Solange Castro Belcher was born and raised in Berkeley, California. After graduating from Berkeley High School, she attended Yale University where she studied English Literature and playwriting. After college, she moved to Los Angeles and, over the years has, literally, worked at hundreds of different jobs, ranging from playing the maid in Oliver Stone's The People vs. Larry Flynt, to producing a web-based ping pong game for Nestle's Butterfinger.

Solange credits her two year stint as a stand-up comic in Los Angeles' thriving open mike comedy scene (where she met the likes of the talented Ms. Maria Bamford and many other working entertainment professionals) with teaching her everything she knows about comic timing and writing jokes.

Solange began writing "Stella's" blog as a way to promote the film, but soon found it took on a life of it's own - especially, after a friend insisted that she end each entry with "Just for today..." While Stella's blogging regularity has waxed and waned over the last few years (especially once she started salsa dancing), it continues to serve as a great public notebook for ideas and jokes. Solange has also completed a feature length screenplay of "Stella's Search for Sanity," and, most recently, a non-fiction memoir about salsa dancing, "Salsa Geek." Solange lives in Los Angeles where she spends way too much time dancing.

 

Born and raised in the New York City/Long Island area, Peter is the oldest of four children. He attended college at the State University of New York at Binghamton where he studied economics and business. After college, he attended law school at the State University of New York at Buffalo and also received his M.B.A. there a year later. In 1987, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an entertainment attorney. His first job was with the law firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel and Silbert where he worked on litigation matters for several notable entertainment industry clients.
In 1992, he became Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs for Gibraltar Entertainment, a small independent production company. There he oversaw distribution of Gibraltar's independent television series and traveled to Germany, France and South Africa to arrange international co-production financing for several company projects.

From 1993—1994, Peter was Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs for Rysher Entertainment, a medium-sized television and feature film production company. While there, he negotiated talent and production deals for numerous feature films and made-for-television movies, as well as two network and several syndicated television series.

In 1995, Peter returned to private practice handling entertainment and intellectual property matters for various clients, including Internet start-ups, multimedia and software developers, independent film and television production companies, writers, producers and directors, and musical recording acts.

In 2000, Peter began pursuing a more creative endeavor, directing and editing projects on digital video. He has directed several productions including two music videos and personal documentaries.

In 2002, Peter produced and directed his first short film, "Stella’s Search for Sanity", starring Solange Castro Belcher. A true labor of love, this 35 minute short has played on DVD players all around the Los Angeles area since it’s release.

In the coming years, Peter intends to shift his full attention to directing various projects, including shorts, music video and commercial projects.