Director/Creative Director and New Media Strategist

AMERICAN DADA

(646) 623-9357 (US cell), +33 (0)6 11 77 55 88 (French cell)

theresnikoff@tmo.blackberry.net, ted@resnikoff.com

www.resnikoff.com/ted

 

Career Summary:

• More than twenty years of experience as a Director, Creative Director and Producer for commercials, documentaries and corporate films for major U.S. and European clients, including Boston Consulting Group, Brand DNA, Cadra-SAP, Carrefour, Dexxon, Elyos, Euriware, Kia Automobiles France, Kia Motors America, PEA Consulting, Renault, Russell-Reynolds Associates, SAP – USF, Seaquist Closures, Siemens ICN, Unilog Ingenieurie, and Xerox Corp.
• Production Manager of more than 100 commercials in the New York City area. 
• New Media Strategist for political campaigns and non-profit organizations, including Biden for President, Accion International, Boston Night for Darfur, and Children’s Friend and Family Services.
• Producer/Author/Director of Photography and Editor on Final Cut Pro, Media 100 and Avid for clients in France and the United States since 1995. Screenplay translation-adaptation (French-English, English-French) since 2000. 
• Completely bilingual English-French.

 

 

EXPERIENCE – TELEVISION, FILM, NEW MEDIA           

 

 

2008

Web 2.0            Founder Free Radical Creative

A boutique agency dedicated to empowering non profit and individuals with powerful communications strategies and solutions leveraging video communications and Web 2.0 distribution models.

 

2007

Political            Joe Biden for President Campaign—Director,                                Strategist, Media Trainer

Directed Joe Biden for President announcement speech, Jill Biden announcement speech. Campaign trail footage—full events and thematic clips—New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada, and Washington, D.C.

 

Broadcast            “X-Treme School”—Co-Creater, Writer,

                          Director, Editor

Created show concept, wrote and directed pilot episode of a weekly series for cable TV on the latest in personal security techniques, identity-theft protection, and skills.  Featuring actress Christy Scott Cashman and industry expert Robert Siciliano. 

 

Creative Direction            “Safety Channel”

Creative Director of an original concept and business plan for a safety theme cable and web channel for client.  Writer—Artistic Director of a 10′ calling card DVD of concept.

 

Corporate—Web:            “USF ‘07″

Creation of 11 x 30″ web commercials for the French language SAP professional user’s group.

 

Creative Director and Director of New Business Development—Moody Street Pictures

An independent Film, TV, and New Media production company in Waltham, MA.

 

 

 

2006

Commercials           

Director-Operator:         6 x 30″, 2 x 15″, “Be a Bruin”, NESN.  (beabruin.com)

Director-DP:                  4 x 30″, Holiday spots, Legal Seafoods.  (legalseafoods.com)

Director-Editor:             1 x 30″, FAMA, Accion International.  (accion.org)

Director-Editor:             4 x 30″, “Inside Line”, Persistence Media.(insidelinetv.com)

Dir.-Ed.:                        Bellgard, Cutting Edge Windows, Fairway Siding, Guardian Fall. Two 2 Left Prod./

                                     Allied Building Supply. (two2left.com,alliedbuilding.com)

 

Broadcast                       

On-line Editor:             “Be A Bruin”.  2 x 44′ and 6 x 22′.  (beabruin.com)

 

Corporate                       

Director-DP:              3 x 10′ segments, Legal Seafoods.  (leagalseafoods.com)

Editor:                        5 x 7′, Accion International micro-lending program. (accion.org)

Dir.-Ed.:                     6 x 7′ USF (Utilisateurs SAP Francophones).  (In French.)(usf.fr)

Editor:                        Recruitment DVD, Russell-Reynolds Assoc. (russellreynolds.com)

Dir.-Ed.:                     Showreel, Stephanie’s on Newbury. (stephaniesonnewbury.com)

 

2005

Broadcast

Editor:                         “Inside Line”, 2×30′, NESN. NASCAR racing.  (insidelinetv.com)

 

Corporate

Ed.- Auth.:                  “USF Convention Annuel 2005″, 1×4 hours, USF-SAP. (usf.fr)

 

2004

Broadcast                

Dir. of Photography:           “La diplomatie dans tous ses Etats”, 52′ doc.  Soirée Thèma, ARTE. 

                                          (In French and English)(arte.tv)

Dir.-Auth.-DP-Ed.:           UBIK (Since ‘01). + 50 subjects.  (france5.fr/ubik)

Technical Advisor:             Mitakola’, 90′ docu-feature, Koala Films.

 

Corporate                            

Writer-Dir.-Ed.:                 5 x 7′ “Nestlé Café”, Nestlé. (nestle.com)

Prod.-Ed.:                         Trailer “Maria Reiche: Destin d’une Femme Libre”

 

2003

Broadcast

Dir.- Ed.:                            Doc. series on French cinema. Ciné Cinéma.  (cinecinema.fr)

Dir. of Photography:           ‘Mitakola’, 90′ docu-feature, Koala Films.

 

Corporate

Dir.-DP-Ed.:                     ”Voiturier”, 12′. Renault/ K-Agency. (renault.com,kagency.com)

 

2001-02

Corporate

Prod.-Auth.-Dir.-Ed. Audio-visual research report, “EMMAUS: New Ways of Aiding the Homeless.”

(In French)(emmaus-france.org)

Dir.-DP: “Kia Competes in the Paris-Dakar Rally: Paris to Southern Spain”.  Kia Motors America.  (kia.com)

 

2000

Corporate

Prod.-Auth.-Dir.-Ed. “Chawky Frenn : Art Into Life”, 8′.  FRENN, a Lebanese refugee, talks about the tragedy of his country through his paintings.  (In French and English)(chawkyfrenn.com)

Dir.-DP-Ed.: “Kia: Success USA”, 22′.  Kia Automobiles France.  (In English and French)(kia.fr)

 

1998-2000

Director-DP-Editor: Numerous films for Xerox France and PARC Xerox.  (In English and French)(xerox.fr, parc.xerox.com)

 

1996-97

Broadcast

Author-Director: “French Film Festival” for TV5.  A weekly TV show about French cinéma.  Films included “Brigitte Bardot” 4×30′, “Jean Cocteau” 5×30′, “Jeunes Cinéastes” 4×30′ (with Claude Lelouch.), “Gérard Philipe” 4×30′.  (In French and English)(tv5.org)

 

1995

Broadcast

Author-Director: “L’Odyssée Numérique”. 90′ doc. about multimedia lifestyles.  Soirée Thèma, ARTE.  (In English, French, German.)

 

 

EDUCATION                       

 

New York University

B.F.A. Theatre Directing, 1987

 

Université de Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)

Certificate French Language and Civilization, 1995

 

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

TRANSLATOR, SCREENPLAY ADAPTATION:

 

2005            CINEFACTO : 1×90′ feature release, “Le Second Voyage”.  1×90′ feature release, “La Monstre”.

                    JLA CREATIONS: 2×52′ made for tv films, “20,000 lieues sous la mer” (“Twenty Thousand                              Leagues Beneath the Sea”).

2004           CINEFACTO : 1×90′ feature film,  “Vice City Le Film”.  1×27′ animated short, “Aurelia” Synopsis                      ”Zutik”, 90′ feature film.

                   CLARENCE FILMS : 90′ doc. film, pitch, “Maria Reiche: Destin d’une Femme Libre” (“Maria Reiche:                    Destiny of a Free Woman”).

                   DOXA FILMS : Simultaneous translation English/French for the director of “La diplomatie dans                        tous ses états”.

                   JLA CREATIONS  (Groupe AB)  : 52′ made for tv movie, “The Survivor” ; Synopsis of “20,000                              lieues sous la mer”.

                  MEDIATHAN : Corportate films – Degremont, Dexxon, Nestlé-Carrefour, Seaquist / Web-site,                         “Zendo Rinzai”.

2001-04   UBIK, France 5 : Translation of English language interviews into French language voice over.

2003         CIPANGO : 2×52′ made for tv movies, “Sulky” – transcription.  2×52′ made for tv movie, “Sulky”.

                 FERIA FILMS (Groupe AB) : Synopsis of a made for tv movie, “Milady”.

                 JLA CREATIONS : Synopsis of a 90′ docu-fiction, “La Vrai Histoire de la Tour Eiffel” (“The true                         Story of the Eiffel Tower”).

                P.B. PRODUCTIONS : 52′ doc., “Arthur Miller : La Voix de son temps”(Arthur Miller: The Voice of                     his Age)(Project author.)

2002       IMAGE ET CIE. : “Le Lion”, 90′ tv movie.  Script translation, author synopsis/pitch.  Lead negotiator                with Fox Studios, U.S.A.

               PAGE 17 / M6 : Translation English to French of a television series, “Amazons and Gladiators”,                      Tom Kuhn Prod., Hollywood, USA.

 

THEATER AUTHOR, DIRECTOR, ACTOR:

 

2005            One Man Show, “Andréas et Moi” (work in progress.)

 

2004            Voice-over, news announcer, “Sometimes in April”, HBO.

                    Voice over, Hilary, “Vice City Le Film”, Cinefacto.

 

2003-05     Professor of Theatre and English for Grains de Soleil, an educational association, Anet, France.

                   Creation of Theatre Workshop, techniques from American Exper. theatre.

 

2001           Actor in, “Sami Le Pion : Asile” , by M6 TV.   Directed by Patrice Martineau Role : “The English                        Professor”.

 

1999           Director, “Jean contre les Cowboys”. (Odyssée Productions) Presented at the Théâtre Galabru,                        Montmartre, Paris 18ème.

 

1994           Author-Director, “American Success:  The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Timothy Leary and G.                      Gordon Liddy”, Here Space (NYC).

 

1987-94    Creation of more than twenty experimental plays in the New York City area.

 

1987          Co-dir., “Sjuik i Ast”. In Icelandic. Reykjavik, Iceland.

                  Director of “Nostalgia Forgetting Desire”, by John Strand at NYU (Paris).

 

1986         Actor, “Tout Objet Abandonné Sera Détruit Immédiatement!” Café de la Danse, Paris.