Meet the Crew

Sam Cleary: Writer, Director

Sam has been making student films for ten years now- meaning half of his life! He is majoring in Film & Media Studies and minoring in Economics at Whitman College. His films show a curiosity for heritage, family relationships, critiquing consumerism, social justice, and coming-of-age perspectives. His main influences for Welcome Home include Hereditary, Get Out, The Babadook, and Pyscho. His main directorial credits include Electric Sheep, Ireland, Eileen and is in post-production for his documentary short, Carol-Ann: Domestic Violence Counselor.  Sam also has played the role as a Director of Photography for several Studio Subtext films, including Eileen, Jimmy the Limo Driver, Sunday Morning, The Midnight Criminals, a 2^nd Unit DP for Ringo and served as a Gaffer for Everything Bagel.

Alexander James: Producer

Alexander Standish James is a Seattle local filmmaker and musician. He started filmmaking At the prestigious Ballard Highschool filmmaking program where he competed in local and national film festivals like SIFF, NWHSFF, and NFFTY. During high school, he interned for Seattle Documentary specialist Dan Mcomb and filmmaker activist Thor Radford. His most recent film work was directing in the Seattle 48 hour film off where his team walked away with an audience favorite award for the film "Piece of Cake".

Krister Persson: 1st Assistant Director

Krister was born and raised in the beautiful city of Seattle, WA. Krister has always had a passion for filmmaking, creating stop motion animations and short films at a very young age. Some of his favorite films are Raiders of the Lost Ark, American Graffiti, Apocalypse Now, Lawrence of Arabia, and the Star Wars saga, and with his appreciation for these movies he built up his Star Wars-YouTube channel, StarGeek, to over 60,000 subscribers. He has produced music videos, commercials, documentaries and short films at Central Washington University as a film production major and screenwriting minor, and is always looking to create.