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Michael Paxton is a filmmaker, author, and multimedia producer whose documentary "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" (1997) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 70th Academy Awards. Beyond directing, his film and TV credits include Assistant Director on "The Pagemaster," Visual Effects Coordinator on "Stuart Little 2," and Associate Producer on "The Lion King 1½"; he has also authored a Companion Book to "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" and a number of children's books for Disney. He is currently the Executive Producer of the Annie Awards and developing shorts and feature film projects for Copasetic Films LLC.

Yotam Silberstein is a jazz guitarist whose playing blends bebop and blues with the music of South America, North Africa and the Middle East. Discovered young by James Moody, he has played with George Coleman, Charles McPherson, Jimmy Heath and Roy Hargrove, and performed at the Kennedy Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Tokyo, Umbria and North Sea Jazz Festivals. He is a member of the John Patitucci Trio, has toured with Brazilian singer Ivan Lins, and appears on Monty Alexander's GRAMMY-nominated Harlem-Kingston Express Live! and David Sanborn & Marcus Miller's Time and the River. His recent albums include Universos (2022) and En el jardín (2020), recorded with Carlos "Negro" Aguirre.