QUENTIN LEE
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY / WRITER / DIRECTOR
QUENTIN LEE is an independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Vancouver. His last feature SHOPPING FOR FANGS premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1997 and opened theatrically later in the U.S. to critical acclaim. His previous feature FLOW (1995), a compilation of his award-winning student shorts, has been screened nationally and internationally at film festivals and was also theatrically released to rave reviews in Los Angeles.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Quentin began his filmmaking career at eleven when he started making Super 8 short horror flicks with his friends. In his teens, he immigrated to Montreal, Canada. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English from UC Berkeley and Yale University respectively. He then went to Los Angeles to complete his M.F.A. in Film Directing at UCLA. His early shorts including TO RIDE A COW (1992), banned in Japan, earned him the reputation of being the "enfant terrible" of queer cinema in the film festival circuit. In 2000, Quentin produced, shot, wrote and directed DRIFT, a digital feature, financed with a prestigious production grant from the Canada Council for the Arts (NEA equivalent in Canada).

BELLA YURKOVETSKY
PRODUCER
Born in the former Soviet Union, BELLA YURKOVETSKY immigrated to the U.S. in her teens and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University. Bella began her career in New York publishing where she worked for ART IN AMERICA, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, ESQUIRE just to name a few. Bella later moved to Europe and worked on various independent films. She came back to America to work for WQED, a PBS station in Pittsburg as an associate producer. She moved to Los Angeles and worked for the President of Alliance Pictures on such projects as EXISTENZ and SUNSHINE. Bella is currently a freelance production manager and worked on commercials for Minute Maid and Nike, and music videos for Ice Cube, Three Doors Down, Cypress Hill, and Kid Rock. She has worked with music video directors such as Dean Karr, Steve Carr, Dave Myers and Michelle Gondry. DRIFT is her first feature film as a producer.

DEEYA LORAM
PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGNER
DEEYA LORAM graduated from Berkeley with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts with highest honors. She has collaborated with Quentin since undergraduate years at Berkeley. Her feature credits include Quentin's SHOPPING FOR FANGS (Production & Costume Designer), the 2000 Sundance Competition Selection FREAK WEATHER (Costume Designer), RESTLESS (Costume Designer) with Katherine Kellner, and several UCLA graduate student shorts including CAPTURED (Production Designer) and JORNADO DEL MUERTO (Production Designer). When not working on a film, Deeya restores vintage car and motorcycles and does interior design on airstream trailers.

STEVEN PRANOTO
MUSIC COMPOSER
STEVEN PRANOTO graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition and a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science. He scored Quentin's feature SHOPPING FOR FANGS in 1997 and several UCLA student films. Recently, he also contributed some original music for the Japanese American Museum. DRIFT is the second feature he has scored.

JIM RIDGLEY
SOUND MIXER
After an 18-year career as a comedy-juggler, JIM RIDGLEY went to film school and became a Production Sound Mixer. Of all the positions behind the camera, he thinks that the Sound department is the easiest and most intimate. Since starting his career in sound, he has been a boom operator on the film "PROPHECY 2: ASHTOWN," with Christopher Walken and a production sound mixer on the MTV series UNDRESSED, as well as additional days mixing the Leslie Neilsen feature film 2000.1: A SPACE TRAVESTY.

R.T. LEE (Ryan) has guest starred in over twenty television shows including ER, MAD ABOUT YOU, DIAGNOSIS OF MURDER, BABYLON 5, BEVERLY HILLS 90210, PARTY OF FIVE and most recently as Vietnamese gang leader Louis Lee on CBS' WALKER, TEXAS RANGER. He has appeared opposite actors such as Piper Laurie, Helen Hunt, Paul Reiser, and Noah Wyle among others. He can also been seen recurring as "Zero" on the Nickelodeon series THE JOURNEY OF ALLEN STRANGE. Later this year, R.T. will be seen starring in the film THE BIG BLIND as a poker playing addict who finds love and fulfillment away from gambling tables and will also appear in the Charles Busch film PSYCHO BEACH PARTY. Aside from his work in films and television, R.T. has also appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway. He has worked with acclaimed Asian writer-director Chay Yew on his plays WONDERLAND for the Mark Taper Forum New Works Festival and A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY for Cornerstone Theatre. His stage work in roles such as Steve in David Henry Hwang's F.O.B. and Vincent Chin in CARRY THE TIGER TO THE MOUNTAIN have won him several Los Angeles Critics' awards. He is also privileged to have worked twice with renowned film and theatre director Nicholas Hytner, most notably as part of the original Broadway company of the revival of CAROUSEL at Lincoln Center.

GREYSON DAYNE (Joel) started acting professionally at the age of 12 and has an extensive background in the theater. He received his B.A. from the University of South Florida where he was the recipient of the Shimberg Scholarship for Acting. Regionally, he has appeared in productions of MASTER HAROLDŠAND THE BOYS, SWEENEY TODD, TORCH SONG TRILOGY, AS YOU LIKE IT and THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, to name a few. Now living in Los Angeles, Greyson originated leading roles in the award-winning world premiere productions of BABES (Cast Theater), BLUE CORRIDOR (Playwrights' Arena/Odyssey Theater), THE WANDERING WHORE (ACMT), and CYBERQUEER (Celebration Theater). Other L.A. credits include the 20th anniversary production of CHILD'S PLAY starring Gregory Harrison (Coast Playhouse), THE BALLAD OF LITTLE MIKEY (St. Genesius Theater) with the original cast recording available on AEI-CD, and the recent L.A. premiere of THE LAST HAIRDRESSER (Zephyr Theater) which garnered a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Best Play of 1999. Film and TV credits include the afterschool television DECISIONS, the feature film CHUD 2 (Vestron), a recurring role on PORT CHARLES (ABC), GENERAL HOSPITAL (ABC), the independent short film SEVEN SOULS (recipient of the prestigious George Lucas Award), and a series regular role in the HBO pilot series TUG & BUSTER with Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson, Alise Beasley, and Tim Curry.

JONATHON ROESSLER (Leo) is a recent graduate of Vassar College where he majored in English and Film. After training on the New York stage, this is his first feature film.

DESI del VALLE (Carrie) is a California/New York-based actress and head of Chula Pictures, an independent media arts company specializing in Latina images. Her starring and supporting screen credits include: DESI'S LOOKING FOR A NEW GIRL, MODFUCK EXPLOSION, THE TROUBLE WITH BEING, SPARKED!, JEANNE AND HAUVIETTE, COSTA BRAVA, SOME PREFER CAKE, HONEY, I SENT THE MEN, TO THE MOON..., NIGHTFALL, MY NIAGARA, SIGHTINGS, BUBBLE BUBBLE, ASHLEY 22, and SUPERFLIP. Desi has also been a correspondent for INDEPENDENT VIEW, an independent film program airing weekly on KQED Channel 9 in San Francisco. In 1994 she directed the film short, CRUEL.

SEBASTIEN GUY (Matt) is a citizen of both France and Australia. He has lived most of his life overseas in the Middle East and Asia. He moved to the United States after high school to study acting and film. He is currently studying acting at the Hollywood renowned CAMERON THOR STUDIOS and was given a scholarship by the HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS for his undergraduate film he wrote, starred and coproduced. Since then, he has been in a number of national commercials, day-time dramas, and independent movies.

T. JERRAM YOUNG (Dane) studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Afterwards, he went on a two-year national tour of the acclaimed theatrical production MAKING PORN. Currently residing in Los Angeles, Tim has appeared in national commercial spots for SNICKERS and HYUNDAI, numerous independent films such as POLITICS OF FUR, and as well as guest starring roles on ABC and NBC television shows such as MALIBU C.A. and WALKER, TEXAS RANGER. Most recently, he has finished playing James Dean in the upcoming independent film THE JAMES DEAN STORY and starred in an upcoming miniseries DAWN OF OUR NATION.

RYAN is an aspiring screenwriter living in Los Angeles without a greencard. Ryan is Canadian, born and raised in Markham, Ontario. He went to college at Berkeley and went to film school in a screenwriting program in L.A. His favorite movies are "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre II," and "The Other." He has an agent who's showing his script "Killing Romance," a twisted psychological thriller, around town.

JOEL, Ryan's boyfriend, is a web designer at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center. Joel was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. He went to college in Boston and came to design school in Los Angeles where he met Ryan. They have been together for almost three years.

LEO is still in college in Los Angeles. He is a 20 year-old English major. He was born and raised in Scarborough, Canada. He is currently on an F-1 student visa in the U.S. He has written a number of short stories, a couple of which have been published in small journals. He's working on a novel called "Company in the Dark" about a romance between a teenage runaway and a serial killer.

CARRIE went to college at Berkeley with Ryan. She came down to Los Angeles for law school but dropped out to work in development for a production company with a studio deal. She really wants to be a screenwriter instead.

MATT went to film school with Ryan. Matt is in fact still in school. He's in the directing / production program. Matt grew up in New Jersey and went to college in New York where he also majored in film. He's trying to make his first feature now. By staying in school, he plans to use the school's not-so-good film equipment to make his first feature.

BOB owns a cafe in West Hollywood where Ryan works as a day job. Bob came out in the 70s and went to too many wild parties then. Bob also used to be an investment banker. In his late 40s, Bob is mellowing out now. He has bought a condo a few years ago, and he's now just trying to run the cafe on a loss and playing the stock market on-line. He's single and looking.

DANE K. is an accomplished novelist. At the age of 28, he has been named one of the most talented, offbeat and literarywriter of the millenium by Queerious Magazine. Dane has been awarded three times the Jean Genet Award for each of his past three novels: "Love Me Kill Me Love Me," "My Favorite Boy Pussy," "Supercute." He is currently on a book tour for his fourth novel, "Anatomy of a Dandy Psycho." Dane now lives with his harem of lovers in Bangor, Maine.