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Beacon Fellowship

When :: Sunday March 25, 2012 at 12:30 p.m.
Where :: DC103
Lunch :: $5 (for those who participate)

Join us as we head "Inside the Beacon" for a Q&A with our guests: The Team behind SLING BABY!

Each year, Doritos holds the "crash the Superbowl" contest in which thousands of creatives submit their Doritos commercial entries. SLING BABY was no only one of two selected from the thousands to air, but was one of the favorites picked to win a $1 Million Dollar Prize!

Come and hear from IAN MAXWELL EYRE, SEAN GAFFNEY, & KEVIN WILSON!

View their winning commercial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GIeIpcRv7o

About our Guests
IAN MAXWELL EYRE: Ian spent his formative years in Toronto, the eldest son of English and Irish immigrants, then moved to Atlanta in 1980 with his parents and two siblings. He discovered filmmaking during his studies at Georgia Institute of Technology and subsequently earned a Screen Actors Guild card in 1993 for stunt performing on the TNT epic Andersonville. With the purchase of a Bolex 16mm film camera, he soon began making movies. Graduating in 1995 with a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering, he briefly worked for a defense contractor that tested unmanned aerial vehicles.

In 1999 Ian moved to Los Angeles to further his career in the film industry, first fabricating mechanical and pyrotechnic special effects and performing stunts, then taking opportunities to produce and direct. Ian performed and/or rigged stunts on Indiana Jones 4, Disturbia, and Spider-Man 3. He also coordinated stunts on Bro, starring Danny Trejo, The Perfect Family, starring Kathleen Turner, and The Stoning of Soraya M., starring Jim Caviezel and Shohreh Aghdashloo. All told, including commercials and short films, his stunt credits number over seventy. In addition, Ian supervised the special effects on multiple features including Land of Plenty, starring Michelle Williams, and The Pleasure Drivers, starring Lauren Holly. Ian also helped produce two feature films; the martial-arts drama Acts of Violence starring Leelee Sobieski and Ron Perlman, and the indie Western Vengeance Trail. Currently, Ian is focused on directing, his latest short film a gang actioner called “Run, Cholo! Run!” garnering him positive attention. He has directed a handful of short films as well as directed 2nd Unit action on Vengeance Trail and 2nd Unit photography on the South African thriller The Silent Fall.

Ian delights in the chaotic adventure of the filmmaking process and in the lives of those extreme creatives who share the journey. His passion for living life to the fullest leads to imaginative storytelling while his background in engineering, stunts and effects results in a structured, safe approach to action scenes and some inventive camera rigs. He has multiple scripts in various stages of development. His full credits can be found on imdb.com and stuntplayers.com.

Mission Statement: To create entertaining movies that contrast characters’ broken choices with extravagant redemption, while honoring people through sacrifice, generosity and respect.

Additional Training: Act One Writing For Hollywood 2001

Awards:

2009 168 Hour Film Project nomination for Best Comedy for “Joseph’s Wheel of Destiny.”
2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

SEAN GAFFNEY: Sean Gaffney is a playwright, screenwriter, director, teacher and producer.   He has authored twenty produced plays, two television pilots, three published books, as well as forty plus produced videos, animation projects and short films (including for Big Idea, SuperBook, Yake Films and Globalstage).   He received his BFA from Drake University, his MFA from Columbia University, and graduated from the Act One: Writing for Hollywood program.  Sean’s day job is as Story Administrator for Warner Bros. Features.
 

KEVIN WILSON: Kevin T. Willson directed the the 2012 Super Bowl commercial, Doritos "Sling Baby," which just won #1 on the first ever, Facebook USA Today Ad Meter! It also won #1 "Most Liked" and #1 "Most-Remembered" ads of the 2012 Super Bowl by Nielsen! Sling Baby also took the #1 Super Bowl spot on Ace Metrics. Doritos just hired Kevin to create a new Doritos commercial with the Lonely Island guys; Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. Doritos is also paying Kevin $1,000,000.00 for taking the top spot on the Facebook USA Today Ad Meter! Kevin will pay his Sling Baby team and use his portion of the winnings to further his career of directing comedies that everyone can enjoy, from commercials to feature films.

This is Kevin's third time in a row being a Top 5 Finalist in Crash the Super Bowl and going to the Super Bowl with Doritos! Two years ago his commercial he directed, "Casket" aired in the Super Bowl and was ranked by Neilsen as "The #1 Most-Recalled Ad." Last year his commercial he wrote and directed, "Birthday Wish," was a top 5 out of 5,000 submissions, Doritos purchased it, but it did not air in the game.

Kevin is a Southern California native. After graduatin from Biola University, he taught Special Education for a few years. He left teaching to pursue his dream of filmmaking and directed numerous documentaries for humanitarian organizations; including Acres of Love, Habitat for Humanity, and Free Wheelchair Mission, where his film took 1st place and received a standing ovation at The White House. Kevin has filmed in 14 different countries including Peru, Cambodia, and Afghanistan.

Kevin has won over a dozen awards for his directing work and LionsGate distributed his short film, "Beauty." Kevin loves creative collaboration and thrives on making the filmmaking experience fun for everyone. Writing comedy is also one of his passions. While he dreams of the big screen, his immediate goal is to tickle people's funny bones 30 seconds at a time. Kevin resides in a little known town known as 'Los Angeles.'