The collective personalities of Working Pictures and Grenade Editorial take original programming, commercials, television promos, films, interstitials and music videos from the inception of idea to award winning projects. With offices in New York and Halifax, we are a full service shop offering production and post-production, animation and graphics in all formats of film and video from web to HD. Let us partner our creativity with yours to move your idea from imagination to moving image.


"Heroes" photo collage

Dean Chamberlain
Director


www.deanchamberlain.com

Dean Chamberlain has been an exhibiting artist since 1982. His gallery shows have included Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Southeast Museum of Photography, Tweed Museum of the University of Minnesota, Musee Carnavalet in Paris, Hanshin Gallery in Osaka, and Ethnographic Museum in Budapest. He has been an artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College, and a guest lecturer at Art Institute of Chicago, School of Visual Arts in New York, University of California Los Angeles, Art Center of Pasadena, Southeast Museum of Photography, and University of Minnesota's Tweed Museum. Portfolios of his work have been published in several fine art publications.

Chamberlain developed his light painting technique, which involves working with his camera and subject in complete darkness, in 1977 while a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has used it exclusively in his work since that time, exploring a wide range of ever-expanding motifs which include portraits, forests, figures, flowers, and architecture. These images are created entirely in the camera, with no computer manipulation. Using extremely long exposures in sessions that often extend to four or five hours, he moves through the composition space illuminating each individual element, not so much photographing a moment but painting with light through time and space. To date, Chamberlain has created works of art with such collaborators as; Paul McCartney, Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente, Jeff Koons, Timothy Leary, Kenny Scharf, Alex Grey, David Bowie, and Duran Duran.

Chamberlain currently resides in Venice, California.

Lech Kowalski
Director


www.extinkt.com

British/Polish filmmaker Lech Kowalski has directed, produced, edited and written films since 1977. His impressive array of films and documentaries have garnered critical praise and awards such as the Special Jury Award for On Hitler's Highway at the 2002 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, and the Golden Gate Award for Rock Soup at the 1992 San Francisco International Film Festival.

Kowalski first feature-length film was Sex Stars, a documentary about NYC porn actors. In 1985, Kowalski made his most seminal film to date, Gringo, which premiered at Riker's Island penal colony and was also shown at the White House as an anti-drug message film. Kowalski's next film, Rock Soup, garnered Kowalski a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival. Kowalski's film Born To Lose: The Last Rock 'n' Roll Movie, which was about the proto-punk guitarist and junkie Johnny Thunders, was showed at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival, receiving the most lavish critical attention. Kowalski is presently at work at numerous film and Internet projects.

The films of Lech Kowalski are finally coming of age in a period where reality may indeed become more profitable than fiction.

Filmography

• 2007 | Winners and losers
  
• 2005 | East of Paradise - Awards from the 62nd Mostra in venice In the Horizons section of the official selection best feature Prize for best documentary from DOC|IT ex-aequo "East of Paradise" by Lech Kowalski (Orizzonti) and "La dignidad de los nadies" di Fernando E. Solanas (Orizzonti).
  
• 2005 | Diary of a married man
  
• 2004 | Charlie Chaplin in Kabul
  
• 2003 | Camera Gun
  
• 2003 | Hey Is Dee Dee Home
  
• 2002 | On Hitler's Highway - First Prize: Cinema New Vision 2003 Special Jury Award: IDFA 2002 Amsterdam
  
• 2001 | Born To Lose (The Last Rock n' Roll Movie)
  
• 2000 | The Boot Factory - Best Creative TV Documentary: SCAM (French Author Assoc.)
  
• 1997 | Punk, Rap, Grunge. A series of short for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - The Robert Johnson Story, Fan, Alan Freed
  
• 1997 | Under Underground
  
• 1991 | Chico and the People
  
• 1991 | Rock Soup - San Francisco Golden Gate Award , Special Mention: Sundance Film Festival
  
• 1985 | Gringo
  
• 1984 | Breakdance Test - First Prize : New York Short Film Festival
  
• 1981 | D.O.A - First Prize: Paris Music Film Festival
  
• 1979 | The Smugglers
  
• 1978 | Walter and Cutie
  
• 1977 | Sex Stars
  

Bobby Sheehan
Director / Cameraman


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Filmmaker and photographer Bobby Sheehan began his eclectic career in the mid seventies. While still in high school, he designed visual presentations for the New York fashion emporium, Parachute. While attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he opened his own production company where he directed and produced numerous commercials, all the while continuing his photographic career.

At 17, and at the height of the punk rock scene, the then blue-haired Sheehan photographed the musicians of the time; The Clash, The Ramones, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Blondie, Television, Ultravox, 999 in addition to many New York based bands for the Village Voice, Soho News, Cream, and Circus Magazine. He was contacted by Andy Warhol, a fan of Sheehan�s work for Parachute, to collaborate on an art film, a project that was cut short with Warhol�s untimely death. Sheeha's fashion photography appeared regularly in GQ and New York Magazine.

An acclaimed photographer, documentary and commercial filmmaker, Sheehan�s first foray into the feature world was the critically acclaimed "Seed" of which Variety raved: "This visually captivating spiritual movie journeys across America with innovative cinematic form. A highly imaginative, collage like, experimental epic that relentlessly strips away at the boundaries between features and documentaries."

Sheehan recently wrote, produced and directed his second feature, "My Name Is Nigel Cook," a hilarious satire of the film industry. In addition to "Cayman Went," Sheehan is in preproduction on "Standing 8" a multi-generational look at redemption, hope and forgiveness set in Brooklyn, New York.

Sheehan�s television credits include "The Talent Collector," which he wrote and produced for AMC and the reality series "Repo Men" starring, Vincent Pastore, for TLC and Discovery Networks.

Sheehan is currently working on three feature documentaries of note, a biography of legendary Broadway producer Hal Prince, a portrait of famed artist Jeff Koons and a chronicling of the building of the MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) for Target Chairman/CEO Bob Ulrich.

To date, Sheehan has directed over 600 commercials and has created a diverse portfolio of photographic images exhibited nationally in galleries such as: Bridgewater Lustburg in New York, Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles and the Vision Gallery in San Francisco.

Sheehan graduated from NYU's film division of the Tisch School of the Arts and is the founder of New York based Working Pictures Inc.

Sara Feldmann Sheehan
Executive Producer

Feldmann Sheehan has produced numerous television commercials and public service announcements, working in tandem with her husband Bobby Sheehan. She recently completed production on a short film made in conjunction with The Partnership for a Drug-Free America entitled "In Their Shoes." In addition, Feldmann Sheehan executive produced the critically acclaimed feature film, "Seed," distributed by IFC and assisted on the award winning short film, "Customs of the Country." She has executive produced numerous commercials, and television projects under the Working Pictures banner.

Feldmann Sheehan is also the executive producer for Grenade Editorial, a New York based creative editing company. She began her career in advertising, later moving to publishing where she was a contributing editor on numerous consumer and trade magazines. As a representative of these publications, Feldmann Sheehan appeared on "Good Morning America" the weekend edition of the "Today" show, and produced fashion segments for "Oprah" and other cable venues.

Feldmann Sheehan graduated from Wellesley and lives in New York with her husband and their three children. She is a goldsmith, whose pieces are sold in New York and Los Angeles and she was recently named President of the Board of Trustees of The Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck, NY.

Gil Wadsworth
Executive Producer

Gil Wadsworth was born in Baltimore Maryland. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Towson State University in 1978 before being accepted into Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Clown College in Venice Florida where he pursued his love of scaring children...er, clowning. Gil then subsequently spent several years with the circus learning how to produce and direct feature films and television. After the circus, Gil moved to Los Angeles and began working in the motion picture industry for such companies as, HBO, Showtime, Republic Pictures, and various and sundry independent film production companies.

In 1995, Gil Wadsworth created Sterling Pacific Films and Loch Lomond Entertainment, two independent film and television production and development companies based in Los Angeles California. The majority of their studio contracts were with Paramount Pictures, Viacom Television, Universal Pictures, and Twentieth Century Fox Television. He has to his credit, 43 feature films, 11 television series, 4 MOW's, assorted commercials, music videos, and extensive writing, producing, and directing credits.
Along with his film career, Gil also works as an illustrator and sculptor for several record labels and hard-core metal bands. His art has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, SWSW Art and Music Festival, The Glasgow Festival of the Arts, and various galleries and art shows around the world. Portfolios of his work have been published in several fine art publications.

Before joining Working Pictures, Gil produced the acclaimed comedy series, Howard Stern's SON OF THE BEACH staring Tim Stack for Fox Television and the FX Network, TEAM KNIGHT RIDER for Universal Television and UPN, THE APARTMENT COMPLEX for Showtime, and he wrote and directed THE GLASS JAR staring Tony award winner Anthony Crivello, C. Thomas Howell, and comedian/master voice manipulator, John Kassir.

Presently, Gil currently resides in both New York, and Southern California. Much of his mail is left un-opened, and his dog is consistently hungry.

Eric Robel
Robellion Effects at Grenade Editorial


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