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Nikki Silva (partnered with Davia Nelson) is one-half of The Kitchen Sisters. Her productions include the NPR series: Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project. The Kitchen Sisters’groundbreaking national radio collaborations create richly layered, highly produced, intimate and provocative radio documentaries that chronicle untold stories of American culture and traditions. The Kitchen Sisters have won many honors including multiple Peabody Awards and are best-selling authors. In addition, Nikki teaches at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is a museum curator and exhibit consultant.

Angela Featherstone, an actress originally from Ontario, Canada, recently finished principal shooting for “Underbelly” an indie feature costarring Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Josh Stewart, and Chris Browning. Angela starred in “Mother” an award winning short film directed by Sian Heder for which she received a Methodfest nomination for “Best Actress in a Short.” Angela also recently starred as Kris in the first two seasons of Logo network’s original series “Exes & Ohs” (nominated 2008 GLAAD Award Comedy Series). Television viewers will also know Angela as Chloe, the “Xerox girl” with whom David Schwimmer’s Ross “cheated” on Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel or as Suzanne Pell in the final season of “The Guardian” on the CBS network. Other film credits include “The Soloist”, “What Doesn’t Kill You”, “200 Cigarettes”, Zero Effect”, “The Wedding Singer”, “Dark Angel”, “Army of Darkness”. In addition to her acting career, Angela has written for JANE, TIME and FLARE magazines.

Edward Feldman is a filmmaker, actor and editor. His most recent short film, “A Day’s Work,” screened at over 80 festivals and won Best Short Film at Trieste Film Fest, Savannah Film Festival and the Jury Prize at SF Shorts 2009. Edward is currently in preproduction on his next film, “The Phonographer,” scheduled to shoot early 2010. He has also worked with filmmaker, Caveh Zahedi, on the feature “I am a Sex Addict” and has directed several commercials and music videos.