John Carlos Frey spent over a year visiting and living amongst the migrants of Deer Canyon. He traveled alone carrying all of his sound, camera and lighting equipment. Many of the migrants were initially reluctant to talk to Mr. Frey. As his trips to the canyon became more frequent, the migrants began to trust and invite him into their homes for a personal look at their lives.

John Carlos Frey Producer/Director is a native of Mexico. His directorial debut, “The Gatekeeper,” garnered ten national and international film festival awards winning “Best Film” or “Best Director” at nine different festivals. The film has also spawned a book deal with Rowan and Littlefield Publishing and is currently in DVD distribution through Screen Media and Universal Home Video. Kevin Thomas, of The Los Angeles Times writes, “John Carlos Frey displays passion and eloquence in The Gatekeeper.” He has also just completed the feature film script, “The Lone Star,” the true-life story of the first Mexican American to play college football in the state of Texas (1963), Ines Perez.

Mr. Frey's work has also been recognized by Amnesty International, The Anti Defamation League, Human Rights Watch, National Immigration Forum, National Center for Farmworker Health, The League of United Latin American Citizens, The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), The Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace and Justice as well as the Hispanic Congressional Caucus in Washington, D.C.

Jack Lorenz Executive Producer started his career in the film business in the late 1980’s working for Roger Corman. He worked on several low budget features before being hired by Vestron Pictures as Vice President of Production working on films such as “The Rainbow” starring Glenda Jackson and “Midnight Crossing” starring Faye Dunaway. He also worked extensively in Europe and Asia during that time. After Vestron Universal Pictures recruited him as a consultant for their non-union films. In 1991 he was hired by the Walt Disney Studios to run the production arm of Buena Vista Pictures. Buena Vista Pictures was set up to produce non-union and lower budget films to feed the studio distribution arm. While there he supervised the production of approximately twelve films.

After Buena Vista Lorenz became an independent producer working with Linda Lavin at Big Deal Inc. which had productions deals at both Warner Brothers and New World Entertainment. Lorenz produced the critically acclaimed cable film “The Rose Garden” starring Mary Tyler Moore and Linda Lavin. The film was the highest rated film ever on the ABC Family Channel.

In 1995 Lorenz was hired by Peter Guber to run the production arm of his new entity, Mandalay Entertainment. While there was responsible for the development and or production of twenty feature films and television movies. Among the more successful were, “Donnie Brasco”, starring Al Pacino, “Seven Years in Tibet”, starring Brad Pitt, and “I Know What You Did Last Summer”.

In late 1999 Lorenz retuned to independent producing. He produced “Vampires Los Muertos”, starring Jon Bon Jovi for Screen Gems pictures as well as the self financed and distributed,” The Gatekeeper”. “The Gatekeeper” became a critical and film festival success, winning 9 best pictures awards at film festivals across the country. The film is now available on DVD through Screen Media and Universal Studios and has been sold in most major territories around the world.

Scott Ryan Johnson Music Score undertook graduate studies in musical studies in New York at Purchase College, Columbia University and The Juilliard School of Music, where he studied composition, as well harpsichord, piano, and organ performance with Anthony Newman, Sophia Rosoff and Trevor Pinnock.

While living in New York he produced and edited several dozen classical CDs for Newport Classics, BMG Classics, Arabesque Records and Sony Classical. His work as a producer and editor includes the first CD recordings of Beethoven's Piano Concerti on Period Instruments with fortepianist Anthony Newman, several recordings of the flautist Eugenia Zuckerman with Mr. Newman, and the legendary Mozart pianist Artur Balsam's final two recordings.

Since returning to Los Angeles in 2000, Scott spends his time teaching piano, harpsichord, organ and composition, in addition to enjoing a career as a composer and performer which included a benefit harpsichord concert in July 2005, and most recently as composer and performer of the score for John Carlos Frey's film "The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon".

Present projects include working with other local early music specialists to develop a series of early music and chamber music concerts on period instruments. Further information about Scott's musical activities can be found on www.scottmusic.net.