

After one year of living in Los Angeles, she joined the Screen Actor’s Guild and shortly after was featured on a number of television shows including New Girl, Workaholics, and HBO’s West World.

She began her career as an actress, most notably as Andy Hurley's love interest in the Fall Out Boy music video series: The Young Blood Chronicles. Whitney Nicole Shumaker is a Los Angeles based filmmaker, experienced in various aspects of the film industry. Before graduation, Joshua produced his first feature film, Saviors, which will debut at the CineQuest Film Festival in San Jose, CA in March of 2018. SNOWPLOW would also go on to win a Grand Jury Prize at the DGA Student Film Awards and an ASC Award for Best Student Cinematography.

Joshua’s thesis film, SNOWPLOW, would go on to be nominated for three Student Emmy Awards, including a nomination for Joshua in the Best Narrative Film, Drama category. During his time there, Joshua would go on to work at a breakneck speed, not only producing over a dozen short films for his coursework, but simultaneously working as a production manager on a pilot and feature film that would feature on the Freeform Network (The Friendless Five) and Netflix (XX Anthologies). Up next was a move to Los Angeles, where he would work his way up from production assistant to producer over the next six years before attending the American Film Institute Conservatory. Joshua would formalize his education at the University of California, Berkeley, studying film theory and publishing his analysis of Michael Bay’s oeuvre in a local magazine. Armed with a checklist and a Blockbuster Video membership card, he began his film education one VHS at a time. Joshua Valle fell in love with films at a young age, watching every entry of AFI’s 100 Greatest Films of All Time. Rebecca has been the recipient of several film grants including the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) grant financed by the Time Warner Foundation and National Endowment of the Arts, the Panavision New Filmmakers Grant, and The Nancy Malone Directing Fellowship. She has completed the AFI Directing Workshop for Women and is currently in the Disney / ABC Directing Program. In 2011, she deployed in Afghanistan where she was attached to a Special Operation Command supporting SEAL teams and Special Forces in Afghanistan. Army and has deployed to Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. She most recently directed the ABC TALENT SHOWCASE held at the EL Portal Theatre on Nov 7, 2017. Past clients include ABC, CBS, FOX, NHL, MLB, NBA, ESPN, Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, HBO, and A&E Networks. She produces and directs films, commercials, documentaries and branded content. Rebecca Murga is an award-winning filmmaker who works in Los Angeles as a writer and director.
