The CREW
OMAR DERBY
Writer/Director
Omar is currently known for his directing work on "Fine Thank You" (short) [Georgia Shorts Film Festival 2022 - "Best Lead Actor" Award Winner], "Anna v Anna" (short) [Selected for national broadcast on Aspire TV's "Indie Film Block," Episode 509], SCAD-produced series "MULTIPLAYER" (Episode 1.5: "Game Over") among several nationally-aired TV commercials.
He was born in Kingston, Jamaica then migrated with family to Brooklyn, New York at age 13 where he began filmmaking with music videos, commercials and short films.
TRINY BEATY
Producer
Triny is an award-winning Producer, Actress, and TV show host. She holds multiple Emmy Awards from her tenure at CNN Español, CNN International, and GSU-TV (PBS). More recently, Beaty has gained notoriety, regionally and nationally, for her work in short films; Georgia Shorts Film Festival as the producer for "Fine Thank You", The North Carolina Black Film Festival as co-producer for "Zaza's Channel" (short), and LA Independent Women Film Awards as script supervisor for "Pinky Promise".
ANDRE WYNTER
Director of Photography
Andre is a Writer, Director, Producer and Cinematographer known for the Jamaican television series Real Friends. He was born in St. Andrew Jamaica on April 5 1988. Wynter moved to Switzerland in 2005 to finish high school then to Boston, MA. in 2006 to attend Northeastern University to pursue a degree in Biology. After leaving Northeastern in 2010, he returned to Jamaica and begun his filmmaking career in 2011 initially as a writer. He began producing and directing, eventually joining local television station TVJ in 2014. Andre has continued to write, produce and direct while completing a business degree at the University of West Indies.
SOPHIA DARLING
Casting Director
Sophia is a current Savannah College of Arts and Design (SCAD) Performing Arts Senior with a triple Minor in Casting, Acting for the Camera, and Art History. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and currently lives in Savannah, Georgia. She has always been interested in theatre and started acting as a young girl. She continued pursuing acting into her adulthood.
At SCAD she found the casting office and loved sitting behind the desk rather than standing in front of it. She wants to move forward with casting as a career and hopes one day to move to New York or Chicago to work as a Casting Director.
RONESHA STRICKLAND
Associate Producer
Ronesha is known for her producing and directing work on the short film "Numb" [Official selection of Peachtree Film Festival 2019], mockumentary "Southern Hospitality", and several local small business brand awareness commercials. More recently, Ronesha has been working as a Producer's Assistant on Marvel films.
JESSE WINTER
Associate Producer
Jesse Winter is a current Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Visual Effects sophomore student with a double minor Film and Virtual Production studying in Atlanta. He was born in Georgia and frequented Atlanta, he later then moved to Florida in 2019 but returned to study at SCAD.
Jesse is best known for his visual effects work, color grading, picture editing, and photogrammetry. Although majoring in visual effects, Jesse is heavily interested in the making of films on set. He's always up for learning anything and everything.