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MICHAEL ROSEN​

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​​Michael is a writer, producer, and director in narrative, documentary film, and streaming content.

​He’s the recipient of:

• Five Telly awards
• The Fund's Social Justice Award
​• The CINE Gold Eagle award
• Multiple film festival awards.

In digital, Michael has been at the forefront. For Matt Damon, he wrote, produced, and directed short docs that filmed throughout India and Haiti  for Water.org, the nonprofit Damon founded with Gary White. In addition, Michael  produced a series of record-breaking online videos for Water.org,  that used comedy as a tool to highlight the water crisis.

Michael launched and ran the first-ever digital production division of the Television Academy -- home of the Emmy Awards.  For over five years, as Executive in Charge of Production, he delivered over 30 digital projects annually to NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, United Airlines, AOL TV, and others. He also co-founded  and executive produced the "Archive of American Television" (now "The Interviews")  at the TV Academy Foundation for 10 years, in which he produced and directed over 2,000 hours of on-camera interviews with over 500 television legends.

He's also produced and/or directed projects for Bravo, IFC, USA Films (Focus Features), truTV, Republic Pictures, TV Land, Apple, and others; and he's worked in d
evelopment and production at The Walt Disney Studios, Touchstone Pictures, and Imagine Entertainment.

For more detail on Michael’s documentary productions, see our  FILM  section.

GENETTE EATON

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Genette is known for "getting things done" and her recognition affirms her reputation:
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•     United Nation's Project of the Year: World’s Indigenous People 
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​   White House Recognition: Katrina Disaster Relief
•  ​   Business Woman of the Year
•  ​  One of 50 Most Influential People in the Building Industry: Builder Magazine
•  ​   Forbes Magazine: Best in America - Ford Diversity Leadership  
•  ​   Multiple Awards  for creativity, quality, leadership.​.

​Prior to joining August Road in 2014, Genette was a consultant specializing in global change management initiatives,  which included writing and producing film and video projects. Her work impacted hundreds of thousands of employees in the world's largest corporations: AT&T, Motorola, Bayer, Ford Motor, Allstate Insurance, Abbott Labs, Ameritech, Bristol-Myers, General Motors.... 

As a humanitarian committed to social equity and diversity, Genette stepped out of the corporate world for four years to become CEO of HomeAid, America's largest provider of housing for the temporarily homeless. With a housing portfolio exceeding $100 million and an annual budget of $15 million, Genette was instrumental in expanding operations and bringing national recognition to the organization, including White House recognition for work in New Orleans following Katrina. In acknowledgment of her accomplishments, and after being in the industry for only two years, Builder Magazine recognized Genette as one of the fifty most influential people in the building industry.

RAMIN FATHIE

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Ramin has served as DP and Editor for such clients as The History Channel, A&E, PBS and over 100 network, corporate and commercial clients, including 2 Academy Award and Peabody Award winning Directors.

For the past 10 years, he's been a Producer on films about a wide range of subjects -- from illegal whaling in Iceland, to the partition of India/Pakistan, to numerous nationally aired commercial spots, web-based series, event promos and mini-docs.


As founder of August Road's co-producing partner, Viceroy Films, Ramin continues to wear (and enjoy) many hats on both the creative and business sides.

Fathie graduated form UC Berkeley with a B.A. in cultural Anthropology (elected Phi Beta Kappa). As one of only 50 US Jacob Javits Fellows selected across the nation, Ramin pursued an MFA at UCLA’s School of Film and Television. His thesis film, "Still Point", was nominated for a regional Student Academy Award and selected for screening at Cinefest Experimental/Madrid. ​

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