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.

Solange Castro Belcher was born and raised in Berkeley, California. At the age of ten she began acting with the Bay Area Youth Theater and writing plays that she produced for her fifth grade class. After graduating from Berkeley High School, Solange attended Yale University where she studied English Literature and playwriting. While at Yale she wrote a column for the Yale Daily News and published a magazine called The Yale Woman. After graduation from college she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting and writing and over the years has worked at a variety of jobs. Solange serendipitously had her acting debut in The People vs. Larry Flynt where she played a maid, a role that challenged her deeply embedded feminist beliefs.

Over the past eight years, Solange has performed stand-up comedy and improv in alternative LA venues and has recently completed a feature length screenplay of Stella's Search for Sanity. For more information contact Solange at solange@searchforsanity.com.

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