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Ed Harris has been nominated for four Academy Awards. He has starred in more than fifty feature films and earned the reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time. 

Harris attended New York's Columbia University, where he played football. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting and got his first taste of critical acclaim for his role as astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff. In 2000, he made his directorial debut with Pollack in which Marcia Gay Harden won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Harris recently finished directing his second film, Appaloosa, starring Viggo Mortenson and Renee Zellwegger.

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Clyde Winston

At age 19, Brad Dourif quit his hometown college and headed to New York City. During the early 1970s, Dourif appeared in a number of plays Off Broadway. His portrayal of Billy Bibbit in Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) earned him a Golden Globe, a British Academy Film Award, and an Oscar nomination.

 Dourif has appeared in over one hundred features and television series including John Huston's Wise Blood (1979), Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Mississippi Burning (1988), and Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. 



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A native of Rochester, NY, Forster made his professional debut in the two-character Broadway production of Mrs. Dally Has A Lover. In a career spanning five decades, he has worked with Marlon Brando, Morgan Freeman, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Antonio Banderas, Mary Tyler Moore, Gary Sinise and many others. In 1998 Forster was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown.

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Grandma Eleanor

The 1955 Miss America, her feature film debut was Linda Davis in 4D Man, starring Robert Lansing. She portrayed Catwoman in Batman (1966), co-starred in the television series The Time Tunnel, Star Trek, and opposite John Wayne and Rock Hudson in The Undefeated. She also played opposite Andy Griffith in Angel in My Pocket (1969) and played IMF spy Tracy Fielding in six Mission: Impossible episodes. She had a long co-starring role as private detective Betty Jones in the 1973–1980 series Barnaby Jones.

In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared on Circus of the Stars four times.  In the 1990s, she appeared as herself on an episode of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and in 1996, Meriwether took on the role of Ruth Martin on the soap opera All My Children. She also appeared Off Broadway in the interactive comedy, Grandma Sylvia's Funeral.  She is also lending her voice in an upcoming video game for the PlayStation 3.

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Mac

Evan Jones is quickly becoming one of the finest character actors of his generation. He is best known for his roles as Cheddar Bob in 8 Mile and as PFC Dave Fowler in Jarhead. He has worked with actors Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal, Eminem and directors Werner Herzog, Curtis Hanson, Sam Mendes and others. Evan is currently co-starring in the ABC series October Road.



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Lane Winston

Logan was born and raised in Northern California. He played baseball in the Minor Leagues before pursuing a career in filmmaking. Logan wrote, produced, and directed Touching Home with his identical twin brother, Noah. Touching Home is Logan’s acting debut.



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Noah was born and raised in Northern California. He played college baseball before pursuing a career in filmmaking. Noah wrote, produced, and directed Touching Home with his identical twin brother, Logan. Touching Home is Noah’s acting debut.



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A Bay Area native, Ishiah Benben is a talented young actress with considerable stage experience. In 2004, Ishiah was accepted as one of only twenty-four students nationwide to study at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company. Shortly after, she starred alongside Ed Asner in the two-person play King David and his Concubine. Touching Home marks Ishiah’s feature film debut.

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Brownie

Brandon Hanson grew up north of San Francisco and after breaking his leg motocross racing, he decided to take up acting as a hobby while he learned to walk again.  By the time he was healed he had made the decision to move to Los Angeles and become an actor full time.

After a starring role in Tim Robbins’ The Actors’ Gang show Bury the Dead he has gone on to work with Matthew Perry, Hillary Swank and Ben Foster in Birds of America premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2008, Michelle Monaghan and Benjamin Bratt in Trucker premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2008, and Lou Taylor Pucci and Jeff Daniels in The Answer Man premiering at Sundance 2009.

Logan & Noah Miller - Producers/Writers/Directors
Logan Miller and Noah Miller, identical twins raised as roofers in Northern California, dreamt of being baseball stars. When that dream failed, they found professional success as bingo callers. Always staying together, the brothers were briefly suckered into the world of modeling, somehow avoided the circus, and finally, with 17 credit cards, pursued a career in filmmaking. In 2006, the brothers were awarded the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant, which led to their screenwriting, directing, and acting debut release of Touching Home (starring four-time Academy Award nominee Ed Harris) Spring 2010. Their bestselling memoir, Either You’re In Or You’re In the Way (HarperCollins, 2009) chronicles the comic adventure behind the making of Touching Home. The Miller Brothers have appeared on the Today Show, Fox News, NPR, and various other national media outlets. The Miller Brothers live in Northern California and hold no degrees. 

Robert Dalva – Editor
Robert Dalva is part of an elite group of Northern California filmmakers. After graduating from USC Film School, Robert moved to San Francisco where he was one of the founding members of Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios. In 1980, Robert was nominated for an Academy Award for editing The Black Stallion. Some of his editing credits include The Black Stallion, Jumanji, October Sky, Jurassic Park III, and Hidalgo. In 1983, Robert directed The Black Stallion Returns. 

Ricardo Jacques Galé - Director of Photography
Ricardo Jacques Galé attended USC Film School. Roger Corman gave Galé his first shot as DP. With over 25 features on his resume, Galé’s projects have won numerous honors including the François Chalais Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the International Critics Award at the Toronto Film Festival. 

Martin Davich – Composer
Emmy Award-winning composer Martin Davich has written music for film & television for over 20 years. His credits include the hit TV series ER and Beverly Hills 90210 and many others.

Richard Hymns - Supervising Sound Editor
Richard Hymns came to the United States in 1978. He has won three Academy Awards and been nominated seven times. He has worked with directors Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus, Robert Redford, David Fincher, Ang Lee, George Lucas, John Hughes, Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Philip Kaufman, Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Smith, James Cameron, Roman Polanski and many others. He lives in Northern California and currently works at Skywalker Ranch.

Mark Berger - Re-Recording Mixer
Born in San Francisco, Mark Berger has over 150 feature film credits. He has won four Academy Awards (Apocolypse Now, The Right Stuff, Amadeus, and The English Patient). 

Chris Boyes - Re-Recording Mixer
Chris Boyes has won four Academy Awards (Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and King Kong). He has been nominated 10 times. He was born and raised in Northern California and currently works at Skywalker Ranch.

Brian Vail – Executive Producer
Brian Vail’s passion for art and film inspired him to help the Miller brothers achieve their dream of making their acclaimed debut film, Touching Home. As one of the former board members of the Crocker Art Museum and an avid collector of Bay Area figurative art, Vail is especially drawn to the local art scene and was immensely impressed with the Miller brothers and their incredible story. Touching Home is the third film that Vail has produced and his other investments include restaurants in Sacramento and Lake Tahoe, a Napa Valley winery and a Berkeley start-up company.

Vail began his highly successful investment career in 1986 with River West Investments which he later acquired in 1999, where he was nationally recognized for developing the first pedestrian trans-oriented community in Sacramento, setting the standard for future projects. He’s currently involved in a partnership with former State Treasurer Phil Angelides in a renewable solar energy venture, involving two of the largest solar projects in California. Vail lives in East Sacramento with his wife and three children.

Gordon Radley - Executive Producer
Gordon Radley recently retired from Lucasfilm Ltd., where he had been President since 1993. He joined Lucasfilm in 1985. Gordon served in the Peace Corps in Malawi, Central Africa from 1968-70 and was director of a Peace Corps training project in Western Samoa in 1979. He lives in Northern California.

Jeromy Zajonc – Producer
Born and raised in Northern California, Jeromy Zajonc’s first job in film was fetching soft drinks for George Lucas. He has since worked on various feature films and hit television shows. He has worked with many accomplished actors and filmmakers including Ed Harris, Vince Vaughn, Scott Rosenberg (Con Air), DJ Caruso, and Griffin Dunne.  He is the son of renowned helicopter stunt pilot Robert “Bobby Z” Zajonc. Jeromy was also instrumental in the launch of the Millers' #1 National Bestselling memoir Either You're In Or You're In the Way. He graduated from UCLA in 1999.