Tony

Owner, Editor . DP . Producer . Director

He began his career as Director / Producer. For six years, Tony directed at least one live news or public affairs show each day at ABC affiliate WUTR in Utica, New York and CBS affiliate WLNE in Providence, Rhode Island.

Tony won Emmys in Outstanding Individual Achievement Cinematography and Editing. He won the Directing Emmy for Outstanding Local Sports Coverage, America's Cup and Outstanding Public Affairs Show.

Falling In Love premiered and was shown in competition at the Taos Short Film Festival.

He left TV to open Days of Wonder Productions, a Central New York based production company, to produce commercial and industrials.

After moving to New York City, Tony joined Devlin Productions as senior editor. At Devlin, he edited national commercials, industrials and documentaries and specialized in creating interactive media for NASA, International Paper, Pfizer, the State of Connecticut and the famous, interactive Many Roads to Murder series.

Leaving Devlin, Tony opened Days of Wonder Productions, a boutique production company. With an educational specialist partner, he produced industrials, documentaries and a proprietary educational videotape,The A+ Student: How To Take Notes and Study. The tape is a best seller in the direct-to-school market, and is still available in both English and Spanish.

With the death of his partner, and attracted by the merging of video and computer technologies, Tony branched off into multimedia and synthesized a number of different mediums - HTML, Flash, video, audio. He also travelled the World as a Director of Photography, Director and Editor with over 60 documentaries to his credit.

His screenplay, The Worth of Effortlessness, was a Finalist in the prestigous Nicholl Screenwriting Competition sponsored by AMPAS and The Silver Screenwriting competition.

Tony formed Awe and Mystery Productions to offer low cost services to independent filmmakers, and to develop low budget Indies.

He is also a private pilot and fine art photographer. View his photos Here.

Awards

Quarter Finalst:
Nicholl and Siver Screenwriting Competitions, The Worth of Effortlessness

Emmy Winner:
Outstanding Sports Coverage (Director), America's Cup coverage
Outstanding Individual Achievement Videography
Outstanding Individual Achievement Editing
Outstanding Public Affairs Show (Director / Producer)

Finalist:
Stella Artois Short Film Project, Gold Star

Premiere / Official Selection:
Taos Short Film Festival; Falling In Love

Best Educational Production:
American Film and Video Festival; The A+ Student

Best Music Video
Videomaker Magazine; Lonely Streets

Best in Show, Color
Hamilton Art Center; Bodega Bay

Filmography

Lifesavers of Cape Cod
How To Spy
Summer of Forty: A Chronicle of CoDependency
The A+ Student: How To Take Notes and Study
20 Years Late:15 Years Later
Lightworker
Informed Choice (Aired on CNN)
Gold Star
Falling In Love

Partial Client List

NASA
International Paper
SITA
US Air Force
State of Connecticut
ABC

Chip

Producer

Chip is a producer and director who has created hundreds of national commercials, network promos, music videos, and corporate film projects. His clients include CBS, Time-Warner, Fox Network/20th Century Television, Dreamworks SKG, TNT, and Showtime. His work received numerous awards in commercial production, broadcast design, and corporate communications.

In 2008, Chip Produced the Academy Award Nominated and Spirit and Gotham Award winner, Frozen River.

Prior to producing and directing, Chip was a film location scout who has worked with such directors as Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Paul Mazursky, Tony Kaye, Todd Phillips, Kevin Smith, and Anton Corbijn.

He recently produced, line produced, and directed 2nd unit for feature Mind the Gap, starring Alan King, John Heard, Jill Sobule, Kim Raver and Writer/Director Eric Schaeffer. Mind the Gap received the Special Jury Award for Narrative Feature in its World Premiere at the 2004 South by Southwest Film Festival, was released theatrically in 2004, and broadcast by Showtime in 2005.

He also produced, line produced, and directed the 2nd unit for the family drama Personal Sergeant, starring Victor Argo and Celine Marget, currently on the film festival circuit. He wrote, produced and directed the award-winning dramatic feature Glissando, which Variety called “a small gem deserving wider exposure… a striking debut for talented helmer-scripter.” The Los Angeles Times called Glissando “a terrific independent feature… Chip reveals a real gift for establishing mood and character with economy while evoking deeply a sense of time and place.”

Chip is a graduate of Yale University with degrees in English and Architecture. He has written three feature-length screenplays all currently in various stages of development: angry candy, Ourselves Alone, and My Career as a Homewrecker .

Matt

Performer . Producer

Matt has a long and varied career as an actor beginning on Broadway where he was nominated for a New York Drama Desk Award for his performance of five disparate roles in the musical version of Studs Terkel's Working.

In film he has worked for such directors as Walter Hill, Richard Donner, John McTiernan, Penny Marshall, David S. Ward with featured roles in 48HRS, Diehard, Commando, Ricochet, Down Periscope, the 1987 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Winner, Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall and David Mamet's Edmond.

He has worked extensively in television: Law and Order, NYPD Blue, ER, Arliss, L.A. Law, Wiseguy, The George Carlin Show to name a few. On stage he was most recently Pablo Picasso in Jeffery Hatcher's A Picasso, Lou in Breaking Legs at Vienna's English Theatre and Swifty Lazar in the regional tour of Frost/Nixon.

His producing career began as a founding member and President of Immediate Theater, a non-profit, corporation in Los Angeles.

He was Executive Producer of Immediate Theater's productions of David Mamet's Edmond at The Powerhouse Theater in Santa Monica, The Ghostman (directed by Stuart Gordon) and the acclaimed family musical Big Tush, Little Tush which enjoyed a successful year-long run at the Groundlings Theater in Hollywood.

He is pleased to have worked closely with British Director, Deborah Warner, in New York on her groundbreaking performance piece, The Angel Project at Lincoln Center and with W.H. Macy, Felicity Huffman, Dennis Franz, Joe Mantegna, George Carlin, Jane Fonda, Carol Burnett, Fran Dresher, Ann-Margret - even Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwartzenegger.

Matt, a published poet, Broadway lyricist and screenwriter is co-author and co-composer of the new musical Now and Then slated for preliminary production consideration by Musical Theatre Lab, New York in 2010.

Vince

Editor . Engineer . Producer

An International engineer and producer, Vince has recorded at major studios in Los Angeles, Nashville, San Francisco, New Orleans and Australia. He has engineered at major venues around the world including Australia, Europe, Soviet Union and Africa, and toured with Phillip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire) and Billy Preston. He was nominated for both a Grammy and Dove award for his engineering work on gospel singer Leon Patillo’s album entitled “Brand New”.

Producer, Tiffany Productions - Fremont, California

Chief Engineer, Angel Voice Productions - San Jose, California

Chief Engineer, Leon Patillo Productions - Los Angeles, California

Fane Studio, Santa Cruz, CA
Bernie Becker Studio, Los Angeles
MARS Studio, Aptos, CA
VSO Media Services, Aptos, CA

Corporate/Commercial Audio Production:
Weberstown Mall, music logo
Hampton Brown Publishing, 168 audio books and songs
Mailboxes Etc. of the Central coast, monthly radio commercials

Video Production & Audio Post Production:
Bill Evans Productions, “Fire and Desire, the Ronnie Lott Story”, DVD
Brooks Cole, sixteen hours of teaching aids
Lambert/Landers Advertising, “Greg Franks at the US Open”

Interactive CD ROM
Sony, “MovieFly"
Casio Japan, “G-Zone"
Artist Direct, “KD Lang Interactive”

Graduate of Sherwood Oaks Experimental College, San Jose City College and San Jose State University

Jeff

Musician . Mixer

An accomplished bass player, composer and songwriter, Jeff has a long history in the music industry. Versatile in all styles of music, he has extensive experience in audio engineering, production, and arrangement for CDs, film/television as well as live performance.

A multi-instrumentalist, Jeff played bass with popular California Central Coast bands...
Wylie Band
Young Presidents
Roundhouse
...who have opened for: Jefferson Starship, Johnny Winter, Leon Russell, Huey Lewis and the News, Sammy Hagar, The Knack, David Crosby, and Gregg Allman

Jeff is an ASCAP registered songwriter for Southern All-Stars “So Much Love” published by Colgems music.

He has composed and performed soundtracks to 2 movies for Bob Franco/Endorphin productions, and scored an LA Film Festival award-winning short film “Just Like That”. He has also composed music for corporate videos, for VSO Productions.

Jeff has studied with Christine Bobrowski (MIDI) and Gus Gustafson (music), and is a graduate of the Don Martin School of Radio and TV, Hollywood, CA

The Other Matt

Engineer . Producer

Matt is a graduate of the Instiutute of Audio Research in Manhattan as well as Full Sail in Orlando, FL.

While in Orlando, Matt had the opportunity to run live sound for indie-rockers Apples In Stereo as well as Sub Pop's Iron and Wine. After graduating Full Sail, Matt interned for a few months at 38 Greene, an up and coming audio post house in Manhattan's SOHO district.

Matt has a life long love of music and recording. Beginning on the saxophone playing in concert, symphonic and jazz bands throughout elementery and high school, he later ventured on to the guitar in his early teens and has been playing, writing and recording music ever since. Matt's well rounded musical background along with his engineering skills and laid back attitude has proved an asset for every project.

Mark

Mixer

A three-time Emmy award winning Production Sound Mixer, Mark has worked for every major U.S. television network and on every continent. He is a veteran of 4 Olympics, ESPN’s “XGames” as well as numerous documentaries and feature films.