Award-winning filmmaker and photographer ML Lincoln began her political activism as a teenager. She participated in street theater played out in corporate lobbies in New York City, was part of the Vietnam War protest that closed down NY's New School for Social Research, and worked with underprivileged kids during the Harlem riots of the mid-sixties.

Although she went to film school in both NY and LA, and worked on productions at the American Film Institute in the late 1970's, she chose to continue her education and work in the field of photography. In 1990 she earned a degree in photography from Prescott College and moved to Tucson, Arizona to work at the University of Arizona's Center For Creative Photography.

At that time ML received grants from the Arizona Governor's Office of Drug Policy and Arizona Commission on the Arts to develop the 'More Exposure Project'. This decade long project made a profound impact by putting cameras into the hands of "kids at risk."

ML has traveled with a still and movie camera her whole life. In 1992, she went to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to hike over the Pamir Mountains , documenting lives that are now shredding with the strife of political mayhem in the region. One of her murals from this series was purchased for the Arizona's Governor's Art Award.

ML enrolled in the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking in Sedona, Arizona to learn the art of documentary filmmaking to tell the story of her late husband's battle with cancer called On The Edge Of Time. Through the film school ML met some of the best filmmakers in the West and has since added some of them to her team for Lines Across The Sand.

In 2007 her documentary Drowning River celebrated the environmental activism of Katie Lee. At 90 years old Katie continues her efforts to take down Glen Canyon Dam thus freeing the Colorado River to run its course through Glen Canyon down to the Gulf of California once again. The film has screened at festivals throughout the country and has received Juror's Honorable Mention at the Taos Mountain Film Festival, Honorable Mention at the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival and Best Picture/Best Director at the Zaki Gordon Film Festival.

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As an activist for the American Indian Movement and major environmental organizations, she was drawn to the art of film as the most effective medium to expose the current environmental and social injustices still being perpetrated on the First Nations. In the performing arts since childhood she won a college Emmy for her music video, Circle of the Path, a song that she wrote and recorded to honor the 500-year resistance of the indigenous nations of North America. She produced and edited Mother Water (2002) for Hopi Director, LeAnn Lucero, screened at the 2003 World Conference on Water in Kyoto, Japan; edited ML Lincoln's award-winning Drowning River; edited and narrated Akwasasne Carriers of Culture for the Smithsonian Institute; edited Woody Simmons music video Hanalei: and narrated and edited Che Ah Chi for Native American Director, RJ Joseph. She has also received festival awards for her Blues music video, Night Train, recently selected to screen at the Cannes Independent Film Festival. She has completed certificates in Documentary Film and Digital Storytelling from Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent filmmaking as well as Masters in Documentary Film and Digital Storytelling from Prescott College.

The first job that lured Ed George into documentary filmmaking was being a production assistant on the historic documentary "Woodstock." After receiving an MFA in Film and Television from Carnegie Mellon University, Ed has become a well-known cinematographer. He shoots in wild and scenic places for National Geographic, Discovery, BBC and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). Ed's cinematography credits include; "Trout Grass," "The Grand Canyon," "The Crocodiles of the Orinoco," "Yellowstone," "Tales of Belize" and "Lethal and Dangerous."

After receiving his BS in Mass Communications from Illinois State University, James Frazier has worked for over 20 years in post-production facilities in Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis and Phoenix. His clients include numerous ad agencies, independent filmmakers, and a host of others. He is the recipient of the ProMax Gold Award and numerous Telly's. Some past clients include: FOX Television, CBS, Starz/Encore, Hallmark, MADtv, Paisley Park, Allstate, and JWT. Currently he operates own design studio for film, television, and web content.

Rich started his career as a syndicated cartoonist with Tribune Media Services in Chicago. His work ran in 45 newspapers for over five years. He then traded print for the digital world and now combines his cartooning skills with script writing and animation. Currently he is developing several shows with Curious Pictures and is developing projects with several major film and television studios. Rich divides his time between Fortune 500 client work, show development, and creating animation for the festival circuit.

Bryan Reinhart is coordinator of the documentary program at the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking in Sedona, Arizona. Reinhart teaches documentary filmmaking, as well as master seminars in editing. He has worked in the entertainment industry in a variety of positions including producer, director, and editor for both film and television. Reinhart produced the nationally televised "American Highways" for Public Television. In the 1980's, Reinhart started his own television production company and produced corporate and industrial projects for Fortune 500 companies as well as documentaries. Several of his documentaries were aired nationally on public television. "Classroom Under The Canopy", filmed in Costa Rica, was produced in cooperation with Indiana University and the Indianapolis Zoo. "The Eyes of Nepal" aired in Australia and the US.

Kristi Frazier provides online exposure for independent artists and creative companies. Presently, she work with numerous animation talent, fine artist Joe Sorren, ML Lincoln Films and the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking. She is passionate about facilitating connections that further creative expression and meaningful dialog within our global culture.

Prior to this, she spent four years as Director of Development at a full-service post production company in Denver and five years at the acclaimed Celluloid Studios as a traditional animation producer where she worked with advertising agencies such as Foote, Cone & Belding, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, DDB Needham and TBWA/Chiat/Day. She has been a marketing coordinator for a large corporation and started her career working in commercial film production in a variety of capacities.

Kristi received her undergraduate degree from Northern Arizona University and her master's in mass media from Prescott College.

Cosy Sheridan has been called "one of the era's finest and most thoughtful singer/songwriters." She has played everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Philadelphia Folk Festival and is the winner of numerous songwriting awards. Her music has appeared in best-selling author Robert Fulghum's book, Third Wish, as well as on The Dr. Demento Show and NPR's Car Talk. Now, in her critically acclaimed new CD Eros (WindRiver), Sheridan weaves a cycle of songs about love.

Together with her partner TR Ritchie, an award-winning songwriter himself, this is one of the most entertaining and intelligent touring acts on the folk concert circuit. Sheridan is a storyteller as well as songwriter; she moves seamlessly from lyrical story into song and back again. Her modern renditions of mythology (meet Hades as a biker) have won her fans and praise from the press. The Cornell Folksong Society says, "Sheridan is frank, feisty, sublimely and devilishly funny. She fuses myth with modern culture; Persephone with Botox."

She first appeared on the national folk scene in 1992 when she won the songwriting contests at both the Kerrville Folk Festival and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and released her critically acclaimed CD, Quietly Led on Waterbug Records. Folk Music Quarterly wrote: "When she's accepting her Grammy, we can say we knew her when."

She has released 9 CDs and written a one-woman show: The Pomegranate Seed - An Exploration of Appetite, Body Image and Myth in Modern Culture, and co-founded The Moab Folk Camp with Ritchie. She is a regular songwriting and performance teacher at adult music camps across the country, among them The Puget Sound Guitar Workshop in Washington and The Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina.