ERIC GEADELMANN

Creator/Showrunner, Writer, Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Music Producer

Founder, Chairman and CEO, SHADOWBROOK STUDIOS

A former AI tech entrepreneur turned award-winning & critically acclaimed filmmaker, Eric entered the film sector in 2003 with the SXSW World Premiere of his critically acclaimed debut feature documentary film, “THE DANCE – THE BILLY ROTH STORY,” which he wrote, produced, acted as music producer and self-financed. Academy Awardwinner Nicolas Cage executive produced the film via his Saturn Films banner as part ofa multi-project partnership.  The success of this feature documentary and its subsequent development as a scripted major motion picture for Universal Pictures, that Eric was attached to produce with Mr. Cage, prompted the launch of 821 Entertainment Group.

From 2005 to 2010, Eric and his partners built 821 into a Nashville-based diversified media company with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Divisions of the company included motion picture and television development and production, music (recorded music, publishing and supervisory services), digital media and communications.

Highlights included Grammy and Oscar nominations, first-of-their-kind digital media endeavors (Crowfly Digital Entertainment - partnerships with music legend Mark Knopfler, Universal Music, Reveille Productions & USA Network), partnerships withNBC/Universal, AMD Digital Entertainment, Nicolas Cage/Saturn Films and Universal Pictures; and clients such as Miramax, Warner Bros and Atlantic Records. 


Following a corporate restructuring in 2010 that created Crowfly Studios, Eric helmed the award winning and critically acclaimed mentor-themed basketball documentary “DAVE,” (that is being developed into a scripted feature film), developed Bron Studios/Sony Classic’s Hank Williams biopic “I SAW THE LIGHT” starring Golden Globe Winner Tom Hiddleston (Associate Producer), and he continues to develop the adaptation of John Grisham’s best seller, “THE TESTAMENT” as a producer; in partnership with Academy Award winner, Mark Johnson and Producer Hunt Lowry.

Additionally, multi-part documentaries that Eric is currently in production and post-production within the documentary studio he recently founded (SHADOWBROOK STUDIOS) include the eleven episode basketball project, “PREP,” that follows two seasons of one of the top post-graduate/prep basketball teams in the U.S., and an untitled six-part investigative series on the BAYLOR FOOTBALL SCANDAL/Coach Art Briles story; featuring exclusive full access to Coach Briles; including his coaching stints with GUELFI FIRENZE (professional Italian football team) and the Mt. Vernon, Texas, Tigers. Multiple spin-off music films from THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS are in various stages of production.

A former international management consultant (Navigant Consulting) and senior healthcare executive (Duke University), Eric previously co-founded a venture capital backed technology company (Care Steps) that pioneered the applications of advanced Artificial Intelligence (neural networks) for disease prediction modeling and evidence-based medicine analysis. The Company successfully merged with the world’s largest comprehensive care & disease management company (Healthways).

A Baylor University graduate who was awarded the Glenn O. Hilburn Most Outstanding Senior Man Award (1989) and as a recruited walk-on was a member of the Baylor Bears’ nationally ranked football teams (’85 & ’86), Eric and his wife Angie, a former Assistant Attorney General of North Carolina (Baylor & Wake Forest Law School) and three kids in tow relocated back to Texas in 2012 from their farm in Nashville; mostly to get back to their roots. They missed the Tex-Mex, BBQ and Austin’s live music. Margaritas are just better in Austin too.

KELLY MAGELKY

Showrunner, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Founder Filament Productions

Originally from the badlands of North Dakota, where the music from Willie, Waylon and The Boys were blasting out of the 8-track stereo in the family’s automotive shop, Kelly is an EMMY-nominated cinematographer and critically-acclaimed filmmaker who is widely-recognized for his stylistic visuals and grounded storytelling within music and sports; ranging from a multi-season international music series to network sports programming.

In 2003, Kelly left film school (Denver) to pursue his dream in the arts, supporting himself as a barista alongside a struggling musician (Isaac Slade) whose fledgling band, The Fray, was working to get traction. Needless to say, they did; and during this time Kelly and Isaac partnered to launch Filament Productions. A Denver-based production house, Filament developed and launched the National Geographic Internationaltelevision series MUSIC VOYAGER (Kelly directed and produced three seasons), created numerous advertising campaigns for international outdoor brands and produced documentaries for a number of major label recording artists. In 2013, Kelly was nominated for an EMMY for his cinematography on the NBC Ironman World Championships special.

Introduced by their mutual friend Isaac, Kelly and Eric met at baggage carousel number six at the San Diego airport in 2011 and began their fifteen-year partnership with the award-winning feature documentary DAVE; and rapidly scaled production of a slate of premiere non-fiction projects in music and sports. More than a sports enthusiast and storyteller, Kelly is also a professional athlete a former National Champion mountain bike racer, that was ranked number two in the world - which was just training for chasing his twin boys around a backyard in Denver, where he and his well-known investigative journalist wife, Rachel, call home.