Biographies

Torben Bernhard (director) is a graduate of Utah Valley University in Integrated Studies (emphases in Philosophy, Communications, and Humanities). His previous credits include: co-writer/director, Wrestling With God (2008), associate producer/ assistant director, A Better Life (2008), winner of Cinequest Film Festivalʼs Special Jury Award. He will be entering into production for his next documentary film, entitled Blue Mountain Boys, in the summer of 2010.

Travis Low (director) is currently working on a BA in Integrated Studies (emphases in Philosophy and Humanities) at Utah Valley University. After graduating he plans to attend graduate school.
He is a dedicated musician and has been able to tour much of the United States playing in independent bands. This is his first endeavor in filmmaking (hopefully not his last), but has long been an obsessed and self- determined student of all types of film.

Alex Caldiero, the subject of this documentary, was born in 1949 in the ancient town of Licodia Eubea, Sicily. He immigrated to the U.S. at age nine and was raised in Manhattan, New York. He attended Queens College and was apprenticed to the sculptor Michael Lekakis and the poet-bard Ignazio Buttita. He is co- founder of Arba Sicula, the society for the preservation of the Sicilian language and traditions, and is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Utah Performing Arts Tour, and from the Associations for Mormon Letters. Caldiero has lived in Utah since 1980 with his wife and children. He is currently the Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University. Caldiero's work has been reviewed by Village Voice and The New York Times and is included in “A Dicitonary of the Avant-Gardes.”