Andrew Neel – Co-director
Andrew has spent over three years researching and filming various war gaming and creative re-enactment groups in the United States. Neel’s first 35mm short film billy528, a drama about online romance, was bought and distributed by Hypnotic and went on to win Best Experimental Drama at the New York Film and Video Festival in 2002 before airing on Showtime in 2003.

Neel started working in film in 2000, and 2001 when he produced two short films for filmmaker Dan Harris (writer, X Men II). He founded his own production company, SeeThink Productions, in 2002. He has also directed commercials and music videos.

Luke Meyer - Co-director
Prior to co-directing Darkon, Meyer co-directed and co-produced 32 Acres, a documentary about a community in Missouri displaced by a Wal-Mart shopping center, currently in postproduction. Previously he has worked with director Bennett Miller (Academy Award Nominee, Capote, 2005) on a film about an Indian meditation teacher, and with Emmy Award-winning documentarian Ric Burns (New York: A Documentary Film, 1999) on his film biography, Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (2002), as well as on the forthcoming biographies of Andy Warhol and Eugene O'Neill.

Ethan Palmer, Tom Davis - Producers
SEETHINK PRODUCTIONS was founded in 2002 by Andrew Neel along with billy528, Neel's first film. Since then, SeeThink has expanded to include the work of four directors in a variety of commercials, music videos, shorts and feature films. With the know-how to produce low budget, high production value content, the SeeThink collective can focus specifically on material that has integrity and marketplace viability.

Recent work includes the short films Initiation (2004 - a Cinemantics short film), Helen & Vincent (2005 - official selection Max Oph?ls Film Festival) and music videos for The Stills and TV on the Radio; a feature-length biopic on the life and times of painter Alice Neel will be completed in 2006. After completing Darkon, SeeThink declared itself as a country on the realm's map and presently controls 13 hexes of land.

Christopher Kikis, Thoma Kikis, Nicolas Levis, Cherise Wolas, Alan Zelentz - Producers
OVIE ENTERTAINMENT is a feature film company located in New York City, founded and managed by five creative producers. The best of world cinema, of Hollywood, and of the independents inspires them create original movies and other media collaborations.

Ovie has two simple objectives: to provide the market with high quality content that is cutting-edge and commercially viable, and to create a child-through-adult franchise that recognizes and requests the Ovie brand. Ovie is dedicated to achieving these objectives by aggressively pursuing new and established artistic talent from around the world, by creating a warm, enthusiastic and collaborative environment, and by setting the professional bar high for all our productions.

In addition to co-producing and executive producing Darkon, Ovie is currently co-producing, for both the European and American markets, the screen adaptation of The Funeral Party, a novel by Russian Booker Prize-winning author, Ludmila Ulitskaya. The Funeral Party, a black comedy, is scheduled to begin principal photography in New York City during summer 2006.

Upcoming feature films in Ovie's first slate of productions are the screen adaptation of Guggenheim Award-winner Peter Cameron's acclaimed novel, Andorra, a psychological thriller with a perversely comic edge, and Frog Juice, a colorful, kid-friendly family film, screenplay by Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist Katherine W. Miller.

Karl Schroder - Cinematographer
Karl Schroder was born and raised in upstate NY. After graduating from Ithaca College with a film degree in 1998, he came to NYC and made his start in the film business in the grip/electric department. Since then, he has come to own his own complete Lighting and Grip company. His resume as a DP includes commercials, fine art multimedia, and music videos. DARKON is his first full length film/documentary effort as a cinematographer. He is currently the Lighting Director for a new children's TV show on PBS called "It's a Big Big World". The show is pioneering a new technology called Shadowmation which combines live action puppetry, and computer generated animation.

Hillary Spera - Cinematographer
Hillary Spera was born and raised in Stowe, Vermont. Her cinematography work has been featured in music videos, narrative and documentary films with screenings in festivals from Palm Beach to Tribeca, including a nomination for the 2003 ASC Conrad L. Hall Heritage student award for cinematography. She is currently working on both a documentary feature on the life of performer Billie Holiday and an experimental narrative feature in Boston. Hillary resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Brad Turner - Editor
After childhood stints in Germany and throughout the southern United States, Brad moved to New York in 1997 where he attended Columbia University. He received a B.A. in Film Studies alongside his friend Andrew Neel, who would go on to found Brooklyn-based SeeThink, a production company with which Brad has been working for a number of years. In 2002, Brad took up residence at Post Millennium, a commercial editorial house in Manhattan, and has been working for the last few years on various projects for clients like L'Oreal, MasterCard, and MTV, in addition to numerous music videos for recording artists like TV on the Radio, Twista, and the Stills.

Jonah Rapino - Composer
Jonah Rapino spent his formative years in Toledo, Ohio, where he studied violin starting at the age of five. He moved to Boston in 1993 to attend the Boston University School for the Arts, where he received a bachelor's degree in classical violin performance. He then promptly left the classical world and began a project called the New Millennium String Ensemble which experimented with electronic music, electricified violin, multimedia performance, and other mediums of artistic expression. In 1999 he started his own record label called Massive Distribution to promote his and other artists music. Currently, Jonah has been spending his time with the Devil Music Ensemble, composing music for silent film, modern classical ensemble, and their three-piece rock outfit.

Many thanks to
THE DARKON WARGAMING CLUB, INC.
www.darkon.org