Edwin Stepp has more than twenty years experience in television, media and marketing. In 2001 he helped form Vision Media Productions, an independent production company based in Pasadena, California. The company specializes in documentaries about Middle East history, biblical and religious history and archaeology.  VMP’s first production, Cheating God Out of Christianity won four international TV awards including a Gold Camera Award, the top prize at the U.S. International Film & Video Festival and the Intermedia Globe Gold award from the World Media Festival in Hamburg, Germany. Stepp continues to head up new development and assists in writing, editing and researching projects for Vision Media Productions, but last year he formed Django Productions to focus on music related documentaries and films. The company co-produced a feature documentary about the resurgent popularity of vinyl records titled Vinylmania: When Life Runs at 33 RPMs. The documentary has been featured at more than a dozen film festivals around the world and aired on ARTE and ZDF earlier this year. Django is currently at work on a feature film about the life of Bill Monroe, the father of Bluegrass music. The film already has an A-list cast attached and a “Who’s Who” of Bluegrass and Country musicians will be featured on the soundtrack.