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Mark Fastoso, Executive Producer, is a multiple Emmy® award-winning producer with more than fifteen years experience working for PBS and for-profit clients. He holds a master’s degree in history from Boston College as well as a degree in fine arts. This has given him a unique perspective on creating compelling programming on historical subjects. His film Jeremiah has many accolades including a national Edward R Murrow Award. He also has extensive experience in creating highly interactive programming using the most current technologies in broadcast and on the web, these include the Emmy award-winning Experiencing Shakespeare and Experiencing Shakespeare: Up on Your Feet! Others include: Our Nation’s Capitol, Exploring Mount Vernon and Exploring Monticello. Documentary films for PBS that he has worked on include: Cyprus Divided and There Once was a Town.
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Luis A. Blandon, Producer/Researcher has vast experience in television and film production and in archival, manuscript, library, film and image research. His work includes historic preservation projects, documentaries, television news magazine shows and investigative reporting. He has experience with a wide variety of topics, including medical issues, preservation of blues music, indie radio, Chinese immigration, American history and sports culture. His creative storytelling and out-of-the-box thinking has garnered numerous awards for his projects, including three regional Emmys®, a regional and national Edward R. Murrow Award, two TELLY awards and a New York Festival World Medal. The documentary films on which he has worked include: Jeremiah; Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3; Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg; and Gold Mountain: Chinese in the Old West. He was previously Senior Researcher and Manager of the Story Development Team for two national programs, Viewpoint with Lea Thompson and The Daily Apple, both of which aired on Retirement Living Television. He has also worked as a historian for Morgan Angel & Associates, a national public policy research firm. He is currently part of a team producing a documentary examining the impact of bluegrass called Bluegrass Court Jester: Ron Thomason, An Unusual History of Bluegrass Music. In addition, he is a producer on two Echo Film, LLC documentary projects: on the Vietnam War and the POW/MIA Wives movement, and the life of George Washington in his own words. His website is : www.blandonresearch.com
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Dennis Boni - Director of Photography
For more than a quarter of a century, Dennis Boni has shot Presidents and rock stars, ordinary people and extraordinary animals, filmed underwater and in the air, for feature films, commercials, network documentaries and corporate clients. He has filmed in over 50 countries on five continents, and is known for bringing his instinct for composition and sequencing along with a meticulous use of light to places as diverse as an aircraft carrier deck to the temples of Angkor Wat. Dennis is also DC’s most seasoned Steadicam owner/operator with more than 25 years of experience flying a rig. Dennis is contracted as the Director of Photography on many ECHO Films projects including Jeremiah, #GeorgeWashington, The May Day Speech and The POW Wives. Dennis won an Emmy for his work on Jeremiah. His website is: www.boniproductions.com |
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