Roberto deRoock
Roberto Santiago deRoock, son of everywhere else, was born and raised in Aztlan. He is currently struggling with the jockocracy of US higher education where he studies entropology in words caught between pages and lines in dusty books. Sometimes he does other stuff like work on videos - he is currently locked in a death-grip with Globalized Instability: Testimonies from the Panama-Colombian Borderlands, a project about the spread of the Colombian civil war into Panama.

Ryn Shane-Armstrong
Born and raised in the dirty, dirty south, Ryn Shane-Armstrong desperately misses sitting on the front porch in his underwear, drinking cold beverages conveniently contained in 40-ounce bottles, and gently humming his approval of the world under the purple pall of a humid summer night. Now living in the relentlessly dry desert lands of Tucson, Arizona, however, Ryn aspires to get off his ass and soak the brow of his fellow persons with unapologetically affected vision. He hopes to break the fever of indifference with good goddamn stories.

Pussy: The Racecar No Man Would Drive is Ryn's fourth project officially but his first as a member of Pan Left Productions. Ryn will be moving into free-form documentary and video poetry after the ghosts of higher education have released him from obligation.

Salomon Baldanegro
Sal is a Tucson native; he graduated from The University of Arizona with a BA in Media Arts. In 2006, he worked with the Arizona International Film Festival, to plan and coordinate the festival. He also worked with the National Association of Latino Independent Producers' Academy as a production assistant, working with some of the leading Latino professionals in the industry. In 2007, he was promoted to Location Manager for the academy. His current project, They Called Them Agitators, has been percolating for a long time. Baldenegro grew up listening to stories of the Chicano Movement from his parents, Salomón R. Baldenegro and Cecilia Cruz, both of whom were heavily involved in the movement. He and his brother participated in many marches, picket lines, and other movement activities when they were children. This exposure kindled an intense interest in this dynamic and productive aspect of history.

Sharon Hoffman
Sharon Hoffman, PhD, is a storiographer, photographer, and first time filmmaker. As a storiographer, Sharon guides others in the telling of their stories and brings theses stories to a larger audience through creative arts and visual media. Her black and white photography reveals the essence of those photographed. Her photography and other media have been featured in an interactive San Francisco exhibition exploring one woman's confrontation with breast cancer.

Sharon's participation in On Bodies is a direct application of her approach to story. Her goal is to transform the way we interact with each other locally and globally by creating deeper understanding and awakening compassion.

Sonya Diehn
Sonya Angelica Diehn completed her B.A.s in Linguistics and Fine Arts at Pitzer College (Claremont, CA) in 1998. A Tucson native and desert rat, she returned to her Arizona hometown in 1999 to work on environmental protection & sustainability, the impacts of globalization, and in alternative media projects. In September of 2000, she co-founded the Arizona Independent Media Center, and continues to produce independent projects. She has been a member of Tucson non-profit video production company Pan Left Productions since 2001, and in July 2003 released her first solo video Oasis Under Siege: A Journey Through the Dying River.

In April of 2004, Sonya left Tucson and her five-year position with the Center for Biological Diversity to travel in South America for a fifteen months. In her journey she continued to produce progressive independent video and work independently as a journalist.

Steev Hise
Steev Hise is a mediamaker, activist, and reluctant computer geek, originally from Iowa. He is actively involved with the Independent Media Center, is a member of the managing collective of the Tucson-based Dry River Radical Resource Center, and has been a Pan Left member since Fall 2005. Steev has been been doing a mix of artistic and political video work since 1992, media activism since 2000, and did graduate study in new media and electronic art at California Institute of the Arts. In 2004-2005 Steev produced and directed On The Edge, a documentary about the femicide in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua City, Mexico. Steev has presented his work across the Americas, in Europe and Australia. He is the founder of Detritus.net, a website devoted to artistic appropriation, and his personal website is detritus.net/steev

Stephanie Faust
Stephanie has been involved in film for three years and has worked as a director as well as a director of photography on the independent film Bells and Whistles. She co-produced and co-directed the short action film Bitch Fight.

Stephanie is the stage manager for the National Association of Latino Independent Producers and is an active member of the association. When she's not working on films, Stephanie teaches media and filmmaking to youth.

Yuri Makino
Yuri Makino is an award-winning writer-director of documentary and fiction short films, which have screened at dozens of national and international venues. Yuri received her MFA from the Graduate Film Program at New York University and a BA with Highest Honors in Film Studies and in German Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she works as an independent filmmaker and Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of Arizona.

Yuri recently completed a short film based on Alma, her feature-length script, which was awarded semi-finalist status at the 1999 Sundance Institute Feature Film Lab, the 2000 Roy W. Dean Grant, two grants from the Amazon Foundation, and various grants from the University of Arizona.

Yuri received a Hanson Film Institute grant and an Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist project grant to fund 111 Degrees Longitude, a video collaboration being produced with a Montana filmmaker. Her poetic documentary, Tokyo Equinox, completed in 2004, has had more than 20 screenings nationally and internationally. In 2003, she was awarded the Arizona International Film Festival Best of Arizona Award and an Honorable Mention from University Film and Video Association for Llama Walks, a personal documentary about her family. In 1999, Ms. Makino was the recipient of the Arizona Commission on the Arts Visual Fellowship for her narrative short, Umeboshi (Pickled Plums).