Odette Scott - Producer / Director / Camera / Editor

Odette has been making documentaries in the US and China for 15 years. For 5 years she was a resident filmmaker at the independent documentary studio Caochangdi Workstation （草场地工作站）where she studied with pioneer documentary filmmaker Wu Wenguang （吴文光）and gained an immersive education in Chinese independent documentary. Odette is from a small town in Pennsylvania, and she draws from her experience in both countries, approach this project from a multicultural perspective and sensibility. She is particularly interested in addressing the generalizations and assumptions about Chinese international students in America, and promoting a wider cultural acceptance, understanding, and dialog through shared connection points,

Michael Bacon - music score

Michael Bacon is an accomplished composer for film and television, with numerous awards to his credit. He won an Emmy for his original score for The Kennedy’s, an Ace Award nomination for his original score for The Man Who Loved Sharks, as well as the BMI Television Music Award and The Chicago International Film Festival Gold Plaque Award for music in LBJ. Shows he has scored have won three Academy Awards (The Johnstown Flood, A Time For Justice, and King Gimp) and numerous Emmy Awards. Jerry Lee Lewis, Carlene Carter, Peter Yarrow and Claude Francois are just a few of the artists that have recorded songs written by Bacon. He and his brother, Kevin, perform music live as “The Bacon Brothers.”

Rich Macar - Sound Designer, Mixer, Audio Post

Rich Macar is an audio postproduction pioneer, with extensive experience as a sound producer, sound designer. His work can be found on films like Happy Feet and Legend of the Guardians, on TV shows such as Denis Leary's Apostle Films and NBC's Hannibal, and in advertising for McDonalds and Discover Card. In 1991 he founded Buttons NY, a global sound and post editing studio in New York. Rich is also a percussionist.