Chimene Davis – Producer

Chimene graduated with a BFA degree in Communication Arts in 1985 from New York Institute of Technology in Westbury, NY. As a veteran of the entertainment industry for 16 years, Chimene has produced: programming, music videos and national advertising campaigns, which include radio, print and television commercials for fortune 500 hundred companies. After years of producing commercials for Young & Rubicam, a major client at New York’s Tulchin Studio (Now Metro Studios), the advertising agency offered her the opportunity to lead both the creative and accountant management team on national fortune 500 company accounts such as Colgate-Palmolive, American Home Foods, Jell-O, Eastman Kodak, Lever Brother, Whitehall and Estee Lauder. Chimene is a New York Institute of Technology Alumni media business mentor for the last 10 years.

The long-standing relationships with Corporate Advertising community lead Ms. Davis to play a lead management role in the in-house commercial division at NBA Entertainment. Her responsibility at NBA Entertainment’s includes acting as head producer for both the creative division and client account management teams, overseeing the location shoots and managing production budgets for NBA in-house corporate advertisers such as: Nike, Logo Athletics, and Champion Sports Apparel to name a few. Ms. Davis leveraged her high level access to fortune 500 corporate advertisers with her extensive relationships as a team leader to produce a trend setting live performance music video program called Video Zone which was based in New York City. This one hour weekly television program targeted the lucrative urban youth market. Ms. Davis secured the national distribution of the program on NBC and negotiated the program’s Multi-Million dollar sponsorship deal with Heineken USA. She is sole owner of Suburban Entertainment (www.suburbanentertainment.com) and currently in development on a television pilot Shades of Night and a documentary Black Models.

Bonnie Rutherford – Producer
Bonnie has a powerful vision and extensive experience in business world, and a fast growing experience in the entertainment industry. She is the President and the sole owner of Earth Lion Productions (www.earthlion.com). Ms. Rutherford moved to the Los Angeles area from Northern Virginia in March 2001 to pursue her passion for movies as a producer/screenwriter. Since then, she has worked at major film studios: 20th Century Fox, Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, MGM, Lions Gate, and several studio-based production companies. In the past 14 years, she has owned and operated 3 online/internet businesses, while maintaining full-time employment in the Telecommunications industry (AT&T, MCI, and SAIC consulting respectively). With a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Averett University (VA) and Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature/Concentration in Fiction Writing from the University of Virginia, Bonnie brings to both companies both a creative and business mind. Many competitors (independent producers) can only tout one or the other. Her considerable business experience coupled with artistic passion will ensure that the Company always strikes a balance between Art and Business, without either suffering in the process. She is currently in development on a short film project as well as three feature length films: a horror film, a psychological thriller, and a romantic comedy  (www.chameleontreemovie.com) The Chameleon Tree. Bonnie has also successfully launched in 2003, an artists for artists script service called My Script Needs Help! (www.myscriptneedshelp.com). She has also been a highly rated Better Business Bureau Member since 2003.