Jimmy Morrison directed the award-winning documentary The Housing Bubble, the 1st film in a trilogy co-written by Tom Woods. Jimmy drove over 35,000 miles shooting 15 interviews with people that predicted the crash like Ron Paul, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Peter Schiff, Doug Casey, Jim Grant, Gene Epstein, Robert Murphy, and David Stockman. The 1st film in the trilogy set an attendance record and won an Audience Award at the Anthem Film Festival, after over 300 people filled the room and spilled into the hallway at the premiere. The NYC Premiere launched the release of the film in over 70 countries. The sequel The Fall of 2008 comes out March 14th. Sales of both films will fund the premiere and release of the final film The Bigger Bubble later this year.
Morrison’s work on Dennis Quaid’s Grid Down won a Storyteller Award at DOC LA in 2022. He was brought on as a script consultant and also ended up doing the motion graphics with frequent collaborator Jake Dilley. Jimmy produced and ran a camera for Jake’s mockumentary Rocksteppy, also starring McManus Woodend, best known for his recurring role as the GEICO caveman. The film features Jeff Dowd: the Coen Brothers original inspiration for “The Dude,” as well as cameos from Oscar-winning directors David Lynch and Peter Farrelly. David Lynch picked Jimmy and Jake’s music video Aperture for a grant. It also screened at the Minneapolis St. Paul Film Festival. Morrison premiered My Dad The Honor Flight Director at the Anthem Film Festival in Memphis in 2023. The film is about his father’s life and subsequent battle with dementia.
Jimmy Morrison dropped out of college to start Let Us Disagree Films in 2007. A year later, Jimmy started Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana, successfully lobbying the first Board of Pharmacy in the country to recommend marijuana be rescheduled as medicine, which the bipartisan board supported unanimously. The organization received a grant from the Marijuana Policy Project and has grown exponentially since Jimmy stepped down in 2011. Jimmy also worked closely with Gary Johnson from 2010-2011 on his Republican Presidential campaign, but has since been radicalized away from politics.
In 2019, Jimmy Morrison started RV School, a club where kids learn about the world by exploring it, empowering them to take charge of their education while getting real life experiences. He has since served on the Board of Directors for The Montessori School of Iowa City and currently serves on the board for Tamarack Discovery School, a place-based school that goes up to 6th grade.
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the 2019 winner of the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna. He is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show.
Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and his master’s, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, FOX News Channel, FOX Business Network, C-SPAN, and Bloomberg Television, among other outlets, and has been a guest on hundreds of radio programs.
He is the author of thirteen books, most recently Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania and Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion.
His other books include the New York Times bestsellers Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (read Ron Paul’s foreword) and The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, as well as Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama (with Kevin R.C. Gutzman), Sacred Then and Sacred Now: The Return of the Old Latin Mass, 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, and The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy. His critically acclaimed book The Church Confronts Modernity was released in paperback by Columbia University Press in 2007. A collection of Tom’s essays, called W obronie zdrowego rozsadku, was released exclusively in Polish in 2007.
Tom’s books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, Lithuanian, German, Dutch, Czech, Portuguese, Croatian, Slovak, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.
Tom edited and wrote the introduction to five additional books: Back on the Road to Serfdom: The Resurgence of Statism, We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now (with Murray Polner), Murray N. Rothbard’s The Betrayal of the American Right, The Political Writings of Rufus Choate, and Orestes Brownson’s 1875 classic The American Republic. He contributed the preface to Choosing the Right College and the foreword both to Ludwig von Mises’ Liberalism and to Abel Upshur’s A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government. He is also the author of Beyond Distributism, part of the Acton Institute’s Christian Social Thought Series.
Tom’s writing has appeared in dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals, including the American Historical Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Investor’s Business Daily, Catholic Historical Review, Modern Age, American Studies, Intercollegiate Review, Catholic Social Science Review, Economic Affairs (U.K.), Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Inside the Vatican, Human Events, University Bookman, Journal of Markets & Morality, New Oxford Review, Catholic World Report, Independent Review, Religion & Liberty, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, AD2000 (Australia), Christian Order (U.K.), and Human Rights Review.
Tom won the $50,000 first prize in the prestigious Templeton Enterprise Awards, given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Templeton Foundation, for his book The Church and the Market. He has also received an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute, the Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for excellence in research and teaching, the George F. Koether Free Market Writing Award, and the O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship. He has also been awarded two Humane Studies Fellowships and a Claude R. Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University and a Richard M. Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
For eleven years Tom served as associate editor of The Latin Mass magazine; he is presently a contributing editor of The American Conservative magazine. A contributor to six encyclopedias, Tom is co-editor of Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877, an eleven-volume encyclopedia.
Tom also created 400 videos on history and government for the Ron Paul Curriculum, a K-12 homeschool curriculum.
Tom lives in Florida with his wife and five (soon to be six) children.
Naomi Brockwell is an award-winning producer who hosts some of the largest blockchain and economics conferences around the world. She interviews the biggest names in Tech, Business, and Politics and is a regular on US national television discussing blockchain technology and current events.
On her channel NBTV, Naomi has been producing videos on blockchain, tech and privacy since 2013. Since 2015 she has worked as a producer for 19-times Emmy-Award-Winning Journalist John Stossel. From 2013 – 2015 she worked as a policy associate at the New York Bitcoin Center.
Naomi was a producer for the 2015 feature documentary Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (Best International Documentary, Anthem Film Festival; Winner of Special Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival), Audition (Best documentary, Lone Star Film Festival), producer of the 2018 award-winning documentary about the housing crash The Housing Bubble, and producer of the Lionsgate thriller, Subconscious.
Naomi is the co-founder of The Soho Forum, on the Advisory Council at the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, is co-author of the children’s book “Billy’s Bitcoin”.
Haveahartman is more than just a moniker for Rocky Mountain based filmmaker Matthew Hartman. It’s a way of life.
Born in Denver and raised by painters and writers, Hartman has been an artist since a very young age. After growing up playing hockey, drawing A LOT and watching cartoons in Minnesota, he moved to London where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. During his studies he discovered stop-motion animation which he lovingly describes as the combination of practical fine art and digital filmmaking. The creation of his thesis stop-motion film “25a” exposed him to a whole new world of artistic processes; editing, sound design, music, cinematography, and most importantly story. Haveahartman’s obsession with filmmaking was instantaneous and he has not lost the fine art passion, continuing to practice photography and illustration as well as directing both live action and animation films.
After moving to New York City in 2007 Hartman compiled over 16 years of post production and editorial experience at some of the worlds top edit houses and post facilities. He continues to work with top agencies, brands, directors and production companies either from his home studio in Evergreen, CO, on set or wherever in the world is most convenient for the client and project. Whether its a tv commercial, music video, documentary or a feature film, he approaches all projects with a passion for pushing creative and a true love of the craft of filmmaking.
Matt Hartman has edited the feature film Rocksteppy, a feature docu-series, and recently wrapped Desiigner’s music video “Hood” which has almost 2 million views on YouTube. A natural hands-on artist, Hartman is an experienced on-set editor and enjoys the thrill of handling whatever comes his way during a busy production. “I love being on set,” says Hartman. “It allows you to digest the content as it’s captured and also inserts you into the creative discussions happening on the day. Instead of spending time familiarizing yourself with a concept or story, you can hit the ground running.” His artistic skills extend beyond the edit room, when he isn’t editing you’ll likely find him animating, drumming, taking photographs or teaching comedy editing courses.
Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Jake Dilley took to art and music at an early age. While in college at the University of Iowa, he developed The Color Pharmacy, a multimedia project incorporating film, performance, music, and lights, which later developed into a successful touring band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In 2013, Dilley was handpicked by acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch to receive a scholarship to the newly formed David Lynch MA in Film program at Maharishi University for a Color Pharmacy music video Dilley produced and co-directed (with Jimmy Morrison).
After earning his MA in Film in 2014, he relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he currently resides after completing his first feature-length film, Rocksteppy.
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orn and raised in Caracas Venezuela, and brought to the US at age 17, Fernando Castillo graduated from West High School in Iowa City and attended the University of Iowa – School of Art and Art History. Majoring in both graphic arts and cinema, he obtained a BFA with honors in 2009. Fernando works in Chicago and across North America as a freelance/non-union Director of Photography/Cinematographer, Colorist, and Computer Motion Designer/Animator. His wide variety of experience includes working on a production crew for Lollapalooza, print/web/graphic design, and photography for the real-estate and fashion industry.
Since selling his investment management firm in 2008, David Tice pursued many interests outside the arena of public markets for exactly one decade. He just became the Chief Investment Officer of an actively managed BEAR ETF which profits from the decline in the US equity market. He’s also the major investor and Board member of a private equity investment in a SaaS data security company that offers a military-grade quality of data security and control.
Tice is well known for founding and managing the Prudent Bear Fund (BEARX) from 1996-2008. For the ten years ended 12/08 when Tice sold the fund, BEARX increased in value at a 7.97% annualized rate, while the S&P 500 lost 1.38% annually.
He is also known for sponsoring the Credit Bubble & Its Aftermath on September 21, 1999 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, that was covered by the WSJ’s front page the next morning. His Behind the Numbers’ research report on Tyco Int’l prompted investor and regulator scrutiny that eventually caused the company to lose tens of billions in market capitalization.
Tice is also known for being the driving force and financier of Soul Surfer, the inspiring movie about Bethany Hamilton, the Hawaii teen surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack. The film achieved a highly rare A+ CinemaScore for favorable audience appeal, and generated $100MM in total revenue. In the 40 years since CinemaScores have been tabulated, there have only been 77 films achieving an A+ score.