Kerry Candaele is the director and producer of several documentary films including Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony and the just-released Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Rebel Opera. The third of his Beethoven|Hero documentary trilogy, Beethoven's Last Will and Testament: In The Footsteps of The Late Quartets, will be released in 2024.

He is the author of Bound For Glory: African Americans from the Great Migration to the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1930, A History of the United States: America Voices, and Journeys With Beethoven, coauthored with Greg Mitchell. 

He has written for USA Today, Life, The Nation, Huffington Post, History Today, Seven, Irish America and Symphony. He has also recorded three albums, Gas Money, Icarus Descending and I Tasted The Madeleine.

Candaele is currently working on a historical memoir about growing up in small-town California in the 1960s, tentatively titled The Happiest Family On Earth.

He lives in Venice, California with his wife. He has three daughters, four brothers, and one childhood hero: Muhammad Ali.

Chris Bottoms  has several decades of film and video production experience in New York, Los Angeles and across the globe. After attending The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Chris has shot numerous feature films, commercials, music videos and documentaries, and trained under the legendary cinematographers Matt Mahurin, Crescenzo Notarile, and Matthew LeBatique. He is a member of The International Cinematographers Guild.

Caren McCaleb is a two-time Emmy winning documentary editor for her work on Profiles in Hope (PBS) which shared personal stories to help destigmatize mental health treatment. Recent projects include the dance documentary Muscle Memory, which premiered in 2022 and Holding Still, a short documentary about a decade long mediation group at Folsom Prison. She is currently working on Wednesdays in Mississippi about a secret civil rights project and the only one run by a national women’s organization.

A graduate of Cornell University, Caren lives and works in Los Angeles. When not editing, Caren makes funny faces from the things she sees while walking her dogs. Her artwork can be seen on Instagram @SidewalkFace.

Greg Blake Miller is the story producer for the Beethoven Hero trilogy. He edits the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Sunday quarterly, rjmagazine; teaches the Storytelling Workshop at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and mentors a diverse range of writers and artists. He has been named Nevada’s Outstanding Journalist; his recent national work has appeared in Red Canary and NPR online, and he is the author of the illustrated story collection Decemberlands. A former staff writer for The Moscow Times, he is currently completing a novel set in the 1960s Soviet Union.

Pam Gunther  is Executive Producer for Love &  Justice. Pam has been active in research, project coordination and community development on a wide range of local and international social-justice initiatives. For nearly seven years, she has served as the co-chair of a Global Justice Committee in Santa Barbara, California. Under her leadership, the committee most recently built a preschool in Rwanda, and has given the school ongoing support with educational materials and more.

A longtime vocational counselor for the State of California, Pam has written and lectured on trauma and vicarious trauma, and she is the founder and co-organizer of the annual Mayor’s Awards recognizing business and community leaders in disability access. An adjunct faculty member at two colleges, she has also served on the Tri-County United Nations Board.

Pam is a member of the International Documentary Association and the Executive Producer of Just Choice Productions. She is working on a documentary about the committed men behind Middle East peace-building projects, and the many challenges they face. Pam is a lifelong opera enthusiast and student of classical ballet. She holds an M.S. Degree from Western Oregon University and lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Liliam Molina-Cesareo is a World Languages Professor from Valparaíso, Chile. During her doctoral study at Cornell University she published articles mainly on Latin American Theater. She is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian and English and is a student of world history, politics, art and science. More recently, Liliam has used her language and production skills working with films in Chile, including line producing and translation for film and scholarly work.