Biographies:

JP Sarni
Partner / Producer
JP Sarni holds a BFA in Media and Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design. He has worked in the entertainment industry for the past six years, at companies including: Zarem Inc., The National Alliance for Musical Theatre, SIRIUS Satellite Radio, and in production on several film and television projects, including "Alfie" and "P.S. I Love You." He is currently working in Development at HBO Films in Santa Monica, CA, and formed the production entity Métropole Ink with producing partner, Amanda Ward. Their joint credits include the entertainment website, JoyHog.com (www.joyhog.com) and the plays, "The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero," "Utah's Crying" and the upcoming "Paper Dolls" as part of 2008's International Fringe Festival in New York.

Amanda Ward
Partner / Producer
Ward has been a producer at Radioaktivefilm (The Ground Truth) since 2003. She has produced independent films such as We Will Not Die Like Dogs, which profiles African AIDS activists from Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia and Palestine Blues, which follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Her recent projects include The Pennhurst Project profiling the long-running institute and showing how, without proper attention, our fellow neighbors can endure some of the most horrific abuses and live to tell the tale. And in development through Radioaktivefilm NYC, Quad Squad a feature comedy about a roller boogie therapy session.