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With George Barris at the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

Bernadine Bogdanovs is the Director and creator of the Wheels on Reels Film Festival. Bernadine is also the owner ofPalm Springs Desktop.com, an electronic publishing business that produces a desert activities newsletter and a weekly calendar of auto and air-related events in Southern California. After five years of operation as Palm Springs Desktop.com, Bernadine recently launched a new website for her automotive news calendar, Palm Springs Car Events.com.

Chad McQueen has offered to serve as a judge of film for the Inaugural Wheels On Reels Film Festival. Like his father Steve, Chad has blended his passion for cars and motorcycles into a film career. Chad is an actor and producer with over two dozen motion picture and television credits. He is an SCCA Nationals champion, and in 2002, was awarded a Telly for his documentary film entitled, "Filming At Speed" about the making of "Le Mans." Prior to an accident during a qualifying race at Daytona in 2007, Chad competed in several automobile races in the United States, Europe and Mexico. He raced professionally in the World Mini Grand Prix, the Baja 1000 and the Grand American Road Race Series in the GT and Daytona Prototype categories.

Deborah Harmon is the Media Spokesperson and Mistress of Ceremonies for the Wheels on Reels Film Festival. Harmon is the beautiful, blue-eyed blonde that starred as the love interest of Kurt Russell in the movie "Used Cars." She is a graduate of Northern Illinois University, and was a member of the famed Second City improvisational group that included John Candy, Harold Ramis, Joe Flaherty and Dan Akroyd. Deborah came to Hollywood with her fellow Second City actors and appeared in numerous motion picture and television roles, a few of which include the popular "Back to the Future" films, "Laverne and Shirley," "Married With Children" and "M*A*S*H."

Jerry London is a veteran filmmaker that has offered to serve as a judge of film for the inaugural Wheels On Reels Film Festival. His career in film and television started over 30 years ago as a film editor for "Hogan's Heroes." His talent was recognized almost instantaneously and he was soon on his way to a rewarding career that included countless projects for television over the following two decades. He was a long-standing director of such popular hit shows as "The Six Million Dollar Man," "Kojak" and "Happy Days," but is perhaps most well known as the award-winning director of "Shogun" a made-for-television mini-series that won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards and earned him a Best Director's Award from the Director's Guild of America. Over his celebrated career, London has directed over 25 Academy Award winning actors, including film legends Charlton Heston, Richard Burton, Gregory Peck, Faye Dunaway and Rock Hudson.