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Bill Beckett merged his production company in 2007 with Catherine Gray’s production company to form Corp Shorts Video Productions, a global company with crews in more than 100 cities worldwide, with headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.

He 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 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Orange County, California.

Beckett 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, Mobile and New Media Technologies.

 


 

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

After graduating from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcasting, Gray moved to California and started a video/photography franchise business with Candid Color Systems, and exclusively covered events and graduations at several universities including UC Sacramento, UC Fresno, UC Davis, UC Chico, and Reno - among others. She was the second highest grossing new franchise in the company her first year out of college. After two years, she sold the business and returned to the east coast.

After returning to Miami, Gray enjoyed many achievements working in the Cable Television Industry for the next twenty years. She 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 is now RezBuzz Inc. DBA Corp Shorts video productions

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 25th Anniversary Concert, and “Laughing Matters -The Men”, starring famous comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, who writes for Bette Midler and Whoopi Goldberg. These programs air 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, generating millions of dollars in revenues for the company. Catherine also served as a Vice President of Advertising 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.

 


 

Mark Sadovnick is CEO of Corp Shorts and the Rezbuzz online recruitment community. Recognized by Business Week as one of the top search executives in the world for the past 23 years, Mark decided to join Rezbuzz to build on the vision of making it the leader in online professional video resumes.

Towards that objective, Sadovnick has now also taken the helm as CEO of Corp Shorts, that is uniquely specializing in short content video productions. The combined expertise and resources of both the Search practice and Corp Shorts, provides his clients – both corporations and individuals – the ability to brand themselves in the most effective and innovative ways, utilizing multiple video and mobile media technologies.

Sadovnick had been a Senior Partner with another boutique search firm before founding Sadovnick Partners to focus more consistently on servicing his clients on senior-level searches and meeting their urgent leadership needs over a longer term. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Jaycees International, gaining outstanding global experience and contacts. His background at Touche Ross in Montreal and Toronto included work with major clients such as Bell Canada and Northern Telecom in audit, tax and valuation. He also had corporate experience with the largest private real estate developer in Canada.

Sadovnick is on the Board of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, where he has created their LA Scene program for executives new to SoCal, has been active in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale Chambers of Commerce, Take Stock in Children, and sports and entertainment projects, among other organizations over the years. He is a Chartered Accountant, and graduated from McGill University in Montreal. Mark is married to Liz, and has three sons.

 

   

 

As a partner in Corp Shorts, Jere B Ford is creative, passionate, and energetic, as Writer, Producer, Songwriter, Inventor, Publisher, Manufacturer, Importer with years of multi-faceted entrepreneurial experience in sales and marketing; new product design, development and introduction; new business development; executive search; real estate sales and development; travel, events and meeting planning.

Most recently Ford was involved with a new movie called Skip Tracers, and a new TV pilot. He also brings extraordinary networking capabilities to the company since he is aligned with many CEOs and business owners in Tennessee, Florida, New York City and around the country.


 

A graduate of Chapman University's acclaimed film school, Will Gordh has worked in all aspects of film production. He 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, He 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, he 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, "Night Watcher," set to come out within the next year.

His 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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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 Novellas on Globo Television, he hosts our corporate videos that reach the Spanish and Portuguese audiences worldwide.

 

A Los Angeles based video production company that specializes in video shorts for new media, and who can provide services anywhere in the U.S. with it's extensive team of professional and talented crews. As trendsetters in the industry, they are leading the way with mobile video content and ads, and rolling out a cutting edge video resume' product. Also offering an array of traditional corporate video production, business videos, corporate training videos, and unique products such as charity videos, that corporations can sponsor and donate to their favorite non-profits. Furthermore providing corporate biography video, corporate event video, promotional video, and product video services.


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