Tom Simes has been working with young people for 35 years as a community leader, athletic coach, stage and film director, ministry leader and high school teacher. Because of Grácia is his fifth feature film. He is currently teaching filmmaking to eleventh graders in Canada. Tom and his wife Michelle have 4 children and live in Saskatoon Saskatchewan, the heartland of Canada.
Rick Killian has ghostwritten or had the editorial lead on more than fifty books. Rick was the developmental editor on the platinum-selling "Jesus Freaks" and ghostwrote "Jesus Freaks: Revolutionaries" by DC Talk and The Voice of the Martyrs. He also helped to write New York Times bestsellers "The American Prophecies" and "The Final Move Beyond Iraq" by Michael D. Evans. He recently also ghostwrote another book that involved an international adoption entitled "Taking on Goliath" by Jim Dotson. Rick's projects have sold more than three million copies. He and his wife, Melissa, live in Boulder, Colorado, where they enjoy walking their son's dog, Arwen, and trying to keep their daughter's cat, Milo, from getting out at night. They also play tennis, love the Rocky Mountains, and read as much as possible.
