Meet Our Team

Chris McIntosh

Chris Oz McIntosh is an award-winning filmmaker.  After his short family/fantasy film MOVIE MAGIC won at BisonBison in 2016, the film went on to screen and win at many professional-level festivals across the country. Currently, Chris is directing his latest short film, Never Too Late.  Other recent major projects include editing the upcoming sci-fi/comedy feature film Frackers, as well as producing video for Jabee: The Life & Times, featuring Emmy winning hip hop artist Jabee.  He is the Program Director of the Young Performer Academy at The Actor Factory, where he also teaches filmmaking at summer film camps and has created and cut more than 500 custom demo scenes for actors of all ages. He holds a BA in Broadcast & Electronic Media from the University of Oklahoma.

Sharon Garrison

​Sharon Garrison 
A proud member of both SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association, Sharon is an actor, acting coach, director and producer based in Dallas. She holds a BFA in Theatre/TV and a MS in Media Studies from Texas Christian University. She has served on the Dallas-Fort Worth SAG-AFTRA Local board for many years and chairs the ProACT Conservatory committee, developing training programs for professional actors throughout Texas. She has been seen in Game of Silence, Del Shores’ Sordid Lives the Series, and Drop Dead Diva, and the recent films such as Bomb City, A Very Sordid Wedding, and Pitch Perfect 2, among others. She also stays active in Dallas Producers Association and Women in Film Dallas, serving on the WIFD Grants and Scholarships committee which offers grants and scholarships to high school and college women filmmakers. Sharon and her husband, Bill Mervis, have a production company, Velvet Ribbon Entertainment.

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Joshua Hope

Joshua Hope
Josh, a native of Waynoka OK, got his start working on several popular network television shows (American Idol, The Biggest Loser, The Jerry Springer Show).  He has written, directed and produced a number of independent films including the feature films, The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man and Wild Blue, which have now won many awards at film festivals. Josh is the Founder of the Twister Alley Film Festival in Woodward, OK and Chicago’s Windy City Film Festival.  He also currently serves as the Director of Programming for the Gig Harbor Film Festival outside Seattle, WA.