JERRI SHER is an EMMY Award-winning filmmaker. A member of the Directors Guild since 1998, she has completed 22 film and television projects. She wrote, directed and produced QUIET EXPLOSIONS, a documentary feature about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) in veterans, athletes and civilians. The film just won the Lilac Award at the SpIFF Int. Film Festival and will be released on November 10, 2020 on Amazon. LIVE LIFE (healing through alternative medicine) her 12-part docu-drama television series was co-produced by Discovery Communications. Her short film STEP UP is part of a presentation SANTA MONICA CARES which she created for City/TV Santa Monica, and garnered her 2 EMMYS. It was Ms. Sher’s true honor to be selected to create and produce the Retrospective Tribute Film honoring Kathryn Bigelow for the DGA’s 75th Anniversary Gala. She also wrote and produced a film honoring Betty Thomas, Mimi Leder and Patty Jenkins for the Women’s Steering Committee of the DGA. Her short film LIVE LIFE A-Z won the George Lucas Global Education Award at the My Hero Int. Film Festival. Her documentary SOUL OF AN EMPIRE, about the rebirth of 42nd St. NYC, won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Big Bear Lake Int. Film Festival, and the Special Jury Award at The Savannah Film & Video Festival.A native from Fall River, MA, Jerri earned her BFA, Cum Laude from the University of MA and an MEd, Magna Cum Laude from Springfield College. Ms. Sher was the keynote speaker on Princess Cruise Lines World tour from Papeete, Tahiti to Sydney, Australia including topics of “Creative Writing” and “Using Documentary Films to Make the World a Healthier Place.” She has taught and guest lectured at several universities throughout the country and abroad.

Ms. Sher entered the transportation industry in the early eighties. Jerri worked for Preston the 151 Line and GOD Guaranteed Overnight Delivery, where she was trained by Anthony Robbins. While working in sales and marketing in the trucking business, she learned the necessary skills to become a producer. Her third career of directing and screenwriting emerged when she wrote a novel about a medical mystery about the cure for HIV/AIDS, “THE TWIG PAINTER”. Her book “How To Have A Successful Bridal Shower A to Z” just became a national #1 best seller on Amazon. Jerri was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumna Award 2019 from Durfee High School, chosen from over 50,000 candidates. She is a member of AWD, IDA, DGA and Greenlight Women and lives in Los Angeles with her husband Alan.

Elisa was nominated for a Cable ACE award for James Keach’s award-winning GLEN CAMPBELL…I’LL BE ME and an Emmy Award for NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY, LASZLO and VILMOS for which she served as co-producer/editor. She also co-produced and edited Celia Peck’s Emmy-nominated BRAVE MISS WORLD. Elisa won the “Best of 1991” Advertising Age Award, the “Advertising Women Achievement” award for Consumer Television in 1996 and 1998, and a Golden and Bronze Lion at the 1997 Cannes advertising festival.

Born in Milan, Italy she moved to Los Angeles working in advertising exclusively for the DGA multiple winner commercial director Joe Pytka. She later opened an editing company, Us2 Editorial, collaborating with directors such as Tony Kaye, Marcus Nispel, David Cornell and Tony Scott.

Elisa’s first breakthrough in long format came when Oliver Stone asked her to edit COMANDANTE and SOUTH OF THE BORDER. In addition to AUGIE, Elisa’s work includes the docs BLACK FISH, ASHES AND SNOW, REQUIEM FOR A RUNNING BACK, RISING FROM ASHES, THE IVORY GAME, and THE TURNING POINT. In 2018 Elisa has also edited THE GHOST FLEET by Shannon Service and Jeff Waldron selected for Telluride, Sundance, Toronto and Berlin Film festival and REMEMBER MY NAME a feature length documentary about David Crosby produced by Cameron Crowe.

Her current work includes THE HORN MAKER by Juliette Marquis and QUIET EXPLOSIONS by Jerri Sher.

Academy Awards:

• INGLORIOUS BASTERDS nomination
• BLACKHAWK DOWN win
• CHICAGO win
• DREAMGIRLS win
• JFK nomination
• BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY nomination
• CLIFFHANGER nomination
• A CHORUS LINE nomination
• TRON nomination
• ALTERED STATES nomination
• THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN nomination

Other Notables:

• A STAR IS BORN (2018)
• BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017)
• INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
• ALLEGIANT
• THE HATEFUL EIGHT
• POINT BREAK
• CONCUSSION
• INSURGENT
• DJANGO UNCHAINED
• THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN 1 and 2
• TOWER HEIST
• INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
• BODY OF LIES
• AMERICAN GANGSTER
• MAMA MIA
• KILL BILL VOL. 1 and 2
• TRUE LIES

BAFTA Awards:

• STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE
• JFK
• CHICAGO

Casey Lynch graduated from James Madison University and is the cinematographer for the documentary Quiet Explosions.  He spent most of his life in Virginia before relocating to Los Angeles. Before this feature length documentary he was directing and shooting short films and commercials for small businesses for 6 years. Besides being a neonatal photographer he has had lots of experience  as a landscape and wildlife photographer.

Casey says, “It has been exciting to learn from Jerri and I have gained so much more about our craft from watching her work. I am also excited to be a part of such an important documentary that will save so many lives.”

Israeli born composer, songwriter and instrumentalist Omri Lahav creates music with the approach of a storyteller – blending a lush, melody-driven style with a strong sensibility for story and world-building. Educated in Western classical music and a self-taught folk artist, Omri’s passion for folklore and music from around the world allows him to bring some truly unique colors to every piece of music. His ability to write in a broad variety of genres, combining craftsmanship and technology with a profound love for modern orchestral repertoire make Lahav a versatile and effective composer.

He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and alumni of the Society of Composers and Lyricists’ Mentor Program, 2017.

Omri lives in Los Angeles, CA and works as a full time composer for film, television and interactive media.

Has a degree in Technology from Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology and is a veteran of the Entertainment Industry. He has served as an agent, talent manager, and Film Studio head and is a successful producer.

In 1975 Levy designed a cooperative group of important independent agencies consisting of his own agency Bart/Levy, The Paul Kohner Agency both LA based, London International Management (the largest independent agency outside the United States, at that time), and The Robert Lantz Agency. Representing such talents as Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Duval, Bruce Lee, and Marlon Brando, Sir Alec Guinness, represented such directors as Milos Foreman, Michael Mann, Ingmar Bergman, John Huston, John Landis and Robert Altman such authors as Sidney Sheldon, Mario Puzo, William Peter Blattey (“THE EXORSIST”), John Cheever and Stan Lee of Marvel Comic fame as well as Marvel Comics themselves., black listed film writers and directors such as Academy Award winners, Waldo Salt, Ring Lardner Jr. Carl Foreman and Dalton Trumbo and many more. Levy had packaged 100’s of Films, TV Series and TV Movies for many of his major producing clients, David Gerber, Glen Larson, Chuck Fries, Raymond Chow and creative talents.

In 1981 Levy became President and CEO of CBS’s new Theatrical Film Group and was a member of CBS’s management committee. During his time there, he instigated the FOX-CBS video deal, as well as helped to create Tri-Star Motion Pictures, which originally consisted of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and The CBS Theatrical Film Group.

In 1984, Levy started his own production company with 20th Century Fox where within one year he had over nineteen films in active development with Fox and other major studios.

Since forming his own Production Company, he has produced 16 Feature and Television projects in conjunction with different studios and networks. Levy has helped fund 30+ Film and TV projects, as well as very involved with gap funding TV movies.

Levy has produced films for such talents as Francis Coppola, John Schlesinger, Alec Baldwin, Kiefer Sutherland, Forrest Whitaker, Sally Field, Meg Ryan, Ed Harris and many others

In 1994 Levy became a Technology Consultant and is and has been the Board of Advisors of several highly successful technology companies such as Optikey Corp., Broadata Communications Inc., Saffron Technologies, Physical Optics Corp, Bauer Climate Control Systems and several others.

 

• Levy is presently and has been a partner and a consultant internationally in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Ghana, UK, Singapore, Israel, and Korea as well as New Mexico. In 2013 Levy co-Chaired an International Peace conference in Burg Schlaining, Austria.
• Levy continues to do missions for both the UN and NATO.
• Levy teaches a 15-week MBA course on producing in the various medias, for several years at USC.
• Levy is partnered in JJasmine1- an international deal facilitating company with offices in LA and Turkey
• Levy is the Chairman of Active Learning International (ALI) a Parent/Child training program. ALI has opened 10+ classrooms and a teaching center in Hong Kong
• Founder of Falcon6 – A Tactical Business Consulting Company
• Levy-Presently has an overall producing deal with Radar Pictures.