Obsidere

David Lago

Eric Clark

New Mexico born filmmaker Donavon Thomas began acting and directing at an early age
of 8 years old. Using his mothers old 8mm film camera he directed cowboy movies in the
desert with friends. Donavon Thomas started Loaded Dice Films in 2005 with a goal of
making great movies at nominal prices that make a good size profit.

Donavon Thomas

Director

While best know for his role of Raul Gutierrez on The Young and the Restless, Emmy
Award-winning David Lago also won the recurring role of Jeremy on the WB's 7th Heaven.
David has guest-starred in a variety of television shows including Step By Step, Dangerous
Minds and Pacific Blue and was the star of Hollywood Safari, a series for the Animal Planet
network. Lago starred in his first film, Past Perfect at age 15. His next two films, Hollywood
Horror and Young Hollywood came at 18. Scine his 5 year run on the soap, Lago has starred
in eight films, A Couple of Days and Nights, Dead in the Water, The Essence of Depp, The
Wind and the Long Black Scarf, Afternoon, Patterns and Artistic License which has gone on
to 22 festivals, winning 11 awards, including best comedy. Obsidere is David's first acting
and producing project. He recently started a production company, Lago Films. David is an
accomplished writer, having written his own original screenplays and somehow still
manages to find the time play multiple instruments and sing in his band, "panacea".

Actor and Producer

Soon after graduating Cal State Northridge film school, Jefferson directed his first professional
short film Los Desaparecidos, which played at numerous film festivals worldwide. He has also
been a Director of Photography on many projects including the short White Russian and the
upcoming feature The Essence of Depp. He is now currently finishing post production on his
debut feature The Wind and the Long Black Scarf.

Jefferson Baron

April Wright is an emerging filmmaker selected into the prestigious Women in Film
mentorship program in 2005. Her action-thriller script THE MULE won first place in a
screenwriting competition for Script Magazine in 2004.

DEAD IN THE WATER, her debut independent feature film as writer and producer, was an
official selection of Shockerfest horror film festival in 2006. Her short film A FRIENDLY
GAME (writer, producer) was an official selection of the Los Angeles International Shorts
Fest in 2006. April's thriller spec script NO EXIT is currently in development for a theatrical
release to be directed by Gregory Dark (SEE NO EVIL).

In the summer of 2006, April directed her first short film INNER BEAUTY, and co-produced
two short films - the comedy BUBBLES by director Ana Zins which has been a top viewed
film on-line for the Steven Speilberg reality show "On the Lot," and action short SCALPEL by
director Donavon Thomas, which was filmed on location in the New Mexico desert. She is
also Co-Producer on Mr. Thomas' feature film NUCLEAR currently in production.

She is currently directing her first narrative feature LAYOVER, which is shooting end of
March on location in Montana. April's also in production on her documentary on drive-in
movie theaters called GOING ATTRACTIONS: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
DRIVE-IN AS AN AMERICAN ICON.

The past five years April has been involved with the Independent Spirit Awards and
programming for the Los Angeles Film Festival, the American Film Institute's AFI Fest, and
the Sundance Film Festival. She is a semi-finalist judge for the Angelus Awards, a festival that
focuses on student films and the Independent TV Fest, a festival that showcases
independently produced television pilots.

April has an undergraduate degree from Bradley University and a master's from the Kellogg
School of Management at Northwestern University. She previously worked as a business
consultant and in new media and video game development for Mattel Toys. She is a member
of Film Independent, Women in Film, and the International Documentary Association and
currently serves as Co-President on the board of directors of the Northwestern University
Entertainment Alliance in Los Angeles.

April Wright

See April's work and credits...

Leslie Ortabasi has been a professional editor for over 10 years. She has worked on projects such as
Anderson's Cross, which won Best Feature Film at the Black Atlanta Film Festival; the
OMNI-award winning documentary On the Wings of the Monarch, which can currently be seen on
The Documentary Channel; and the independent short Valentine Man, which went on to win the
Bronze Award at WorldFest Houston Film Festival for Best Original Dramatic Short. She also
edited the feature film A Lousy Ten Grand, which is currently enjoying an international theatrical
and DVD release; Culture, a web commercial, which won the EMA Creative Excellence Award;
and In Search of the Pantanal, which can currently be seen on The Documentary Channel.

Her other projects include the feature film Banged Up, which released on DVD and other ancillary
markets; the independent short Meddle and Steal, was an official selection at the Palm Beach
International Film Festival and the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival,
and Love's Resurrected was an official selection at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

Leslie is also the co-founder of The Dreaming Tree where she produces and edits feature films,
documentaries, short films, music videos, commercials, and more.

Leslie Ortabasi