Billy Kent (director) has directed over 180 commercials and 11 short films, and has developed a reputation for inventive, stylized comedy. His series of political satire and parody commercials for MTV helped define the network's place in America's cultural lexicon. He has directed projects all over the globe, working on award-winning commercial campaigns with the world’s biggest advertising agencies. In addition, several of Kent’s short films including Five Shorts, have been honored at the Sundance Film Festival, the Short Circuit Film Festival in Monte Carlo, the Seattle and Chicago Film Festivals and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Oh in Ohio is his feature directorial debut.
Adam Wierzbianski (writer) Adam is no stranger to Hollywood, having worked for Sherry Lansing at Paramount Pictures in the early 90's. Adam and the director, Billy Kent, have had a long-standing collaborative relationship. In 1992 they collaborated on projects for the American Film Institute and recently two feature length screenplays. Adam, Billy and collaborator Sarah Bird's first feature length script entitled Love is for Lovers was optioned by Open City Entertainment in New York. Adam's latest work is the comedically charged and sexy The Oh In Ohio.
A graduate of New York University, Adam lives in Brooklyn, New York where he is the Managing Director of the largest Polish daily newspaper in America, Nowedziennik.
Amy Salko Robertson (producer) is an independent producer whose most recent credits include the comedy When Do We Eat?, starring Ben Feldman, Shiri Appleby, Adam Lamberg, Michael Lerner, Lesley Ann Warren and Jack Klugman; and Emily Goodbody, which is scheduled to begin filming in winter, and will be directed by David Morse.
Prior to that, Salko Robertson was an agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) where during her nine year tenure she helped build the careers of Val Kilmer, Jamie Foxx, Woody Harrelson, Harry Connick Jr, Cheech Marin, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen and Ethan Hawke.
Francey Grace (producer) is a partner in Ambush Entertainment, a feature film production company that recently produced the cult horror/comedy Dead and Breakfast as well as the upcoming comedy The Oh in Ohio, starring Parker Posey, Paul Rudd and Danny DeVito.
Grace has been involved in the motion picture industry for over a decade, starting out as a Post Production Supervisor on films such as Francis Ford Coppola’s Wind, starring Matthew Modine and Jennifer Grey; The Joy Luck Club, produced by Oliver Stone; and Smoke, starring William Hurt and Harvey Keitel.
Grace was also a producer on such films as Blue in the Face, starring Lou Reed, Michael J. Fox, Madonna and Roseanne; Chinese Box, starring Jeremy Irons; and co-produced The Center of the World, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Molly Parker. In addition to her work on feature films, she has also produced numerous music videos and commercials.
Miranda Bailey (producer) founded Ambush Entertainment, a film development and production company, with partners Francey Grace, Matthew Leutwyler and Jun Tan in 2001 with the philosophy of producing a wide variety of feature films, from adventures and romances to comedies and prestige dramas. Currently in theatres is the critically-acclaimed horror/comedy Dead and Breakfast, a film that Ain’t-It-Cool News praised as “… the US answer to Shaun of the Dead.” In addition, the company recently produced the comedy The Oh in Ohio, starring Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Mischa Barton and Danny DeVito; and executive produced the drama The Squid and the Whale, which received both the Director’s Award and the prestigious Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney. Currently in production is the horror film Unearthed, starring Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss and Charlie Murphy.
Bailey’s first foray into film production was as an executive producer with Jun Tan on This Space Between Us, starring Jeremy Sisto and Poppy Montgomery. The film was screened at numerous festivals including its premiere at the 25th Seattle International Film Festival. In 2000 the film won the Moxie Award for Best Comedy at the Santa Monica Film Festival.
Bailey began her entertainment career as an actress in New York theater. A graduate of Skidmore College, she has appeared in a number of theatrical productions including Borrego, written by Robert Glaudini; The Seagull directed by the head of the Romanian Theatre in Bucarest, Sanda Manu; and The Marathon Years directed by award-winning director Anne Bogart. Some of her television and film credits include a series lead role in the half hour pilot Living Space; a guest role on FOX’s Beyond Belief; the NBC mini-series The Sixties and the motion picture Roomies.
Debra Grieco-Bergman (executive producer) began her career as a production accountant and then made the move to line producing, working on such films as Sparkler, with Freddy Prinze, Jr.; the basketball documentary 1 Love; Storytelling, starring Selma Blair for director Todd Solondz; How to Deal, with Mandy Moore; and most recently The Assassination of Richard Nixon, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts.
Grieco-Bergman has also served as a co-producer on such movies as Lovely and Amazing with Brenda Blethyn; and A Piece of My Heart, starring Piper Perabo and Jennifer Tilly. She also produced the sci-fi comedy Evil Alien Conquerors, and is currently executive producing the comedy You Are Going to Prison for director Bob Odenkirk.
Matthew Leutwyler (executive producer) first film was the 22-minute short This Space Between Us, which screened at numerous film festivals including the USA Film Festival (finalist) and the Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival (award-winner). Following this, Leutwyler began shooting his first feature film from his original screenplay, the black comedy Road Kill, starring Erik Palladino and Jennifer Rubin. The film made its World Premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where it won the Audience Choice Award for best feature film. Leutwyler followed-up that film with a feature-length version of This Space Between Us, which starred Jeremy Sisto, Poppy Montgomery, Alex Kingston, Vanessa Marcil, Erik Palladino and Gary Marshall.
After forming Ambush Entertainment with partners Miranda Bailey, Francey Grace and Jun Tan, Leutwyler went on to direct the comedy/horror film Dead and Breakfast, starring Ever Carradine, Erik Palladino, Jeremy Sisto and David Carradine. He is currently directing the horror film Unearthed, starring Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss and Charlie Murphy.
Jun Tan (executive producer) began his business career as an accounting officer at Megalmage, a Los Angeles based computer reselling company before becoming the founding partner / CFO of the San Francisco based web design and development company, Graphical Planet, Inc. The company employed a staff of 22 graphic designers, software engineers and developers, and a sales team.
Jun met Matthew Leutwyler in 1997 and began working on the post-production of Road Kill. He next teamed up with Leutwyler as a producer on This Space Between Us and, shortly thereafter, formed a partnership under the name Slinging Star Pictures. As an accomplished graphic artist Tan also found himself moving into the creative side of the industry, developing storyboards for projects that Leutwyler directed. Soon the two realized that these drawings could also be used as a way to sell or present the creative ideas in regards to their own projects as well as projects that Leutwyler was up to direct.
In 2001, Tan has produced two promotional television spots for MTV and recently produced Ambush’s horror/comedy Dead and Breakfast.