CHRIS MAYBACH (producer/director)
Born in San Francisco, Chris Maybach graduated from UC Berkeley, where he was a chemistry major and made a short film which won the UC Berkeley Eisner Prize. Attending film school in London, he dropped out after one year to work as an extra on Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket.” Maybach then started as assistant film editor with directors Alex Cox, Francis Coppola, Sydney Pollack, Taylor Hackford, among others. He has edited ten feature films and numerous music videos, including the “China Lake” which won Grand Prize at the Mannheim Int’l Film Festival. After editing “House Party IV,” he decided to focus on his own material, and produced “Art City: Making it in Manhattan” with Paul Gardner. The film premiered at The National Gallery and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and played for three months at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The film has aired internationally and on PBS.

PAUL GARDNER (producer)
Paul Gardner grew up in Southern California and now lives in New York City. After graduating from The College of William and Mary, he spent seven years as a writer/editor for the Arts & Leisure section on The New York Times. He wrote the memoirs of Royal Ballet star Lynn Seymour, as well as a critical study of artist Louise Bourgeois. In Paris, Gardner worked for the French director Claude Chabrol, co-writing the thriller, “Ten Days’ Wonder”, starring Orson Welles and Anthony Perkins. For producer Michael Blackwood, Gardner wrote the text for three documentaries on art. The series aired on PBS. For producer Don Siegel (“Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “The Beguiled”) he wrote a who-dunit, entitled “The Door”.