JOHN E. HUDGENS - Director/Editor
John is the senior editor/producer/animator for the CW affiliate in Knoxville, TN, although he's achieved some notoriety in SF circles for his freelance efforts. After doing a Babylon 5 music video as a personal project in 1994 (using clips from the first season and the song "Danger Zone"), he sent it to show creator J. Michael Straczynski, who turned around and hired Hudgens to continue creating the videos, which became popular on the science fiction convention circuit. They collaborated on eight total.

He is also responsible for (or guilty of, depending on your point of view) the popular Star Wars parody The Empire Strikes Quack, a strange combination of the audio from a Daffy Duck cartoon and visuals from the Star Wars trilogy, as well as another parody, Crazy Watto, done with Sandy Clark and Men in Black creator Lowell Cunningham.

In 2002, Hudgens and Cunningham teamed again on Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline, which went on to be a finalist and second runner-up in the audience voting in Lucasfilm and AtomFilms' first Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards.

They quickly followed that with The Jedi Hunter, another Star Wars spoof that drops Boba Fett into the role of Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter. That film won awards at several film festivals, and eventually won the Audience Choice Award in the 2003 Lucasfilm awards.

Hudgens returned to the Star Wars universe in 2005 with Sith Apprentice, casting Emperor Palpatine in the Donald Trump role in a Star Wars take on the hit show The Apprentice. The film went on to win the Audience Choice Award in the 2005 Lucasfilm contest and stayed the #1 comedy on Atomfilms for over a month.

Hudgens also designed the animation for the hit PC flightsim/adventure game Crimson Skies from Microsoft. He has worked on several projects for WizKids Games, including packaging designs for the Crimson Skies game miniatures, artwork for a MechWarrior coffee table book, and animation for the Creepy Freaks and Pirates of the Spanish Main game miniatures commericals. He is currently working with WizKids creating elements for the Star Wars PocketModel trading Card game.

He has a website up at www.zteamproductions.com, and is on the Fan Film Theatre staff at TheForce.Net. He'd also like the loan of a few extra hours in a day, if someone has them to spare...

SANDY CLARK - Writer/Producer
Sandy Clark is a writer living in Alameda, California. He has written freelance for institutions and publications such as NASA, Visual Imagination, the Star Wars Insider, and Sci-Fi Universe. He has also helped build nonprofits and startup companies working for an early CD-ROM producer, an early ISP, and several dot-com era startups. He is keenly interested in the distribution of technology to non-profit organizations.

Right now, he works part-time for The Alameda Journal and raises his daughter, Emma Maxwell Clark, full-time. (Yes, baby pictures are available at sandyland.textamerica.com.)

MICHAEL MONAHAN - Associate Producer/Chief Archivist
Michael appears as Doktor Goulfinger on BTV25 cable access in Berkeley, California, and has been of invaluable assistance to the production of American Scary with his encyclopedic knowledge of horror hosts and the genre.