Matt Tom Lavine

Research, pitches, pre-interviews, casting directing, story-build, props, costumes, casting re-enactors. From writing to art department. We did 31 stories/locations in 2.5 months.

Shooting main event and b-roll of surrounding folks, for AIDS WALK / GMHC.

Tracking down and clearing touching human videos posted to Youtube. Elaborate clearance coordination.

Research, writing, casting, directing - on two eps of docu-science show. Directing included re-enactments. Largely focused on marine biology and scientist demos in the field. Got up close with live sharks.

Creative story development, writing full season 2, arcs, full eps, as head writer, plus beats for daily shoots. Directing and producing character content (family; surgeries; interviews; OTFs). Additionally some casting, and minor coordination-management.

Casting odd characters, bits, jobs, to propping to creative story ideas to lots and lots of location scouting and securing. To elaborate coordinating. Island life.

Everything from coordinating with talent, to elaborate mic-ing and music-audio production, to sorting out talk-show host and guest talent, to working three cameras, audio mixing, and live and post-production editing. Plus general tech. Also included writing manual and training others.

Freelance producing/mixing of Talk Show format, hosted, guests, news and politics and comedy, live audience. in addition to audio mixing (analog and digitally) and general producing , also directed 3 cams. Shows were edited for WBAI am and streaming.

One minor segment interview, one major bio interview (one of the nation's historic leading psychologists). Shot in Oakland, CA, and in Stanford University. Framing. Four-point lighting. All DP functions and interviewing-producer functions, for a national publishing house. Videos to be shown in college classrooms.

Pinch-hitting finding obscure recreation locations, to make the NYC area look like marshy rural Texas. Included research, finding, scouting ~10 areas in two days, uploading details and detailed photos, then coordinating with state and local authorities to release and manage location.

On the fly research, writing and producing accurate and dramatic appraisals of Americana and vintage ephemera, as found by competing contestants. Each hr-long ep filmed in two dates, and in four towns. All six eps over five states.

Gen. reality producing with emphasis on conceiving, creating, content-direction and 'Street'-casting angry-character-driven segments, as well as appraisals and business interactions.

Found a range of characters ready, willing and able to try to sell their oddities at the Pawn Shop that is the heart of the show. Included research, recruitment, brainstorming finds, networking, phone interviews, writing pitches/one-sheets.

Conceiving, casting, interviewing, writing pitches for range of docu and reality series.

Six-ep, first season of spin-off. Responsibilities for segments included scouting, casting, shooting, pitching talent and locations; additional: some field producing.

Ch. 10, Australia. Final episodes of reality completion series had three final contestants coming to NYC. Shot rehearsals, before-and-after performances, shot and interviewed voxies/OTFs. FremantleMedia.

Final episode of first season of series mixing ensemble reality with big dance numbers, Included scouting locations, coordinating crew, producing event, clearances, and more. World of Wonder.

Wrote 30-sec. to 2-min. radio and TV ads for major national political non-profit, for various campaigns.

Feature documentary in-production, interviews with prominent Jewish Americans.

Comedic news-feature countdown show, field street segments and in-studio, included developing story elements; finding, casting, and coordinating real characters, shoots and more. Left/Right Inc.

Six episodes, first season of new competition show, included research, managing and producing talent, finding and securing story leads. Cineflix USA.

HD, for the Little Red Schoolhouse, NY, NY, included stage lighting.

HD shoot of live mixed-media performance art.

Concept development, themes, look,, character selection, original story structure. Crewed up; coordinated and field-produced shoots; press releases, websites; organized test screenings; oversaw digitizing, logging, transcribing. Responsible for festival and distribution strategy; maintained databases of clips, logs, transcripts, notes. Released theatrically, itunes, netflix, public television

Converted graphic novel storyboards and notes into feature-length script, on British and U.S. involvement in the 1970s Iran revolt, for 5-star award-winning animated graphic novel iPad app.

Included everything from coordinating activities at Film Forum screenings, to fliers, videos, bikes.

Researched and drafted network pitch on the Caesars, for top-rated series.

Responsible for supervising and producing independent feature-length documentary about national same-sex marriage debate. Creative development including: finding and researching compelling stories and subjects to film; shooting segments; writing materials associated with project including website content, html, one-sheets; grant writing; developing, implementing outreach campaign; assisting with festival applications and distributor selection.

Primarily responsible for interviews, managing DP, research, shot lists, releases and archival for four half-hour episodes; original series. Included writing episode pitches, outlines; on through post.

Archival footage and stills acquisition for regional spots.

Recently syndicated in prime time on SyFy (“Scary But True”). Responsible for research, pre- interviews, development of story segments from inception through production. Found/cast witnesses, visuals; assisted shooting schedules, call sheets. Wrote segment pitches for network.

Docu-short on 11th St. East Village Squats, for local NYC cable.

Teen internship with news director led to show and gig. Engineer for cultural shows; created, produced, recorded, directed and edited weekly news-feature show. Attained FCC board operator/engineer license.