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KACY ANDREWS
Chief Executive Officer
Kacy Andrews has been actively involved in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. Her diverse resume includes feature films, television series, theater, and animation. She has worked throughout the world, and was recently profiled in PEOPLE Asia Magazine's 2006 People of the Year issue.
Kacy spent nine years in production and project development at Los Angeles-based Hyperion Studio. This includes work as one of the Producers on Miramax's Playing By Heart (Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands and Angelina Jolie). Kacy's portfolio at Hyperion also includes the feature film Tom's Midnight Garden (Joan Plowright); BoneChillers, a children's television series for ABC (Linda Cardellini); and numerous animated projects such as FOX's Life With Louie (Louie Anderson); HBO's Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (Denzel Washington and Whoopi Goldberg); and Paramount Pictures' The Oz Kids (Jonathan Taylor Thomas).
Moving from Hyperion, Kacy had a short stint as Vice President of Development at Blue Focus Management where she worked on projects for MGM, Disney and Sony. She then dabbled in the dotcom and software arena at Creative Planet and Entertainment Partners.
In 2003, her consulting work at Bigfoot Productions led to the creation of Bigfoot Entertainment and the International Academy of Film and Television. As the CEO and founder, she has overseen the set up and development of the company, production facilities and campus located in Cebu, Philippines. The company has since grown to more than 250 employees both foreign and local. Over the past few years, Bigfoot Entertainment has invested in several feature films, including Shanghai Kiss (Hayden Panettiere), East Broadway (Margaret Cho) and 3 Needles (Lucy Liu, Olympia Dukakis and Sandra Oh).
During her tenure at Bigfoot, she has served as a Producer of such feature films as; The Curiosity of Chance, Irreversi (Estella Warren), Hui Lui, Within, and Midnight Movie , as well as the documentary, USS Cooper and reality series Hollywood Boot Camp. These projects have been shot in such international locations as Belgium, Hong Kong, Thailand, Los Angeles and The Philippines. Many have played the film festival circuit and received numerous accolades before going into the marketplace.
Kacy is a recipient of the David Letterman Internship and a Cum Laude graduate of Ball State University with continuing studies at the American Film Institute. In 2000, she was awarded Ball State University's Graduate of the Last Decade and more recently was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award. Since her move to Los Angeles, where she's based, she has been actively involved with organizations such as Women in Film, Step-Up, and Big Sisters/Big Brothers of Los Angeles. She currently sits on the Board of Governors at the Bigfoot Foundation - a charitable organization.
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MATT LUBETICH
Chief Operating Officer
Matt Lubetich's diverse professional experience ranges from corporate to creative. Matt was a partner at Big Twenty Inc., specializing in multimedia productions for Microsoft and Paul Allen as well as edutainment for kids and music videos. Following that, he moved onto the role of Corporate Producer at Microsoft Studios before going into independent consultancy. Matt has created a wide-ranging portfolio of marketing/training programs for Fortune 500 clients, including Conoco-Phillips, Georgia-Pacific, and Target Stores. He has also bagged numerous accolades, with Multiple Telly, MCA-i and Omni under his belt.
He has produced two feature films Redemption (1997), which earned an honorable mention at the 1999 Methodfest Film Festival in Los Angeles, and dot-CON, an award-winning High Definition Drama/Satire.
Joining Bigfoot Entertainment in 2003 as a production consultant, Matt migrated quickly to Head of Productions overseeing all in-house and series/documentary programming. Matt eagerly accepted the role of VP of Development in 2004 to help shore up the executive team. His most recent advancement into the role of Chief Operating Officer in early 2005 combines his production experience with entrepreneurial spirit to elevate Bigfoot Entertainment to its next level.
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RASHMI RANJAN KANUNGO
Head of Production and Production Services
Rashmi Ranjan Kanungo's 15 years of experience in media and entertainment has allowed him to work in various parts of the world and the film industry itself. The former cinematographer has worked in broadcasting and produced numerous features and television programs. His vast international experience includes production management consultation for globally formatted shows in Southeast Asia.
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CLIVE JENKINS
Head of Post Production
Born in Wales, UK, Clive has been working in post production and VFX for almost 30 years, beginning his career as a trainee operations officer with The Australian Broadcasting Commission. He has since worked as an editorial consultant and post-effects specialist in Australia and New Zealand before moving to the USA, where he first took up the position of senior compositor at Crawford Communications in Atlanta. Clive went on to work in San Francisco/LA and became a Supervising Compositor at Varitel, later moved back to Atlanta to fill the position of 'Director of 3D' at Crawford Digital. For the last eight years, he has been 'Chief Technology Officer' and 'Supervising Editorial Consultant' at Post Central in New York. Throughout his career, Clive has been honored with numerous international awards for his creative editorial and digital effects work. He has received two International Monitor Awards for Best Achievement and Best Digital Visual Effects, as well as numerous Emmy awards for creative editorial and VFX.
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GREG CURDA
Supervising Sound Mixer
Sound Mixer Greg Curda's more than thirty years in the film industry has yielded vast credits that include Indecent Proposal (1993) and The Godfather: Part III (1990). He began his career in 1973 as an Assistant Sound Editor of the award-winning television series Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom . In 1980 he joined the Disney Studios in Los Angeles and quickly advanced to the position of Sound Mixer in both Production and Post-Production, working on television shows such as the 1985 Mac Guyver and features such as Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). Curda moved to Paramount Pictures in 1988 to concentrate primarily on Foley Sound Effects. As a result, the team received twelve Golden Reel nominations; four Academy Award nominations; and, one Academy Award for the 1990 film adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel, The Hunt for Red October. |
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LES WOLF
Supervising Sound Editor
This sound editor has cut them all - from animation to television shows to motion pictures. His volume of work includes episodes for cartoons such as I am Weasel (1999), Cow and Chicken (1997) and The Ren and Stimpy Show (1993). Also in Les Wolf's credits are the memorable television dramas Doogie Howser M.D. (1989), L.A. Law (1986), and the ASCAP Award-winning Patriot Games (1992). It was during a stint with Horta Editorial that Wolf earned full editor status and garnered numerous recognitions - thirteen Golden Reel Awards and four Emmy Award nominations, and one Emmy Award for his work on Nickelodeon's Angry Beavers cartoon series.
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JAN LEUNG
Lead Compositor/Digital Intermediate Colorist
Jan Leung kick started his career in Post Production by doing Motion Graphics for various international TVCs. After a brief stint in Compositing he transitioned to eventually become Bigfoot Entertainment's Lead Compositor and Digital Intermediate Colorist. Leung's expertise in After Effects and Apple COLOR are seen in the Bigfoot Entertainment feature films Irreversi/Hui Lu, Within, Midnight Movie and the documentary USS Cooper: Return to Ormoc Bay. He also holds great proficiency in Visual Effects.
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MARK FERNANDEZ
CGI Department Head
Mark Fernandez, who takes the lead in Bigfoot Entertainment's CGI Department, has been giving essential 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Compositing and Rendering TD to many Bigfoot Entertainment projects since 2004. In his specialization in 3D Design and Animation with MAYA and designing Special Effects, Fernandez has provided character animation for music videos, done R&D on Mental Ray Rendering and HDRI usage on CG over live footages, produced custom HDRI for corporate projects, and created a whole war scene in the Bigfoot Entertainment documentary, USS Cooper: Return to Ormoc Bay.
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KRISTOFFER VILLARINO
Head Editor
Head Editor Kristoffer Villarino began his career in filmmaking by directing and editing music videos and short films. A short film that he wrote and directed, Binaliw, was a finalist at the MOV International Digital Film Festival and the second prize at the 15 th Cultural Center of the Philippines Awards for Alternative Film and Video. He has edited several of Bigfoot Entertainment's feature length projects including the dual-language film Irreversi/Hui Lu, the horror flick Midnight Movie, and the documentary USS Cooper: Return to Ormoc Bay.
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JONATHAN TEJANO
Lead VFX Artist
Jonathan Tejano holds a solid eight-year background in Print Media with which, in 2004, he made a smooth transition to Visual Effects. As Bigfoot Entertainment's Lead VFX Artist, Tejano focuses on Modelling, Texturing, Animation and Matchmoving. His Visual Effects work has been a key element in several local and foreign commercials and such Bigfoot Entertainment feature films as Within, Midnight Movie, Irreversi, and Deep Gold. Additionally, Tejano served as Lead Modeller on the documentary USS Cooper: Return to Ormoc Bay.
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