Insight Into Healing: With Heidi Philipsen and Jon Russell Cring:

Heidi Elizabeth (Eli) Philipsen-Meissner  -  Producer/Co-director/Actressis a producer, writer, actress & director with 15 years of professional experience in international film, television and communications, who has production coordinated 11 features, including The Better Angels (starring Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger, Wes Bentley and Brit Marling), production managed multiple projects, including two national commercials, worked with stunts in actions films such as SALT and THE OTHER GUYS, acted in several features, including Business & Pleasure (opposite Vince Vaugn, Tom Wilkinson & Dave Franco), and has produced the feature Marcy. Heidi's a member of the Producers Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, the Motion Picture Institute’s Directors Alumni Club, NYWIFT, UPWIFT, Chicago Women in Film & Television, and University of Michigan and Columbia University Alumni Groups.Jon Russell Cring  - Associate Producer/Co-Writer/Co-DirectorBorn in Columbus, Ohio in 1971 to creative powerhouse parents, Jon grew up around the arts. Traveling and performing with his family, presenting music and drama on stages crisscrossing the USA. It was a business to enthrall and he would get on the phone to book their travelling gypsy show as young as fourteen. His interest in film, besides rabid fandom, began when he met his future wife and muse Tracy Nichole. Writing a variety show together, STREETWALKING, Tracy started editing and contributing her own unique and sometimes demented ideas. An unstoppable team was born and they went on to make 17 microbudget, independent features together, accumulating honors from PBS, Fangoria Magazine for the Atlantic City Cinefest along the way.