Our Team
BLUE WATER ENTERTAINMENT
Blue Water Entertainment is a leading independent production company, developing and producing content in narrative, television, animated and documentary format. The mission of Blue Water Entertainment is to tell cinematically compelling, intentional, and empowering stories that make a difference in our world. Cinema is the place where dreams are made and where life stops. In the magic kingdom of storytelling, Blue Water Entertainment‘s slate of films focuses on current issues that impact our daily lives — from politics, social justice and poverty to religion…and of course, the environment.
BYRON A MARTIN PRODUCTIONS
Byron A. Martin is an award-winning producer who develops in- dependent film, television and documentary projects. To date he has produced almost 100 hours of television, film- ingprojects in over thirty countries. He has produced projects for Disney, Sony, Universal, Lifetime, Turner, Bell Media, DHX and Crown Media. From THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, LAND OF THE DEAD, RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (3D) to AMERICAN PIE presents BETA HOUSE and AMERICAN PIE presents THE NAKED MILE, Byron has a tremendous scale and scope of pro- duction experience. He has managed productions for some of Hollywood’s leading producers. such as Jerry Bruckheimer, Sam Raimi, Raffaellla De Laurentis, Laurence Mark, John Singleton, Mark Canton, Lauren Shuler Donner, Dick Wolf, Ralph Winter and Don Carmody. He has twice been honoured as the Best Indepen- dent Film Producer, Canada in 2016 and in 2017. Most recently, Corporate Vision Magazine honoured his company with a Cana- dian Business Award naming it “Best Canadian Producer 2019”.
VERNON DAVIS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Vernon Davis is a former American football tight end. The 15-year NFL veteran was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2006 NFL Draft and played his first 10 seasons with the 49ers. He landed with the Denver Broncos in 2015 during their Super Bowl 50 run and later joined his hometown team, the Washington Redskins, in 2016 and spent four seasons there before retiring after the 2019-2020 season. Off the field, Vernon is a budding entrepreneur, dedicated philanthropist and actor. Navigating the business world is only a portion of his off-the-field endeavors. Vernon created the Vernon Davis Foundation for the Arts as a way to promote art education and art appreciation among youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. Just last year, VDFA evolved into the Vernon Davis Foundation, which services at-risk youth of all interests and demographics.
GREG REITMAN
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, SCREENWRITER
Greg Reitman produced, directed, and wrote the 2016 documentary Rooted in Peace, which was released theatrically in over 100 markets and screened at the United Nations. He produced the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning feature documentary Fuel. He also wrote, produced, and directed Hollywood’s Magical Island: Catalina, which was syndicated nationally on PBS. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
BYRON A. MARTIN
PRODUCER
Byron A. Martin is an award-winning producer that develops independent film, television, and documentary projects. To date, he has produced almost 100 hours of television, filming projects in 15 countries. He has produced projects for Disney, Sony, Universal, Turner, Bell Media, and DHX, and managed productions for some of Hollywood’s leading producers, including
Jerry Bruckheimer, Sam Raimi, Lauren Shuler Donner, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Mark Canton, Dick Wolf, Laurence Mark, John Singleton, Ralph Winter, and Don Carmody. Byron was recently honored with a Gaming & Entertainment Award naming him Best Independent Producer, Canada.
AMOS NACHUM
UNDERWATER DP
Amos Nachum is a master of photographing big animals worldwide. Amos’s photos and essays have appeared in publications including National Geographic, Time, Life, The New York Times, Explorers Journal, Yachts, Condé Nast Traveler, Le Figaro, Terra Sauvage, Airone, Der Spiegel, Unterwasser, Explorer Journal and Fifty Fathoms. Amos’s photography won the Nikon contest. He is a two-time winner in the animal behavioral category of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award. In 2012 he placed first in the American Photography Artist competition. In 2014 he shared his vision “in the company of Ocean Giants” at the prestigious Ted Talk to standing ovation. 2018 first place SIPA competition. 2019, the premier of the movie about his life and diving with Polar bear, Picture of his life. International Sea keepers, Men of year award. Currently Amos is the expedition leader of Mission Blue a leading conservation agency and Dr. Sylvia Earle. He photographs with RED, cinema camera & Nauticam housing. Nikon still camera and Seacam housing and strobes.
ADAM RAVETCH
UNDERWATER STILL PHOTOGRAPHER
Multiple Emmy Award Winning Underwater Cinematographer/Filmmaker; Rolex/Explorer’s Club Lowell Thomas Award Winner for Exploration & Multiple Canadian Screen Awards. A trademark of Adam’s 3-decade Arctic career is his single-minded-pursuit to explore & weave undiscovered animal behavior into personal narratives. His Paramount Pictures Movie, Arctic Tale; a “cutting-edge-first,” warned us of a warming-world through a strong-narrative about the first generation of walrus & bears growing-up in the changing Arctic. He followed that with a National Geographic/Universal Pictures Movie, captured in native-3D, of a teenage-polar bear’s epic swim to survive the longest ice-free- summer ever.
JOHANN HAAS
STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
Johann Haas is a German photographer whose main fields of work include Documentary, sport, concert photography and photojournalism and advertising. He works for a large variety of notable customers, including companies and TV such as ARD, ZDF, ARTE Documentary, Europa Park and such more like Red bull TV Servus TV, as well as for sports clubs such as DFB and and musicians. In his personal work, he concentrates on landscape photography and travel reports.
ENIS ROTTHOFF
FILM COMPOSER
Enis Rotthoff is a German composer who earned a scholarship for young composers, before studying and working with Academy Award winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek. He deepened his craft with studies of Film Music at the Film University Babelsberg and Audiovisual Communication at the University of Arts Berlin. In 2007 he was selected as a Sundance
Composers Lab Fellow and in 2018 received the German Music Author´s prize for his work as a film composer. Enis has collaborated with director Wolfgang Petersen on “Four Against the Bank,” David Wnendt on “Look Who´s Back, ” “The Sunlit Night and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee “Wetlands.” He also scored the film “Measuring the orld,” recorded with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna which garnered him a Jerry Goldsmith Award nomination. In addition, Enis has composed the music for many feature films in the United States and in Europe, including movies such as “Silver Tongues” (Director: Simon Arthur), “Free Willy Escape from Pirates Cove” (Director: Will Geiger), “The White Orchid” (Director: Steve Anderson), “The Price” (Director: Anthony Onah) and “Stereo” (Director: Max Erlenwein).
PAUL RISHER
SOUND MIXER
Paul is a professional sound designer, re- recording mixer, production sound mixer, and musician. Some of his works as a composer, re- recording mixer include: The German Film Academy awarded best film for Combat Girls (Kriegerin, 2012); Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete, 2014) premieres at Sundance Film Festival; Unorthodox – Golden Reel Award nomination for best sound. He received his diploma as tonometer at the HHF Potsdam Babelsberg
HEIDI ZIMMERMAN
EDITOR
Heidi Zimmerman is a film editor with over 15 years’ experience producing documentaries, promotional pieces, and narrative films. She tells stories that stoke empathy and inspire change. Heidi cut her first documentary,40 Years of Silence, under the tutelage of Academy Award-winning film editor, Pietro Scalia. She has gone on to work on a wide range of feature projects, like Alive and Kicking, nominated for a Grand Jury Award at 2016 SXSW, Fish & Men, winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2019 New Hampshire Film Festival, and Dammed to Extinction, winner of the Audience Choice Award and Best Feature Award at the 2019 Eugene Film Festival. Whether she is working with large companies like Universal Music Group, Warner Bros, and Magnolia Pictures, or smaller operations, Heidi asks herself questions from the position of the audience in order to find and build the best story. She holds a BFA in film/TV production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
HARRIS TULCHIN
PRODUCTION ATTORNEY
Harris E. Tulchin is an entertainment lawyer, producer, author, and producer’s representative. He graduated from Cornell University and Hastings Law School, and has practiced entertainment, communications, and multimedia law since 1978. He has served as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel for Cinema Group; General Counsel and Head of Business Affairs for KCET Television; Senior Counsel for United Artists; Director of Business Affairs at MGM Television; Counsel for American International Pictures; Counsel for Filmway Pictures; and Counsel for Orion Pictures. Mr. Tulchin co-authored the seminal book considered one of the bibles of the motion picture industry, entitled: The Independent Film Producer’s Survival Guide: A Legal and Business Sourcebook, published by Schirmer Press, New York (2002, 2005, 2010), now in its third edition.