Drive New Business With Innovative Video Marketing

Bill Beckett recently merged his production company, VIBE Productions, with Catherine Gray's renowned FYI Productions to form Showbiz Shorts LLC in West Hollywood, CA.

Bill has had extraordinary background as an entrepreneur, having co-founded a successful chain of 60 restaurants called Pick-Up Stix, which was later purchased by TGI Fridays.The company was the recipient of the esteemed Entrepeneur of the Year Award in Orange County California.

Bill is a dynamic businessman, with great people and marketing skills- and boasts many accomplishments in all his endeavors including the restaurant business, a jewelry company, real estate and now the film industry. He sees a great opportunity to help baby boomer business associates grow their businesses with short content on the Internet, as well as helping Actors launch their careers.

Catherine Gray co-founded Corp Shorts video productions in West Hollywood to create leading edge corporate video products that help companies capitalize on new media to grow their business.

Catherine has enjoyed many achievements working in the Cable Television Industry for the past twenty years. After earning her Bachelor of Science degree, in Broadcasting, from the University of Florida, Gray gained invaluable experience working on both sides of the camera. Realizing a new and future demand for creative short content, she recently merged her production company, FYI Productions, with VIBE Productions, to create Show Biz Shorts LLC., which includes Corp Shorts, Actor Shorts, and Legacy Flicks.

Gray has produced and directed many award winning film productions including "I Can't Marry You ", narrated by Betty DeGeneres, mother of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, which aired on PBS, film comedy Million Dollar Salad , several television series including " Way Off Broadway" and " Hello South Florida .", as well as numerous television commercials. Catherine also worked on the award winning film " Laughing Matters More ", which won many film festival awards, and co-produced other film productions such as Comedienne Kate Clinton's 25 th Anniversary Concert , and Laughing Matters -The Men, starring famous comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, who writes for Bette Midler and Whoopi Goldberg. These programs are airing on Viacom's LOGO Network. Most recently she produced Millionaires True Stories.

Ms. Gray has an exceptional sales and business background, having achieved the status of being the top advertising account executive in the country for over a decade with TCI and AT&T Media Services.
Catherine also served as a Vice President for C1TV, a start-up cable network in South Beach, and also worked as a consultant to Bravo and AMC Networks in New York City.

A graduate of Chapman University's acclaimed film school, Will Gordh has worked in all aspects of film production. Gordh graduated from the high school theater curriculum known as EPIC (Ensemble Production Company) in Northern California, which began his intensive study of the acting process. During his intensive film school training, Gordh immersed himself in numerous projects, writing, shooting, directing and editing several award-winning short films. Since graduating with a BFA in film production in May 2004, Gordh has been working professionally as a writer, editor and director for several independent production companies. As an editor, Gordh has edited feature length films, numerous nationally syndicated television shows and commercials, and has worked for clients such as Christina Aguilera and Ricky Martin. Gordh has also recently completed post production on his feature length directorial debut, "The Suicide Tapes," ( www.thesuicidetapes.com )set to come out within the next year.   Gordh's technical and creative expertise in the field of editing and cinematography coupled with his focus on the acting process makes for a style of filmmaking that is sleek, modern and fresh.

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Linda is a multi-talented asset to the team, and oversees script development, location scouts, and video uploads for web casting. She is also an outstanding writer.With over a dozen screenplays to her credit, a sitcom pilot in development, and several produced short films, Linda Andersson (writer/director "Misconception" and "Mood Swing") lives for the creative process. She also takes great pleasure in discovering new talent, and although her tastes in films vary, she's hooked on "smart comedies".

Renowned Brazilian Actor Luiz Braganca joins our team at Showbiz Shorts as corporate liaison for the South American Market.
Best known for his Movies and Brazilian Novelas on Globo Television, he hosts our corporate videos that reach the Spanish and Portuguese audiences worldwide.

David Sharp was born in the Bay Area of San Francisco and raised in Northern England. After spending time as a British Army Cadet, looking towards a career as an Army Officer, he was drawn to his real passion, acting. In the UK, David   earned an associates degree from LAMDA and later attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. He graduated in 2006. While in England, David was a student at LGS College where he studied, English Language, Business and Philosophy and Ethics, earning qualifications in all. David is very excited about working for Actors Shorts, as an actor himself he knows what a fantastic service this is to the acting community.

In 2000, Tom became senior vice president, media relations with Weber Shandwick Worldwide where he established and built a strong Media Relations Department, spearheading campaigns and programs for a diverse client roster including, Kodak Dynamic Imaging, Vans, Inc., Reciprocal, Inc., Initiative Media, PurchasePro.com, getacard.com and Contact Singapore. Medical/Science clients included Medtronic & Cyrano Sciences. The proactive Media Relations Department maintained top-tier media contacts across broadcast, print and online outlets. He was also responsible for directing and guiding a junior staff, budgeting and administrative duties, new business acquisition and corporate planning at the senior management level.

He helped launched Kodak’s “You’ve Got Pictures” media/consumer awareness campaign and the company’s digital camera initiative tied into NASA's Shuttle Launch with John Glenn; Developed and executed the re-branding strategies of Initiative Media North America and steered the media through the company’s extensive acquisitions and senior management restructurings.

A year later he re-established his independent marketing, publicity and branding business with Bally Golf, Blundstone Footwear, Showtime, the MGM Grand Hotel, RuderFinn, the Rose Bowl, Rogers & Cowan, Stonehaven Productions, the MRCGroup and Springhill Syndication. Tom earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and a Masters of Science in Journalism from Ohio University.