Regino Chavez (President): Program Evaluation Specialist
BIO: Regino Chávez has over 25 years of experience in the use of quantitative and qualitative methodological strategies to examine service quality in education and health. He has conducted research for policy studies, strategic planning, and the development of social marketing campaigns to promote nutrition education, cancer prevention, to discourage drinking and driving, and other social causes. Mr. Chávez has also carried out extensive research in the U.S. to improve the quality of education at all levels from early childhood through high school. He has also carried out studies to promote girls education in Guatemala; the financing of early childhood education in El Salvador and South Africa; the withdrawing of children from the worse forms of child labor in Bolivia, Peru and El Salvador; and to monitor the return of dropouts to the formal schooling system in India.
Gary Moody: California Department of Education Advisory Committee on Before and After School Education
BIO: Gary Moody is currently a consultant for the Fresno County Office of Education and the Fresno Teaching Fellows Foundation. He also operates the Torrenz All-Stars after school program. Moody was previously the executive director of Arnold’s All-Stars from 2001 to 2005 and a regional associate for the National Center for Community Education from 1999 to 2002. He has also served as an after school consultant for the California Department of Education and a middle school principal for the Firebaugh-Las Deltas School District.
Paul Kestenbaum: Esquire, Kestenbaum & Hoffman
Stephen Nemeth: Founder / CEO, Rhino Films
BIO: Stephen Nemeth formed and heads up Rhino Films, the independent film company that originated as a division of iconoclast record label Rhino Records. He has served as Producer on five films and Executive Producer on nine others. In addition to running Rhino Films, he is currently in the process of helping form Amnesty International Media (AIM), an offshoot of the non-profit human rights organization.
For Rhino, Nemeth produced Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Universal Pictures), Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Warner Bros.), Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th (Lion’s Gate), and the just-completed What We Do Is Secret , about the life of The Germs’ front man and the birth of LA’s punk rock scene in the late ‘70s. Additionally, he served as Executive Producer on Ivans xtc (Artistic License) and the feature doc Pick Up The Mic, a look at the burgeoning subculture of gay and lesbians in the hip hop scene which premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.
Previously Nemeth executive produced Rhino’s first film, the comedic spoof Plump Fiction. He also produced Bad Manners, and served as Executive Producer on Denise Calls Up(Sony Classics), Digging to China, Chow Bella, Mona Must Die, Cadillac Ranch, and as Co-Produceronthe skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys(winner of the 2001 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary; Sony Classics). In television, Nemeth served as an Executive Producer on a TV development deal for a remake of The Monkees with producer Simon Fuller (American Idol), and currently has several other comedy, drama, and reality TV series in development.
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Currently, Nemeth is Producing You and I, which is shooting in Moscow, Radio Free Albemuth, which is in pre-production and several documentaries, including Project Street, an exploration of the urban skateboarding world, with acclaimed video music director Block (Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill) directing; Tuner Nation, a look at the real world of the fast and the furious; Water, a look at the world’s water supply and the privatization of our most basic resource; Beisbol, an exploration of the rise of Latin Baseball; Fields of Fuel, a personal look at “alternative energy” through the eyes of biodiesel pioneer Josh Tickell, and documentaries on George Plimpton, Budd Schulberg, and iconoclast artist Robert Williams.
Under the Rhinomation banner, Nemeth will be producing animated feature Slushy, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, an animated version of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and an animated Mother Jones movie, with the magazine. Rhinomation projects will be produced in partnership with Ralph Guggenheim (Producer, Toy Story and Pixar co-founder).
Nemeth also serves as a Consultant for Mobile Media, a Norwegian cell phone content provider, and Admetech, a non-profit prostate cancer research foundation at the Harvard Medical School.
Nemeth was named one of the “Top Ten Most Prolific Producers in Hollywood” by The Hollywood Reporter in its Independent Producers & Distributors Issue, and one of the “Ten Coolest People in Hollywood” by an online survey of 500 agents, managers, journalists, and lawyers. He serves on the boards of the Hollywood Film Festival and the Woodstock Film Festival. He has spoken at numerous film seminars, classes, panels, etc., and has been a judge at many film festivals and screenwriting competitions. He holds two US patents, produces Public Service Announcements for Rock The Vote, and serves as an advisory board member for Rock The Vote, the Prints and Drawing Department of the LA County Museum, Children’s United Nations, the Wildlife Ecostation, Wheels For Humanity, Shine On Sierra Leone, and Amnesty International’s Artists for Amnesty.
Prior to forming Rhino Films, Nemeth worked as an independent producer and as a motion picture agent at the William Morris Agency. He is a California native, attended Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles, and is a graduate of UCLA’s psychology department.
Arlene Klasky: Owner / Producer, Klasky Csupo Studios
BIO: Arlene Klasky is one of the television industry’s leading advocates for quality animated programming that entertains children. In 1999, she was named one of the “Top 25 Women in Animation” by the industry’s leading publication, Animation Magazine. Klasky and her partner, Gabor Csupo, formed Klasky Csupo, Inc. in 1981. Combining their respective talents in graphic design and character animation proved to be a long-lasting successful formula. Today, she continues to work on new project development for television and features. Klasky was the creative force behind the box-office hits “The Rugrats Movie” and “Rugrats in Paris: The Movie.” Klasky played a major role as co-creator and executive producer on the two-time Emmy Award-winning “Rugrats” and designed several of the series’ major characters. After stints as a magazine and advertising art director, Klasky made the transition into film, joining the legendary Robert Label & Associates doing special effects and graphics for film. She quickly progressed to freelance title design for New World Pictures and then for Marks & Marks and California Film, another company she co-founded, designed on-air promos, station Ids and graphic titles.
Erick Bozzi II: Founder, STAR ECO Station & Board Member, Latin Waterkeeper Alliance
Katya Bozzi: Founder / Executive Director, STAR Inc.
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