Rupa Magge - Writer
Jason Wong - Director
Justin Bell - Producer

Rupa Magge is a graduate of Dartmouth College and USC School of Cinematic Arts Graduate Screenwriting Program. During her first year at USC, Rupa was awarded the writing division's Gene Autry Writing Scholarship. In addition, one of her short scripts, "Second Best" was chosen by the Peter Stark faculty to be produced. During her second year, Rupa was the recipient of the CBS/NAACP Writing Fellowship and was accepted to the prestigious CBS Diversity Institute Writing Mentoring Program under the guidance of Carole Kirschner and Christopher Davidson. Additionally, Rupa was named a finalist for the Disney/ABC TV Fellowship.

Rupa was also hired as a writer for Fox Television Studio's Think Tank to create new media projects. Rupa has always loved to write. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies and won several international poetry competitions. Her passion has only grown since then. Prior to USC, Rupa was actively involved in entertainment. After winning the Rockefeller Fellowship for excellence in media at Dartmouth, Rupa entered the field interning for the Executive Producer of CBS News, Susan Zirinsky, helping her research stories for the show 48 Hours. During her time at CBS, she discovered and developed a story that became a highly viewed full hour segment. In addition to 48 Hours, Rupa also interned for CBS's Young and the Restless.

After graduating from college, Rupa moved over to the talent side of the business, where she started working as the Assistant to the Director at KPA Management, one of New York's top talent minority management companies. Rupa, also an actress, attained representation and made appearances in daytime programming. Her experiences in acting, in combination with the scarcity of roles for Indian actors, lead Rupa back to pursue her first passion: writing.

Currently, she works on the hit ABC show, LOST. Ultimately, Rupa wants to have a successful television writing career creating and developing characters that people fall in love with and want to tune in to watch on a weekly basis.

Jason Wong is a multi-talented writer-director and MFA candidate at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. In his time at USC, his student film "New Aging", has been actively traveling the U.S. film festival circuit and has already garnered numerous awards, including "Best Live Action Film" at the UCLA ShortTakes festival and a nom for "Best Comedy" at the Long Beach Action on Film Festival.

In addition to writing and directing his own projects and completing his first two feature length screenplays at USC, Jason has also produced a host of other films, including 2008's "Get Jumped In," an intimate documentary that explores the familial and sociological underpinnings of Asian-American street gang life. "Get Jumped In" was recently selected to be screened in the prestigious First Look Film Festival at the Director's Guild of America and is being prepared for additional screenings all across the country.

Upon graduating, Jason plans to continue writing and directing as he transitions into feature film production.

Originally from Chicago, Justin is Director of Development for the Academy Award-winning Producer Edward Saxon (Silence of the Lambs, Adaptation, Philadelphia). His most recent film with Mr. Saxon is an untitled Focus Features comedy directed by Sam Mendes and starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, slated for released in 2009.

Bell is a graduate of USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program (MFA). While at USC, he received the Peter Stark Filmmaker Award for writing/producing “A Love of Mime Own” - a romantic comedy about a mime and a clown who fall in love. Also at USC he was award the USC Special Project Grant for “Second Best” - written by Rupa Magge and directed by Jason Wong - which goes into production January 2009.

Bell received his undergraduate degree from Wheaton College (IL), and in 2006 received a Master of Divinity (M.Div) in Theology and Art from Fuller Seminary. While at Fuller he produced the City of the Angels Film Festival (2004-2006) at the Directors Guild of America. He also served as associate director of the Reel Spirituality Film Institute, where he facilitated a creative faith & film think tank and consulted with Hollywood studios on grassroots marketing campaigns to religious audiences.

In addition to feature and short films, Bell has written, directed and/or produced over 75 films and videos for multimedia events, art installations, organizations, and various artistic outlets. His other credits for distributed short films include: Today is Friday (2008, producer), First Bass (2008, associate producer), and Marwa (2007 editor).