Jay Nelson—Executive Producer

•Nelson was Vice President of Production at Detroit Public Television where he’d worked for 21 years.
•Creator and co-executive producer of the arts and cultural series, Backstage Pass,
•Executive producer, smART TV – an educational series for middle and high school students;
•Co-executive producer the Detroit Remember When series, •Executive producer the nationally broadcast Parenting Puzzle series,
•Co-executive producer the national PBS performance/ documentary special, Mahler's Beethoven featuring the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
•Executive producer the nationally distributed teacher training series (an Annenberg/CPB project) The Learning Classroom: Theory into Practice and Better Investing with David Chilton, a national series about how to invest money wisely.

Harvey Ovshinsky—Executive Producer

•Harvey Ovshinsky is the president of HKO Media, Inc., a film and video production company specializing in documentary-style direction and real people interviews and testimonials. The Detroit News has described Ovshinsky as “one of this country's finest storytellers.”
•Produced Close to Home: The Tammy Boccomino Story, a documentary about a suburban family struggling with AIDS. He received a national Emmy, a Peabody award, an Iris award from the National Association of Television Programming Executives, and The American Film Institute's Robert M. Bennett Award for Excellence.
•The Last Hit, Ovshinsky's documentary about youth violence was the recipient of the Alfred I. duPont - Columbia University Awards Silver Baton
•Before starting HKO Media, Ovshinsky was Director of Production at WTVS Detroit Public Television.

Oliver Thornton—Producer

•Oliver Thornton is an award-winning screenwriter and a producer for HKO Media, Inc.
•Coordinated the production or produced commercials and videos for clients including Blue Cross Blue Shield, ChevronTexaco, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and Detroit Renaissance
•Wrote role-playing segments that contributed to IN LOVE AND IN DANGER, an educational video on dating violence produced by Victor/Harder Productions, Inc.
•Recipient of the Avery Hopwood Award and the Gayle Morris Sweetland Fellowship in screenwriting from New Line Cinema for his screenplay, COLD while a student at the University of Michigan.

Alexander Wright—Co-Producer

•Alex Wright is a producer for HKO Media, Inc.
•Associate produced or produced commercials and videos for clients including Blue Cross Blue Shield, ChevronTexaco, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and Detroit Renaissance.
•Past accomplishments include coordinating producer for episodes airing on National Geographic Explorer and Bravo’s Profiles series, Video Director for an off-Broadway play in New York City, and working for Sue Marx Films in Detroit on both commercial and locally broadcast projects

Christopher M. Cook—Field Producer

•Producer Chris Cook's career spans 25 years in television and print news and includes three regional Emmys, a Telly and two Clarion awards for documentary programs, and a share of a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism.
•His film Sprawling of America was nominated as a finalist in the 2001 International Documentary Association Awards.
•Documentary work has appeared on regional public television, commercial television stations, and A&E's History Channel.
•Works as a field producer for ABC and NBC network programs. Before turning to film and news production.
•Worked as a reporter and held various editing positions at newspapers across the country including the Detroit Free Press, San Diego Union, the Kansas City Times, and Newsday in New York.
•President of Metrocom International Inc.

Todd Hastings—Field Producer

•Todd Hastings is an award-winning producer, writer and director for Detroit Public Television (WTVS 56) and his own production company, Odyssey Video, in St. Clair Shores, MI and is currently the producer of the weekly PBS arts program, ART BEAT, an advocate for the arts in Metro Detroit.
•Produced, written, directed, shot and edited over 280 commercials through Odyssey Video.
•Hastings began segment producing for the weekly WTVS arts and culture program, BACKSTAGE PASS.
•Received an Emmy Award in 2000 for THE CASE OF THE MISSING BLUEPRINTS, an educational and instructional program designed to teach the scientific method to school students.
•Received five additional Emmy nominations in the last three years