Friends

Nov 2006

All over...corporate brat...mostly Michigan area..

Freelancer...Nat'l Geo, VH1, Nickeldeon, CNN, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Eyekiss Films, Pogo Pictures, FM Rocks, Authority Films, Popfilms, DNA, Arsenal, Z Post, PBS

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Trinity Lutheran School, Attended 1978 - 1980, Class of 1980
Lake Michigan Catholic Jr Sr H, Attended 1980 - 1984, Class of 1984

University of Michigan

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Attended 1984 - 1988, Class of 1988, Bachelor's Degree, Film, Television and Psychology

Film Producer for commercials and features

Dailies, IMAGE, GPP

Travel, gardening, movies, music, fishing, crafts that I'm incapable of doing.

Dune...all of them. Stranger in a Strange Land. Atlas Shrugged. Any book on filmmaking.

Jesus...too many to name. Alice Sweet Alice, Usual Suspects, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (the original, fuck the remakes), Living in Oblivion. All movies that don't suck.

Same thing...David Bowie, Dr Dre & Snoop, Velvet Underground, Nouvelle Vague, Fantomas, Helmet, LeTigre, Pantera, Liars, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Sepultura, Desert Sessions..Vol 7-10, Big Black, Henry Rollins, Black Sabbath, Iggy Pop, Dinosaur Jr., General Patton V.S The E-cutioners, Superjoint Ritual, AC/DC, The Dead, Tool, Megadeath, Van Halen (with David Lee Roth), metal, punk, classical, jazz, international

Star Trek, Rome, Entourage, West Wing, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, 70's cartoons, The Boondocks, South Park...

I'm a film producer and production manager. I'm damn good at what I do, but I don't know everything, so I like challenges originating from interesting voices. Throw me for a loop, let me learn something new, try something different, push me beyond the boundaries of my comfort zone...but do it because you're trying something interesting and new, not because you thought it might be cool to do. Do it because you're a visionary, not a copycat. Do it because you might fail, but that's a risk worth taking because you're making a choice.

Oh yea...this is supposed to be about me. Um...

I specialize in script to screen. I like to be involved at the beginning, not when it's too late to fix what's broken. Just because you have financing doesn't mean your script is ready and you should start shooting tomorrow.

I believe in pre-production. Lots of pre-production. I believe in fixing problems with ideas, not money. I believe in protecting the vision of artists and storytellers. I believe you can make money creating art without selling out.

I believe in training the next generation of filmmakers as artists and as businesspeople, because without the show, you have no business, and if you don't know business you might not have a show.

Interesting people from all over the world. Travellers. Storytellers. Artists. Filmmakers. Musicians.