PETER HYOGUCHI
CEO
Peter Hyoguchi recently completed his fourth feature film "The Occult", a supernatural thriller which was shot using a mixture of traditional and virtual production techniques.
Raised in Los Angeles by his mother, an animator at Hanna-Barbera Studios ("Scooby Doo" and "The Flintstones"), Peter learned the craft of visual story-telling in the home and was creating his own cartoons by age ten. At fifteen, his sci-fi short, “The Future’s Future” won George Lucas’ youth film festival in 1988 and aired on PBS. Hyoguchi dropped out of high school after being awarded an art grant to direct his first feature film, an adaptation of “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre at age seventeen.
In his early twenties, Peter signed with an agent and started taking on writing assignments, including adapting a New York Times best-selling novel called "Shooting Elvis" and co-writing "The Waking" with sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury for director John Carpenter. In 2001, he won Best Feature Film at both New York and San Francisco Independent Film Festivals for "First, Last and Deposit" which he wrote, shot and directed. The film has aired on IFC and Netflix.
In 2012, Hyoguchi founded Roninfilm which created animation and VFX for SyFy Channel, including "Lavalantula", "Spiders 3D" and the sci-fi pilot "The New Kind". Hyoguchi directed the first Super Bowl spot to utilize virtual production in 2021. He is a two-time recipient of the Epic MegaGrant for “Gods of Mars” which pioneered a photo-real virtual production pipeline with a team of Unreal Engine game designers and Oscar-winning visual effects artists whose credits include “Return of the Jedi”, “X-Men”, “How to Train Your Dragon”, “Batman”, “The Dark Crystal” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”.
Peter has taught filmmaking at UCLA Film and TV Extension, New York Film Academy, The Academy of Art University and FIDM.
In 2025, Hyoguchi launched an online masterclass on DIY theatrical distribution called CineRoad. Currently he is touring America screening "The Occult" in selected theaters.
JOAN WEBB
President
Joan Bevan Webb is a film producer, virtual production producer and president of Roninfilm. Webb started her career in national TV advertising representing Oscar winning directors for commercials. With $9M VC capital, she built the first professional ProTools facility. Two years
later with $16M additional VC capital, Margarita Mix de Santa Monica was added to their roster of facilities, creating the world’s largest, privately-held, post audio facility.
CMO for a reverse merger establishing s3i Holdings IPO, first HIPAA compliant SaaS . In 2019 she pioneered virtual production using game engine technology. Joan led a team of Oscar and Emmy-award winning film and VFX professionals in the production of "Gods of Mars", which received two Epic Games MegaGrants for the creation of a photo-real,
real-time pipeline utilizing the Unreal Engine and LED wall technologies. She went on to produce the first virtual production Super Bowl spot and recently, the upcoming feature film "The Occult".
As an OGVP evangelist she has introduced VP through speaking engagements and as a keynote to: VES, AFM, NAB, SIGGRAPH/NVIDIA, CineGear LA & Atlanta, as well as film festivals, podcasts and webinars with some 35 global articles written on her team's accomplishments.
Partial clientele: James Cameron, Oliver Stone, Doug Trumbull, Tim Burton, and the Coen Brothers, as well as industry giants like IMAX, Pixar, Sony, DreamWorks, MGM and Disney.
Partnerships/Sponsors: NVIDIA, Epic Games/UE, Lenovo, Cooke Optics, Blackmagic Design, AMD, Wacom, ASUS, Stratasys, Mo-Sys, Absen, Arctic 3D & Creative Technology 3/1/24
DAVIF STUMP
VFX supervisor
ASC / Academy Award-Winning VFX Supervisor at Roninfilm/"Gods of Mars"
David Stump ASC is a working Director of Photography, Visual Effects Director of Photography, Visual Effects Supervisor, and Stereographer, (including both live action work and 2D to 3D conversion work), earning an Emmy Award, an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, an IMAGO Technical Achievement Award and an International Cinematographers Guild Award. His credits include projects like Little Fires Everywhere, The Morning Show, Skyfire, The Happytime Murders, American Gods, The Unwilling, Immortals, Quantum of Solace, Flight Plan, Fantastic Four, X-Men 1 & 2, Into the Blue, Garfield, Batman Forever, Hollow Man, Men of Honor, Deep Blue Sea, Stuart Little, The Sphere, Contact, Batman & Robin, Mars Attacks, Executive Decision, Stargate, and Free Willy, among many, many others.
He is currently chairman of both the Camera Committee and the Metadata Committee of the ASC Motion Imaging Technology Council. Under his guidance, the combined efforts of the Producers Guild of America and the American Society of Cinematographers produced both the ASC / PGA Camera Assessment Series, and the ASC / PGA Image Control Assessment Series, side by side comparisons of virtually all of the high end digital cinema cameras against film.
His extended credits include work in immersive media including circular and hemispherical environments, virtual cinematography of all kinds, virtual camera design, light field cinematography, multi camera photogrammetry, game engine integration, and immersive military training environment design.
David authored the book “Digital Cinematography – Fundamentals, Techniques and Workflows”, and is a contributing author to the “VES Handbook”. He is also a RIS committee member setting VP and XR standards with SMPTE and mapping virtual lens coefficients for Unreal Engine, Cooke Optics, Arri, and Zeiss.
KAI HAWAII
VIRTUAL PRODUCTION PRODUCER
Kai started at age 18 as a 3D and 2D Artist in the post-production industry. At 19 Bzyl produced the European High School Days in partnership with the German government, the city of Cologne and lead a team of 200 people. Kai has worked for RTL, SAT1, MTV, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Arri Studios and video game companies EA and Blue Box. He is a specialist in AR, VR, mixed reality, virtual production, VFX and computer games creation.
JETT GREEN
MATTE PAINTING SUPERVISOR
Caroleen "Jett" Green has created rich, luminescent, and endlessly detailed matte paintings for film since 1984 when she began her career at Lucasfilm's, Industrial, Light and Magic. There she learned how to paint on glass along side the film industry’s greatest special effects masters.
Her long, notable career as a matte painter for both special effects and animation is matched by few, and her tireless support to every project, her professionalism, and her attention to detail have created a high demand for her work. Jett’s early credits include The Never Ending Story, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Star Trek.
INDRA Lal Balami
Vice President of Business Development
Indra has been an animation director, CG Supervisor and digital artist and since 1999. He is a certified expert in Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Maya animation software. He is the founder and director of MAYA Animation Academy since 2005, a globally recognized animation academy that produces world-class animation professionals. Organizing events like Film 3D animated shorts are major milestones to cater to Nepalese talents on both local and global platforms.
He is a co-founder of Maya Animation Studio, which created many CGI designs, animations, and Visual Effects (VFX) projects in Nepal and abroad (Japan, Korea, US). Projects include Kung Fu Yoga (Jackie Chan) for Dexter Studio, Veggie Squad (a Korean animated series) for Storyfarm, The Tunnel Movie VFX (Korean) for Makarios Global Studio, Japanese Music Video VFX of EXILE band called PARADOX, "Nightmare Cafe Spider" movie VFX USA for Synaptic VFX Studio, "Heroz" Feature film VFX, Nepal Directed by NB Maharjan, "Jonny Gentleman" Nepali Feature film VFX, "BlindRocks" Feature film VFX, Nepal Directed by Milan Chamsetc. He has helped to grow many studios in Nepal for outsourcing and local projects as well.
He is associated with California State University Fresno for promoting Nepalese programs to the university level in California, USA, and with NCC UK in IT and Business programs too. Now our programs are recognized with SAE College Australia for animation and filmmaking programs.
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