CeaseFireStrategies
Encouraging positive Christian interaction with media and culture.
Eric Bumpus
Eric Bumpus' two main academic interests were realized in 1998 while taking a Video Yearbook course and a Theological survey course at Lenawee Christian High School in Adrian, Michigan. Bumpus was one of forty students nationwide to earn a certificate of completion from the Los Angeles Film Studies Center in the Spring of 2003. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Indiana Wesleyan University of that same year.
Bumpus' primary experience has been as a freelance video editor for various production companies including MagicHouse Productions, New Hollywood Studios, Marion Indiana's Community School of the Arts (CSA) and more. He also worked as a photographer for Photographic TV Productions at the International Hot Glass Invitational.
Bumpus is currently a Videographer and Photo Processor for Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has recorded over 500 weddings via live switcher and remotely controlled cameras, as well as handheld for the ceremonies within the on-property gardens, gazebo and at the Grand Canyon.
Eric is the co-author (with Timothy Moranville) of "Cease Fire, the War is Over!", avid blogger, and contributor to "We Support You -- Letters of Encouragement for Our Troops Serving in Iraq and Afgahanistan", an anthology work published by Xulon Press in November 2008.
Founder of CeaseFireStrategies, Bumpus also hosts the CFS audio program Cultural Diplomacy, and he is currently in development with new programming for CFS.
Timothy Moranville
Timothy Moranville originally felt that he was called to be a youth pastor. After being chosen to participate in a television production class during his junior and senior years of high school, he re-evaluated his calling, and chose to major in Communications at Indiana Wesleyan University. During his four years at IWU, Moranville looked for any opportunity he could find to get behind a camera. In his sophomore year, he served as the director of photography on the short film Charity, a fictional tale of a young Jewish girl and her German friend during World War II. For his senior project, Moranville teamed up with Joletta Sells to make the feature length Red Moon, a story about a sleepwalking doctor whose patients kept getting murdered. After graduation, he worked on several freelance projects in the Marion, Indiana area. Currently, he is the Head of the Video and Photo department for Little Chapel of the Flowers, overseeing the videographers, photographers and post-processors. In addition to co-writing Cease Fire, the War is Over!, Timothy Moranville is currently writing a semi-autobiographical screenplay, as well as a spiritual autobiography chronicling his conversion to Roman Catholicism. Moranville is the co-host for Cultural Diplomacy.
Mikel J. Wisler
Born in Brazil, South America, Mikel J. Wisler spent most of his childhood in Campo Grande, Brazil. Living in a large city with many theaters, he grew up an avid viewer of films. Eventually, his missionary parents returned to their homeland, the USA. It was in this move that it became clear to Mikel that he should pursue filmmaking as a way of life.Wisler is a writer, producer, and/or director of independent short films. He graduated from Bethel College, in Mishawaka, Indiana in May of 2004, with a Liberal Studies Major with concentrations in Writing, Theatre, and Cinematography and a second major in Philosophy. While a student at Bethel, he spent a semester at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center (LAFSC), where he studied screenwriting and filmmaking. During that time he had an internship at a management company in Beverly Hills.
Wisler also writes short stories, mostly in the science-fiction genre, and is a bit of a novelist. He has one novel undergoing revisions currently. He has also written or co-written several feature length screenplays, and continues to write features.
Nate Caroway
Nate Caroway is still young, but has had plenty of opportunities to work in media production. While still new to the production field, Caroway has had 4 years in audio mixing and editing, as well as video production work.
Caroway was a grip, Production Assistant, Photographer and Assistant Editor for his first studio set project in 2009; a short film titled, "Soldier's Song", which was produced by MagicHouse Productions.
He has also worked for the McHale Performing Arts Center in Logansport, IN for 2 years as a stage hand; working on lighting, audio, video, scene shop, stage crew, rigging, and various other theatrical positions.
Nate is a graduate from Logansport High School and eagerly anticipating college this fall. He has the ability to learn what needs to be done quickly and efficiently. A man with a wide range of skills, Nate serves as a Technical Director and Assistant Editor for Cultural Diplomacy.