Doggie Dream Productions Team
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Tim Bartell
Writer, Director, Producer
Tim Bartell is a writer-director-producer. As a young actor he had a long list of TV and film credits while developing his comedy chops at The Comedy Store and The L.A. Connection.
He later turned to writing and directing, creating an award winning short and web series.
Dirty Beautiful was Tim's feature film debut as a writer-director. It played in 67 U.S. and international festivals, winning 48 awards, including 15 Best Narrative/ Best Comedy trophies. The film is in distribution and can now be seen on Amazon, Tubi, Vudu, Roku, Apple TV and other platforms.
His spec scripts have achieved quarter-finals to finals recognition in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, ScreenCraft, Austin and Cinequest film festivals, Stage 32, Page Awards and more.
Tim's L.A. based company, Doggie Dream Productions, features several projects in development.
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Jeff Solema
Producer
Former VP of Magic Elevator LLC and one of the Producer’s of its ventures. He helped managed Magic Elevator’s International Sales and Marketing Department at most major film markets such as Hong Kong Film Market, Cannes Film Market, AFM, EFM, and MIPTV.
Former founder and Former Director of Filipino International Film Festival L.A. Producer of over 20 feature films such as “Jaguar”, “Downside of Bliss”, “Ghost Goggles” “The Broken Ones” and “Monster & Me”.
His films have been distributed in almost 30 countries around the world.
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Melinda Augustina
Creative Producer
Melinda Augustina is a creative producer on our Los Angeles team. An actress, author and creative producer of books, blogs, videos, film, web-series, stage productions, education events, comedy shows ~ almost every form of media. Melinda brings a depth and breadth of entertainment and business experience to our team.
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Her BA degree is in theater, and her acting and producing experience ranges from Shakespeare, new American plays, improv, sketch comedy, films, children's entertainment, videos, audio programming and 8 years of quality social content. Her first film THREE-FIFTY won numerous awards in over 40 film festivals, aired on Canal Plus, NBC Universal and SYFY channels around the world for 7 years.
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With Doggie Dream Productions, Melinda contributed to the success of Fun With War Crimes, Dirty Beautiful and San Francisco Sound.
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Following Sarah Bernhardt's business model (Don't wait for someone to give you permission.) Melinda produced her first stage productions in the backyard before she was 9 years old. Surrounded by co-stars (8 brothers and sisters), an opera singing mother, and a Hollywood-handsome father, everything looked like a production to her. Everything STILL looks that way.