Dave Lewis graduated from Tufts University and founded the real estate development company, Avid Managment which owns and manages over $25 million of commercial and residential real estate. A lifetime cinefile, Mr Lewis founded Maven Productions LLC in 2001 to produce independant films. Since that time, his company has produced 3 features and 2 short subject pieces. His first project, "Everyone's Got One" (which he acted in as well as produced) was awarded " The Boston Society of Film Critics Best Comedy for 2003" and is currently being distributed on DVD by Film Threat. The second feature he produced was "Overserved." Shot on High Definition video, this feature won awards at several festivals including "Best Feature Film" at the Boston comedy festival in 2003. That year he also produced a short, "The Messenger" for the 48 Hour Film Festival that was awarded "Best Cinematography." Fulfilling a growing desire to be involved in the creative end of filmmaking, during 2004, Mr Lewis wrote, directed and produced his first 35 mm film project, a period comedy called 'Spaghetti and Matzo Balls" which finished post production in April of 2005. Mr Lewis also cast all of the over 100 roles for this elaborate production that shot for 10 days in August of 2004.
      He has 2 additional features in post production. “Manual,” his second feature collaboration with writer/director Garth Donovan, is a drama about a female high school Star athlete who quits sports and falls into depression In addition, he is both executive producer and producer of Rod Webber's “Monkfish”, a heist film in the vain of “Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels” co-starring Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Films which is nearing completion.
      The Monkfish project spawned Mr Lewis' first documentary, the story of actor / professioal wrestler/ and neophyte politician, Dougie “Tiny the Terrible” Tunstall's run for the mayor of Pawtucket Rhode Island in 2006. The project will wrap shortly after the November elections and should be done with post in early 2007.

Jean-Paul Ouellette
Producer, Co-editor

Boston born J-P Ouellette began filmmaking at the age of fourteen and pursued it professionally after completing his undergraduate studies in English and Graphic Design. After college, Mr. Ouellette apprenticed to filmmakers Russ Meyer and Orson Welles. Mr. Ouellette directed the second unit action sequences for James Cameron's "The Terminator" and produced and directed two cult horror films: "The Unnamable" and "The Unnamable Returns," horror movies adapted from stories by H. P. Lovecraft.
      In 1996, Ouellette returned home for a year of writing but was contacted by European companies to produce European television programs shot in the U.S. Among the many projects, he execed on the international soap opera "Family Passions" and executive produced "River Café: Live from New York," a live-by-satellite German national talk show. He has worked for Irish and Icelandic television. He directs industrial projects for corporations like GE Aircraft Engines and Gorton's of Gloucester and produces documentary projects for non-profit organizations. He is on the board of the Woods Hole Film Festival and enjoys working from Boston, though he intends to continue the international ties into international feature films. 
      Mr Ouellette has teamed with Dave Lewis to produce Garth Donovan's "Everyone's Got One" and "Manual." "Spaghetti and Matzo Balls" is their third project together and they look forward to a long and creative relationship

Originally from Shelburne, Massachusetts, Will attended the University of Massachusetts to study Mass Communications and Television Production/Advertising. During college he began a free-lance video production company shooting documentaries and sales presentations. He moved to Boston in 1991, and began as a Producer for Cablevision of Boston. In 1995 he was recruited by Time Warner Entertainment and became Senior Commercial Producer in 1998, winning 12 Telly awards, and 7 CAB awards for photography.
     While at Time Warner, Barratt co-founded ArieScope Pictures with writer/director Adam Green, and he has directed all photography since then. Barratt has studied at the Film & Television Workshops, in Rockport, ME under masters such as Michael Hoffstein (The Fall Guy, Aculpulco Heat, Drop Zone) and Rob Draper (Spitfire Grill).
      In May 2002, he won an Emmy award for a television spot with WBZ and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and was nominated for 2 other Emmy awards for his commercials with FOX Sports.
     Barratt produces and shoots over 100 commercials a year for clients such as Fox Sports, Harvard University, John Hancock, Toyota, Comcast, The BBC, and Cider Jack Hard Cider. Most recently, he was contracted to return and head-up coverage of NBC's World Cup Skiing.
     Barratt is currently neck deep in the swamp (along with gallons of blood, guts, and gore) shooting the feature film HATCHET.

Garth Donovan
Editor

Garth Donovan is a Boston based filmmaker, actor, editor who learned the fundamentals of filmmaking by doing. He has been making films since he was a teenager and got more serious about filmmaking after college ended. Donovan attended Stonehill College, not a film school, where he learned to edit on a Media 100. Shortly after graduating he made his first feature film EVERYONE'S GOT ONE which is being released by Film Threat DVD this coming December. In that film he acted, edited, pretty much did it all - teaching himself what it took to make a film work for conception to promotion. He followed E.G.O. up with another homegrown feature called MANUAL which stars his sister Savann. Donovan, works as a freelance editor, and recently cut the trailer for Robert Patton Spruil's new film TURNTABLE. He is currently directing a pilot for a reality tv show as well as finishing up a new script that he plans to make in 2005 / 2006.

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