Calling all artists - Iris Hollywood Artist Boot Camp

Diane Venora was the first American woman to play the title role in “Hamlet” for Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival. Her film & TV roles include a critically acclaimed performance in Clint Eastwood’s biographical feature “Bird”, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination and the New York Film Critics Award; a recurring role in the Emmy award-winning series “Chicago Hope”; Al Pacino‘s wife in “Heat” with Robert DeNiro; ‘Juliet’s mother’ in Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” starring Leonardo Dicaprio; and the female lead in “The Jackal” opposite Bruce Willis, Richard Gere & Sidney Poitier; Russell Crowe’s wife in Michael Mann’s “The Insider”. Diane is a Juilliard graduate and continues to study new acting techniques in both London & New York.

Darren Wilson founded Wanderlust Productions in 2006 when he started stumbling through his first feature film, Finger of God. Later, he decided to surround himself with people who were more talented than him to help create his next features, Furious Love and Father of Lights, but of course he takes all the credit for their great work. Since then, Darren has created The Greatest Fight, with UFC/WWF superstar Ken Shamrock, and the two films Holy Ghost (2014) & Holy Ghost: Reborn (2015). Darren’s job description includes creating the stories, speaking and showing off the films, doing lots of interviews, planning all the shoots, and schmoozing with awesome people around the world. Darren taught for 10 years at Judson University before moving into production full time, and he is currently the Artist-in-Residence at Judson. Charisma Magazine recently named him one of the “21 Emerging Leaders of Tomorrow’s Church”, and DeVon Franklin, VP of Production at Columbia Pictures calls him “one of the most innovative filmmakers and authors of faith today.” He has a wonderful and long-suffering wife, Jenell, and three wonderful children, Serenity, Stryder, and River. He also has two cats (meh) and the best dogs in the world, Moses and Maui.

Benjamin Nolot is the Founder and CEO of Exodus Cry, an international anti-trafficking organization that works in the areas of prevention, intervention and restoration. Benjamin has a passion for storytelling and was the Director/Producer/Writer for the award-winning documentary, Nefarious: Merchant of Souls. Since the release of the film, Benjamin and the film have been highlighted by: the 700 Club, Movie Guide, Relevant Magazine, Christianity Today, Variance, Charisma News, Prism, Christian Film Database, and more. In addition, Benjamin teaches internationally on the issue of human trafficking and co-authored a book, Babylon. He devotes his time to abolition work for the ending of slavery and the exploitation of the vulnerable. Benjamin’s greatest desire in life is to love God and see His creation set free from the tyranny of oppression. Benjamin resides in Kansas City with his wife Lauren and their three children.

Jeff Crabtree - Qualifications: MA Hons (Music and Cultural Studies), BA Dip Ed (Macquarie University)
Jeff is a speaker, multi award winning songwriter and music producer with over 27 album credits. He co-composed and co-produced the score for the ABC documentary ‘Orphans on Wall Street’, music for TV commercials and for diverse projects including the theme for the 2007 Australian Design Awards, and numerous other short films including a 2013 Tropfest entry. Some of his music was heard underscoring the 2000 Sydney Olympics and he even has some tracks that currently fly around the world on a major airline.
He was for 16 years Principal of a community-based Arts College, which grew 700% over the life of his leadership. During that time he led the college to successful government accreditation and eventually the offering of degree programs.
Jeff is a director of Zebra Collective and Zebra Corporate both of which aim to assist those in the creative industries and businesses to work for innovation and longevity. He is co-author of the book Living With A Creative Mind. He is a principal consultant in the field of creativity for a number of organisations in Australia and New Zealand.
He speaks and consults to community organisations on issues of creativity, innovation and managing creative people.

Heidi Baker and her husband Rolland began Iris Ministries, Inc., an interdenominational mission, in 1980 and have been missionaries for the past twenty-five years. She was ordained as a minister in 1985 after completing her BA and MA degrees at Southern California College in Biblical Studies and Church Leadership.
Born in 1960 in California she grew up in Laguna Beach, California in rather privileged circumstances. She has had a dramatic conversion experience at age 16 that sent her on a lifelong mission when she was living on an Indian reservation in Mississippi as an American Field Service student. Several months after she was led to Jesus by a Navajo evangelist, she was taken up in a vision for several hours and heard Jesus speak audibly to her and tell her to be a minister and a missionary to Asia, England and Africa. She has a heart for the poor and is known for ‘stopping for the one’. Through the Bakers ministry thousands of orphans have been cared for and live knowing Jesus. You will be utterly inspired by Heidi’s love for Jesus and leave with knowing that He is always enough.

Rolland Baker was born in China as a third generation missionary. He began Iris Ministries in 1980 with his wife Heidi, and traveled to sit with the poor in the slums of central Jakarta, Hong Kong, and London. After ministering for twelve years in Asia and three years in the UK, Rolland Heidi arrived in Mozambique in 1995. Believing that the most likely place to see a revival was among the most unlikely, they were drawn to Mozambique, which was officially listed at the time as the poorest country of the world. As they began to pour out their hearts to the street children there, amazing miracles began to take place. Iris now sees thousands find Jesus every month. The deaf hear, the blind see, and the poor hear the good news. Rolland was greatly influenced by his grandfather, H.A. Baker, who wrote “Visions Beyond the Veil,” an account of the extended visions of heaven and hell that children received in his remote orphanage in southwest China two generations ago. His life's work with Heidi is to call faith and love into action.

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