OUR TEAM | Summer Jam Film

JORDAN BOGDONAVAGE DIRECTOR

Jordan Bogdonavage is a two time Emmy Award winner and Syracuse University graduate who has shepherded film and television productions in Los Angeles for the last 20 years. His most recent credits include LOLLA: THE STORY OF LOLLAPALOOZA, a 3-part docuseries on the origins of the Lollapalooza music festival. Jordan has produced a slate of film and documentary projects for A&E, Apple TV, HBO, Paramount+, and Netflix. In 2019, he produced the Emmy-winning Netflix documentary film THE LION’S SHARE, about the search for the original writer of the famed song, The Lion Sleeps Tonight. In 2022, he produced RIGHT TO OFFEND: THE BLACK COMEDY REVOLUTION, a mini-series featuring and Executive Produced by Kevin Hart, about the history of black comedians. Other recent credits include MAFIA SPIES, a 6-part docuseries centered on the CIA’s plot to use the Chicago Mob to assassinate Fidel Castro. In 2026, he produced BORN TO BOWL, a 5-part docuseries covering the world of professional bowlers, featuring and Executive Produced by Ben Stiller for A24 and HBO.

SHELLY FINKEL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

1973 SUMMER JAM AT WATKINS GLEN PROMOTER

Shelly Finkel is a long-time music and boxing promoter. He has done shows with The Doors, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Chambers Brothers. In 1973 he created, along with partner Jimmy Koplik, Summer Jam at Watkins Glen which drew a record 600,000 fans to see the performances of the Allman Brothers Band, The Band, and Grateful Dead in upstate New York. Finkel also managed acts such as Vanilla Fudge and Mountain before moving into boxing in the late 1970s. He's managed world champion fighters including Mike Tyson, Manny Pacquiao, and Evander Holyfield.

ERIC SMITH PRODUCER

Eric Smith is a four-time Sports Emmy Award-winning producer. He has produced ESPN documentaries for the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series SportsCentury, as well as live SportsCenter shows. His feature Escape from Kuwait was part of an Emmy-winning reel. Smith was a Senior Producer on ESPN Classic Road Shows, Ringside with Burt Sugar, Reel Classics' sports movie series hosted by Burt Reynolds, and ESPN Goal Line - the Red Zone of College Football. Eric currently has a radio show Derek & The Deep Tracks on WAPJ in Torrington, Connecticut, and books music shows and fundraisers with Rock Steady Events.

ART HORAN PRODUCER

Art Horan is a film producer with over twenty years of experience in independent films including Executive Producer of the two-time Academy award-winning film The Usual Suspects, Executive Consultant on the Sundance award-winning film The Ballad of Ramblin Jack, Executive Producer on the ESPN film Ring Girls (directed by academy nominated Amy Berg), producer of Hands of God (with Academy award-winning director and Executive Producer Alfonso Cuaron), and Producer of the acclaimed 2020 political documentary Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump. He most recently served as Producer of the baseball documentary War on the Diamond.

JIMMY KOPLIK EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

1973 SUMMER JAM AT WATKINS GLEN PROMOTER

Jim Koplik has been promoting concerts since 1968. During that time he's promoted over 15,000 shows including Sir Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Sir Elton John, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, The Police, Billy Joel, Madonna, Bon Jovi, and almost every other band that has ever hit a concert stage. He also promoted and produced Summer Jam at Watkins Glen which was the largest festival ever held in the US - drawing 600,000 people. It featured The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Band. Koplik is also a voter in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

BRUCE TAYLOR DP | PRODUCER

Bruce Taylor is an Emmy Award-winning DP who has contributed in large part to countless Emmy Award-winning programs. His work on HBO's Real Sports, ESPN's This is SportsCenter, Fifty Greatest Athletes, SportsCentury, and Outside the Lines are among them. Taylor also received a Cable Ace Award as the DP on the documentary, Ali, Still the Greatest. His work has also garnered acclaim at the NY Film Festival as well as the Telly and Peabody Awards. He recently collaborated with The Walt Disney Company working with some of their most legendary stars including James Earl Jones, Angela Bassett, Julie Andrews, and Pat Carroll in celebration of Disney World's 50th Anniversary.

TOM SCHILLER ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Tom Schiller is a producer and creative director with eighteen years of experience in the television and film industry. He has worked for the National Hockey League for eight years and has been with World Wrestling Entertainment for the past nine years. He has written and directed shoots with the rapper Quavo from the hip-hop group Migos, country music star HARDY, and global superstar rapper/singer Bad Bunny amongst others. Schiller has also served as a producer on the documentaries The Great Chicken Wing Hunt and Segura Gunung: Between The Mountain And The Sea.