Production Crew
MARK CRAWFORD – Director/Producer
Born in southern California, Mark Crawford has lived in multiple states on the west coast including Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado. While attending the University of Colorado, he immersed himself in a wide range of filmmaking styles and techniques including animation, documentary, narrative, and experimental. His films have received many international accolades including an official selection at Silver Docs documentary film festival for his film Synesthesia and a screening of his film Seven Deadly Sins at the 2010 SOUNDS NEW contemporary music festival in England.
As a composer/songwriter, Mark has enjoyed writing music for a variety of projects including documentaries, narratives, and four musical comedies including The Final Hour. His scoring credits include projects by students at CU, NYU, USC, and University of British Columbia as well as a Chadder’s Adventures, a nationally syndicated children’s video series, and The Torturer, an independent feature film.
RYAN PATCH – Director/Supervising Producer/Editor
Ryan graduated from NYU in Spring ’09 with a degree in Film Production, concentrating on narrative & documentary directing. He has directed, produced, and edited numerous short films, including “The Sheol Express”, a 25-minute fantasy film about a train ride through the afterlife. He’s had significant roles in several documentary projects all over the world, from Russia to Thailand to the Amazon, where he shot and edited “Back from the Brink”, a 40-minute documentary about an indigenous tribe’s journey out of alcoholism, for grassroots distribution among Amazonian tribes. He directed and produced, along with Larissa and Mark, season 1 of “Unreasonable TV”. He is currently working as a freelance filmmaker in New York, working on film & TV scripts, as well as developing “Os Jogos (The Games)”, a documentary about the trials and tribulations of Rio de Janeiro’s urban development leading up to the Olympic Games in 2016.
LARISSA RHODES – Director/Producer
Larissa Rhodes is a University of Colorado double major in Film and International Spanish for the Professions with an emphasis in Business. She is a research assistant to the Director of the CU Film Studies Program, and teaches film related classes to school age children though the summer CU Science Discovery program. Recently, she spent a summer abroad in Bolivia working under an academy award nominated documentarian. While there she directed, filmed, and produced a documentary about Bolivia’s plans to protect and develop the world’s largest known deposits of lithium. Currently, Larissa is Co-Directing and Co-Producing Unreasonable TV and is thrilled to be a part of such an innovative crew.
CARLA THILMONT – Editor
Carla Thilmont spent her youth rescuing stranded starfish on the beaches of Sydney, Australia. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and received degrees in both Film Studies and Marketing. By day Carla works as a freelance editor in and around Boulder. By night she’s a writer crafting the next great American screenplay.
ANDREW STUART – Editor
Andrew Stuart will be entering his senior year at Anderson University where he is a Communications Major with an emphasis in Cinema Production and is also pursuing a History Minor. For the past two and a half years, Andrew has worked as a Student Manager at Covenant Productions. Though he has worn many hats on various projects, his passion lies primarily with directing, editing, and cinematography. In 2010, he also worked as a Film Programming Intern for the Heartland Film Festival. When he isn’t working on video production, Andrew is one-third of the sketch comedy group Business Casual. After he graduates, Andrew hopes to move to California and pursue a career in film.
IVANA CORSALE- Editor
Ivana Corsale was born and raised in Southern Italy. She moved to the United States to pursue an undergraduate degree in journalism and international studies from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She has worked as a journalist at The Dallas Morning News where she further explored her storytelling skills through video. At The News, she researched, shot and edited stories for the newspaper’s website. Ivana decided to continue to tell stories through documentaries. As a graduate student in documentary studies at The University of North Texas, she has produced, directed and edited three short documentaries. Her most recent documentary titled Campania In-Felix (Unhappy Country) looks into the illegal dumping of toxic waste in Southern Italy and the immediate effects on people’s health and their environment. Check out her most recent work at UnhappyCountry.com
TREVOR PATCH – Transcriber-in-Chief
A native of Louisville, Colorado, Trevor Patch is a 2010 graduate of Peak to Peak Charter School, a top 30 high school in the United States. In middle school, Trevor found his passion in directing documentaries when he wrote and directed “Loss in Louisiana” a short documentary film about the relief efforts following the 2005 hurricane. This film was selected as a Junior Best of Fest in the 2006 Independents’ Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida. Moving to high school, Trevor helped start a weekly video announcement tradition, by producing and directing an announcement and comedy show hybrid, which continues through today.
Trevor moved onto college at the College of Wooster in Wooster, OH where he played NCAA golf while studying mathematics. After studying one year in Ohio, Trevor missed the Colorado sunshine, and took his academic talents to Colorado State University where he will pursue a BS in Mathematics with a concentration in Statistics, with hopes in continuing onto law school. Trevor is an aspiring wiffleballer and avid disc golfer.
MATT NAGER – Camera Operator
Matt is a photographer & cinematographer who discovered his passion for photography, as well as his curiosity for different cultures and places, in high school. His travels have taken him throughout Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Italy, Israel, Jordan and Egypt. Matt specializes in Editorial, Documentary, and Travel photography in the South West United States and Latin America. In addition to photography, he works in video and film. As a freelance photographer, Matt’s clients include: Mother Jones Magazine, DISCOVER Magazine, L’Express Magazine, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Bloomberg News, amongst others. You can see more of his work at MattNager.com
MATT LOHR – Sound
Growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Matthew Lohr developed a love for film while in high school. He is a graduate of Compass Film Academy where he studied film production with an emphasis on cinematography and sound. Matthew is the owner/operator of Reel Audio, Inc., a production sound company which focuses on narrative film and commercial projects. Matthew’s love for documentary film is what first drew him to the Unreasonable Institute, which has been an incredible inspiration to him as an entrepreneur. After his work in Colorado he will be traveling with Reel Audio to Guatemala for his next project.
DANNY ASKEW – Graphics
Danny Askew spent his youth in the suburban wildernesses outside Boulder, Colorado shooting videos with any excuse and often none at all. He took this early passion for cinematography and editing with him to Vancouver, Canada where he majored in Visual Arts at the University of British Columbia with an emphasis in Photography and Digital Art. Fresh out of school he was hired as a full-time employee at Barbershop Films, where his Visual FX and Timelapse Photography work reached a global audience during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. His ever-evolving passions within the industry have of late thrust him into the challenging and inspiring realm of motion graphics, and he was overjoyed to have the opportunity to work with the old crew again on the show intro for Unreasonable TV.
TOPHER BLAIR – Animator
Topher Blair grew up in Boulder, Colorado, and is currently pursuing a BFA with honors in Film Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His documentary film, “Whose City?” won the Best Documentary category at CU’s Big Freakin’ Deal Film Festival.
KEVIN CARR – Production Assistant
Born in Pennsylvania, Kevin grew up with a passion for film and filmmaking. While attending University of Colorado at Boulder he studied film as an art form and expanded his knowledge of filmmaking practices. Along with helping on student films with everything from cinematography to color correction and grading, Kevin was part of the film company 100 Proof Film and Video and interned with companies like 42 Productions in Boulder and High Noon Entertainment in Denver to learn filmmaking practices in the “real world.” Now having graduated and being released to the “real world” Kevin now works at the Fiske Planetarium editing and helping to create planetarium shows such as “Max Goes to the Moon” and working on various other local productions including Unreasonable TV.
JERRY ARONSON – Mentor
Jerry Aronson is an independent filmmaker who, over the last three decades, has established his reputation as a producer, director and film instructor. His films include the 1978 Academy Award-nominated film, THE DIVIDED TRAIL, which follows the lives of four Native Americans who lived in the urban heart of Chicago. He also directed a six-hour documentary miniseries, AMERICA’S MUSIC: THE ROOTS OF COUNTRY, which examines the evolution of this American music form from its origins in Appalachia to its current state as a billion-dollar industry. Aronson first completed THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG in 1993, when it had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It helped establish his reputation as an outstanding documentary filmmaker (See the 12 minute webisode from the National Gallery of the Art) In 1973, he was instrumental in creating the award-winning Film Production Department at the University of Colorado. In 2006, Aronson won the prestigious University of Colorado Award for Teaching. He is now co-producing a feature documentary on climate change entitled CHASING ICE, directed by Jeff Orlowski.
DORI WEISS – Mentor
Dori Weiss has been a studio executive at Paramount and Warner Bros, and a Senior Vice President at MGM, Hill-Mandelker Films, and Imagine. She has Executive Produced many movies, mini-series, pilots and series for television, several of which have been nominated for Emmys. She has also taught film and screenwriting on the college level since 2003 and is a private consultant to many screenwriter’s in Hollywood.