THE TEAM

LYSANDRA PETERSSON

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Lysandra hails from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. She attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts, graduating with a degree in creative writing. She is the series director of the VPM PBS series Life in the Heart Land, and the writer-director of Deep Structure's feature films 500 Fireflies (2025) and Bell Canyon (2019).

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After graduation, she produced, directed and edited a documentary - "Thunder at a Playhouse" - which premiered in Virginia in 2006. She moved to Los Angeles in 2007 to pursue a career in film. From 2008-2009, she worked on the video team at Laura Ziskin's fledgling initiative, Stand Up to Cancer. As a member of Monday Night Writers Group in Hollywood, she wrote more than ten feature-length screenplays, as well as writing and directing Deep Structure's second feature film ("Bell Canyon"), two short films and a web series ("Conversations in Cars"), and producing Deep Structure's first feature narrative film. See her IMDb page here.

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ZAN GILLIES

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Zan is a cinematographer and screenwriter who holds an MFA in Film and Electronic Media from American University. His short film Last Strike was an award winner at the Austin Film Festival, after which he was listed by MovieMaker Magazine as one of Austin Film Festival’s Screenwriters To Watch in 2022. His script On The Skulls of Giants won the Pilot Award at the 2023 BlueCat Screenplay Competition, and others of his screenplays have placed at the semi-finals at the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and Austin Film Festival. Zan has taught film at both the college and high-school level. See more here.

ZACH LALIBERTE

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Zach was born and raised in Chattanooga, TN, and attended Columbia College in Chicago, graduating with a degree in acting in 2003.

He spent the next several years in Chicago working as an actor and musician. In 2008, he moved to Los Angeles, where he joined Monday Night Writers Group and added screenwriting to his resume of talents. He has released two albums as a singer/songwriter, and, with his wife Lysandra producing, starred in four music videos for his songs. In 2014, Zach wrote and directed Deep Structure's first feature-length film, "Bobbi & Gill" (working title "Breaking Glass"). See his complete IMDb page here.