
His screenplay "Dreams for the Sandman" was a finalist in the both the Omaha Film Festival and at the SkyFest Film and Script Festival last year. In addition, he is an aspiring screenwriter and playwright. His most successful book is based on the life of Barack Obama's childhood friend, Keith Kakugawa, who Barack called "Ray". Dave has written several books, mostly in the fiction genre. He works for his wife's consulting company, Cynjut Consulting Services, as a principal telephony engineer producing custom library systems. He retired from the Air Force in 1999, where he was a computer programmer for his entire career.
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Dave Burgess is a professional writer and systems engineer living in Omaha, Nebraska. Her most noted film to date "The Cave" has won several awards, including 1st place Short Films (Experimental) 2009 Indie Gathering, Cleveland, OH Aug 2009 The Indie Merit Award, La Jolla, CA Sep 2009 3rd Place Student in SkyFest II, Asheville, NC Sep 2009 Silver Sierra Award 2009 Yosemite Film Festival, CA Oct 2009 Special Mention, Festival de Cine de Granada, Spain, Apr 2010 Silver Palm Award, Mexico IFF, May 2010 Golden Ace Award, Las Vegas IFF, NV, June 2010. She has successfully completed several film projects with four of them currently being shown world wide at film festivals. Then she moved to San Diego, California where she attended San Diego State University Film School graduating with a Masters in Film, TV, and New Media. She received an award for her short film Canberra, A Guided Tour, at the age of 16, winning a trip to Australia. ISBN 978-1-84 Cover Image by Asher Wishkerman ( ) About the Reviewers Sabine Asanger, born and raised in Germany, was interested in film at an early age, making short videos with the family camera. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK. First published: March 2011 Production Reference: 1040311 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

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