Phil Wickham is a GRAMMY nominated, Dove Award-winning modern worship artist whose songs have been sung in churches around the world. His latest album, Song Of The Saints released September 2025 & debuted as his largest release to date. The album includes the longest running #1 single of 2025, “What An Awesome God”. His 2024 Grammy Nominated album I Believe, went #1 on the BIllboard Top Christian Albums. At the 2024 GMA Dove Awards, Wickham was the most awarded artist taking home 9 awards, including Song of the Year & Worship Album of the Year. At the 2025 GMA Dove Awards, he also won Christmas Album of the Year. From his Platinum-certified singles “This is Amazing Grace,” “Living Hope,” & “Battle Belongs”, to his latest project Song Of The Saints, Wickham’s music has received billions of streams in the US alone across his catalog. Wickham’s discography includes ten full-length projects, multiple Christmas releases, and a series of popular Singalong records. In addition, he has authored multiple devotionals including “On Our Knees: 40 Days to Living Boldly in Prayer” and the “I Believe Devotional” where he invites people on a 14 day journey of living a life of greater faith.

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Brandon Engman is a Los Angeles based actor, dancer, and singer. Brandon studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he graduated with a BFA in Drama. Brandon studied musical theatre at the New Studio on Broadway, as well as Film and Television acting at Stonestreet Studios. He made his first professional stage debut at Seattle's ACT Theatre.

Brian Stivale is a Musical, TV, Film, Video Game & Commercial Voice Actor originally from Edison, NJ. Now L.A. Based, he is a NYC-Trained Acting Student of legends like Charlie Adler, William Esper & others. Brian is the voice of “The Boss” & others on ANGEL Studios’ & Butch Hartman’s Cartoon “The Garden”. He is the voice of Pasquale in 2K's "MAFIA: The Old Country”, featured as “Venom” on MARVEL'S “Avengers Academy”, BATMAN for D.C. and has also been the voice of Rubeus Hagrid for WWHP. He is the voice of literally hundreds of Video Game Characters. Brian is also the Narrator of the TV Series’: “Copycat Killers” on Discovery, CuriosityStream's “Beating Death” & ID Discovery's “Deadly Souls” shows. You can also hear him Narrate PBS' Movie- “Pearl Harbor: Into The Arizona”. His work has received 2 Awards at Cannes, 5 WETA GAME AWARDS & Nominations for The Audie Awards & BAFTA Game Awards. He has been the voice of hundreds of Major Corporations, Brands and Businesses in the Commercial Industry. Mr. Stivale is an Official Goodwill Ambassador to the State of Israel and an ex-resident of Jerusalem. He and his wife teach Hebrew Roots & Biblical Archeology regularly & are the Pastors of King of Kings Los Angeles, the 1st USA Plant of King of Kings Community Jerusalem. It is both an HONOR & a PRIVILEGE for Brian to portray the Prophet Samuel in ANGEL Studios’ “DAVID” Film.

Jacqui co-founded Sunrise Animation Studios with her husband Phil over twenty-five years ago, and she has a particular passion for mentoring people and building incredible teams in the filmmaking and story process. She brings a great deal of intuitive wisdom to compliment Phil’s entrepreneurial vision, and they have been an exceptional team in running a business, making movies, and raising their three children.

Phil’s passion for storytelling was ignited and fueled as a young boy growing up in the wild frontier of Zimbabwe, where day-to-day life was often interspersed with larger-than-life characters and fantastic stories. Phil was struck by the incredible power of stories to impact society and in particular the power of animation to cross race, culture, age and gender barriers better than any other medium. Over the last 25 years, Phil together with Jacqui, has built Sunrise Animation Studios in Cape Town, South Africa. The studio’s mission statement is “Inspire Through Story".

Tim is a producer at Sunrise Animation Studios and has been in the animation industry for 12 years. He has produced five seasons of the award-winning Jungle Beat series, which has been broadcast in over 150 countries. Tim launched the Jungle Beat YouTube channel, which has grown to over 12 million subscribers and 5.5 billion views. Following the success of the Jungle Beat series, Tim has produced Jungle Beat: The Movie (2021, Netflix Original), Jungle Beat 2 The Past (2025), the Young David short film series (2023, Minno/Angel), and the DAVID feature film.

Rita has 23 years of experience working in animated and live-action feature films, commercials, short films, and TV series. Rita has been part of the Sunrise Animation Studios production team on Jungle Beat since the inception of the brand in 2002 - across all eight seasons of the show and both feature films. She was a mentor in the Women in Animation mentorship program and was a member of the Jury at the Annecy Film Festival in 2022, the El Ojo Cojo Film Festival in 2022 and 2023, and the Animasyros International Animation Festival in 2024. She has recently produced the Young David short film series and the DAVID feature film.