Cast & Crew

Bringing Finding Distance to life and the screen.

Cast

  • Seth Gilliam (Nate McKenna): The Walking Dead, The Wire, Teen Wolf

  • Diane Franklin (Dr. Pitcoff): The Last American Virgin, Better Off Dead, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

  • Introducing Jensen Myers as Alex McKenna

Seth Gilliam

Diane Franklin

Jensen Myers

Crew

  • Jon Russel Cring: Producer, Director — ExtraOrdinary Film Project; 20 award-winning features, five docs, and over 200 million views

  • Tracy Nichole Cring: Cinematographer, Editor — Award-winning professional with 20 years’ experience in filmmaking

  • Jodi Levitan: Producer, Screenwriter — Award-winning screenplay writer recognized at the Austin Film Festival, Emerging Screenwriters Shoot Your Sizzle Competition, and named best female writer at the Chicago Script Awards

  • Steven Saul: Producer — Producer, The Lesson Plan; screenwriter; associate casting director

  • Samtubia and Samgoma Edwards: Visual Effects — Awarded the LucasFilm Filmmaker Select Award for TK-436- A Stormtrooper Story

  • Jonathan Tiomkin: Fencing Choreographer — Team USA Olympic athlete (Athens 2004) with numerous U.S. and international medals

  • Lauren Scruggs: Fencing Consultant — Team USA Olympic silver and gold medalist (Paris 2024)

  • Serge Timacheff: Associate Producer/Photographer — Olympic/international fencing & celebrity photographer, journalist/author

  • Dr. Peter Harmer: Sports Medicine Advisor — created the Sports Medicine program for USA Fencing and served as its Chief Medical Officer for 13 years and a member of the FIE Medical Commission from 2000-2016

  • Jeff Bukantz: Fencing Advisor — USA Fencing Olympic Team Captain; former FIE Rules Commission member; former President of Maccabi USA

Jodi Levitan

Jon Tiomkin

Lauren Scruggs

Jon Russell Cring

Tracy Nichole Cring

Steven Saul

Serge Timacheff

Jeff Bukantz

Dr. Peter Harmer