Carole Dean is the Founder and President of From the Heart Productions, a 501(c)3 non-profit fiscal sponsor that supports independent filmmakers to raise funding for their films. She created the Roy Dean Film grant in 1992 and has given over $2,500,000 in grants to independent filmmakers, and helped to produce over 80 films through the grant.

She created the short-end film business in 1970 which helped spawn the independent film revolution by giving filmmakers affordable film stock. In the 1980s, she produced 120 Health Styles Shows that were sold to Oasis Cable and 30 Filmmaker shows, now in the National Archives. She was Executive Producer for BAM 6.6, Women Behind the Camera, Step Away From the Stone, and American Chain Gang. More of Carole's producing credits are available on IMDB. Carole Dean is the author of The Art of Film Funding Second Edition & The Art of Manifesting: Creating your Future.

As the voice over artist and studio producer for Lighted Paths Productions, Claire Papin offers affordable spoken word audio in her state-of-the-art digital recording studio for clients worldwide. She can record, voice, and edit, your written word into professional audio for apps, e-Learning modules & corporate training, audio books, film narration,  multimedia projects, animation, podcast interviews, on-hold / IVR messaging, and more.

In addition to her visionary audio production and voice-over talents, Claire has worked professionally as an on-camera talent in film & TV, and radio broadcaster, for nearly 30 years. She can be remembered for her ground breaking work as a host and producer on Wisdom Radio’s “Wisdom Today,” and on “It’s All Good” for Lime Radio; both of which aired coast to coast in the U.S. and Canada on Sirius Satellite Radio.