Adam Brown
President / Producer / Media Director
Adam is a dedicated film producer with a diverse background in content creation, media campaigns, digital marketing and event management. He graduated from Western Washington University in 2006 with a degree in Communication and Journalism, writing articles for magazines such as Klipsun, What's Up! and The Planet while playing guitar in local rock, funk and hip-hop bands. After moving back to the Seattle area and gaining experience in marketing positions with IntelliTax Software, Loud Technologies and Microsoft, he became Media Director for the nonprofit group Save Our Sonics in 2007.
In 2009, he produced, co-wrote and co-edited the Webby Award-winning feature documentary film Sonicsgate: Requiem for a Team (2009), going on to start up Press and Promotion later that year. In addition to creating content for his corporate clients, Adam is currently producing several independent film projects and leading the promotional campaigns for recent films such as Back to the Garden: Flower Power Comes Full Circle (2009) and Man Zou: Beijing to Shanghai (2010).
206.919.3778
adam@pressandpromotion.com
Jason Reid
Director / Producer / Editor
Jason has worked in film and video production in Seattle, where he was born and raised, for the past 8 years. He attended the University of Washington and graduated in 2000 with the distinction of a double major in Cinema Studies and Comparative Literature.
Jason now owns his own production company, 2R Productions, and works with companies such as Microsoft, Costco, Nordstrom and The New York Times. In the past 5 years, he has amassed a large body of creative work consisting of a feature comedy titled Haymaker and Sally (2007), a Telly Award-winning medical instruction film called Critical 72 (2008), two award-winning feature documentaries in Sonicsgate: Requiem for a Team (2009) and Man Zou: Beijing to Shanghai (2010), as well as several short narrative films and music videos that he has produced, directed and/or edited.
206.419.4649
reidsterreid@gmail.com
Ian Connors
Director of Photography / Producer
Ian is a veteran filmmaker with a body of work that spans 15 years. Ian received his training as a combat cameraman in the U.S. military for eight years. He has traveled and filmed all over the world, including Bosnia, Croatia, South Korea, Kuwait and Iraq.
Ian studied filmmaking at Syracuse University and the Seattle Film Institute before starting his production company 8Rivers Films, which has produced marketing and training videos, short documentaries and narrative films for an array of corporate clients. He won three Telly Awards for directing Critical 72 (2008), an instructional film for Emmanuel Legacy Hospital. In addition to cinematography credits on Haymaker and Sally (2007) and Sonicsgate: Requiem for a Team (2009), Ian was producer and director of photography on Man Zou: Beijing to Shanghai (2010). He has also documented stories for the Discovery Channel and covered Northwest Medical Teams International in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
206.384.1063
combatcheeks@gmail.com
Darren Lund
Editor / Cinematographer / Motion Graphics
Darren Lund was born in Minnesota and raised in Seattle, Washington. After graduating from Dartmouth College, he lived in Japan for two years teaching English. For the last 8 years he has been working to combine his love of filmmaking with his love of music, producing concert videos for bands in the Seattle area including Fleet Foxes, Common Market, Blue Scholars, Spaceman, Grynch and Handful of Luvin.
Darren has credits as an editor and cinematographer on award-winning films including Sonicsgate: Requiem for a Team (2009), Man Zou: Beijing to Shanghai (2010), Haymaker and Sally (2007) and the festival hit kung fu flick Master Vengeancer (2008). Additionally, Darren has worked as a director and editor of live events and a weekly highlights show for Fox Sports Northwest.
425.503.3717
lund.darren@gmail.com
Colin White
Web Designer / Graphic Artist / Analyst / Editor
Colin is a Seattle native who studied Math and Film at the University of Washington. His professional career has been a mix of technical and creative work, including data analysis, graphic design, illustration, animation, coding, market/competitive intelligence and video editing/encoding/streaming.
Colin's recent work includes the logo and website design for the Webby Award-winning documentary Sonicsgate: Requiem for a Team (2009) and collaboration on the website armyoftim.com. He currently does market intelligence for Microsoft, and in his spare time he is working on a web re-design for entertainment law group Saku Collins and pre-production research for an upcoming documentary project.
Scott Pendergraft
Web Developer / Graphic Artist
Scott Pendergraft began his career as a computer programmer at Western Washington University. Seeking adventure, he then traveled the world for a year. Upon his return to Seattle, he studied graphic design with a special focus on newspaper and publication design.
Since then, Scott has designed pages and advertising for two publications in the Pacific Northwest, and done branding projects, event flyers and posters. His focus now lies in the digital domain. He has created websites for the films Haymaker and Sally and Man Zou: Beijing to Shanghai, among many others.