Film director Barry Sonnenfeld had found commercial and artistic success with such films as "Addams Family," "Addams Family Values," both "Men in Black" films, "Get Shorty," "Wild Wild West," "Big Trouble," and most recently released "RV." He has produced or executive produced "Ladykillers," "Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events," and "Out of Sight."

Sonnenfeld began his career as a cinematographer, collaborating with the Coen Brothers on their first feature film, "Blood Simple" and continuing with "Raising Arizona" and "Miller's Crossing." In addition, Sonnenfeld served as Director of Photography on Penny Marshall's "Big," Danny DeVito's "Throw Momma From The Train," and two films for Rob Reiner, "When Harry Met Sally" and "Misery." He has also directed numerous Clio award winning commercials for Nike, Reebok, and Isuzu.

In television, he has executive produced "Karen Sisco," and directed and executive produced "Maximum Bob," "The Tick,""Notes from the Underbelly," and "Pushing Daisies."

Sonnenfeld has been a Contributing Editor for Esquire Magazine, since September 2003 where he writes his monthly column, "The Digital Man."

He lives in East Hampton, New York and Telluride, Colorado with his beautiful wife, Susan and adorably strong willed daughter, Chloe.

Steve Oedekerk, the Academy Award nominated multi-hyphenate, has built a extraordinary career, experiencing vast success in writing, directing, producing, acting, stand-up comedy and computer generated animation.

He has written and directed top-grossing films, including such blockbusters as "Bruce Almighty," the "Ace Ventura" franchise, "The Nutty Professor," and "Patch Adams." He received an Academy Award nomination for his producing and creative leadership role on "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius." Having just completed writing and directing Paramount Pictures largest grossing summer film of 2006, the CG Animated "Barnyard," Steve has been hired by the studio to resurrect "Ripley's Believe it or Not" for Tim Burton and Jim Carrey. Next up was "Evan Almighty," the sequel to the worldwide hit "Bruce Almighty" for Universal Pictures released summer 2007.

Also excelling in the coveted youth demographic, Oedekerk has created cult franchise properties, whose audience continues to grow with each passing year. From his initial indy feature film "High Strung," and his THUMB filmettes to writing, directing and starring in the wild retro-martial arts comedy "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist," Oedekerk has a steadily growing base of Oedefans, who religiously await, track down and tune into the more right-brained creations from Steve.

Further expanding the "Jimmy Neutron" franchise for Nickelodeon Television, Steve executive produced 60 episodes of "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron." Current "Jimmy Neutron" TV movies and hour specials such as "Jet Fusion" and "The Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour" continue to land at the top of the children's TV ratings. The "Jimmy" TV series initially released with $100 million dollars of sponsor support. Oedekerk also starred in his own television special for NBC, produced an animated Christmas special for ABC as well as "Thumb Wars" comedy special for UPN. Current TV projects include the CG animated series "Back at the Barnyard" based on the "Barnyard" feature film. The series premieres on Nickelodeon, Fall 2007.

Always in pursuit of the next appealing entertainment venue, Steve is now focused on the burgeoning "digital hand held media" market, such as the Video iPod and Sony PSP™ (PlayStation^®Portable). "Dirk Derby Wonder Jockey" will be the first broadcast length comedy series released exclusively to the digital media arena. Available only online through digital download, "Dirk Derby" is O Entertainment's pilot project, with "World Thumb Wrestling" and "Oedebattle" on deck. The first six episodes of Dirk Derby will release worldwide summer 2007.

Oedekerk, O Entertainment and Omation not only create original programming but also support them with groundbreaking technology. In the recently popular resurgence of stereoscopic feature film's, Oedekerk and and O Entertainment led the way with the first IMAX 3D animated film, "Santa vs. the Snowman." First released November, 2002, then doubling its number of IMAX screens and taking the top box office position Christmas 2003. "Santa" expanded again Christmas 2004 along with a DVD release by Universal Home Video and a picture book published by Penguin/Putnam. Oedekerk also created "Thumbmation" the technology behind the series of Thumb Parody projects distributed worldwide on DVD and video by Image Entertainment. Kicking off the series was "Thumb Wars," followed by "Thumbtanic," "The Blair Thumb," "Bat Thumb," "Frankenthumb" and "The Godthumb." The ALL THUMB six box DVD set is currently available in retail and online outlets. In the arena of feature film visual effects, "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist" remains the only low budget feature under $10M to tally over 2000 visual effects shots.

Oedekerk resides in Southern California with his wife, two children and a badger, pound for pound known to be the most vicious mammal on the planet.

Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He earned his Ph.D. in criminal justice from Michigan State University. His research areas focus on policy and program evaluation, juvenile delinquency prevention, and school violence. For the past 5 years he has been exploring the online behaviors of adolescents, including social networking and cyberbullying. He travels across the United States training parents, teachers, and other youth workers about how to keep their kids safe online. He has published in a number of academic journals and his recent book, The Family Context of Serious Childhood Delinquency, is available from LFB Scholarly Publishing.

http://www.uwec.edu/patchinj/webvitae.htm

Together, Dr. Sameer Hinduja (Florida Atlantic University) and Dr. Patchin have written numerous articles and give presentations nationally and internationally on the nature and extent of cyberbullying. Their latest study collected data on over 6,000 respondents regarding their experiences with cyberbullying offending and victimization, and this research has been featured on news programs across North America and abroad. They are currently working with administrators and teachers at a number of different school districts to explore the nature of traditional and Internet-based victimization among students. They also provide training to these audiences on how to prevent and address the school-based consequences of online aggression. Their recent article "Bullies Move beyond the Schoolyard: A Preliminary Look at Cyberbullying" is available in the April 2006 issue of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. Additional articles are forthcoming in Journal of Adolescence, Journal of School Violence, Deviant Behavior, and other academic outlets. They are currently writing a book on cyberbullying that will be available in 2008.

http://www.cyberbullying.us