Shari Safley - Executive Producer

Shari Safley owns and operates two Personalized Movie Production Companies. She has produced presentations for corporate and personal events, as well as charitable organizations.

Shari's expertise and artistry is in finding and delivering the emotion of her client's vision, into an artistic document that is timeless for generations to come. Shari serves clients directly with strategy and creative concepts, where the goal with each client is to create something exceeding their dreams and imagination. Together with their content and ideas, she helps clients find their voice.

The range of Shari's clientele is vast, from baby celebrations, weddings and anniversaries, to corporate and charity events. While no two projects are ever the same - and each has been captured in its own unique movie production - it all boils down to the same objective: your history, recent or removed, is always worth telling - celebrating - in the visual and audio forms. Each movie production promotes an understanding of the path we've chosen, the struggles and victories we've faced, and the meaning we've gained by doing so. Each production is a special tribute for those who wish to present their story through the art of photography, media and heartfelt music.

By bringing a team of dynamic artists together, Shari Safley has formed the company - One Special Dream, to personalize a magical story for every child's new beginning, each unique and each equally precious. One Special Dream is a company created to help you celebrate your baby.

Jim Standridge - Director of Photography

As a seasoned pro with over 25 years experience in film and video production, and winner of several awards for Cinematography and Editing, Jim Standridge has an extensive range of skills to draw upon. His eye for nuance and creative flair make him an invaluable part of any team and he lends new visual perspectives to every project he works on.

Some of Jim’s career highlights spans the globe, including corporate film/videos and commercials for: Sears, Pepsi, Intel, Weyerhaeuser, Consolidated Freightways, Warn Ind., Hollywood Entertainment, Nike, Dell Computers, Mentor Graphics, Fred Meyer, RITE AID, Yamasa of Japan, Ford, Pro-Form, Praegitzer Ind., FSI- Flir Systems, BOWFLEX, U.S.G.S., Multnomah Publishers, Microsoft, Pamplin Entertainment, Pacific Coast Feathers, O.E.A., Davol (BARD), and extensive work for Hewlett Packard.

As a father of three, Jim also has a keen interest in interactive multi-media and educational programming. Through the years, some of Jim’s critically acclaimed and award winning Children’s Entertainment includes: The Dr. Wilderness Show (TV Pilot), Wee Sing (3 episodes), Rainbow and Kites (10 episodes), The Bibleman Adventures (9 episodes), Bibleman Live (5 episodes), Bibleman Jr. (4 episodes), Heaven Sake Kids (4 episodes), and The Missy Files (2 episodes).

His television experience also extends to segments for national shows such as: The CBS Evening News, CNN, A&E, Cops, Hard Copy, Unsolved Mysteries, The Montel Williams Show, Oprah, MTV, VH1, Geraldo “Now it Can Be Told”, PBS NOVA, and Entertainment Tonight.

Jim Goodwin - Music Composer

Jim's 24 years experience writing and producing music for the recording industry and advertising give him a unique advantage in the emerging field of music driven brand marketing. MINA (Music Industry's New Alliance) is Jim's newest project that seeks to unite independent artists and corporate sponsors in a symbiotic relationship between artist marketing and corporate brand enhancement. As a member of the seminal 'indie' rock group THE CALL, Jim worked with such talents as Peter Gabriel, Bono, Elvis Costello, Robbie Robertson, and T Bone Burnett. These experiences gave Jim an exceptional insight into the power of emotion in music and the potential to move people through melody and lyric.

While continuing to produce new artists like Irish sensation MAIREAD, Jim also owns Eggchair Music in Hollywood, which services the advertising and network branding industries. Eggchair's clients include ABC, MGM, ELECTRONIC ARTS, to name only a few.

Credits:
Recordings:

• The Call, Sparks, John Cale, Mathew Sweet, Whiskey Town, James Iha

Producer:

• The Call, Mairead, Andy Kim, Jus Real

Composer:

• The Call, Andy Kim, Ricky Martin, John Cale (Album Tracks)
• ABC, BRAVO, TV GUIDE, HBO, VH-1 (Network Design Packages)
• E Entertainment TV, VH-1, Court TV, Fox (Show Packages)
• 20th Century Fox, MGM, Sony, Warner Brothers, United Artists, Columbia Tri Star, Universal, New Line (Theatrical Film Trailers)

Film Scores:

• Some Girl
• Reaching Normal
• Dark Drive
• The Ice Runner
• Digital Man
• Interceptor Force

Robert Medici - Music Producer, Voice Over Talent

Robert Medici has been the Producer for Eggchair Music in Hollywood for the past three years concentrating on the film trailer and sound design business. Robert spent several decades recording and touring as a drummer with various rock and pop acts on both coasts. They include; John Cale and Lou Reed, formerly of the Velvet Underground, David Bowie, the late John Campbell, Five For Fighting, Dig, Holly Vincent, and many others.

Robert is an accomplished drummer, guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and voice-over talent.

Curt Lafferty - Portrait Painter

Curt's approach to each painting is different from the last because each piece is a new visual study in translating a feeling, mood, or subject matter to paper or canvas. His styles vary from realism to abstract and in between, giving him the freedom to take more than one look at a subject culminating a work that is exactly what the client is looking for. Curt works in watercolor, acrylic, oil, and charcoal mediums, on canvas or paper.

Curt's work with each client is important every step of the way, so he sends photographs of his progress and welcomes input to achieve a beautiful final result.

Donald Wallace - Artist-Animator, Designer, Musician, Producer-Director

The last 25 years, Donald has been working in all areas of design and animation. Whether designing for computer animation, animating in the traditional hand-drawn style, creating digital illustration for the print and internet markets or developing cartoon characters and concept design, there isn't much he hasn't experienced in his career. He has been
artistly involved in four music video productions, four CD games, dozens of corporate video productions, several network programs, and hundreds of commercials. And yet, while staying very busy serving his clients, still finds time to develop his own artistic properties.

Stephan Smith - Artist, Designer, Writer

I grew up pretty much an only child. My four brothers had gotten married or moved away when I was very young. With no playmates I made up imaginary ones– animals, ghosts, whole families of strange people and quite a few Martians.
They lived in magical places I had created in my parents fern grottos, their flower beds and along the neighborhood ditch banks. In those days of summers long ago, several worlds came alive from my imagination.

Decades later, I remember painting a picture for my mother. It was kind of based upon those little imaginary places where fruit were as big as airplanes and every day promised blue skies and fireflies at night. She loved the little painting, and so I painted another and another. As she grew older and eventually developed multiple myeloma, I vowed I would make a book for her out of all the paintings before she died.

It was repayment really for all those nights she would sit on my bed and sing a song, read a story from a book, or make up some fanciful tale. Those were very special moments for the both of us. For It seems in this slightly mad world, we all need to spend a little more time with our kids or loved ones to put us all in balance.

So in honor of the parents or the caregivers, who take the time to sit and snuggle and paint a world of wonder with a child, I hope this bedtime book will give both of you as much joy as I had in the very long path it took to create it.