ABOUT CAMPFIRE:
CAMPFIRE STUDIOS, an Emmy-winning production company founded by its CEO Ross Dinerstein, is known for its broad bench of content across scripted and non-fiction, for both feature film and TV/streaming platforms. Over the last 20 years, Dinerstein has produced or executive produced 70+ series and films, including debuts at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca Hot Docs, and TIFF.
Notable projects produced by Campfire/Dinerstein include Netflix’s Muscles and Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of the American Gladiators and Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food, Max’s Smartless: On the Road, Hulu’s WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (Emmy winner, 2022), HBO Max’s Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty, The Way Down Part 1 and 2, and Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults, FX’s Hysterical and The Most Dangerous Animal of All, Netflix’s Neymar: Perfect Chaos (seen by over 50 million subscribers in its first week), David Fincher’s Voir, and John Grisham’s The Innocent Man (which contributed to a federal judge overturning the wrongful conviction of subject Karl Fontenot and Tommy Ward after 36 years behind bars). Additional independent documentary features include Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Silicon Cowboys, A Glitch in the Matrix (Official Selection 2021 Sundance Film Festival), and TikTok Boom (2023 Emmy Nominee, Official Selection 2022 Sundance Film Festival). Campfire/Dinerstein have produced over 10 Netflix Original scripted projects including Stephen King’s 1922, Rattlesnake, The Package, 6 Balloons, Rebirth, two seasons of Emmy-nominated series Special, and is currently in post-production on Players starring Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr, and Tom Ellis. Campfire’s first foray into podcasting, Abuse of Power with David Rudolf and Sonya Pfeiffer, won the 2021 Webby for Best Limited True Crime Series and was picked up by Audible for two more seasons. Currently, Campfire has ten projects in production and fifteen projects in both scripted and non-fiction development.
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ABOUT The Team:
Ross M. Dinerstein
Ross Dinerstein is the founder and CEO of Campfire, a premium production company known for its broad bench of content across scripted and unscripted, for both feature film and TV/streaming platforms. Over the past 15 years, Dinerstein has produced or executive produced 40+ series and feature films, premiering projects at the most prestigious festivals in the world, including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and Toronto. Dinerstein and Campfire's current and most recent projects include HBO Max’s upcoming Heaven's Gate docuseries; FX’s The Most Dangerous Animal of All; Netflix's true-crime documentary series John Grisham’s The Innocent Man (which contributed to a federal judge overturning in 2019 the wrongful conviction of subject Karl Fontentot, after 35 years behind bars); and Netflix’s Emmy-nominated, scripted series Special (currently in production on Season 2), among others.
Dinerstein has also produced eight Netflix Original features, including Rattlesnake; thriller 1922, based on the Steven King novella; and comedy The Package. His credits also include IFC's cult horror movie The Pact and feature documentaries Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Silicon Cowboys.
In 2020, Dinerstein and Campfire launched the company’s first podcast, Abuse of Power, hosted by husband and wife criminal defense duo David Rudolf and Sonya Pfeiffer and spotlighting injustices in America.
Ross m. dinerstein has produced all of campfire's projects. in addition, he has executive produced the following:
Ross Girard
During his tenure at Campfire, Girard has played an integral role in growing the company and producing many of the company’s biggest hits – across both television and feature films – including Netflix’s Emmy-nominated series Special, HBO Max’s The Way Down, Hulu’s Emmy-winning feature doc WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, David Fincher’s Netflix series VOIR, and many others. Prior to joining Campfire, he was head of production at Joinery, overseeing dozens of projects including a campaign for Alliance Française De Singapour, which won three Gold and two Silver Lions at the 2017 Cannes Festival.
Girard began his career at Partizan Entertainment, where he headed production for the digital division, producing commercials, branded content and music videos for a wide variety of clients. His vast resume includes premieres at a number of world-renowned film festivals, as well as projects with musical artists including Daft Punk, Usher, Justin Bieber, The Strokes, Fun., and Maren Morris.
Rebecca Evans
Executive Vice President, Non-Fiction Content
Emmy Award-winning producer and 2023 40 Under 40 nominee for Realscreen and LA T.V. Week, Rebecca Evans is Executive Vice President of Non-Fiction Content at Campfire Studios, a premium scripted and non-fiction production company run by prolific film producer and CEO Ross Dinerstein. Rebecca has produced across all genres of non-fiction television, from shiny-floor shows to reality TV and premium documentaries. Her most recent credits include Hulu's WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, named Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary at the 2022 News & Documentary Emmy Awards; HBO Max's Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty, record-setting hit The Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin and the platform's Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults; as well as FX's Hysterical, CNN's The Lost Sons and many more.
During her tenure at Campfire, Rebecca's work has led to the sale of more than 20 series and films, all of which she's overseen creatively.
Mary McMullen
Chief Financial Officer
Mark McCune
Senior Vice President, Production & Operations
Mark serves as SVP of Production at Campfire. He produced the Docuseries Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults with Campfire for HBO Max before joining the staff full time and now oversees a number of projects on the current slate. Prior to Campfire, Mark was the Supervising Producer on Ron Howard’s documentary feature Pavarotti with White Horse Pictures. Mark was also a Production Supervisor on Ron Howard’s Grammy and Emmy-winning film, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - the Touring Years, and A Faster Horse, directed by David Gelb. Outside of the documentary world, Mark has been a trusted producer in the Music Video and Commercial world, producing award-winning content for a number of top ad campaigns and Grammy-winning artists. Mark is a graduate of Emerson College and serves on Emerson's alumni board for the Los Angeles area. He is also Campfire’s only member of the Bills Mafia but hopes to see that change. Mark lives in East LA with his wife, Mariana, their daughter Rocky, and their dog, Charlie.
Will Mavronicolas
Will Mavronicolas has been creating content for over a decade, leading projects from development to final delivery across scripted, documentary and everything in-between. Most recently, he produced the critically-acclaimed film Roadrunner: An Anthony Bourdain Film; Miss Americana: A Taylor Swift Documentary; The Netflix show Ugly Delicious and the series Shangri-La on Showtime. At CampFire Will leads post-production, making sure all projects go out into the world with all the luster and impact that they were intended. Will loves working and exploring Culver City, but lives in Venice and does not understand why everyone in LA does not live closer to a beach.
Raquel Villar
Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs
Born and raised in SoCal, Raquel is happy to be back in LA after a nearly decade-long stint in NYC, where she now oversees Campfire's business and legal affairs. Prior to joining Campfire, she served as in-house counsel at both a TV production company and a full-service advertising agency. At the agency, she got to experience the entertainment marketing side of things, working on experiential productions for HBO's Game of Thrones and Westworld and Netflix's Stranger Things, among others. Prior to that, Raquel served as the day-to-day production attorney throughout all stages of production for programming ranging from true crime docuseries to cooking competitions. Raquel also previously worked as an associate attorney at an entertainment law firm and as a legal fellow at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in NYC. She is a graduate of UCLA School of Law.
Brendon Schaufert
Brendon tackles logistics like a Jaguar tackles a Capybara. First picking up a VHS camcorder at a young age, he fell in love with moving pictures and graduated from Temple University with a BA in Film and Media Arts. From there, he worked a bunch of odd-jobs until finally moving to Los Angeles to pursue his dream. That dream started as a PA and progressed from there - with many days spent scrubbing fake blood from the floor on the sets of true crime recreation shows, shuttling actors to and from set for music videos, and coordinating productions small and large in the commercial video-production landscape. After 4 years in the industry, Brendon landed at Campfire to work on documentary, scripted and non-scripted projects and is continuing to learn and advance his skill set with the help of a tremendously talented team. To say he has enjoyed every moment is an understatement. Here's to many more years to come.
Allyson Holloway
Manager, Nonfiction Content
Born and raised in Mississippi, Allyson has always been intrigued by culture-rich narratives, stemming from the colorful stories she heard and witnessed growing up in the deep South. She got her start in tv working in comedy on The Eric Andre Show and Nathan 4 You before transitioning to Walt Disney Studios where she created short-form content for films such as Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War and Frozen 2. Most recently, Allyson worked with FX Networks where she helped shape story for shows such as Snowfall, Mayans, Fargo and the 4-part Hulu docuseries The Secrets of Hillsong. Her experience in episodic docs blossomed her joy and curiosity for genre-bending storytelling. Outside of work, you can find Allyson throwing clay, struggling through pilates, stumbling upon art galleries, and trying out every coffee shop in the city.
Kasey Han
Kasey serves as the Director of Nonfiction at Campfire. Her fascination with documentaries began early on in her Creative Writing undergraduate program at UCLA, simultaneously cultivating her love for great stories and learning the mechanics behind how they were developed at companies such as White Horse Pictures and The Intellectual Property Corporation. Since starting at Campfire in 2019, Kasey has held five titles, rising from the assistant level to most recently a Creative Executive on HBO Max's The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty, Netflix's Muscles and Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of The American Gladiators, and more. Alongside Rebecca Evans, she currently oversees a diverse and story-rich non-fiction slate, developing and producing across multiple films and series for a variety of streamers. Topics of great personal interest include: High Maintenance, How to with John Wilson, Letterboxd top 4's, and her unironic appreciation of the TV show Suits.
Derek Bannar
After graduating from Ithaca College in 2013 with a BA in Psychology and Sociology, Derek left for LA to explore his true passion. After starting his career in the art department on commercial shoots, he landed in the world of archive where he currently serves as Campfire’s in-house Archival Producer. He is in charge of procuring, tracking, organizing, and licensing all archival footage across the company’s many projects. In his spare time, he reads a lot of non-fiction and teaches a ceramics class.
Shalla Yudelevich
Archival Producer
Shalla graduated from NYU with a degree in Photography and Imaging, but after realizing she didn't actually want to be the next Annie Leibovitz, fell into the world of TV through a fateful internship in the photo department of Saturday Night Live. After a few years of working in all aspects of documentary series from development to post, she found archive and never looked back. Outside of sifting through old newspapers and home movies, Shalla enjoys hiking, cooking elaborate meals for friends, and being way too intense about the New York Times crossword.
Justine Mastro
After graduating from NYU in 2020 with a BM in Music Technology and a minor in The Business of Entertainment, Media, & Technology, Justine left NYC for LA where she shifted from working in music to film. At Campfire she does production coordinating on various non-scripted and scripted projects, helping the production team bring riveting and significant stories to life. In her spare time, Justine enjoys painting and producing music.
Jules Setta
Production Coordinator
A Florida girl at heart, Jules came to LA to pursue a degree at UCLA to learn how to turn her long-time love of television into a career. She learned about archive as an intern on Frank Marshall’s The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart and Amy Pohler’s Lucy and Desi, and quickly realized that she could put her natural nosiness and curiosity to work — finding out how archives and personal collections can most accurately and artfully represent the individuals highlighted in an unscripted project. Outside of work, she enjoys going on road trips to new hiking and camping spots, roller skating, stamping clothes, and playing the bass guitar.
Tiana Alexandria Williams
Associate Archival Producer
Tiana is a Southern California native with a BA in Cinema and Digital Media/African-American Studies from UC Davis and a MA in Cinema and Media Studies from USC. While in college, she realized her love for documentaries and decided to pursue a career working on archive-rich films. In her free time, she enjoys hanging out with family, watching sports documentaries, singing and practicing yoga.
Olivia Heinze
Development Coordinator, Non-Fiction Content
Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Olivia ventured out to parts unknown to study Journalism at Emerson College. While there, she discovered a love for documentary filmmaking and, in her final semester, she attended the Emerson Los Angeles Program and became a Campfire Intern! Olivia joined the team immediately after graduating and never looked back. When she isn’t working creatively on development materials and lovingly managing the team’s schedule, she’s spending time outdoors, singing and playing guitar, climbing, and missing her family down south!
Lo Hutchison
Archival Assistant
Lo is an Orange County native who loves all things music and film- most importantly the relationship between the two. While earning her B.A in Television Production from Cal State Northridge, she gained experiences at White Horse Pictures and The Kennedy/Marshall Company that grew her passion for documentary filmmaking. Music and creativity is also the center of her personal life; in her free time Lo plays the bass, collects records and CDs, and sculpts clay!
Michelle Baskin
Executive Assistant to Ross Dinerstein & Rebecca Evans
Since graduating from NYU's film & television program in 2019, Michelle Baskin has worked as a PA in the office, art department, and on set across a variety of scripted shows as well as some animated. At Campfire she hopes to hone her administrative skills but more importantly develop her creative sensibilities in the non-fiction space.
Hannah Shohara
Assistant to Ross Girard & Mark McCune
Sam Vargen
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Sam inherited a deep love of film at a young age from his filmmaker/teacher father and began making movies in kindergarten. After studying political science at Diablo Valley College, he received a BFA in film production from Chapman University. He interned in production and development at Campfire and di Bonaventura Pictures before joining Campfire as a Production Assistant and eventually becoming Post Production Supervisor. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, camping, and making short films.
Lauren Baker
Post Production Coordinator
Born and raised New Yorker, Lauren has loved film and television since she heard the first notes of Beauty and the Beast as a toddler. After graduating from Hamilton College with a B.A. in English, she worked her way throughout various stages of production before returning to post production as Post Coordinator at Campfire. Outside of work, she can most likely be found at theme parks, an archery range, or curled up with a good book or bad TV.
Sonja Roth
After years of experience in various capacities of film production, Sonja Roth met Ross Dinerstein when she was hired to be the Production Accountant on Rebirth in 2015. She has never looked back. As of April 2022, Sonja has worked on 30 Campfire Studio projects, 21 of which have aired.
Tonya Bertino
Tonya came to Campfire with over 25 years of commercial and documentary production experience. The majority of those years were spent working with Academy Award winning director, Errol Morris. She has filmed projects on five continents and in more than a dozen different countries. When not working, you can find this baseball fanatic catching up on the latest true-crime podcast or docu-series, watching extremely bad reality TV, or being a personal Uber driver for her two teenagers.
Heather Troller
Heather Troller is a LA native with a BA in Cinema-Television Visual Arts from California State University, Northridge. She began her entertainment career interning with Focus Features and Film Independent before discovering production accounting. She has been working in production accounting and payroll for 6 years. In her spare time you can find Heather jogging in the valley or spending time with her husband Drew and dog Ghost.