Cross & Partners
Cross & Partners LLC is a production company dedicated to providing quality faith-based, family-friendly entertainment across all media platforms. A variety of projects with positive, uplifting messages include motion pictures, television, streaming series, corporate industrials, web series and documentaries.
Meet the Production Team
Jeff Rector
Executive Producer
Writer / Director
Jeff Rector is an award-winning writer, director, producer & actor for over 30 years. His feature film “Revamped” sold worldwide and can be found on Amazon Prime and many other streaming platforms. “Revamped” is a feature length version of his first short film “Fatal Kiss” which won awards for “Best Screenplay”, “Best Director”, “Best Picture” and was one of the first short films ever acquired by HBO in its 45 year history.
Jeff’s next film “Pray Another Day” (a Christian spoof of the James Bond film “Die Another Day), won awards for “Best Director” and “Best Music”. His current web series pilot “John Doe” won the Silver Screen Award and has been the official selection of eight prestigious film festivals around the world. Jeff continues to write, direct and produce his own projects garnering worldwide distribution.
As a working actor, Jeff has over 150 film and television credits including the SYFY original film “Bermuda Tentacles” co-starring opposite Linda Hamilton (“Terminator” films) and John Savage (“Deer Hunter”).
Other feature film work includes ”Alone in the Woods” with Michael Madsen for HBO Family, “Winged Creatures” with Kate Beckinsale for Sony Pictures, “Trapped” for Lifetime and the Lions Gate supernatural thriller “The Black Gate” to name just a few.
On television, Jeff’s credits include "American Horror Story", “How I Met Your Mother”, “The Bold & The Beautiful”, “One Life to Live”, ”Beverly Hills 90210” and “Everybody Hates Chris”.
Other notable TV credits include Nick Cannon’s sketch comedy series “Short Circuitz”, "PUNK'D", “Veronica Mars”, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, and a pivotal character in the “NYPD Blue” episode that won Gordon Clapp an Emmy Award.
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Jeff is also a celebrity Host and
Spokesman for commercials, industrial films and corporate events. He also enjoys performing stand-up Comedy and comedy improvisation.
Kevin Sorbo
Host
Kevin David Sorbo is an accomplished actor, writer and director. Kevin traveled the world as a model and was cast as the lead role in Hercules: The Legendary Journey for 110 episodes. Kevin became internationally famous, and learned the craft of film-making well enough to direct and co-write some of the episodes. Kevin even studied martial arts and did many of his own stunts. Kevin then moved on to star in the science-fiction space drama created by Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek).
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Other TV credits include The O.C., Jesse James: Lawman, Heartbreakers, Two and a Half Men, Xena Warrior Princess, Murder She Wrote to name a few.
Recently, Kevin is either acting, producing or directing a variety of faith-based films and projects including, There Be Light, Gods Not Dead, Soul Surfer, and Joseph and Mary. Kevin's other feature film work includes; Storm Rider, Boone,
The Bounty Hunter the Walking Tall films, Meet the Spartans, Kull the Conqueror and many more.
L.I.G.H.T. is one more example of how Kevin is using his immense talent and faith to spread God's word to not only entertain viewers, but to educate and inspire them as
well.
In real life, Kevin is the chair and spokesperson for A World Fit for Kids! A successful mentoring program that trains inner-city teens to be role models for themselves, and then become coaches and mentors for younger children.
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As a Author his newest book True Faith: Embracing Adversity To Live in God's Light. Marriage, Movies, and Miracles. Oh, my! Marriage is a dance (even when the music sounds really bad), and movies are minefields of problems and politics, but miracles are more common than you might believe.
Kevin and Sam show that if you keep your feet moving and your hearts focused on God's divine rhythm, you can discover successes you might never imagine. All it takes is a little faith.
Wes Llewellyn, (MS in Communication/Filmmaking from Regent University) has been a filmmaker in the motion picture industry for over 40 years on hundreds of productions in various positions including Chief Lighting Technician, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer and most often, Director.
For over 12 years, he directed and wrote dramatic reenactments on the popular Christian talk show, “Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural” helping to grow it from 650,000 to over 7 million weekly viewers. He has numerous awards for his work including 3-time Best Film
winner of 168 Hour Film Festival, Best Director, Cinematography, Editing, and Screenplay as well Telly Awards, Angel Awards, Dove Award, and audience awards at ICFF (International Christian Film Festival) and Kingdomwood film festival. He has been invited film instructor at Charis College, CO for several years.
His pioneering two award-winning full-length feature films, “The Moment After” and “The Moment After 2: The Awakening” were in distribution with Sony Home DVD, PureFlix and
now with Pinnacle Peak are considered the inspiration for the advent of better features for the faith-based filmmaking community.
Wes directed the faith-friendly Christmas Rom Com “The Farmer and the Belle: Saving Santaland” which has been named by Crosswalk.com as a Top Ten Best Faith-Based Film of 2020 and has a 4.7 rating on Amazon Prime. Wes has been attached as
the Director for “Struck, The Series” about Ark adventurer Dr. John D. Morris his search for Noah’s Ark with glimpses of the antediluvian world of Noah answering the call of God. Wes is
currently directing “True Believer”, a documentary about how the people of faith should respond to UAP/UFO revelations from the government releasing in 2023.
Wes brings his amazing vision, talent and expertise in filmmaking and visual effects to every project he works on.
Amanda Llewellyn Producer / Writer
Amanda has over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry as a respected and
award-winning writer and producer. For the last twelve plus years, she was the segment producer and writer for the hit television show, “Sid Roth’s, Its Supernatural” along with her husband, director/producer Wes Llewellyn.
Her talents range from script supervisor to set decorator to production co-coordinator and everything in-between. If Amanda was a superhero, she’d be Wonder Woman.
Early in her career, Amanda worked for many years as a performer, then broadened her talents becoming a much sought after make-up artist and hairstylist and along the way, learned a variety of other production jobs as well. She then focused her talents on writing.
She won several awards at the Los Angeles based, Christian themed 168 Hour Film Festival for “Best Screenplay” for 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2017. Amanda has coached several award-winning screenplays for the “Writer of Passage” screenplay competition and is still sought after for her screenplay coaching” and her solid advice on how to develop projects online, for television and films.
Amanda and Wes are multiple award-winning writing and producing team at their company 4L Films, LLC. After writing and selling a screenplay during Covid, they began working with producer Suellen Roberts to bring the life of Dr. John Morris intertwined with the account of Noah and the Ark for the popular streaming series, “Struck.”
Amanda brings her creative vision and expertise in story telling and professional no-nonsense guidance to every project she’s involved with.
Keeping deadlines and ensuring everything is on track.
Amanda and Wes make a dynamic production team that will secure the success of the L.I.G.H.T. series as well as other Cross and Partners projects.
Harlan Rector
Creator
Harlan Rector has worked as an Art Director and Producer for over 25 years for some of the largest ad agencies in New York, Detroit and Los Angeles. He created award-winning campaigns for a variety of clients including Kodak, Goodyear, Rockwell, Lockheed, Honda and Western Airlines. One day while voicing a spec radio spot for a Honda presentation, one of the other producers urged him to make a demo tape of his voice. Reluctantly he did and after submitting his demo tape to a top Los Angeles Talent Agent, he was immediately signed as a client. He then made the decision to leave advertising and make voice overs for his new career.
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Harlan spent the next 20 years in New York as one of the top voiceover artists in the business. After hundreds of commercials and promos for companies like HBO, Harlan was tapped to be the signature voice of “The History Channel” for the first four years of its inception. His unique voice and delivery helped THC to become one of televisions top cable Networks at the time. Harlan then transitioned into recording studio movie trailers, lending his voice for companies like Disney, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures and DreamWorks to name a few.
As a Christian, Harlan was inspired one day to create a complete series of radio dramas called L.I.G.H.T. (Living in God’s Hands Today). Since Harlan was in the voice over business, he knew all the top performers, sound engineers and technicians and quickly realized his dream. He wrote and produced 40 original radio dramas that were broadcast on Christian Radio Stations across the country, eventually winning an “Angel Award” for excellence in Christian broadcasting.
These remarkable true-life stories of the miraculous supernatural presence of God in our lives is now a groundbreaking and inspirational new television series.