Malcolm Wright

Writer, Director

After studies in Marine Biology and Film at the University of Miami, Malcolm engaged in a successful visual effects career contributing to productions such as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: Return of The King and King Kong, I Robot, Charlotte's Web, The Waterhorse, and James Cameron's Avatar.

After spending 10 years crafting award winning visual effects for the feature film, television, documentary and video game medias, he founded Quiet Heart Film, feeling an urgency to direct his energy towards stories beneficial to unlocking the unique knots of our times.

The grand son of celebrated African American author Richard Wright, Malcolm brings an international, literary, historical and political perspective to his creative projects – and seeks to inspire and empower individuals and communities to get involved with creative solutions to the challenges we face.

Jennifer Scheer

Producer

Jennifer has been working in the film industry for over 14 years, and began her career learning both production and visual effects at Pacific Title Digital in California.

In 2002, Jennifer worked at Disney's The Secret Lab alongside Oscar winning vfx supervisor Hoyt Yeatman, and producer David James. When the company shut its doors in 2003, Jennifer worked with Yeatman and James at their newly formed production company Whamaphram, helping to produce a teaser trailer and pitch for the live action/CG feature film G-Force, which revolves around a top secret unit of the NSA, comprised of intelligent talking animals. In 2005 G-Force was optioned by Jerry Bruckeheimer along with Disney, and in 2007, officially sold to Disney. The feature film is currently in production with Yeatman directing, and due for release in 2009.

In 2003, Jennifer produced Delirium, an 18 minute 35mm short directed by Kevin Castro, which hit the film festival circuit in 2005, opening at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.

In 2007-2008, Jennifer produced her 2nd short film, Eel Girl, directed by Paul Campion, which is currently in the film festival circuit, and has been accepted to festivals in Australia, UK, USA, and NZ. It has one it's first award of Best Visual Effects, at Sydneys' A Night of Horror Film Festival.

Jennifer's range of credits include work on many Hollywood blockbuster films, including James Cameron's True Lies, Titanic, Heat, The Fifth Element, Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, King Kong and James Cameron's Avatar.