Daria Finn, former female NASCAR was a short-track racer who is the writer and poducer of the television pilot Secnd Wind. “SECOND WIND” is competing in the Drama category and is based, in part, on her racing experiences at New Jersey’s now defunct Flemington Speedway.

Finn, who now lives in Virginia, grew up in New Jersey.  Her father, Patrick Finn, a CBS cameraman, spent his lifetime shooting everything from the nightly news to soap operas. Her mother Joan wrote for the local paper while raising a brood of 5. Mom’s pages won numerous awards and many a night was spent doing theatre reviews.

Finn’s play “PANDORA’S BOX” was selected as a finalist in the 1998 WOMAN WORK series at Luna Stage Company in Montclair, NJ.  That success gave way to a full production in 1999 at Theatre Project, an artsy black box theatre in Baltimore.

When Finn wanted to embark on shooting a pilot about her racing experiences she enlisted the help of her younger brother, Filmmakers Alliance Vice President, Liam Finn. Filmmakers is a LA based company that supports independent filmmakers.

Finn feels you have to go for what you want. You cannot let others define you. That’s the spirit that got Finn racing, even though it meant being the only woman on the track. She’s still fired up about Danica Patrick’s fourth place finish in the Indy 500. “Danica took the lead with seven laps to go. I watched the crowd; I mean the whole stadium really, rise to their feet, cheering her on. Tears started rolling down my cheek. I knew it was a clear sign that the world really wants heroes. That they want people who fight the odds, they want to see a person whose spirit can inspire them. I knew I had that story.”

Producer: Liam Finn          

Liam Finn has been the Vice President of Filmmakers Alliance, the Los Angeles based filmmaker collective, for the last five years. Finn manages the production affairs of over 400 filmmakers.

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In 2004, Finn along with partner Jacques Thelemaque, established FA productions, inc., a fully financed production company seeking to produce low budget independent films with emerging filmmakers.

As a freelance producer, Finn produced a variety of projects including features, short films, commercials, music videos, electronic press kits, film website promotions, filmmaker events and an all-digital film festival, Digidance 2001. As a filmmaker, Finn has written, produced and directed several short films and penned several feature screenplays. Hired as a creative consultant on the academy award winning Warner Bros. feature film, Training Day, starring Denzel Washington, Finn created a pre-visualization of the film.

In 1997, Finn began working with Jeffery Silver of Outlaw Productions, helping to fulfill the company's slate of Warner Bros. feature films: Dennis the Menace Strikes Again, Three to Tango, Ready to Rumble, and Gossip. In 1993, Finn worked at Warner Bros. Studios as a management trainee in the Feature Production Department, which oversaw the logistics of making studio movies.  He was later promoted to work with the head of World Wide Feature Production for the entire studio, the liaison office between studio executives and movie producers. Other films he is proud to have worked on are the Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor comedy, Another You and Oliver Stone's JFK