MEET OUR CREATIVE TEAM!
KIM BERTRAND
Development executive with a career spanning films, television, music, and new media. Her films include Crumb Catcher (Music Box Films), The Jungle (Official Selection, Big Sky Film Festival), The Babysitter Murders (New Jersey Horror Con Winner, Best Short Film), Better Off (Shudder), and Checkpoint Zoo (Appian Way). She served as a Creative Executive at Gigantic Pictures from 2021 and as Director of Development beginning in 2023.
jim mauro
Producer and co-owner of Viridian Coast Studios and has most recently produced the award-winning web series “Rat Czar”. He has working in Post Production for 12 years and has worked on numerous tv shows and movies including “Have I Got News For You”, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”, “Emily in Paris”, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman”, “Sarah Silverman: PostMortem”, and “Tires”.
Betsy Laikin
New York-based producer of narrative and documentary films and series. She produced Nira Burstein’s documentary Charm Circle, which won the Audience Award at Sheffield DocFest in 2021 and was released on the Criterion Channel, and was a consulting producer for Samantha and the Amazing Acro Cats, which premiered at Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Her work has been supported by the Manhattan Cultural Fund, The Gotham (Independent Film Project), Jewish Story Partners, Women In Film, PBS, Claims Conference, and the Association of Independents in Radio. Betsy previously worked as a film programmer for Women’s Voices Now.
james adomian
American stand-up comedian, actor, and impressionist. He is best known for his work on Comedy Bang! Bang!, Chapo Trap House, Last Comic Standing, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson where he impersonated President George W. Bush until 2009, and for portraying Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Trump vs. Bernie tour. He voiced Talking Ben in the Talking Tom and Friends animated series, and additional voices in the Nickelodeon animated series Pig Goat Banana Cricket.