Lane Wyrick is a Film School graduate from the University of Iowa. During his college years, he worked extensively in 16mm film production and was the first place winner in the Midwest Regional Competition of the Student Academy Awards for his experimental film “Culture Shell”. He was also awarded the Princess Grace Foundation Scholarship for his 40-minute 16mm comedy “Life is Eterminal”. After graduating with high distinction in 1990, Wyrick spent four years in Los Angeles working as a production assistant and in various other capacities on feature film productions including “True Lies”, “Man's Best Friend”, “Dead Connection”, as well as on several television projects, music videos and commercials. In 1994, Wyrick worked as head of an Illinois-based Multimedia & Interactive Design Department. Wyrick returned to his hometown of Iowa City in 1995 and formed Xap Interactive, Inc., a digitally-based video, film, and DVD production company to offer a venue for his creative aspirations. Through Xap Interactive, Wyrick has produced a wide variety of projects including DVD-based touchscreen information systems, surgical procedure videos, commercials, corporate videos and documentaries. In November 1999, Wyrick completed “The Nazi Drawings” documentary, which is the first major documentary by Xap Interactive. Wyrick served as director, cinematographer, and editor on the project. The Nazi Drawings has won numerous awards including the Mid-America Emmy Award for Best Documentary, and Best Documentary & Best Director in the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, and was broadcast nationally on PBS in May 2005 (more info at www.NaziDrawings.com). New projects include XapVision Nature Scenes - an original DVD production featuring nearly three hours of beautifully filmed, relaxing and engaging scenes and sounds of nature, which is being promoted to Childrens Hospitals, Hospice Organizations, Nursing Homes, and the general public (more info at www.NatureScenes.com). And the upcoming feature-length documentary “Bill Sackter: A Special Spirit” - a real-life exploration of a man's emotional journey from lifelong institutionalization and abandonment to becoming a national hero for the disability community. Wyrick is working with Academy Award Winning Screenwriter Barry Morrow, who was also Bill's legal guardian, to tell this uplifting true story using actual film & video footage, and photographs of the real Bill Sackter. This is the most ambitious project by Wyrick who has spent several years researching and producing the documentary which was started over 30 years ago by Barry Morrow (more info at  www.BillSackter.com). Wyrick also travels the country videotaping the top surgeons in the nation performing surgical procedures for major medical organizations, and edits these productions, which are ultimately used as CD-ROM or DVD teaching tools for other surgeons. He has also produced patient education videos, commercials, and historical documentaries in the medical field. Wyrick is developing several new projects including both documentary and feature film productions that will begin after completion of the Bill Sackter documentary.