Olivia Klaus takes a socially active role through film and community outreach to instigate real change.  Her career began with extensive travel throughout Central America and South America, shooting stock footage and interviews for various non-profit organizations.  Her work continued as she returned to the United States to participate in the establishment of Plus 8 Digital in New York City, where she was part of the pioneering efforts in high-definition technology emerging in the late 1990s.  Since then, Olivia has worked on numerous production roles that have been seen on networks such as MTV, Showtime, The Food Network and The History Channel.

In 2009, Olivia directed and produced Sin by Silence as QLP’s first documentary endeavor about the first inmate led battered women’s group in the US prison system.  For eight years, Olivia attended Convicted Women Against Abuse meetings, at California’s oldest women’s prison, and built close relationships with each of the women featured in the documentary. The film went on to win numerous film festival and advocacy awards, highlighted in People Magazine, distributed by Women Make Movies, and continues to be an essential educational resource on domestic violence.

Olivia has served as the Creative Director at Avant Productions, a leading high-definition production company in Orange County, CA.  She also was an Adjunct Professor in the Cinema and Digital Media department at Vanguard University of Southern California, her own alma mater, where she received numerous awards for her undergrad work.  Olivia has been a resident at the Working Films and Fledgling Fund Film Residency and a guest speaker at UC Berkeley, ASU, USF, Purdue and various national conferences.

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Email: Olivia@QuietLittlePlace.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/oliviaklaus
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/oliviaklaus
Full Resume: http://www.oliviaklaus.com

Ann-Caryn Cleveland is focused on creating stories and campaigns that educate and inspire action.

Ms. Cleveland’s wide range of creative work has been distributed by HBO, MTV, PBS, Fine Living Channel, CBC, BBC, Sundance Channel, Sony Pictures, Women Make Movies and awarded honors.

She began her film career in the research rooms of doc directors Alex Gibney and Robert Kenner. She received her MFA from USC’s School of Cinema-Television in 2003 while working full-time for Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment. In addition to helping market blockbuster films at Sony, she helped design and build one of the first social networking sites that bridged the gap between consumers using their own media tools and infusing it with blockbuster film content.

She currently serves as Head of Cinema/Digital Media at Vanguard University and is now working on a new film initiative called “Where We Come From.” The initiative is an online collective of stories about family and race, including her own research about James Meredith, the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi.