Christopher Halligan (Writer/Director)

Christopher spent his early childhood in Nebraska and, after graduating from his high school near Seattle, Washington, returned to the Midwest to attend college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After receiving his masters in film theory from UN-L, Christopher decided to throw his hat into the ring and move to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of writing and directing for film. He completed the professional program in screenwriting at UCLA in 2007. In 2005, Christopher wrote and directed a short, THE METROSEXUALS, which can be viewed at YouTube. It was one of his scripts, however, Macon Jones and Infinite Blue Sky - a story about a Midwest farm kid who comes home from college to find his entire town hooked on meth - that was to open his eyes to the dark world of methamphetamine addiction and lead to the production of his feature documentary film, METHAMERICA. Christopher is also a full-time English professor.

Bernard Rasmussen (Producer)

For the last ten years, Bernard Rasmussen has produced multiple commercials, music videos, and independent films, including METHAMERICA. Presently, Ben is producing for several independent projects at various points in production while "paying the bills" as a location scout and manager for multiple television and feature film projects all over the L.A./Hollywood area.

Jeff Parke (Producer)

After working in business and legal affairs for John Wells Productions (ER, THE WEST WING, THIRD WATCH) and New Line Cinema (LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY, WEDDING CRASHERS), in 2005 Jeff became a writer and producer at Craig Murray Productions. There, he began creating television, radio, and online marketing spots and content for Disney-Pixar films such as WALL-E, the Academy Award-winning RATATOUILLE, and CARS. Most recently Jeff has been writing and producing on air promos at E! Television for shows including KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS, KENDRA and SCOUTED. On his nights and weekends, Jeff produces projects including METHAMERICA and the web series ACTING OUT, and stays on the lookout for interesting creative works to sink his teeth into.

Katy Skjerping (Editor)

METHAMERICA is editor Katy Skjerping's most recent documentary collaboration. Katy has a strong background in narrative; having worked the past decade on films like Woody Allen's Matchpoint, The Door in the Floor, Raising Victor Vargas. More recently, the thriller Removal was released this summer by Lionsgate.
However, Katy has also had a longtime love affair with docs; her first job ever was working for a small science and travel documentary company, and moved on to assist in New York at WNET Thirteen. She was also a collaborator on the cult hit Commune in 2005.
Last August, Katy won a Telly for the well known campaign "Every 15 Minutes" which sits squarely between fiction and non-fiction. And last March, Katy's work on the semi-biographical Maria My Love (starring Karen Black & Judy Marte) premiered in the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
Currently Katy is working on the CBS television series The Good Wife

Paul Samaniego (Cinematographer)

Paul was born and raised in a farming community outside of San Diego, CA. He began making short films when he was 9 years old using a borrowed video camera from his friend's parents. Shortly after, he received his first still 35mm point and shoot camera. His passion was ignited. Paul enrolled at Brooks Institute of Photography, where he photographed a variety of short films, commercials and music videos, including Christopher Halligan's THE METROSEXUALS. He graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Motion Picture and Video Production Cinematography in 2006. Paul has since resided in Los Angeles, CA, where he has photographed, in addition to METHAMERICA, the feature film, GROOMING GISELLE, as well as a variety of commercials, music video, short films and show opening sequences, including FOX SPORTS WEST BALL UP and USC TROJANS FOOTBALL INTRO, which plays on the WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST JUMBOTRON at the LOS ANGELES COLISEUM every home game. Most recently, Paul has been working with high-speed photography through HOLLYWOOD SPECIAL OPS and working for such shows as ESPN's SPORT SCIENCE, THE HISTORY CHANNEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and CHEVY SONIC/ROB DYRDEK CAR KICKFLIP. Paul keeps an eye out for new projects and interesting people to collaborate with.

Nick Delaplane (Composer)

When most kids his age were listening to metal and pop bands on the radio, Nick Delaplane was thumbing through old classical albums in his parents basement. He attended his first symphony at the Indiana University Musical Arts Center in Bloomington, Indiana at the age of 8, and byt the age of 11 he was playing Grieg and Mussorgsky on his alto saxophone.

He studied classical music at St. Charles private school until the age of 14, and at his high school until he graduated in 1999. At the age of 19, Nick moved to Los Angeles, where music took a backseat to skateboarding and photography for almost 4 years.

Nick was accepted into the photography and film division at Brooks Institute of Photography where he studied to be a cinematographer. Only one year later, however, music began to work it's way back into the foreground. So much so that he was able graduate from college by scoring films.

In 2005, after 2 years of struggling as a freelance composer, Nick began working with composer Tim Jones (Chuck) as a composer's assistant. After another year working small jobs with various other composers and music editors, Nick got a job working with composer Marc Streitenfeld on American Gangster as an Assistant Music Editor. The job led to a permenant position with the composer, and Nick stayed on to work on Body of Lies.

In 2008, Nick moved across town to Remote Control Productions, where he was hired on to work for Trevor Morris (The Tudors, Immortals, The Borgias). In the year and a half at Trevor's studio, Nick produced the scores for television shows like The Tudors, Kings, and Pillars of the Earth. He also wrote additional music on several films. In 2009 Nick was asked to come work for Hans Zimmer. He took the job and started work on Sherlock Holmes as an engineer. Nick also worked on several other films with Hans including Inception, Megamind, and Pirates of the Caribbean 4.

In February of 2010, Nick opened his own Music Studio in Santa Monica, where he writes music for film, television, and video games. Nick says, "There is nothing I would rather do than write music. Nothing. Human beings are so full of emotion, sadness, anger, love. To be able to evoke such powerful emotions in another human being with your music - I wouldn't trade that for anything in the world."