Lisa Quijano Wolfinger has written, produced, directed and supervised the edit on a variety of films and television programs. She is best known for her dynamic reenactments and recently completed a gritty docu-drama for National Geographic Channel called, "Dirty Bomb Attack" about a hypothetical terrorist attack on a US city. Other recent productions include: Underwater Universe for History, Walk on By, a short narrative film and 2 episodes of the reality series, Tougher in Alaska, all for History. Pocahontas Revealed aired May 2007 on PBS and a 3-hour marquis special for History, "Desperate Crossing, The Untold Story of the Mayflower" premiered at the Boston Film Festival and aired nationally Thanksgiving 2006. The Pilgrim special was not only critically acclaimed and nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys, it brought in a 2.9 rating, making it the most watched show on History in 2006. Other notable work includes Fire on the Mountain (nominated for a 2004 News and Documentary Emmy and awarded the CINE Masters Series); the 90-minute Salem Witch Trials docu-drama, titled "Witch Hunt," (nominated for a 2005 News and Documentary Emmy) and the critically acclaimed mini-series, "Conquest of America" (nominated for a 2005 Primetime Emmy and winner of a Gold medal at the New York Festival.) As co-owner of Lone Wolf Documentary Group, Lisa is involved in the management of the company, program development and overall supervision of all current projects. Outside of Lone Wolf, Lisa has collaborated with Optomen Productions USA on God V Satan and Brook Lapping Productions on the 10 part docu-drama series "Forged in Fire" for Discovery. Lisa is currently working with writing partner, Steve Reich on an independent feature and when she isn't busy making films, she is juggling a husband, four strapping boys ages 13 to 19, a dog and an ancient cat. She stays fit and sane by dancing a lot. She recently co-founded a dance company with partner Susan Thompson-Brown called "Indiedanceworks" and performs a mix of modern, lyrical jazz and jazz regularly in and around Portland.
Kirk Wolfinger has worked in the film industry for 28 years during which time he has produced and directed numerous critically acclaimed, award winning, documentary programs presented nationally and internationally on major networks and the leading cable outlets.
Most recent work includes Specials in 2009 for NOVA, Killer Sub in Pearl Harbor History Channel, Underwater Universe and National Geographic Channel, Living on the Moon. He recently completed of a personal documentary, The Rivals, which won the' Best Feature Documentary' Los Angels Reel Festival and will be aired on Smithsonian Channel in 2010. Past successes include Executive Producing and Directing 35, 1X60 episodes of The History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives and several Episodes of History's Tougher In Alaska a two-hour special for THC, Titanic's Achilles Heel, a sequel to the history-changing 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 Pocahontas Revealed, 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.
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 regional Emmy, for Coma: The Journey Back received a George F. Peabody Award, an American Film Festival Blue Ribbon and the Independent Documentary Association Award.
Lone Wolf was founded in 1997 by Kirk and Lisa Wolfinger. Over the past 14 years they have assembled a 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.
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 has been writer, director and producer on numerous documentary and fiction films airing on PBS, History, TLC, fX, National Geographic Channel, Discovery, Discovery Times, TLC, HBO, and Cinemax as well as in theaters and festivals.
In 2009 Collins was Supervising Producer on "Living on the Moon" and "Dirty Bomb Attack" for National Geographic; and "Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor" for NOVA. He was Executive Producer on "Angels vs. Demons: Fact or Fiction" for Discovery and Senior Producer on "Underwater Universe" for History.
Rocky Collins was a producer of "How to Draw a Bunny," which won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2001. His fictional feature film debut as writer/director/co-producer was the award-winning "Pants on Fire," which was distributed theatrically domestically and internationally. He wrote, produced and directed five episodes of the PBS flagship history series, The American Experience.
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").
He has contributed to five Peabody-Award-winning series and been nominated for WGA awards three times. He has been nominated for a Cable Ace Award and for 5 National Emmys. He won one News Emmy for NOVA's Bioterror, a 90-minute PBS film made with Kirk Wolfinger in 2001.
Jed Rauscher gave up an early career as a printmaker and contemporary art salesman in Seattle to pursue the world of factual entertainment. He began living the Way Life Should Be in 2002, joining Lone Wolf Documentary Group within a week of setting foot in Maine. Since then, he's been lucky enough to run audio, online edit, act, direct, create motion graphics, supervise, edit, produce, write, wear tights (don't ask) and get sea sick on more than a few shoots. His editing highlights include Dirty Bomb, Pocahontas Revealed and Nova scienceNow! for WGBH/NOVA, Conquest of America, Titanic's Final Moments, Desperate Crossing, and Underwater Universe for The History Channel, as well as Dirty Bomb Attack for National Geographic Channel. In addition to several co-producing credits, he's produced Pineland for the Libra Foundation in addition to 21st Century Submarine for National Geographic. Jed also edited or acted as supervising editor for nine episodes over five seasons of the popular series Deep Sea Detectives for The History Channel. He's been a part of countless national award winning projects over the years.
Jed lives in South Portland with his wife Susan, daughters Anna and Maci, and aptly named pooch Moxie.
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 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.
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.
Anelisa comes to Lone Wolf with over eight years of production experience, beginning in the Federated States of Micronesia as the in-house filmmaker for Micronesian Seminar (MicSem), a local non-profit. At MicSem she produced over fifteen educational films that were broadcast throughout the Central and South Pacific. Upon returning to the States, Anelisa has divided her time between freelancing, teaching filmmaking, and producing her own independent films. Most recently she completed her first independent fictional film, St. Milly. St. Milly has screened at festivals across the country.
Jared joined the Lone Wolf team in 2008, after graduating with honors from the University of Southern Maine's Media Production and Design program. While serving as Assistant Editor, de facto graphic designer and de facto IT support staff, over the past year he has produced motion graphics and animation for Discovery Channel, History, National Geographic and NOVA. Jared is a passionate mograph and title designer, certified by Adobe as an After Effects Expert in the summer of 2009. He is an avid writer and devoted lover of film, micro-brewed beers and Italian cuisine.
Jared currently resides in picturesque Portland, Maine, with his three houseplants and a rotating menagerie of migratory birds.
Ryan joined Lone Wolf in 2004 to cut several episdoes Deep Sea Detectives for The History Channel. Since then his reel has grown to include work for American Public Television, the National Science Foundation, and national PBS among others, including NOVA: Sputnik Declassified, which received a CINE Golden Eagle. Most recently he completed "Walk On By," an award-winning short narrative film by Lisa Wolfinger, which is currently screening at festivals.
When he's not cutting for Lone Wolf, Ryan puts his "new media" background to use as a media designer and illustrator. He lives in Portland with his fiancée Amanda.
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 current Business Manager. In early 2005, Chris assumed the position of Business Manager and has proved his versatility in all facets of managing a small business from operational to legal, to financial.
In 2009, after holding the Business Manager position for four years, the responsibility for overseeing all on-going programs was added to Bailey's duties, and with it came the title of Managing Director.
Bailey recently added the Golden Retriever, Hero, to his life in an effort to make his house more of a home. With the new bundle of fluff also came stains, bugs and a seemingly endless supply of dog hair. Bailey is currently looking for a house.
Daniel joined Lone Wolf Documentary Group in 2006 after graduating from the University of Southern Maine where he studied Video Production and Design as well as Media Writing. Daniel has numerous Production Assistant credits with Lone Wolf and has recently served as Associate Producer of the NOVA ScienceNOW segment, "Finch Brains". Production of "The Rivals" has given Daniel the opportunity to exercise his skills in all phases of production and post production where he has earned such credits as, Producer, Sound Recordist, Assistant Editor and Additional Directing. In addition to his work with Lone Wolf Documentary Group, Daniel is producing his passion project "Hardwater: A Maine Ice Fishing Odyssey".
Nicholas Pallas recently relocated to the East Coast from North Hollywood California to take on the Post-Production Supervisor position for Lone Wolf. Nicholas has over 13 years experience in the Post-Production industry, the last 3 of which focusing on reality TV. In preparation for a great year and new surroundings his goals are to streamline Lone Wolf's post processes as well as assist in staying ahead of the ever changing HD and 3D technical desires of our clients.
When he's not at the office working, Nicholas puts his ideas to the test while trying to come up with new ideas and concepts for shows. In addition Nicholas enjoys boxing, feature films, art/music festivals, and spending time with close friends and family.
Nicholas currently resides on Munjoy Hill in Portland Maine, and is enjoying the single life and all of Portland's beautiful attractions.
Heeth is in his seventh year of affiliation with Lone Wolf, arriving from a varied background including stints as a scuba divemaster and fire-boat pilot. A graduate of College of the Atlantic's teacher education program, Heeth seeks projects that inform as well as entertain. He lives in Portland and laments the fact that his lobster boat hasn't seen the water in 3 years.
Britt joined the Lone Wolf team in the winter of 2007 bringing a combined love of numbers and filmmaking. Back in 2003, with a degree in accounting and many years of bookkeeping under her belt, Britt threw caution to the wind and moved out to LA (from her then home in Colorado), to make movies. After 2 years she knew she loved the business, but not in LA. She moved back East to her roots and settled once again into bookkeeping. You can only imagine her surprise and excitement at discovering was a production company in little ol' South Portland, Maine! When looking for work, she stumbled across Lone Wolf's ad for a bookkeeper, and the rest is history.
Recently returned to Portland from Philadelphia, Adam Costa has worked in the production industry since 2002. A Penn State alum, Adam is an experienced field producer who has also turned roles as a writer, editor, and production manager. Adam is also an accomplished still photographer who has been putting those talents to work as a camera operator. Currently, Adam is working as the associate producer/production manager on National Geographic's Naked Science episode, 21st Century Submarine, as well as producing a motor racing documentary for his own production company, No Scurvy Productions. Previously, he has worked on shows for Discovery Channel, Nova, HGTV, DIY Network, and The History Channel.
Adam lives in Portland's East End with his fiance, Tracy, their pet sheep, Chowder, and all manner of kindly named inanimate objects.