1st Assistant Director

Johanna has had an extensive television career as both a 1st and 2nd Assistant Director. Her credits include 100 Questions, Roomates, The War at Home, Rock Me, Baby, My Big Fat Greek Life, 8 Simple Rules, Off Centre, According to Jim, Stark Raving Man, Northern Exposure, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Law and Order, and Rambling Rose.

Josh McLaglen graduated from UCLA in 1980 with a major in History.  After working with his father, director Andrew McLaglen, as a stuntman and a production assistant, he joined the DGA in 1984. He worked as a 2nd AD with his mentor Duncan Henderson on several films.  In 1987 he became a 1st AD on the TV mini series, AMERIKA, and his current film, REAL STEEL, marks Josh's 40th film as a First Assistant Director.  In 2002, he started working in a dual capacity as a Co-Producer/1st AD and now works as an Executive Producer/1st AD. Josh has had the pleasure of working with accomplished directors such as current DGA President: Taylor Hackford, as well as Robert Zemeckis, Francis Lawrence, Michael Bay, Shawn Levy and James Cameron.  He's been nominated twice for the DGA Award: AVATAR in 2009 and TITANIC which he won in 1997.  Josh is one of the industry's pioneers of the motion capture technology and has the distinct honor of having the two highest grossing films of all time: #1 (Avatar) and #2 (Titanic) on his resume.

After graduating from USC with an MFA in Film Production, Keith started at the bottom and worked his way up on anything he could get, mostly on features, TV and commercials.  He was a PA on Father of the Bride, a carpenter on Twin Peaks, a painter, a sound mixer, etc., etc. Within two years, he’d worked every single position except Hair Makeup or Wardrobe.  After awhile he settled into a production track, coordinating, production managing, line producing, and producing.
 
Keith has produced over 200 commercials, a couple of award winning independent features, over 100 hours of TV and several exceptionally effective promotional videos.  He has line produced or production managed another dozen features and several TV series.
 
One film he produced, Crazy Jones, won Audience Choice Feature Award at Cinequest in 2003, and Grand Prize at several other festivals.
 
Keith is based in Los Angeles and continues to Produce and Line Produce Independent Feature Films and Television.  He has also started a production services company to help people to make their first feature film.

Days after graduating from the DGA Assistant Director’s Training Program in 1996, Maria began her first of many features & TV shows as a 2nd AD on the acclaimed film “Boogie Nights” directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Throughout the next several years, Maria worked with some of the best 1st AD’s in the business & such esteemed directors as Mike Nichols, William Friedkin, Ang Lee, Francis Lawrence, Robert Zemeckis & James Cameron. But it was Maria’s experience as Key 2nd on the ground-breaking “Avatar”, which taught her the most detailed elements of filmmaking & VFX, especially as her role changed to 1st AD for Additional Photography & 2nd Units. Most recently, Maria just completed her role as Key 2nd AD for her long-time mentor & 1st AD Josh McLaglen on Director Shawn Levy’s “Real Steel”.

Matthew Feitshans graduated from the University of Southern California Cinema School in 1991 with a degree in screenwriting, although his career in the film industry began long before that.  As a young teenager he held jobs as production assistant every summer on films produced by his father, Buzz Fetishans.  By 1993 at the age of 23, Matthew had earned a place in the Director’s Guild of America and has worked on several films in the capacity as Assistant Director, including “The Forbidden Kingdom,” “The Last Legion,”  “The World of Tomorrow,” “The Last Castle,” “Remember The Titans,” “Kull, The Conqueror” “Shadow Conspiracy,” “Beverly Hills Cop III,”  “Tombstone,”  “Army of Darkness," “Trading Moms,” “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story,” “Prancer,” “Timebomb,”  and “Total Recall."

 

Beginning in 2006, Matthew assumed responsibilities as VP of Development for Raffaella Productions, Inc.  Projects under his supervision currently include: MacGyver, with New Line Cinema; What Happened To Monday?, with Vendome Films; Killer Pizza with Chris Columbus and 1492 Films; and the upcoming production Vivaldi, starring Luke Evans, Jessica Biel, and Sir Ben Kingsley.