Ryan Stumpe - Director/Producer Ryan is a Director of Photography for Motion Pictures, Television and Advertising as well as the Creative Director and Principal Producer of AVERingenuity LLC, a design and specialty production company. He has led a smart and devoted crew through the storms of productions large and small for over 10 years generating episodic television, feature documentaries, progressive music videos and professional global advertisements. A product of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest, Ryan's work ethic runs deep and is only matched by his sense of humor. Known for ideas that increase the efficiency of the way things get done, his talents behind the lens have generated a handful of awards, all of which he sends to his Mother's house to be kept safely in the attic with the rest of his good memories. Ryan is internationally traveled and holds a current passport. Via Fort Collins, CO, Bellingham, WA, Bozeman, MT, and Los Angeles, CA, he now resides in Brooklyn, NY with his soon to be wife Madalyn.
Nels Thoreson - Writer/Producer Nels is the Editor in Chief for the music website, The Troubadour’s Road, former Travel Writer/Producer for the world-wide expedition, The World By Road, a Writer/Producer for AVERingenuity, and a Teacher/Counselor/Athletic Director/Head Football Coach/Registrar for the at-risk high school, Justice High School. A rural village in northwestern Wisconsin is where Nels grew up, but Boulder, Colorado, is where he now calls home. A degree in Political Science and Professional Writing has enabled Nels to be a snowboard bum in Winter Park, CO, a lumberjack and high school football coach in the northwoods of Wisconsin, a travel writer throughout the world, a filmmaker, an editor in chief, a farm manager, and aided in his variety of duties at Justice High School. Nels lives by the words of Robert Frost, “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”