Ryan Jay - Director

Ryan is the producer and director of major pop culture and entertainment programming for networks such as Bravo, Showtime, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, and TLC. He is one of America’s most popular nationally syndicated entertainment journalists. He is featured weekly as resident film critic on The Morning Blend and weekend newscasts on the NBC-TV affiliate in Milwaukee, WI. On radio, he can be heard live Friday mornings on FM stations across the country, in addition to recorded weekly segments for Premiere Networks. Ryan is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association which annually awards excellence in film at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards and GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. Inspired since childhood by his favorite film, The Wizard of Oz, Ryan has become an Oz historian, interviewing many celebrities, including the casts and filmmakers of several Oz films, publishing articles and presenting multimedia lectures, celebrating the legacy of Oz to audiences from around the world at annual conventions in NY, IL and KS, along with universities, theaters and museums. ​

Aaron Harburg - Producer

Aaron Harburg is the great-grandson of Yip Harburg. For over a decade Aaron has been producing video and media for the technology sector. His clientele has included everything from small startups to fortune 500 companies like Mercedes Benz as well as major federal agencies such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He has produced a number of short films included a winner of the LA Independent Film Festival.