Viceroy Films was founded in 1999 in New York by Ramin Fathie.  With the goal of providing clients a full array of dedicated and professional film, video and post production services, Viceroy was soon chosen as the East Coast production company responsible for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences continuing Archive of American Television Project.  To date, over 500 extensive historical interviews have been conducted, including television luminaries Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Mary Tyler Moore, Sidney Lumet, Don Hewitt, Ted Turner, David Brinkley and Dan Rather.  Viceroy Films concurrently worked in close collaboration with the Discovery series Café Digital, overseeing field production for the series that focused on current trends in science, technology and the (then) emerging internet.   In 2005, Viceroy Films provided production services for the History Channel’s “10 Days that Changed History”, under the direction of Academy Award winner James Moll and collaborated with Academy Award winner June Beallor on 4 documentary films for the DNC.   In 2006 The company co-produced Ted Cieselski’s “My Empire”, which was selected to screen at the Tribeca Film Festival and served as co-producer of “The Sky Below”, an multi-award winning documentary film helmed by Sarah Singh about the partition of India and Pakistan.   In 2007 Viceroy Films worked closely with The Onion on the first of several segments of the startup Onion News Network under the direction of Producers Scott Dikkers and Matt Morrison.

Ramin Fathie has been involved in the making of film, television and media since 1988 when he graduated with a B.A. in cultural Anthropology (Magna cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of California, Berkeley.  In his senior year, he was one of only 50 Jacob Javits Fellowship winners selected from a nationwide pool of applicants.  For his course of study, he chose the UCLA Film School, where he obtained a Masters of Fine Arts.  His short film, "Still Point", was nominated for a regional Student Academy Award and was selected by Cinefest Experimental/Madrid.  He was also a recipient of the Tri Mark Pictures Fellowship and the Hollywood Foreign Press Scholarship. While at UCLA, he interned as a researcher for Charlie Rose and WGBH Boston. In 1995 he relocated to New York for a position with Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.  For the next two years, he photographed over 500 interviews in the New York area.  During that time, he engaged in dozens of freelance assignments working for many independent filmmakers and shot several short segments for “Pseudo.com” founded by legendary internet pioneer Josh Harris.  He also acted/voiced several comic radio segments with Nancy Giles and Jay Thomas for ABC morning radio. He is past president of UC Berkeley’s International House and was recipient of the Hearst Foundation’s Senate Youth Program as well as the Shell Oil Century III Scholarship.  He speaks French, Spanish, and is conversant in Farsi and Swedish.

Marc Cantone has produced, directed, written, shot and edited numerous film, TV, web and corporate video projects.  His most recent project is Bowling Blind, a short documentary film about a team of visually impaired New York City bowlers.  The film was commissioned by AMF Bowling Centers and is set to premiere at film festivals this year. Recently Marc directed and produced the entire “reality” aspect of The Edge with Jake Sasseville, a late-night talk show syndicated nationally on cable and the Internet.  He also served as a producer/editor for the recent New Kids on the Block reunion media blitz, having produced and edited videos of the group for the web, promotional materials and VH1 “Behind the Music.”   Marc is also the director and producer of Clones, a documentary TV series about celebrity impersonators currently in development with Oscar-winning filmmaker James Moll and actor Donnie Wahlberg.  He also wrote and directed Cutout, a short film starring legendary singer Al Martino (The Godfather) and Robert Funaro (“The Sopranos”).  Cutout has appeared in numerous festivals including the Philadelphia Film Festival and the Palm Beach International Film Festival. As a writer, Marc has written for Bill Cosby’s animated Nickelodeon series, Fatherhood, created an independent animated pilot for legendary comedians Pat Cooper, Dom Irrera and Dennis Miller, and has completed a number of feature and short length screenplays, including a recently optioned golf comedy.   Marc has served as a producer on the Dr. Dog music video for the song “The Ark,” and a reality TV pilot based on the Kenny Ortega produced tour American Dance.  Marc also produces video projects for corporate clients including dELiA*s,Broadway.com, the United Way and others. Marc graduated from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a BFA in Writing for Film & Television.  He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.