Tony Interdonato

Assisted the Producer and Unit Production Manager in all areas of planning the project and keeping the production on track.

Responsible for overseeing all aspects - from concept development to storyboarding, hiring director and crew, working with vendors, location scouting, set construction, shoot coordination, post-production supervision. Did not get picked up by a network, but a similar program called Ultimate Soldier Challenge is now being produced by The History Channel.

Was brought into the project to help out with marketing & distribution. Was difficult to get much accomplished due to the fact that the person financing everything had no prior filmmaking experience and most of his decisions regarding the project were wrong, but he would not listen to anyone else.

Helped put this low budget project ($3 million) together from inception. Worked out of offices at Universal Studios Orlando. Scouted locations, hired crew, did budgets & scheduling, tracked expenses, worked with vendors, and bartered for a lot of needed services. Was also instrumental in helping to find distributors for the film.

I worked behind the scenes with Wesley, using my contacts to gather the contact info for the featured guests. Also I made my historical martial arts footage available to use as B roll. This special was used as one of the primary marketing vehicles to promote the movie "Blade".

Our premiere program was “World Business Review”, hosted by Caspar Weinberger – a weekly news program that I helped to create and develop. I was also responsible for booking guests on the show as well as hiring and training a 40 person sales staff that sold commercial airtime to national sponsors. (78 episodes).

Today’s Health, hosted by Faith Daniels, Robert Urich, and Chris Evert, won an Emmy for a special we did on spousal abuse. Worked with many Hollywood agencies & talent, as well as Fortune 500 companies and entertainment attractions to advertise and promote specific products and/or projects using this format. (162 episodes).

Helped to develop and produce the program - Today’s Environment, hosted by Ed Begley, Jr. Worked with many Hollywood agencies & talent, as well as Fortune 500 companies and entertainment attractions to advertise and promote specific products and/or projects. (148 episodes).