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.
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.
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.
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.
ERIC SMITH PRODUCER
Eric Smith is a four-time Sports Emmy Award-winning producer. He has produced ESPN documentaries for the Peabody 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.
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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.
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OUR PRODUCTION CREW
WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL TO THIS AMAZING CREW FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND BELIEF IN THIS PROJECT.
STEVE NAGLE
Summer Jam Historian
JASON MANGINI
Location Audio | Firefighter
SEAN SLAUGHTER
Location Audio | Rock star
DANNY CAMARA
DP | Camera - Australia
HOWARD MARKS
Marketing Guru
RANDALL HOUSER
Photographer | WGSJ Historian
ADAM SWANSON
Location Audio ] Artist
JUSTIN BROWN
Camera Operator - Australia
MARK DEVIN
Gaffer | Camera | Musician
MIKE RYAN
Location & Post Prod. Audio
JASON RODRIGUES
Gaffer | Grip | Electric
DANIEL MICHAUD
Gaffer - Australia