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Michael is a director, editor, and cinematographer of commercials and award winning narrative films. He has a degree in Film and TV from NYU, and additional degree at The Czech Film Institute (FAMU) in Prague. Michael has lived in The Netherlands working as a Resident Director for Lukkien Pictures, with endeavors including commercials for Pepsi Cola and Schiphol International Airport.

Currently, Michael is in development on a 3D documentary for the IMAX company, and in the beginning steps of pre-production for a world wide television series release, "Innovators That Changed the World.” Michael lives in Santa Monica, CA and co-heads Loaded Media Productions, a commercial and narrative production company, where he directs commercials and feature films as well as writing screenplays.

Bill Bradford is SVP, Digital Media for the Fox Broadcasting Company. He is responsible for leading the strategy and business unit supporting the product, design, and implementation for Fox Broadcasting’s digital media properties, as well as digital marketing, distribution applications, and digital sales integrations for Fox programming.

Mr. Bradford joined FOX from Yahoo! Studios, where he drove the production of original content entertainment websites by combining proven offline media formats and Internet technology to produce a new type of integrated consumer experience. While at Yahoo!, Mr. Bradford also served as Vice President of Cross-Media Products, where he was responsible for working across multiple business units to develop cross-platform Internet products.

Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Bradford served in various consumer product leadership capacities at America Online, and spent four years at Oracle Corporation as a consultant responsible for spearheading large-scale business systems implementations and data migrations.

Mr. Bradford began his professional career as an officer in the U.S. Army, serving as a Transportation Officer in Germany. After active duty, he served more than seven years as a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves.

Mr. Bradford originally hails from Prospect, CT. He earned a B.S. in Economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1993, holds a M.S. in Operations Research from George Washington University.

Tom Martin was born and raised in Miami Florida and spent all his summers growing up in the beautiful state of Maine. He is a graduate from the School of Theater at Florida State University. He booked his first professional role playing the young son of Roy Scheider on the hit show Sea Quest DSV. He has been working in film and television ever since. Keep an eye out for his latest role in a film directed by Justin Reardon called, "A Many Splintered Thing". This romantic comedy stars Chris Evans, Michelle Monahan, Luke Wilson and many other great actors. It will be in theaters 2014.

Tom has also become one of the most recognizable faces in the world of commercials. His Super bowl Ad for Bridgestone tires “Reply All” was considered one of the best superbowl ads of all time according to Time Magazine. His critically acclaimed Heineken Light, “Handlebar Moustache” earned Noam Murro the Directors Guild Award.

Along with acting, Tom has also had some great success in writing and producing. His first screenplay “Elle” A Modern Cinderella Story" has had world wide distribution. This quirky family film starring Disney sensation, “Sterling Knight” also won best family film at Newport Beach Film Festival. Tom spent 2 years producing and starring in films as a finalist for The Doorpost Film Project. His last film, “La Premiere”, was narrated by the great James Earl Jones. It told the story of the inventors of cinema, The Lumiere Brothers, 1885. This historical gem screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Tom recently co-wrote a screenplay, “Run Paco Run”, with Bragi Schut. It is currently under development for production for Fall of 2014.

Tom just had his directorial debut with a short film called, "First Word". It is a comedy that takes place during the caveman era. Being a hands on type of guy, he built the props, worked on costumes and even built the cave for it.

Tom resides in Burbank, California along with his lovely wife Holly Martin. They love spending weekends swimming in the pool, going on hikes and tending their garden.

Brian Godawa is the screenwriter for the award-winning feature film, To End All Wars, starring Kiefer Sutherland. Previously he adapted to film the best-selling supernatural novel The Visitation by author Frank Peretti, as well as writing and directing several documentaries for PBS and other producers.

Rick Dempsey is the Senior Vice President, Creative of Disney Character Voices and Disney Character Voices International. Rick joined The Walt Disney Company in 1988 as a founding member of Disney Character Voices, which ensured character consistency and integrity for all character assets company-wide, reporting directly to Roy Disney, Vice Chairman of The Walt Disney Company. He continues to serve as a creative resource for all franchise and character-driven properties.

It’s quite possible that no one in The Walt Disney Studios has directed more talent than Rick. Having been with Disney for over 20 years, he has directed over 5,000 recording sessions with some of Hollywood’s best known talent, including Tim Allen, Glen Close, Phil Collins, Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Garner, Anne Hathaway, Charlton Heston, James Earl Jones, Michael Keaton, Demi Moore, Uma Thurman, Patrick Stewart, Robin Williams and James Woods to name a few.

On a global-level, Rick creatively oversees the foreign-language adaptation and dubbing of all Disney products around the world, having worked on such hits as THE LION KING, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, TARZAN, TOY STORY 1, 2 & 3, FINDING NEMO, THE INCREDIBLES, TANGLED, RATATOUILLE and most recently, FROZEN, which has become an international phenomenon. He has also worked on such live-action films as ENCHANTED, THE PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN Franchise, NATIONAL TREASURE and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA Franchise.

Erik Lokkesmoe is co-president of Aspiration, an indie film distributor, and co-founder of DIFFERENT DRUMMER, a global marketing and publicity agency for top entertainment brands and content. Different Drummer has marketed Fox’s 12 Years A Slave and Life of Pi, Disney’s Frozen and Tangled, Fox Searchlight’s The Tree of Life and Beasts of the Southern Wild, and more than 150 other indie and studio films, television shows, books, and music acts. Erik is the former VP of Strategic Partnership and Outreach for AFG/Walden Media/Bristol Bay Productions, the creators of The Chronicles of Narnia franchise, Ray, and Amazing Grace. An author, speechwriter to celebrities and political leaders, Capitol Hill press secretary, and former head of communications at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Erik has an MA in Public Communications from American University, with an emphasis in Social Marketing. He and his wife, Monica, and three children recently moved from New York City to Nashville where he offers open invitation to anyone who likes to drink bourbon, talk about common grace, and read Tintin graphic novels.

Chad is an actor/voice actor. He started his career as “Zander Smith” on the daytime drama, General Hospital. In 2001, Chad received the Soap Opera Digest award for Outstanding Male Newcomer. In 2003, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor. Then, in 2004 he was nominated again and won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor. After four years onGeneral Hospital, Chad left and soon after he guest-starred on Friday Night Lights, playing “Lucas Mize” in the “Homecoming” episode. He also guest-starred on episodes of Cold Case as “Skiz” and had fun yellowing his teeth on Deadwood. Chad Brannon splashed onto the voiceover scene in 2006 working right away and since 2008, you may have heard him as one of the main promo voices for FOX Television Network voicing promos for “Family Guy,” “The Simpsons,” “The Cleveland Show,” “American Dad,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Glee,” “New Girl,” “Raising Hope,” “American Idol,” “The Teen Choice Awards” and “Dads.” He has also voiced promo and narration for ABC, CBS, Warner Brothers TV, ESPN, National Geographic, History Channel, SyFy, Travel Channel, Freemantle Media, G4 and has voiced commercial campaigns for Jack Link’s Beef Jerky, Whole Foods, Del Taco and was “The Merman” in Diet Dr. Pepper ads, as well as Tolten in the video game Lost Odyssey.

The Doorpost Podcast Project is a weekly entertainment business podcast, hosted by Duane Barnhart, interviewing some of today’s most successful and inspiring Entertainment Entrepreneurs. It was Milton Berle who said, “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” We help our audience learn to build doors of opportunity. Each episode shines a spotlight on our featured guest as they share their journey of successes and failures, hard work and big breaks, lessons learned and the steps taken to turn those lessons into accomplishments. The Doorpost Podcast Project is all about inspiring our listeners to take entrepreneurial ACTION and realize their dreams!