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Writer/Director

David Bradburn

With over 30 years of directing and producing experience, Bradburn's award-winning films have screened across the country, as well as in Europe and Asia.

His most recent short film, Family, has already won awards and continues to be screened at festivals across the US.

David has worked in the Indie film world, corporate video world, Network television as well as having a background in social work and education.

When not on set, he spends most of his time working and planning and thinking about being — back on set.

Cinematographer

Joel McGinty

McGinty is a former freelance cinematographer and camera operator in Chicago. He started Via Pictures to focus more on documentary filmmaking. 

Joel began working on documentaries when he made, Cocal Gracias, which followed a community as they moved out of a city dump in Honduras and into new housing provided by NGOs. The film was used to raise funds for building a trade school and screened at the San Diego Film Festival (2007).

McGinty worked as gaffer and editor for "Mound Bayou: Jewel of the Delta", which won Best Documentary at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival, screened at the Black Harvest Film Festival, aired on PBS (2014) and was nominated for an Emmy.

Actor

Jude Roche

Jude Roche is a Chicago native with a BA in Theatre Performance and a member of SAG-AFTRA. He is returning to Fork The Man Productions for My Best Nut.

Other film credits include Trick and Treats (Heroic Age Studios), Win it All (Forage Films), Blood and Water (Vicious Motion), The Coming of Age (Fork The Man Productions), and Other People’s Heads (SC Films).

TV credits include Chicago Justice (NBC), and web credits include Monsters Anonymous (Multiple Hats Productions), and Dr. Good (The Onion). Theatre credits include Elizabeth Rex and Romeo & Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Kill Me! (Wildclaw Theatre Company), 9 Circles (Sideshow Theatre Company), Richard III (Wayward Productions), Coriolanus (The Hypocrites),  Henry V and King Henry The Fourth (Oak Park Festival Theatre), and The Master and Margarita (Strawdog Theatre Company).