About The Cast

Seven Harry Potter Fans made the trip to Great Britain to find Hogwarts. This documentary follows their experiences.

Breaunna Bishop

Breaunna was 12 years old when she first picked up a Harry Potter book. She is now a 19 year old aspiring film maker who says that the series helped give her the courage to come out of her shell, make friends and seriously pursue film making. Breaunna has always had a passion for filming and editing video, and was one of the first in the early days of Youtube.com to produce web-shorts relating to Potter and the fandom.

Frankie Franco

Frankie is a quirky 25 year old free-lance artist from Southern California who shares his love of Harry Potter through his drawing. The Harry Potter online community is home to thousands of ‘fan artists’ who hone their crafts and compare their visions of their favorite scenes and characters with their art, and Frankie represents them well.
John Noe

Six years ago, John was a 17 year old self prescribed non-reader when he was introduced to Harry Potter. He represents a large percentage of fans that had never really found enjoyment in reading prior to Potter. He is presently very active in the Potter online community as a host and producer of a popular podcast, PotterCast, reaching 10s of thousands of fans each week.
Melissa Anelli

Melissa Anelli has been reporting on the Harry Potter phenomenon since 2001. As the webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron she has written and spoken for Harry Potter fans in media outlets worldwide. She graduated Georgetown University in 2001 and spent several years as a daily news reporter and features writer in New York City. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her ferocious cat, Moochka.
Paul DeGeorge

Paul and his brother Joe formed the band Harry and the Potters in June 2002. Since then, they have released three full-length albums and have toured extensively within the United States. Their enthusiasm and DIY-approach to rock and roll has inspired other Harry Potter fans to create their own songs around the boy wizard. An entire genre, known as Wizard Rock, has emerged in the past few years, and it now boasts nearly 500 bands, all performing songs based on the Harry Potter books.
Rita Gill

Rita is a 19 year old Potter fan with interests in theater, vocal performance, and filmmaking – who splits her time living in India as well as Southern California. Eccentric and energetic with a passion for travel, Rita is most determined to actually find Hogwarts – not deterred in the slightest by it’s mythical status.

Andrew Slack

Andrew is a teacher, social organizer and human rights activist, comedian, actor, and writer. He spent years performing sketch comedy for hundreds of colleges across the US only to stop touring so that he could devote himself full time to the HP Alliance which he co-founded in 2005. He is incredibly grateful and humbled by everyone who has helped the HP Alliance come into existence and continue to work toward putting the magical lessons that we have learned from Harry, Hermione, and Ron into our world.

And Then There Were Seven

February 25th, 2011

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the story of how the film came to be, let me give you the short version: Rita and I were having lunch with John at the hotel that Prophecy 2007 was being held in Toronto.

Introducing Finding Hogwarts Fridays

January 23rd, 2011

The production team of Finding Hogwarts will begin releasing new photos, clips, or random bits of information regarding the movie and/or production process starting this Friday. They will be in the form of blog posts here at FindingHogwarts.com as well as on our Facebook page and Tumblr. Looking forward to share more with you soon!