Film Credits
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Directed, Produced and Edited by
Matt O’Connor and Paul DiNatale
Matt O’Connor is an experienced broadcast professional with the technical skills and creative instincts to create original and groundbreaking products. Matt has been working in the television, film, and the music industry for over 10 years. His work has spanned from mixing Death of a Salesman (Showtime Networks) to editing feature films. Over the last 10 years his experience has crossed over a wide variety of projects that include editing, producing and designing packages for the MTV Movie/VMA Awards, 2002, 2003 NFL Super-bowl Half-time Show as well as producing and editing a reality TV series for Fox/Speed. Matt has also edited the Emmy Award winning ESPN series SportsCentury. Recent projects include work for ESPN, FOX, CBS, PBS and NBC.
Paul DiNatale has been working in broadcast and cable television for over 15 years. His diverse body of work ranges from writing, producing, and editing short films, television series, and documentaries to promos, advertising, and graphic packages. Early in his career, Paul helped develop shows for VH1 including Where are they Now?, and Before they Were Rock Stars. He has edited short films for Saturday Night Live, show opens for Showtime, and image campaigns for HBO, USA, and ESPN. Paul was nominated for an Emmy for the ABC Sports special The Thrill of Victory. His work for CBS Sports cutting Glory in Black and White garnered a CINE Golden Eagle Award. For the past 4 years, Paul has been editing and producing promos, image campaigns, and advertising, as well as writing and producing viral videos for the web.
Cinematography
Matt O’Connor
Paul DiNatale
Ray O’Connor
Ralph Pitre | www.rpitre.com
Ralph Pitre has spent three decades shooting, producing and editing for broadcast, corporate and Internet markets since graduating from The The School of Visual Arts, a long time ago; imagine no audio cd’s, no cell phones, way back when video was what you went into when you couldn’t calculate f-stops from foot candle measurements to expose film. Ralph is still doing it all for as many people as he can and looking good doing it.
Field Producer
Scott Kono
Scott is a graduate of Indiana University who began his professional career in 1996 as a production assistant for start up network, Classic Sports Network. He wrote scripts, reformatted shows and historic game broadcasts for air, produced features for on-camera wrap-arounds, as well as provided support for Classic’s talk show Schaap One on One, hosted by Dick Schaap. In 1997, Classic Sports Network was acquired by ESPN and was renamed ESPN Classic. Scott was promoted to associate producer and produced on-camera wrap-arounds and became the producer for Schaap One on One.
In 1998, Scott worked on his first documentary, Roger Maris: Reluctant Hero, profiling the life and career of baseball’s single season home run king. Ironically this documentary premiered on the same night that Mark McGwire broke Maris’ single-season record. In 1999, Scott continued his work in documentaries for ESPN as a producer for over eleven episodes of their Emmy and Peabody Award winning series Sportscentury. In 2001, Scott was hired by Broadway Video to become a producer in their entertainment division. Scott retained ESPN as a client and produced a number of documentaries and features for ESPN’s Sportscentury and Outside the Lines series. He also produced features for NBC’s Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular and was a segment producer for CBS’s documentary Glory in Black and White, a story that was the inspiration for the feature film Glory Road.
In 2003, Scott produced one of seven episodes of ESPN’s popular World Series of Poker series. Later in 2003, Scott was named Coordinating Producer at Broadway Video Entertainment where he oversaw production for numerous shows including the premiere show celebrating ESPN’s 25th Anniversary. In 2004, Scott left Broadway Video and continues to take on projects as an independent producer that includes his work for ESPN’s World Series of Poker and overseeing production on Fox’s Monte Carlo Millions poker series.
Underwater Submarine Cinematography
Andy Lange
John Richardson
Andy Lange has been diving for over 20 years and has accumulated over 4,000 dives all over the world in locations such as the Mediterranean, Germany, Thailand, Burma, Australia, Caribbean, Maldives, and the Red Sea. Andy is an instructor with the world’s largest diving organizations and has been a specialty instructor for underwater videography and photography as well as 15 other key areas of diving for more than 10 years. Andy is also trained in technical diving and has been to depths of 500ft/157m with his camera system. His fascination for diving led him into photography so he could share the beauty of the underwater realm with other people. His photos have been published in newspapers, dive magazines, the internet and brochures around the globe. He has filmed alongside underwater filmmaker legend and BBC correspondent John McIntyre and has contributed footage to the new BBC series “Wild Caribbean”.
After leaving university at 22 with an HND in Electronic Broadcast Engineering, John Richardson went to work as a freelance engineer in the realm of TV, doing jobs from Vision Engineer and Cameraman to behind the scenes production work. John went on to run his own video production company making advertising films for the corporate and nightclub market. This brought John to the world of underwater filming, and after completing the course on wildlife film making at Bristol University he decided to move abroad and make this a full time career. He began diving in 1994 after a trip to Thailand got him hooked on the underwater world and went on to complete his dive master training in 1999, and passed his exams in July 2005 to become a PADI Instructor. John has spent the last year in Honduras working as a diving and video instructor. Here, he also filmed for the BBC’s new series “Wild Caribbean”.
Original Score
Scott E. Moore | www.scottemoore.com
Rich Tozzoli | www.richtozzoli.com
Scott E. Moore is a Recording Artist, Guitarist and Composer who has released several CDs of his unique blend of moody Americana and Soul. He is the founder and host of the prestigious Writer’s Hang performance series, and was featured alongside artists like Gillian Welch and Nickel Creek in the Sundance Channel documentary “Keeping Time: New Music from America’s Roots.” Also a seasoned filmmaker and television producer/director, he won two CableAce Awards for his music documentaries on VH1, working with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Daniel Lanois, Gloria Estefan and many others. His projects have also appeared on A&E, MTV, ESPN, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, PBS and Japanese television.
Rich Tozzoli is an award-winning Producer, Mixer, Engineer and Composer who has worked with artists ranging from Al DiMeola to Ace Frehley to The Marsalis Family. Specializing in 5.1 Surround Sound projects, he has mixed DVDs and/or HD television broadcasts for the likes of David Bowie, Average White Band, Blue Oyster Cult, comedian Robert Klein and The Cincinnati Pops orchestra. His own music can be heard on The Discovery Channel, VH1, Nickelodeon and The History Channel. He has also written hundreds of articles and is a contributing editor to numerous pro audio magazines and is the author of “Surround Sound Mixing for Pro Tools.”
Writer and Performer of “Blue Mystery”
Will Dailey | www.willdailey.com
CBS Records recording artist Will Dailey is the modern troubadour. He has made his way across the country performing for audiences while releasing two critically acclaimed albums, “Goodbyeredbullet” and “Back Flipping Forward”. He is the recipient of the 2006 Boston Music Award for Best Male Singer Songwriter. All the while his songs have appeared on shows such as: CSI: NY, Eli Stone, Gossip Girl and Jerico.
As one review said, “Will Dailey is a Boston-bred artist who’s a classic singer/songwriter. So much so, that he’s almost a throwback to the glory days of Donovan, Van Morrison and Nick Drake. His folk-rock songs delve into sweeping themes, both personal and observational. With his fluid arrangements, breathtaking vocals and strong melodies, he takes listeners on a beautiful journey filled with emotional layers and enough dynamics for a full band. Indeed, to say his material is exceptional would be an understatement. This is an artist with a bright future.”
Dialogue Editing
Paul Holly
Barabara Vlahides
Sound Designer and Mixer
David Glaser
David Glaser has been a sound designer/re-recording mixer for over ten years. Notable credits include: Jesus Camp (re-recording mixer), The Devil’s Miner (re-recording mixer), Chasing Amy (supervising sound editor), and Dogma (assistant editor). A lifelong Yankee fan, he is in the process of converting his wife Andrea, and two kids Madelyn (2) and Benjamin (2 months) to Yankee fans as well.
Colorist
Matt Paul CO3
Titles/Website
Sean McAuliffe | www.seanmcauliffe.com
Sean McAuliffe is a designer/developer obsessed with Flash, XHTML, CSS, motion graphics, DVD authoring, photography, music and raising a family - not necessarily in that order.
Production Assistants
Kimberly Dean
Lindsey Dean
Justin Kaladjian
Veronica Paone
Suzie Rosenthal