Randal owns Iverson Productions LLC - a small production house located in South Dakota. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communications from Black Hills State University and years of experience with commercial and documentary production in both still and motion.  He is used to wearing many different hats, producing, directing, cinematography, sound, editing, and stills. Some of the companies he has worked for include ABC, PBSNews Hour, McDonald’s, and Walmart. Randal loves telling unique stories and sharing them with the world.

Rick recently retired from his own business, Crow Ridge Productions. He is an experienced sound mixer/recordist, often recording concerts for South Dakota Public Broadcasting in addition to his film and TV work.  Rick worked on the Walt Disney production National Treasure: Book of Secrets as an Assistant Location Manager; was a sound recordist for the Full Throttle Saloon reality TV series and has many contacts in the film industry. Rick co-founded Open Stage in 2008 - the Hill City Arts Council’s winter program for emerging performers - and the Black Hills Film Festival in 2009.  Rick continues to help train students to run sound and projection for these activities and his expertise in the technical realm greatly benefits the Film Festival

Egija was born in Latvia and spent much of her childhood, and later her summer breaks, in the film, culture, and art house that was run by her grandparents for more than 40 years. That’s when she fell in love with films and many different art forms very early on. She worked as a freelance feature writer for one of the leading newspapers in Latvia but developed a passion for documentary filmmaking after moving to America in 2006. Egija received her MA in broadcast journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder and has been working on various documentary and educational projects since then. Egija has worked on the media crew for the Boulder International Film Festival for 10 years and joined the Black Hills Film Festival Board of Directors in 2019.