S. LEO CHIANG is an award-winning filmmaker of both documentary and narrative films. His previous short films, Match Point and Reunited, were screened at festivals across the country. In 1998, Directors Guild of America commissioned Leo to direct and edit Directing: How to Get There, for which he documented early careers of several well-known filmmakers including Robert Wise, Norman Jewison, and Steven Spielberg. Leo received the 1999 Shenkin Fellowship from Yale School of Art to make Safe Journey, a narrative short mentored by director Robert Zemeckis. He then independently produced and directed One + One, a documentary about mixed HIV-status couples that won the CINE Golden Eagle Award (2002) and the Cable Positive Award (2001 Silver Lake Film Festival). Leo is currently producing two full-length documentaries, Limited Partnerships, about bi-national gay and lesbian couples and their struggles with US immigration laws, and To You Sweetheart, Aloha, about 95-year-old Hawai'ian 'ukulele legend, Bill Tapia.

Leo is also an experienced editor and cinematographer of non-fiction projects. He edited True-Hearted Vixen, an ITVS-funded project about a women’s tackle football league. True-Hearted Vixen was shown as a part of the 2001 P.O.V. series on PBS. He also edited Freestyle, a feature-length documentary that chronicles the history of freestyle hip-hop. It won awards at the LA Independent Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, and Urbanworld Film Festival. Leo’s work as a cinematographer has been broadcast nationally on HBO, PBS, Discovery, The Learning Channel, ABC Family Channel, among others.

Leo holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and received his MFA in film production from University of Southern California. He currently serves on the Steering Committee at New Day Films, the famed distribution cooperative of independent social-issue documentary filmmakers.

Mercedes has directed and produced a number of film and video projects, including the award-winning documentaries Little Stars, about the unpredictable and challenging world of child actors, and Seoul II Soul, about a Korean/African-American family in post-riot Los Angeles (PBS aired). Born in Australia, raised in Spain, England and Washington State, She earned her BA in Theatre from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Occidental College in Los Angeles. In 1999, she completed the MFA program in Film Production at the University of Southern California. Mastermind, a children's television pilot, was her thesis project at USC, for which she received the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Film Award and a production scholarship from Entertainment Weekly magazine. She was also the recipient of the Women In Film, Paramount Pictures Crystal Award Scholarship for her work at USC.

Recently, Mercedes was Director of Creative Affairs at Lin Oliver Productions, a company focused on creating quality family entertainment. In this position, Mercedes was an integral part of all creative decision-making in development, casting, on-set production and post-production, marketing and promotion. She most recently worked on the company's production of Trumpet of the Swan, an animated feature film based on the classic E.B. White novel for Sony/Columbia TriStar. She was the key production consultant to Lin Oliver (Producer) on Finding Buck McHenry, a movie for Showtime starring Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In past years, Mercedes has produced and directed many non-fiction educational and promotional films for clients such as The California Science Center, The Rossier School of Education at USC, and Big Sisters of Los Angeles.