Ramin Fathie has been a professional filmmaker for 15 years. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley, he received a four year Jacob Javits Fellowship for study at the UCLA Film School, where he pursued an M.F.A. His student film, "Still Point", was nominated for a regional Student Academy Award and was selected for screening at Cinefest Experimental/Madrid. He was also a recipient of the Tri Mark Pictures Fellowship and the Hollywood Foreign Press Scholarship.
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. (www.vhf.org)
In 1999, Fathie created Viceroy Films, a Manhattan based film and video production company providing a full array of video and post production services. Viceroy Films was chosen as the East Coast production company responsible for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences continuing Archive of American Television Project (www.atas.org) To date, over 500 extensive historical interviews have been conducted, including: Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Mary Tyler Moore, Sidney Lumet, Don Hewitt, Ted Turner, David Brinkley and Dan Rather. Viceroy Films has also worked in close collaboration with the Discovery series Café Digital, overseeing field production and producing several episodes. Other Viceroy clients include CBS, A&E Biography, WNET, CBC, MTV, USA Films, VH1, HGTV and the History Channel.
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.
