Crew

Matthew James Eberle was born in California and split his youth between the west coast and midwest. Matthew graduated from Chapman University's Dodge College in 2017, where he received an M.F.A. in Film Production. While at Chapman his graduate thesis film, James Joyce’s The Sisters was selected for the Leo Freedman Foundation First Cut grant, and was a finalist for the 2017 ASC Heritage Award for Cinematography. His thesis film spent two years on the festival circuit, finishing its run as a special showing at the 2021 Bloomsday Film Festival.

Matthew has studied and been mentored by some of Hollywood’s best, including Academy Award winning writer David S. Ward and former DGA President and award winning director Martha Coolidge. He has also recently finished producing the short film The Magic Ticket. He likes to explore character through image, sound and emotion to tell compelling stories about the human condition.

Stephen Ho is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, born in Oakland and raised in El Cerrito. He attended the University of California at Davis, earning a Bachelor’s in Technocultural Studies (now Cinema and Digital Media) and Japanese. He spent three years in Japan teaching English in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme, where in 2011, he coordinated efforts to translate and disseminate information and rumor control to foreigners within Japan and abroad regarding the situation after the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

After returning to the United States, he attended Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts where he earned his MFA in cinematography and was assistant to Bill Dill, ASC. While there he worked on a variety of films that spanned many genres. He is now living in Los Angeles where he hopes to continue using his skills as a cinematographer to tell visually interesting stories.

Jake R. Sanderson has been working professionally since 2014. He is an award winning film composer whose music is inspired by the works of James Horner, Trent Reznor, Thomas Newman, and Bernard Herrmann.

Ranging in styles from orchestral to minimalist to ambient and experimental, he has worked on a broad horizon of film genres setting himself apart with his mix of Western and non-Western instruments with Electronic elements.

Janie Gaddy is an experienced Editor with a demonstrated history of working in the motion pictures and film industry both in narrative long form and short form marketing. Skilled in Avid Media Composer, Adobe Creative Suite, plus many other post production programs. Strong media and communication professional with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) focused in Film Production (Editing) from Chapman University.

Jesse Newby is a composer and statistical musicologist. Jesse holds a BA in Music and Film Studies from the University of Delaware, where he conducted research into the relationship between music, image, and narrative in filmic mediums; he also performed as a member of the UD Opera Theatre and the internationally acclaimed UD Chorale. Jesse also holds an MBA from Chapman University, with an emphasis in Data Analytics. He has composed numerous film scores for student filmmakers across the country.