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Mathius Mack Gertz
Greater Los Angeles Area
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Title/Occupation:  Producer 
Services Provided:  Film Festivals/Marketers 
Gender: Male
Race: None
Citizenship: US
Languages Spoken: English, some Spanish

Brief Message to Members:  **Documentary DVD screeners with a short synopsis are accepted for review. ** I am looking to assemble a small social justice production team. Call me
Biography:  EDUCATION: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2006 BA: School of Cinematic Arts: Production, cum laude Minor: Entertainment Business BA: School of A.L.S, History, cum laude TRAINING: Producers Guild of America (PGA), Eight-week Diversity Workshop, certificate Robert McKee Three-day Writing Workshop, certificate UCLA: various writing classes New York Commercial Theatre Institute, Commercial Theatre Production, certificate LAUSD: 30-Day Emergency Teaching Credential State of California CSET Exams in History- Passed PADI SCUBA Dive Master & Underwater Videographer, certified www.filmarcade.net, Film Critic PORTFOLIO: Creative Producer: Development of original screenplays working with writing teams. 2006-2009 Blue Blood, Infestation, Grinners, Night of the Zombie Killers, Hell Fire, Puppy Love, Grand Dames, Page Turner, DOG, Producer, 2007 Wrangling Coach Wrankin Thirteen minute mockumentary short produced as a vehicle to secure funding for a feature film. The L.A. Short film Festival. Producer, 2006, CNTV 8/Trojanvision Plat-Forum, A three-camera, live, weekly thirty minute, debate-style, round-table-format, television talk show. Producer, 2005, Sailing for Madagascar, a fifteen minute 16MM dramatic short. Prodcuer/Photographer, 2002, “The Way We Were-Peace March,” a series of twenty two black & white and color photographs. Taken in 1970, a special day in the life of the Vietnam anti-war protests movement in New York City. Displayed at the gallery at www.spaa.ws Producer, 2002, The Jazz Reach Phenomenon, documentary on digi-beta, sixty minutes. A film record of the 2001 Capital Studios USC Thornton Jazz Band and jazz singer Kurt Elling sessions. Interspersed with interviews about jazz mentoring and historical recollections Producer/Director, December 2001, A Sexy Shoe, spec commercial on 16 mm, 1 minute. Produced with the cooperation of the Leslie Shoe Company to promote their on-line shoe catalog, www.sexyshoe.com. Assoc. Producer, 2000, The Michael Levine Show, a one-hour weekly talk show recorded on videotape, An original content program for ATT Broadband cable network in the style of ‘Charlie Rose’. Los Angeles, CA Producer, 1998-2000, The Spiritual Seeker, a live radio show, 2-hour show, broadcast 1 night per week. A syndicated talk show on the national Talk America Network that discussed any topic as it related to god, spirituality and religion. New guests each week in studio and via phone. Calls taken from listeners around the country. Our goal was to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Broadcast from studios in the Disney Channel Building, Burbank, CA Executive Producer, 1993-1995, The Miss Pennsylvania USA Pageant, an annual three-hour fundraising event. Positions: producer, choreographer, writer, director and promoter. Loosely based upon the Miss America Pageant, but much more fun. Produced as a series of eight city preliminaries throughout Pennsylvania funneling into the state event held in Philadelphia. Used to raise money for AIDS charities throughout the state. Coverage provided by local print, radio and television media including The Philadelphia Enquirer, New Hope Gazette and Philadelphia Magazine. Producer/Director, 1990-1995, The New Hope Theatre Guild, a traveling troop of amateur actors, singers and musicians. Performed scenes, plays and comedies in hospices throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and North-Western New Jersey.