Creanspeak Productions and Falcon Film Funding
Ms. Kelly Crean is founder and president of Creanspeak Productions, Falcon Film Funding, and Creanspeak's financing arm Creanspeak Funding, LLC. She is the managing member of three film financing funds, one of which is based and traded internationally. The other two are housed at UBS & Merrill Lynch respectively.
Ms. Crean is currently in pre-production on ONCE WAS LOST, the follow up feature to writer/director Bradley Gann’s BLACK IRISH, (www.blackirishmovie.com), starring multi-platinum rapper T.I. She has a multitude of films in development including ONE STEP BEYOND, a journey into the Ska music scene shooting in 2007 with Executive Producer Barbara Boyle; COVER, which premieres in January 2008 with Fox, directed by Bill Duke and starring Aunjanue Ellis, Raz Adoti, Vivica A. Fox, Lou Gossett Jr., Paula Jai Parker, Mya Harrison, Heavy D, Glenn Plummer and Clifton Powell; iMurders, THE STATUE GAME, and BETTER THAN SEX. Additional Creanspeak films include BLACK IRISH, starring Brendan Gleeson, Michael Angarano, Tom Guiry, and Emily VanCamp (WB’s “Everwood”), which won seven film festivals and premiered at the Hampton’s International Film Festival in October 2006 and which premieres in theaters September 2007, the 2003 Sundance Film Festival’s PREY FOR ROCK N’ ROLL, starring Gina Gershon, Drea De Matteo and Lori Petty.
Ms. Crean has also launched a thriller division called TROCAR Films (www.trocarfilms.com) with four films slated for the first year and six for the second.
Ms. Crean is an executive producer of "Gagsters!" the first hybrid reality/scripted TV show for children, now sold in over forty countries. She also co-created and executive produced “Doctors of Rock” for HDnet. In collaboration with living Hip Hop legend Kool Mo Dee, Ms. Crean produced the revolutionary documentary There's a God on the Mic, based on his highly acclaimed book of the same title. She is currently in post production on SPEED SHIFT, a new reality series for the WE network, created and produced JUST AS FAST, a reality show also for the WE network about the few women who compete in the world of auto racing.
Ms. Crean formerly served as an associate producer on "EMERIL LIVE!" and worked as an assistant to producer Cary Woods at Miramax on Swingers, Scream, Citizen Ruth, Gummo and Copland. Earlier in her career, she worked in production at MGM, CBS News and Engel Brothers Productions.
A former member of the U.S. Ski Team, Ms. Crean earned a degree in English Literature from Columbia University, studied film production at Columbia University's School of the Arts. She is a voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Her affiliations include AFI, AFTRA, IFP, EO, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Women in Film...
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Shahen Derderian, CPA/ABV, CFE -
Shahen will serve as Chief Financial Officer of the Company and will be responsible for the financial and accounting operations of the Company, including financial accounting and reporting, budgeting, and tax preparation and reporting. After graduating UCLA with a B.A. in Economics and Minor in Accounting, he immediately started his career in accounting and finance. Within a short time he completed the requirements and successfully passed the Certified Public Accountant exam. During his career in the traditional areas of accounting, tax and audit, he began pursuing a specialization in litigation support and business valuation. He received the nationally recognized Accredited in Business Valuation designation, and has been designated as an expert in several areas of valuation. Extending his area of expertise, he pursued and obtained the Certified Fraud Examiner designation, and has received extensive training on financial fraud detection. Shahen founded and presides over Derderian Consulting, LLC in Los Angeles...top
Jon H. Freis, Attorney at Law.-
Jon H. Freis has been a licensed California attorney and has had an active law practice in Beverly Hills for nearly six (6) years. Mr. Freis will be responsible for representing the Company in all aspects of any proposed loan transactions, including review of the borrower’s existing legal documentation, the preparation of necessary loan documentation, including preparing the term sheets, loan documents, security agreements, inter-creditor and/or guild subordination agreements. Mr. Freis has represented and advised independent filmmakers, commercial real estate developers, hotels, condo developments, medical suppliers, restaurants and hospitality developments, telecommunications, and numerous small businesses in the areas of alternative financing to finance their developments. Experience includes full service private placements, limited public offerings, and conventional and syndicated debt financing representing principals, investors, and lenders. Mr. Freis also has extensive experience in film beginning-to-end production legal services, representing primarily producers of independent films to help achieve their financial and legal objectives ranging from pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution...top
