unusually profitable with Pillowfight alone earning 13 times its production budget.

Scott Rice is the first person in history to be awarded two Student Academy Award Nominations in two different categories in the same year. Film legend Roger Corman called his thesis film “a remarkable tour de force.” Shots Magazine, an international commercial publication, named Rice one of the world’s top new directors in July, 2005. In 2004 he received a Texas Filmmakers Production Fund Grant, and in 2002, the Warren Skaaren Endowed Presidential Scholarship—the University of Texas Film Department’s highest honor. Rice teaches screenwriting and film production at the University of Texas and directs Addy Award winning commercials.

David Carren, Screenwriter, Co-Producer

A native of Dallas and a graduate of the University of Texas, David Carren has been a professional screenwriter for three decades. He has written and/or produced more than 200 TV shows, and his credits include such definitive series as “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Stargate SG-1,” “Buck Rogers,” “TekWar,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Knightrider,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Diagnosis Murder,” “Murder She Wrote,” and “Walker, Texas Ranger.”

David Carren has also written prose fiction for a variety of venues. Medallion Books published his first novel, No Power on Earth, and Stonelock Pictures optioned his second, I've Killed Mother. One of his stories for the Pacific Comics anthology, Alien Worlds, was produced as the “If She Dies” episode of The New Twilight Zone. David Carren’s first feature film, Mr. Hell was distributed by Macaday Entertainment Spring 2006. He teaches at screenwriting and production at Houston Community College.