Laura Scholl, who holds a Master of Science in Visual Studies '91 from MIT's Media Lab and a Bachelor of Fine Arts '80 from UMASS Amherst, is an filmmaker with over 20 years experience in film and entertainment. Her professional artistic and technical experience began in 1982 when she was an animator for Atari's Sesame Street educational games series. As a technical director she created over 125 animated segments for CBS News 1988 Election Coverage. In 1995 she produced and directed an interactive documentary about the research of the ecological institute, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, ECOSUR 1995: 20 Años de Investigación; shot on location in Chiapas, Mexico.

Since 1996 she has worked as a digital cinematographer, creating the look, lighting and compositing of animated computer generated characters that are integrated primarily into live action feature film. Her film credits include: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, Garfield, Scooby Do 2, Charlie's Angeles 2 (teaser), Stuart Little 2, the Oscar winning Chubb Chubbs Animated Film Short, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, SpiderMan (test), Hollowman, 102 Dalmatians (teaser), Disney's Dinosaur, Fifth Element, Dante's Peak, Darkman, and Superman III.

Ms. Scholl's personal and scholarly interests in multiple intelligences and the use of shifting focus to expand awareness led her to study indigenous wisdom as a means to navigate between the familiar and the subtle. It has taught her to reconnect with nature, and enabled her to think and see differently in order to live a more creative and conscious life. During the last four years she has apprenticed with several Peruvian shamans, including Don Ignacio Duri. As a result of their work together, Don Ignacio has granted her permission to record his story before he dies so that it may be repeated to others, remembered and relived.