Marteene G. Diaz
Marteene is a director, editor and producer (by necessity) from Hollywood, FL… there’s a pun there somewhere. She grew up in a house full of music – her father is a Grammy Award-winning mix engineer, her mom a devoted concert-goer – and those creative roots found their way into film. She went on to earn an MA in Film & Media Studies from the University of Denver. Her creative voice lives in two places that are really just one: idealized, comedic, slightly sparkly worlds that sneak real issues in through the back door (think The Birdcage) and work that faces sensitive topics head-on. Frequently sought as an editor, she has worked on a number of series and promotional spots for major networks like Starz and NBCUniversal. And most importantly, Marteene’s wife and daughter are quite literally the foundation of her life's work.
Eric Todd Patton
Eric is a writer-director-producer from Denver, Colorado. As a lifelong cinephile, his obsession with movies led him, inevitably, to an MFA in Directing from Chapman University. He's most drawn to stories that oscillate between comedy and tragedy, much like real life.
His professional work spans all areas of production, with recent credits in Post Production on Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle, FX's Snowfall, and Mercy Street at Scott Free. Throughout, he's continued to write, direct, and produce his own work; including the award-winning short comedies Kosher Pig and Loaf of Bread. His feature comedy Dairyland reached the top 20% of the Nicholl Fellowship, and his one-hour pilot Saint-Michel is a finalist in the ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition.
He has two kids, Boston and Rhys, who received a thorough film education from an early age. He considers it a parenting win that his daughter once informed her class that the definitive Macbeth is Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.