Dustin Morrow
Dustin Morrow bridges the worlds of creative practice and scholarly inquiry as an Emmy-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, film festival programmer, optioned screenwriter, podcaster and educator. He is a tenured Professor in the School of Film at Portland State University. He previously taught at Temple University, Monmouth College and the University of Iowa. Morrow’s professional journey includes significant time in L.A. as an editor and director specializing largely in short-form content and series television, for such clients as Sony Pictures, MTV, FoxSports, the Discovery Channel, and for such filmmakers as Spike Jonze, Steven Soderbergh, Guy Ritchie, Kathy Bates and Denzel Washington. His films have screened in more than 400 festivals in 45 countries on 6 continents and been honored with dozens of awards. His work has been supported by more than a half-million dollars in grant funding. Learn more about his work at www.dustinmorrow.com.
Scott Bernard Nelson
Karen Maseng
Portland-based actor Scott Bernard Nelson has appeared in 18 feature films, 38 short films and dozens of other productions, from YouTube series to TV commercials and vertical soap operas. Before acting — and a day job in higher education — he spent 22 years as a journalist, covering 9/11 in Manhattan, crossing into Iraq with U.S. Marines and contributing to The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which spawned the movie "Spotlight."
Learn more about his work at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5331135/?_ssoLoop=1
Karen Maseng began her career as an actress in Los Angeles before moving into casting, where she worked behind the camera and directed actors in audition sessions. She later founded Pogo Casting, offering a hands-on, collaborative approach to casting.
With more than twenty years of experience auditioning actors and working with directors, Karen brings an insider’s understanding of the casting process to her coaching. She works one-on-one with actors at every stage—from virtual auditions, self-tapes, and in-person callbacks to preparing for a role after they are cast—helping them develop into versatile, truthful artists.
As a natural progression of her work with actors, Karen now creates independent film projects. Her first completed project, Unraveled, follows a teenage girl whose troubles at school leads to reluctant family-therapy sessions. Filmed on phones with a collaborative cast, the series grew from Karen’s belief that meaningful, high-quality stories can be made with accessible tools and committed artists.
Learn more about Karen: kmasengactingcoach.com/about-1
Simon King
Randolph Sellers
Simon King is an International award-winning screenwriter, producer, and director. In addition to screenplays, Simon has written one novel The Romanian Incident, and his second novel will be published in 2026.His production company, Clearstream Entertainment produces live-action narrative films that focus on dialogue and character development. Two of his films, The Rise of Whore Betsy and Fiona qualified for Academy Award nominations. Simon is currently in preproduction on two features and several short films. Learn more about Simon at https://www.clearstreamentertainment.com
Randolph Sellers has over 40 years of experience photographing hundreds of projects all over the United States and 10 countries around the world. He worked on 23 feature films as a first- or second-unit Director of Photography. One of his recent feature length films is a documentary titled The Glitter Tribe. It hadatheatrical release and a Netflix exclusive streaming release.
He also shot both narrative and documentary style television projects for all the major broadcast and cable networks including NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, HBO, Discovery, and Animal Planet - as well as the BBC and ITV Network in the UK. In addition, Sellars has numerous documentary, commercial, corporate, and educational film credits. Several projects that Sellars shot have won prestigious awards, including an Academy Award (short film) and an Emmy (TV movie). The feature film The Juniper Tree, was a Grand Jury finalist at the Sundance Film Festival and was singer/actress Bjork’s first feature film. He was selected to film a short documentary about the Dalai Lama when he visited the United States to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the President. During the ceremony at the Capitol Building in Washington, his camera images were webcast live to a world-wide audience.
Learn more about his work at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783300/