<p> 1ST WAVE PRODUCTIONS / Luann Barry</p>
<p>1st Wave Productions is a full service production company located in Venice, California. The firm’s service arm has facilitated commercials, promos, features and documentaries for a wide variety of clients. Original content includes the recently released feature documentary, Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones for Executive Producers, Jay Leno and Bruce Meyers.<br />
Luann Barry, owner and President of 1st Wave Productions has worked in commercial production for over twenty five years earning both CLIO, ANDY and LULU awards for excellence. She has worked as an executive and line producer for top Commercial Directors including Joe Pytka, Leslie Dektor, Fred Petermann , Antoine Fuqua, Thom Higgins and many more. She has produced numerous campaigns both domestically and internationally.<br />
Luann is co-founder and active member of The Women in Film PSA Program, which has produced over 55 campaigns for national and local non-profits supporting issues of women and children. Luann is a member of the Directors Guild of America and Board Member of the Hollywood Rock Academy Foundation, a non-profit “Julliard of Rock” enriching young lives through contemporary music creation and performance.</p>
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<p>Though her first career was as an attorney in New York, J. M. Burris (Julie Marie Burris), Writer/Director, has consistently worked in film since 2010. Burris has worked in many different capacities on full-length features (Mosquita y Mari, Drunktown’s Finest, Bare, and Mekko) including production accountant, Production Office Coordinator, script consultant, legal services and music supervisor. Currently she lives between Santa Fe, NM, Palm Springs, CA and Phoenix, AZ. Santa Fake was Burris’s directorial debut in 2019, a family-friendly Christmas musical comedy that she also wrote.</p>
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<p>Erin M Conroy is a NYC based comedy writer, director and producer. Originally from Long Island, NY she spent several years in Chicago where she trained in improv and sketch comedy at The Second City, iO Chicago and The Annoyance Theaters, mainly to keep warm during cold Chicago winters. To keep the lights on, Erin works as a Producer of Branded Content Programs at an online publisher, but her nights and weekends are spent writingcomedy for/with other comedians. This work has been featured at The Second City's Mary Scruggs Works by Women Festival (Prize Winner), Chicago Sketchfest, NYC Webfest, LA Webfest, and as an official selection in the 2017 NYTVF Independent Pilot Competition. Other interests include, but are not limited to, The Boston Red Sox, Dunkin Donuts iced coffee and yelling at her cat to get down from the kitchen counters.</p>
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