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Gale L. Fitzgerald

President / Founder

Gale Fitzgerald has more than 30 years of varied experience in investment, production, and entertainment related industries. After receiving a Masters Degree in Health and Physical Education from Montclair State College in New Jersey, Fitzgerald began coaching women's Basketball and teaching Golf at the collegiate level. Later, once she became an investment broker, Fitzgerald offered private placement stocks and motion picture/film investments.

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In 2004 Gale founded Sunset Hills Productions Inc., a feature film production and acquisition company in Beverly Hills, California. In addition to producing and co-producing various stage and musical productions, Gale, a Pan American Games Silver Medalist is responsible for securing the funding for the production of the feature film entitled "Tournament of Dreams" and was instrumental in arranging for the funding of a 3,000,000 Print Fund for the theatrical release of motion pictures through CMX Sports Entertainment, Inc.

Heide Fliegner aka Judith Jerome

Producer / Director

Heide Fliegner, aka Judith Jerome (director's name), related to the famous musician Johann Sebastian Bach, was lucky to get her first film set experience on the set of Dreamwork's Titanic. She started her full-service film production company www.rollcallpictures.com in 2001, Downtown Munich, Germany. From there, she worked all over the world for all kind of clients: the Pinakotheken (the biggest museum in Munich, the Bavarian state, documentaries for the LMU, the main university in Munich, the Chinese government, and she built up a brand in NYC for different markets.

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Heide Fliegner 's first Hollywood short, produced, directed, and DOP'ed by Heide Fliegner "Before It's Too Late", starred the Academy Award nominees Eric Roberts and Robert Loggia as A-list actors. This movie won seven awards, at the Pasadena International Film Festival (PIFF), the Family Film Festival at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, a Golden Remi Award 2015 in Houston, the same award won by Steven Spielberg, the Coen Brothers, and George Lucas,

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Since 2017 she won over 18 awards for the experimental version of the cult feature KOMAKID (she produced, directed, and DOP'ed), again two REMI awards for the cult version. This version was selected for a sneak preview at UCLA at the James Bridge Theater, and was to become part of the UCLA archive. Three of her commercials, she directed won 3 Silver Remis at the Worldfest in Houston in 2015/2016.

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