Chris Strouth: Director, producer
Chris Strouth has had many parallel career paths: a musician, producer, writer, and filmmaker. He has been a stalwart force in the Mid-West avant-garde scene since the day he graduated from high school and began working at the now legendary Rifle Sport Gallery. He moved from the punk and darkwave scenes and became a part of the early Acid House Rave movement working on projects like Hair Police, House Nation Under A Groove, and Depth Probe, This led to forming his own experimental sound system, “Future Perfect”, which received numerous Jerome Foundation grants, projects with the Walker Art Center, and a multi-year residency with the Fredrick R. Weisman Museum of Art. Future Perfect also released two critically acclaimed records.

His writings have been in America Online, Vita.MN, Request, Cake, and City Pages. He has also written and directed several theater pieces, most notably at the Red Eye collaboration where he curated their music program. He has worked on over 350 records, with artists ranging from the Grammy-nominated to the blink-and-you’ll miss-it variety, and he also was a producer on the Grammy-nominated album “The Clouds”.

As a filmmaker he has produced three features, two with Rick Fuller of Harder Fuller Films: the 2005 Stan Ridgway DVD “Holiday in Dirt”(NewWest), and the soon to be released No-wave concert film“M-80”(MVD). Unconvention is the first feature he has directed. He was a producer and host for the award winning TV program “What. “,directed the Twin/Tone family of record labels as well as the American Composers Forum’s Innova label.

In the six degrees of separation between John Cage and Judas Priest, he is number three.

Joan Sekler: Excutive producer

Joan Sekler is a founder of the Los Angeles Independent Media Center, a worldwide network of independent journalists and videographers who produce media on political and social issues. Ms. Sekler has been an associate producer and/or publicist for numerous political documentaries including the Academy Award winning film, The Panama Deception and Yellow Wasps: Anatomy of a War Crime, about the war in Bosnia.She was the producer of Crashing the Party: The Democratic National Convention 2000. Ms. Sekler is a former board member of the International Documentary Association