ENTERTAINMENT ATTORNEY: Robert J. Weinberg Venice, CA (310) 396-6616
FILM BIO
Tad is a Senior Producer-Writer with extensive management background in international motion picture and television production and has a passion for educational development though implementation of converging digital media technologies. He has strong experience in computer technology, digital media, and managing large groups of creative artists, technicians within an international business environment.
He grew up in Dayton, Ohio and upon graduating from the University of Dayton served in the U.S. Army as a Field Artillery Officer, and worked as writer, producer, and director for the U.S. Fourth Army Educational Television Network. After honorable discharge, Mr. Devlin worked as a writer, producer, and cinematographer for clients such as IBM, Standard Register Company, Cincinnati Zoo, Pontiac, Schoenling Beer, IBM, and Frigidaire.
He entered the motion picture industry as one of the five selected out of three thousand applicants to the Director’s Guild of America Training Program. Since completing the program, Mr. Devlin has worked on over fifty major studio and network television projects as an assistant director, production manager, and producer.
He has taught screenplay writing, media literacy, photography, and film making at community colleges and continuing-ed in Los Angeles and Washington State. Mr. Devlin’s film credits include: Snippets, The Immigrant Garden, My Last Love, George of the Jungle, D3: The Mighty Ducks, When a Man Loves a Woman, Sleeping With the Enemy, Crazy People, TV101,The Morning After, The Judds – Love Can Build a Bridge, The Switch, For Their Own Good, As Summer Dies, The Bates Motel, Sizzle, Not In Front Of the Children, Roseland, Hide In Plain in Sight, Norma Rae, Day the Bubble Burst, and Jessica Novak.
Northwest Film Projects Inc., founded by Mr. Devlin in 1998, is a small multimedia company devoted to helping young people develop media literacy, emotional intelligence, and self esteem through electronic story telling. Involved in the development and production of rural stories and documentaries for theatrical and/or television release Northwest Film strives to create media entertainment exalting themes of moral excellence, social responsibility, unselfish behavior, and respect for others (tolerance).
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