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Lisa Quijano Wolfinger - Producer/Director/Writer

Lisa Quijano Wolfinger has produced, directed and written or co- written such specials as Fire on the Mountain, winner of the prestigious Cine Gold Masters Series Award as well as Witch Hunt (Emmy nomination), Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower (2 Primetime Emmy nominations) and the mini-series Conquest of America (Emmy nomination and NY Festival Gold Medal) all for the History Channel. She also produced and co-wrote the National Geographic Special, Mayday, Lost at Sea, as well as two award winning specials for PBS's NOVA science series. She is noted for her cinematic historical dramatizations and directed the reenactments for the recently aired NOVA special Pocahontas Revealed. She is also involved in the daily management of the company and is the Executive Producer for the series pilot, No Jail Can Hold Me.

Lisa has developed a variety of television and feature projects for Lone Wolf and Screaming Mama Productions. When she isn't busy at work, she is juggling a husband, four strapping boys aged 10 to 16, a dog, and an aging cat. She stays sane and fit by dancing, a lot.


Kirk Wolfinger - Producer/Director

Kirk Wolfinger has worked in the film industry for 25 years during which time he has produced and directed numerous critically acclaimed documentary programs presented nationally and internationally on major networks.

Most recent work includes Executive Producing and Directing 35, 60 minute episodes of The History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives and a two hour special for THC, Titanic's Achilles Heel, a sequel to the history making documentary Titanic's Final Moment's: Missing Pieces. Other recent broadcast credits include a two hour History Channel special based on Gene Krantz' book Failure Is Not An Option, and a sequel to that production titled Beyond the Moon. Other Lone Wolf productions led by Wolfinger include the NOVA programs To The Moon and Hitler's Lost Sub, the latter of which became the inspiration for the bestseller Shadow Divers. Also of note were the productions Ravens: Covert War In Laos for Discovery Times, and Mayday: Lost At Sea and Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack for National Geographic Specials.

In 2002 Wolfinger and Rocky Collins won a National Emmy for their NOVA/New York Times production of Bioterror. The pair were nominated the next year for their NOVA, Dirty Bomb.

While working with Varied Directions International, Kirk served as Series Producer and Director for Turner's highly acclaimed original series, Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon. In addition he also produced Portrait of Castro's Cuba for TBS, and two episodes of the PBS series Making Sense of the Sixties. Some of Kirk's later work at Varied Directions included Submarine!, Daredevils of the Sky, Titanic's Lost Sister, Battle Alert In The Gulf, The Beast of Loch Ness and Lincoln's Secret Weapon, all created for WGBH's series, NOVA.

In addition to the Emmy won for Bioterror, Wolfinger has won a second Emmy, received a George F. Peabody Award, an American Film Festival Blue Ribbon and the Independent Documentary Association Award.

Lone Wolf Documentary Group was founded in 1997 by Kirk and Lisa Wolfinger. Over the past ten years they have assembled a terrific team of talented professionals who have a passion for filmmaking and a desire to live and work in a place that sustains that desire. No film Kirk has made gives him as much satisfaction as the Company he and Lisa helped to create.


Rush DeNooyer - Producer/Writer

An accomplished filmmaker who has written and produced several award winning films for Lone Wolf Documentary Group, most notably, a NOVA special Hitler's Lost Sub, the genesis for the New York Times bestseller Shadow Divers. Recently he did back to back specials for The History Channel based on Gene Krantz's bestseller " Failure Is Not An Option." Rush recently completed the sequel to the historic History Channel special Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces titled Titanic's Achilles Heel. Rush began his film career auspiciously as the chief writer for the Turner Broadcasting documentary hit Moon Shot which garnered two prime-time Emmy nominations and a George F. Peabody Award.


Rocky Collins - VP Development

Rocky Collins has been writer, producer and director of numerous documentary and fiction films airing on PBS, The History Channel, Discovery/Times, The Learning Channel, fX, as well as in theaters and festivals.

Most recently, Collins is in the early stages of post-production for the History Channel pilot No Jail Can Hold Me, a program that examines the history of great escapes and robberies and then recreates exactly how they were pulled off. Recently completed projects include collaborations with Lisa Wolfinger on the three-hour special Desperate Crossing, the four-part Conquest of America series, and the 90 minute Witch Hunt (all for The History Channel). Collins was nominated for a national Emmy in 2003 for NOVA's Dirty Bomb and won a national Emmy in 2002 for NOVA's Bioterror (both PBS films made with Kirk Wolfinger). Collins has been nominated three times for Writers Guild Awards and has contributed to four Peabody and Emmy Award winning series.

Rocky Collins was a producer of How to Draw a Bunny, which won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2003. He wrote, produced and directed five episodes of the PBS flagship history series, The American Experience. His fictional feature film debut as writer/director/co-producer was the award-winning Pants on Fire, which was distributed theatrically domestically and internationally.

For seven years he was president of Elevator Pictures, Inc., a New York City production company that produced numerous documentaries, commercials, and industrials, as well as six fiction and non-fiction theatrical features by (among others) Bennett Miller ("Capote") and Richard Shepard ("The Matador").

Collins currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.

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Jed Rauscher - Producer/Editor

Jed Rauscher is an editor and producer who returned to Maine after several years in Seattle pursuing his interest in contemporary art, and working on various corporate video projects and shorts. Since joining Lone Wolf Documentary Group in 2002, he has brought his talents to numerous clients, such as the PBS science series NOVA, WGBH children's series ZOOM, and The History Channel on productions including Conquest of America: The Northeast, Titanic's Final Moments, Desperate Crossing and Pocahontas Revealed. He also produced, co-wrote and edited Pineland for The Libra Foundation. In addition to editing several episodes over the course of five seasons of Deep Sea Detectives for The History Channel, Jed acted as supervising editor for the series and co-produced two episodes.

Jed currently lives in South Portland with his wife Susan, their daughter Anna and the aptly named dog Moxie.


Emily Bernhard - Producer/Writer

Emily Bernhard has served as one of the lead producers for The History Channel series Deep Sea Detectives. As producer and writer, she has traveled to Scotland, Egypt and numerous domestic locations to work on various episodes over the last two years. Prior to joining Lone Wolf, Emily wrote, produced and directed for Public Television where her work garnered a CINE award, a regional Emmy, and a NETA award. Projects included documentaries on early European settlements, the French and Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and on Aquaculture which received the SEJ Award for Reporting on the Environment in the Outstanding Television Reporting category. She has worked on PSA's, segments for news magazines, industrials and both short and long form documentaries.

Emily lives in Portland with her son and a nice pooch called Shelby.


Jonathan Wickham - Producer/Writer

Jonathan Wickham is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Malawi, Africa, educated in the UK, Wickham began working in television at Turner Broadcasting. Through his production company ZoëTV, he has created critically acclaimed programs on a variety of subjects for both PBS and The History Channel. He also regularly produces programming for prominent Atlanta-based groups like CDC and the High Museum of Art. Wickham has produced episodes for NOVA, PBS's science series which included Lincoln's Secret Weapon on the wreck of the Civil War Ironclad, USS Monitor and The Mummy Who Would Be King, the story of an Egyptian mummy found in an obscure museum in Niagara Falls, Canada, which scientists and Egyptologists now believe is the long-lost mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh, Ramesses I. In addition he also produced four episodes of the History Channel's underwater adventure series, Deep Sea Detectives : Mystery Sinking in Bermuda, D-Day Destroyer, Atlantis in the Pacific and Mystery of the Channel Collision. Also of note are several episodes of Great Museums, an ongoing series for PBS that tells the stories and examines the collections of American museums great and small, from the New York Met to the California Surf Museum.

Renzo Piano: Designing a Village for the Arts, co-produced by ZoëTV and Red Sky Productions, tells the story of how renowned Italian architect, Renzo Piano, combines traditional European urban design features and hi-tech innovations to createe a new central piazza and galleries lit by natural light for Atlanta's High Museum of Art.


Terri Randall - Producer/Director

Terri Randall recently completed production on Alive From POP!Tech for PBS and Lone Wolf Documentary Group. Terri has been producing and directing for more than fifteen years. She has received numerous awards for her work including an Academy Award nomination for her personal film Daughter of the Bride for HBO and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children's Programming for What Kids Want to Know About Sex and Growing Up for The Sesame Workshop and PBS. She started Randall Productions in 1999.


Jonathan Robinson - Producer/Writer/Editor

Jonathan Robinson recently completed producing, writing and editing Deep Sea Detectives: Captain's Last Stand for Lone Wolf. Extensive overseas production was a complicating factor in shooting this story of the 1951 sinking of a cargo ship. Jonathan also produced, edited and wrote Deep Sea Detectives: Winter of Disaster, which chronicled losses in the New Jersey commercial clam fishing fleet in 1999. Jonathan's production, writing, and editing skills were tested as he wove the stories of 3 sinkings, incidents that were still painfully fresh in the hearts of survivors and victims' families alike.

With his own production company, When In Doubt Productions, Jonathan most recently produced and directed Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life & Work of Pri Thomas, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was nominated for the International Documentary Association's Distinguished Documentary Feature Award and was broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens in Spring 2004.

Robinson has been the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship and his work has been supported by the National Endowment of the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Independent Television Service and the American Film Institute, among others. Jonathan's first film, the experimental documentary sight unseen, a travelog, was featured in Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.


Evan Kovacs - Producer

Evan started working with Lone Wolf in 2003 for The History Channel's underwater adventure series, Deep Sea Detectives. He worked on over 30 episodes, starting as underwater gaffer and assistant cameraman and is now underwater cameraman for the series. He has worked as assistant cameraman on The History Channel's Conquest of America mini-series, Desperate Crossing and shot second camera on Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces. Currently, Evan is co-producing and shooting for Dive Portal, a new DVD magazine for SCUBA divers.

Prior to working with Lone Wolf and his introduction to the world of television production, Kovacs worked for nearly 10 years in the New York City theatre and events field as a lighting designer, production manager and sometimes actor. The clients included Jazz at Lincoln Center, American Songbook Series, Orchestra of St. Luke's and numerous others. Evan is also a highly accomplished technical SCUBA diver which is what got him his job with Lone Wolf in the first place.


Ryan Shepheard - Editor

Ryan Shepheard joined Lone Wolf in 2004 to cut his first nationally televised documentary, Deep Sea Detectives: Tugboat Down! for The History Channel. Since then he's gone on to edit four more episodes of the series: Great Monster Mystery, Damn the Torpedos!, and most recently, Blackbeard's Mystery Ship and Pharaoh's Lost Treasure. During that same time he co-founded Firefly, LLC., a multimedia design group based in Damariscotta, Maine, where he helps develop industrial, commercial, and interactive video projects.

Prior to working with Lone Wolf, Ryan studied New Media at the University of Maine.


Corey Norman - Post Production Manager/Associate Producer

When it comes to being versatile, Corey Norman is your man. From associate producing several episodes of The History Channel series Deep Sea Detectives to assistant editing the Emmy award winning NOVA special Bioterror, Corey has stepped up to whatever the situation has called for. Aside from film, Corey has a strong passion for music, playing bass in an indie label metal band called UnScarred.


Joe Brunette - Cameraman/Associate Producer

Since joining Lone Wolf in 2003, Joe has shot principal photography for NOVA episodes: Pocahontas Revealed and The Return to Hitler’s Lost Sub. He has also shot for specials for The History Channel that include, Conquest of America, Desperate Crossing, Titanic’s Final Moments, Journey to the Center of the World and Titanic's Achilles Heel . Joe also shoots for the series Deep Sea Detectives, in addition to which he has associate produced three episodes.

Prior to filmmaking with Lone Wolf, Joe spent two years teaching in Japan and traveled throughout remote areas of China, Tibet, Nepal, and India. There, he created an extensive body of work that captures the relationships between different cultures and the land that defines them. After returning to the States, he spent several months at the Maine Film and Video Workshops applying his photography skills to the art of cinematography. In 2005, Joe collaborated with VIA Documentaries shooting shorts designed to help American medical professionals better understand how recently emigrated patients seek and receive medical assistance in the United States.


Heeth Grantham - Producer/Researcher

Now ending his third year with Lone Wolf, Heeth has worked primarily on the production and development of The History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives. Notably, he co-wrote and co-produced Disaster of Napoleon's Fleet. He is currently associate producing film projects for The History Channel and for NOVA.

Heeth's path to Lone Wolf includes stints as a light-commercial diver and fireboat master. His decade-long interest in underwater videography led to work for Boston's Fox 25 and his first film credit on the award winning documentary Realm of the Lobster. Future plans include trimix and rebreather certificaton, as well as transforming his 60 year-old lobster boat into a (reliable?) dive platform.


Chris Bailey - Operations Manager

Bailey, an honors graduate from Mary Washington College with degrees in Business Administration and Economics, joined Lone Wolf in 2004 entering on the total immersion plan: Working on location as a production assistant, logging tapes in the edit room, even running to the office supply store.

It was a year learning the business of the film business and assisting the Operations Manager. In early 2005 Chris assumed the position of Operations Manager and has proved his versatility in all facets of production logistics and strategic business planning.


Melanie Cunningham - Archivist

Archivist new to the Wolf Pack, Melanie Cunningham joined Lone Wolf in 2005 after graduating with a bachelors degree in Film. Melanie started her documentary film career as a post production intern for Emmy award winning filmmaker Ken Burns, working on the films Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. She has also been a production assistant on such TV shows as America's Next Top Model and The Apprentice. Currently Melanie is working as an archivist on several programs for The History Channel and NOVA.