Having a child with Cerebral Palsy, Nino “Love”, Nina, the Director’s mother has dedicated her life in social justice work, along with her husband, Roger Sr. Aside from performing all the producing duties of this film,  she also coordinated the acting workshop which the Director instituted. Nina is deeply committed to the vision of inspiring change, she especially wants to give help to children with disabilities.  She is currently pursuing to build the "Love Foundation" -- for disabled kids in underprivileged communities.

Francisco Valdez is the cinematographer for the feature film, Ladrones A domicillo, directed by Angel Muniz and to be released in 2008. He also did the DP for the  HBO short, Hispaniola, and the MTV award winning short, The Beautiful Lie, directed by Josh Caldwell. His other experience includes cinematography of several TV commercials including some top brands and franchises and music videos. Francisco started preparation for the DP work for The Mountain Thief  with Gerry Balasta a few years before production. This included intense preproduction, script analysis, story boarding and location scouting.

Douglas Morse is an independent filmmaker and has directed four films. They include The Adulterer (Best of Fest Sarasota International Film Festival), 2000 Miles to Maine , The Summoning of Everyman (in distribution) and The Merchant of Venice: Uncut, a video adaptation of a play staged at The University of Cambridge where Mr. Morse was a Visiting Scholar (currently in post-production). Previews of these films are available at www.grandfatherfilms.com. He is also a part time faculty member at The

New School and he received his M.F.A. from New York University.

Upon finishing his degree in Communication Design, Altos de Chavón School of Design , where he won awards in graphic design, he moved to New York City. During his studies at the New School University, he worked as a teacher’s assistant for the cinematography and editing department. In 2007, he edited “Meg’s Song” directed by Bret Berg and staring Stella Keitel, which won the Grand Jury Prize Award for the Long Island Film festival. In 2007, he traveled to the Philippines where he spent over five months teaching editing at the International Academy of Film and Television. He is currently based in NY.

Clarence is an award winning editor and he edited the highly acclaimed film, "The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros" - nominee of 2007 IFP Spirit Awards, winner of 2006 Berlin International Film Festival,Glass Bear, 2006 Berlin International Film Festival, Teddy Award, 2006, Gawad Urian Awards, 2005 Montreal World Film Festival 2005, Golden Zenith Award for Best Picture. This film played in competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. He also edited the narrative feature Tuli, which also played in the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and other major film festivals in the world.

Gerry actively worked on editing this film during production and after production with Clarence in the Philippines, then for 7 months on his own in NY and then with Francis, New York based editor. He continues to refine the film as he gets closer to completion.

Michael Tremante draws upon his experience as a multi-instrumentalist, performer, and music producer when creating music for film. Since 2004 he has worked on several award-winning films, scoring fourteen features and more than twenty shorts. Classical training, contemporary sensibility and experimentation inform his work, with an interest in combining traditional and nontraditional instruments and sound elements. Michael began his film music career assisting Academy Award winning composer Howard Shore and served as Associate Music Producer on Peter Jackson’s “The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring” and Music Co-Producer on David Fincher’s “Panic Room and David Cronenberg’s “Spider”.

A unique feature of this film is the fact that in addition to the professional film crew of more than 40, the actors and several garbage collecting town residents of Payatas, played a major role in the production design, art direction, wardrobe, set construction and location scouting of the film, they were very active in giving their very personal input in developing and giving the authenticity needed for the film.