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THE UNHEARD MUSIC

The filmmakers--

W.T. MORGAN (Director, Associate Producer) is an L.A. native, growing up in un-X-ish Brentwood. He attended Stanford where he graduated in 1975 with an interdisciplinary major in Modern Thought and Institutions, a degree he characterizes as "completely useless". After graduation he spent several years writing: he wrote a script "about television and terrorism", ghosted a novel set in the turn-of-the-century Middle East, worked for the Tom Hayden-Jane Fonda Campaign for Economic Democracy (later he made a short political documentary for the C.E.D. about rent control), and lived off option money. Since starting work on "The Unheard Music" he's pretty much the same things, except for the last five years every extra minute and every extra cent has been poured into the project. Morgan lives in Encino, on part of what used to be the Douglas Fairbanks estate. He's an onniverous reader, and is a student of philosophy, particularly the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. "Heraclitus said that everything was in flux," Morgan says. He taught that everything is constantly changing. I think he would've been an X fan."

CHRIS BLAKELY (Producer) is a fifth generation Californian, born in Santa Monica, whose after-school jobs included working in Hollywood grocery store where, he recalls "bagging groceries for Broderick Crawford." He was a classics major at Stanford, studied classical film in Italy, and returned to the states determined to enter the motion picture industry. Instead, he enrolled in law school because, as he put it, "everybody said 'you can't just start making movies. Get a law degree and you can do anything.'" In retrospect Blakely doesn't regard that as particularly good advice, though he eventually got his law degree from U.S.C. At U.S.C. he was president of the Entertainment Law Society. While still in law school Blakely began writing for films, his first job being to script a documentary for a Hollywood producer.When work began on "The Unheard Music" in 1979, he was already familiar with basics of movie making, but he got his real education on the job--"Everybody did everything on 'Unheard Music'. I was pulling focus, loading the film magazines, anything you can imagine." Blakely put his hard-earned knowledge to good use, and has been doing general production work on commercials. Recently, Blakely has also worked as a professional still photographer. Blakely is married and lives in Venice Beach with his wife, Elizabeth, a business and tax lawyer.

EVERETT GREATON (Co-Producer) grew up in New England, and came to California to attend Stanford Unversity, where he majored in film. Greaton graduated in 1975 and worked in a San Francisco law firm as a paralegal, spending his free time traveling through Mexico and Latin America. He came to Los Angeles at the request of his Stanford friend Chris Blakely, who'd asked him to work on "The Unheard Music". Greaton, single, lives in Hollywood.

ALIZABETH FOLEY (Associate Producer, Production Designer) is a Glendale native who attended Pasadena Community College, studying biology and chemistry. She acted in student films; her appearance in "Unheard Music" is her most extensive film role.

KAREM JOHN MONSOUR (Director of Photography) was born in Mississippi but grew up in Los Angeles, attending the U.S.C. film school. He's worked as a sound recordist as well as a cinematographer; his favorite credit is "The Dreamer That Remains", a portrait of musician-composer Henry Parch, on which he served as Director of Photography. In recent years, Monsour has gained a reputation as Hollywood's leading expert in the specialized field of shooting computer screens for film and TV, and holds the world's record for the number of computers he's shot simultaneously: 200 for an Apple commercial. Monsour is married with two children and lives in Hollywood.