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Monster of The Salt
Three Bald Guys & A Dude With A Beard On Bikes
Kevin Ward
Began his career in entertainment at an early age as a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has appeared on camera both as a stunt player and actor in dozens of feature films, TV shows, and commercials. Kevin later honed his skills behind the camera as a director of photography in such action packed TV series as “Hardcastle & McCormick”, “Hunter”, “Nightrider” and “BJ & the Bear”. Today, Kevin has worked as a Director of Photography on over 700 commercials to date, dozens of viral projects, along with 2 full-length feature films, 8 shorts, and an award winning documentary “The Perfect Moment”. In 2003 Kevin served as Director of Photography on “Dust to Glory”, an award winning feature film with wide theatrical release.Kevin is an adventurer and professional racer on both two wheels and four. He is an expert technical rock and ice climber who pioneered a technical climbing route up the North face of Mt. Owens (Sierra Nevada mountain range in California). He also built and operated a High Speed Chase Car (based on a 911 Turbo Porsche chassis) used for filming the high speed chase scene in the movie “Against All Odds”.Kevin began auto racing on ovals (paved and dirt) and racing motorcycles in desert events in Southern California. He also competed at the national level in the Sports Car Club of America. He holds the “Paved 2 lane highway speed record” near Monterrey Mexico. (28 kilometer closed course- 192mph top speed /168mph average for section). He garnered first overall in the “La Carrera Panamericana” seven day 2000 mile event from the Guatemalan border to the U.S. border. He is a SCORE class 30 Pro Points Champion (1st place finishes in the San Felipe 250, Henderson 250, and the Baja 1000).
Eric Lange
Eric Lange is an 18-year, Emmy award-winning film & television veteran. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago film school, Eric went on to serve in the United States Marine Corps before starting his career in media as a commercial editor and producer. He launched his own company in Chicago, The Working Class, which produced spec-spots for major advertising agencies as well as Colorado outdoors segments for The Weather Channel. His life long passion for the outdoors and extreme sports followed him to Los Angeles, where he found work as an extreme environment cinematographer and editor for Original Productions. His credits there include “The Deadliest Catch” (for which he won a 2008 Emmy for best cinematography), “Axmen,” and “A Thousand Ways To Die” to name a few. He has been interviewed by “Nightline”, and featured in magazine articles such as “Outside”, regarding his profession as an extreme Cinematographer. Most recently, Eric has served as a network executive for National Geographic Channel where he executive produced several high profile television series.Eric currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Lisa and his 3 children.
Mark Gardiner
Gave up a career as an ad agency creative director to live out his childhood dream of racing in the Isle of Man TT -- the world's most dangerous motorcycle race. His TT experience formed the basis of a featurelength documentary film, One Man's Island and a memoir that has become a cult classic in the motorcycle genre: Riding Man. He's written two other books, Classic Motorcycles and (with Laurel Allen) BMW Racing Motorcycles: The Mastery of Speed, as well as hundreds of feature stories that have appeared in motorcycle magazines all over the world. He writes a monthly column for the UK magazine Classic Bike and his blog, Backmarker is published by Motorcycle-USA.com - the world's largest motorcycle web site.
Tom Guttry
Tom’s 20+ year career as a media and marketing executive spans multiple disciplines. In addition to helming his own production and development company Airspeed Productions Inc., he has served as Vice President/Executive In Charge of Production and Development for Toy Box Entertainment a leading Hollywood marketing agency and commercial production company. Prior to launching Airspeed and serving at Toy Box, he spent 11 years in the unique capacity of head of business affairs and production for the vaunted non-fiction television production company Popular Arts Entertainment. Additionally, Tom has line produced series for History Channel, National Geographic Channel, and Discovery Communications.
At Toy Box oversaw a wide variety of special shoots for studio clientele at 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, and Disney amongst others. He has produced audio visual marketing content ranging from commercials, celebrity PSA's, audience reaction shoots, and corporate marketing reels, and webisodes for several iconic entertainment properties including “Alvin & The Chipmunks”, “Julie & Julia”, “Smurfs”, and “American Idol”. During his tenure at Popular Arts, Tom was involved in the development and production of such successful television programs as Going Wild with Jeff Corwin (The Disney Channel), The Jeff Corwin Experience (Animal Planet Network), Dr. Katz Professional Therapist (Comedy Central), Notorious Animal Legends (Animal Planet), Famous (A&E Biographies), Mondo Magic (A&E Television Networks), Jackie Collins Hollywood (CBS), Mysteries of The Millennium (CBS), Starz Movie News (Starz Movie Channel), Dave Barlia: Master of Gravity (NBC), Decorating Derby (HGTV), Life In The Fastlane (Fine Living Channel), FX Dailies (FX Channel), Motorcycle Freedom (Mag Rack VOD), as well as numerous television pilots and forms of interstitial programming.
Tom received his degree in Public Relations & Communications from San Jose State University and spent his early career in various marketing capacities in the financial, non-profit charity, and publishing sectors. Tom is a life long motor sports enthusiast who was raised at West Coast circle tracks and in off-road desert racing events .