Crew

DEREK K. MILTON – Director, Writer, Producer

Derek’s life began in Scotland in the summer of 1956. For the first 8 years he lived in the Glasgow area before immigrating to Canada with his family in April of 1965. From an early age he was interested in the entertainment world, having performed in several tap dance productions, as well as modeling at a local talent agency long before ever leaving Scotland.

After arriving in Canada, his family took up residence in Vancouver where he has lived in, or close to ever since. Not long after arriving here, he took part in his first school drama production, focusing on acting. For the years to follow numerous theatrical productions came to pass in and out of school. But also in that time, school provided him with the opportunity to write his first play. As a result, two plays would follow with him as writer and at the helm as director. From that moment forward, he knew which direction his life was going. As well as acting, his love affair with writing and directing was born.

After leaving high school, a few more theater productions would follow, all taking part as an actor. But by the end of the second play, he knew where his heart truly lay and that was with writing and directing. With that love intact, the next 30 years to come would involve writing as a daily part of his life.

As well as an actor, writer, director and producer, Derek is also a realism pencil artist and graphic designer. He believes whole heartedly that the detail and focus required to make a pencil drawing look real is no different from directing a motion picture. In short, holding the ability to read between the lines and to see clearly what others cannot. He took those rules with him in 2000, when at age 44, attended Vancouver Film School as a senior student – all to grasp what he had missed during three decades of hanging around stage and film sets. A mere three weeks after graduation, he formed Karladam Films Limited. In the year to follow, two productions would come to pass through Karladam Films (KarlAdam – named after Milton’s 2 children, Karly and Adam), his first being the 34 minute short film; The Black Prayer.

Screened at the New York International Independent Film Festival in Manhattan, The Black Prayer set the wheels in motion for Milton’s film to follow, the supernatural short; Locked Out (also screened at the New York International Film Festival on July 22, 2007). With his new partner, Joe S. Bring joining the roster, KarlAdam Films then morphed into the now current production company, KarlAdam Entertainment.

Derek has also produced over 300 pictorial films to date.

JOE S. BRING – Executive Producer

Joe S. Bring is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators.  His experience includes eleven years with KPMG LLP as an auditor of private and public companies and as a business valuator in the Financial Advisory Services Group and twelve years providing valuations and other consulting services to private clients.

He began working in film in 2006 as an Executive Producer on a short supernatural film called “Locked Out”, starring Lucie Guest, Benjamin Arthur and Dana Timmermans. It was written and directed by his new business partner, Derek K. Milton. The film was entered into a handful of film festivals and was accepted into all – including The New York International Independent Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Festival.

All festivals screened the film in 2007. “The Scorpion’s Kiss” is Joe’s first feature film as Executive Producer.

DAVID REMPEL – Producer

Dave has been working the creative side of television and feature film for the last five years serving as a creative consultant/story editor to screenwriters and producers throughout the US and Canada under his Dynamic Story Solutions banner. Prior to striking out on his own, Dave served in the story department for Phoenix Pictures, lending his hand to such projects as Basic, Zodiac and Miss Potter.

From there, Dave joined Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions where he was involved in various aspects of research and development on numerous feature films, including The Passion of the Christ and Skeleton Coast. Currently, Dave is working in development and project acquisition for the Johnson Production Group with whom he produces movies of the week for US television networks and has recently signed on to co-produce a big screen feature in South Africa called No Living Thing. Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in Film from Biola University in Los Angeles, California.

IAN R. SMITH – Producer

Ian has served as Producer, Line Producer, Production Manager, Production Accountant and Post Production Accountant within the film industry dating back to 1984 where he was Production Accountant for the television series; “Danger Bay”.

Since then he has been busy working on numerous projects for the small screen as well as the large.

Some of his assorted credits include; “Adam and Evil” (2005), “Rapid Fire” (2005), “Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber” (2005), “Hush Little Baby” (2007), “Big City” (2007), “A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride” (2008), “Held Hostage” (2009) and “White Out” (2009) starring Kate Beckinsale – just to name a few.

MICHAEL RICHARD PLOWMAN – Music Composer (Genie & Leo Award Winner)

For the past 27 years, Los Angeles-based composer Michael Richard Plowman has been composing award winning and internationally recognized music, touching audiences in over 150 countries.

His passion for creativity began in his birthplace of England where he learned to play the trumpet at the early age of three. Plowman’s love and talent of music quickly grew, as did his aspirations. He began teaching himself different orchestral instruments. Over the course of his school years, Plowman was a member of jazz and rock groups, playing gigs at local clubs, and at 14 landed his first commercial television job. At 16 he received a recording contract and produced his first album, “The Now Sounds of Today”.

Upon completion of high school, Plowman continued his musical training at universities in both Canada and the United States. He began conducting and touring worldwide with various orchestras, then moved into theater, orchestrating and conducting dozens of plays.

With studios in Los Angeles and Vancouver he works for many of the major players in the industry, including Sony Pictures Television, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema, Nickelodeon, Sony, Paramount, Alliance Atlantis, Discovery, TNT, A&E and Stephen King.

With over 500 credits to date in live-action, animation, film, television and games, Plowman continues to create symphonic adventures in his own style for the absolute entertainment experience.

KARL HERRMANN csc - Director of Photography

Karl started out in the movie business traveling the globe filming ski movies for famed ski film producer Warren Miller.  He moved to California and found his place at Lucasfilms working on Academy Award winning visual effects for such blockbuster classics as “E.T.”, “Return of the Jedi” and “The Right Stuff”.  His live action television credits include the Emmy Award series “Touched by an Angel” and “Dawson’s Creek”.  His numerous projects in Canada include work on “I, Robot”, “Agent Cody Banks” and the multi-award winning Steven Spielberg miniseries “Into the West” for HBO.  He is the chair of the New Technologies Committee for IATSE in western Canada.  His technical expertise recently led to the creation of “3D Exploratory”, a hands on 3D training workshop.  He has been published in American Cinematographer, International Cinematographer and Canadian Cinematographer magazines on multiple occasions.   Karl has guest lectured at UCLA, the Art Center College of Design, Loyola Marymount, The Art Institute and the University of British Columbia.  He is an advisor to Capilano University’s Visual Effects Program and an esteemed member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers.

STEPHEN ALTMAN - Production Designer (Academy Award Nominee)

The son of famed director, Robert Altman, Steve has had a colorful career as production designer, art director, set dresser and property master in an tall assortment of notable films dating back to 1978.

Having worked on various top shelf films such as; Popeye (1980), Come back to the five and dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), Endangered Species (1982), Ladyhawke (1985), Near Dark (1987), The Player (1992), Grosse Point Blank (1997), The Gingerbread Man (1998), his Oscar nominated work along with his father for Gosford Park (2001), Ray (2004), and Hot Rod (2007).

He is more recently working with Janie Jones which is currently in pre production.

EWAN DEANE – Sound Designer (Leo Award Winner, Daytime Emmy and Genie Award Nominee)

Ewan has worked in the film industry as Sound Designer, Sound Supervisor, Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Mixer, ADR Re-Recording Engineer, Music Editor and Dialogue Editor dating back to 1991.

His body of work consists of television and feature films and he is second to none in the quality of work he brings to the table.

From Nilus the Sandman (1991) to Murder in Normandy (1999) to Edgemont (2000) to Titan (2001) to Celluloid Dreams (2002), his work is renowned and respected far and wide.

He was also re-recording engineer in director Derek K. Milton’s second film, Locked Out.

JEANNE SLATER – Editor (Leo Award Winner)

Jeanne is the  former editing instructor at Vancouver Film School and wife of award winning sound editor, Ewan Deane.

Jeanne’s colorful body of work floats back to 1996.

Friends with director Derek K. Milton since 2001, Jeanne was editor on both of Milton’s previous  films; The Black Prayer (2001) and Locked Out (2007) – a collaboration that has formed a permanent working relationship between them,

Jeanne’s 30+ credits in film and television are wide and diverse with her garnishing a Leo Award nomination for “Drawing out the demons”: A film about the artist Attila Richard Lukacs (2004) and Headshot (2006).

Jeanne and her husband reside in Vancouver.

DAVID DEWAR – Post Production Supervisor

David Dewar’s adventures in entertainment span more than 30 years in film, television and the professional theatre. He has produced, directed and written for television at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and has worked in both production and post production. He has produced drama for BCTV and the US cable network, Nickelodeon. He is currently Post Production Supervisor on the E1/Global television series “Shattered”.

Recent feature credits include: Freestyle (Waterfront), The Sandlot 3, Wrong Turn 2 (20th C. Fox) and Intern Academy (Maple & Palm). Television post credits include the mini-series’ Seven Deadly Sins (Lifetime) and Impact (ABC). Series projects include Shattered (Global), Jpod (CBC) and The Collector (CHUM) as Post Production Supervisor and First Wave (Space/Sci Fi), So Weird (Disney) and Dead Man’s Gun (Showtime) as Coordinating Producer. As well as numerous television movies.

Mr. Dewar is a Director member of the Director’s Guild of Canada and past Chairman of the BC Motion Picture Association. He has also served on the Board of the Centre For Image and Sound Research and has lectured in film and television production and post production at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Douglas College and the National Screen Institute.