Burbank native Nathan Alan Schwartz is a busy young man. At only 25 years old he manages to juggle his responsibilities as an editor on Sopphey Vance’s Enhance Magazine, his studies as a Film major at Los Angeles Valley College, and work on his first book of poetry, the upcoming The Melancholy Spectator. In addition to all of that, Schwartz will be launching Five 2 One Magazine on the On Impression network (the parent network of Drunk Monkeys) in November.

It’s standard for aspiring filmmakers to leave their small towns behind and come to Hollywood. Independent filmmaker Scott Honea has found success by taking the opposite route. After spending several years working office jobs in Los Angeles while writing screenplays (two of which were optioned but never developed) and shooting short films with his writing partner Joshua Sitarz, Honea moved back to his hometown of Corsicana, Texas to direct his first full-length film.