About

Michele Yamazaki

Michele Yamazaki is the VP of Marketing & Web Development Czarina for  Toolfarm.com, a value added reseller of plug-ins and software. At   Toolfarm, she juggles many roles, including developing content and training and answering support questions. She has demoed plug-ins for Apple, Boris FX, Red Giant, Digieffects and other companies at multiple trade shows, conferences and user groups. She is president-elect of  MCA-I  and formerly co-chaired the West Michigan Animation & Effects User Group, which she launched with Matt Schirado in 2002.

Michele was previously a visual effects/motion graphics artist at Postworks and a contributing author  of ‘After Effects @ Work’, published by Focal Press in 2006. She just wrapped up a four year stint teaching After Effects at Kendall College of Art and Design.

In her free time, Michele is an aspiring chef, indie music conosseuir and would love to visit India, Iceland, Chile and New Zealand in the next 5 years.

Jeremy Hanke

Jeremy Hanke is the editor-in-chief of Microfilmmaker Magazine. He founded MicroFilmmaker Magazine in 2005 to help low-budget filmmakers make better films through traditional means like tips, articles, training tutorials, and reviews, but also by less common means like critiquing new films as they are created by both local and international filmmakers. In addition to helping low-budget filmmakers make better films, Jeremy has been able to use the magazine to connect filmmakers to Indie musicians, scriptwriters, comic creators, financiers, distributors, and other groups that can help each other. MFM’s approach has been so revolutionary that it’s attracted filmmakers from every continent on the globe, including Antartica.

When he’s not editing the magazine, Jeremy works busily on films for his production firm, Viking Productions. He’s directed two feature length films, co-directed a thirty minute medium-short film, directed half a dozen short films, and produced multiple short films for aspiring filmmakers from under-privileged environments.

During his free time, he devours fantasy novels from the likes of Stephen R. Donaldson and Terry Brooks, plays Texas Hold ‘em with his wife Kari, and teaches Shudokan karate to his foster son, Richie.