Keith Jorgensen is an award winning film and video producer, director, and editor through his video and film production companies which are co-owned with business partners and childhood friends, Michael Leber and Ken Czechanski. Jorgensen is best known for his pioneering video production encompassing the 24p digital video technology instead of using film.
Biography and Career
Keith Jorgensen, born on August 14th, 1979, and is the oldest of two boys born to Eric and LaVerne Jorgensen. Jorgensen began creating films around the age of 10 with the family's video camera. He finished his first feature film, METAL MECH, at the age of 14. Future business partner Michael Leber was introduced to them shortly after the film's completion. The three went on to complete 3 additional feature films including HADDON COUNTY, HADDON COUNTY 2: THE RETURN, and ILLINOIS SMITH AND THE QUEST FOR THE LAST JOLT. Jorgensen had finished all four films before his 18th birthday. ILLINOIS SMITH AND THE QUEST FOR THE LAST JOLT won several awards in 1997 from the Chicago Youth Film and Video Festival including Best Feature Film and Audience Choice.
Upon graduation from Marian Catholic High School, Jorgensen entered film school with friends Ken Czechanski, and Michael Leber, at Columbia College Chicago.
In 1999, Jorgensen worked in the production department of Universal Studios’s THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE as a production asistant at the age of 19. The film did not fair well in it’s release and was deemed a bust. In 2000, Jorgensen worked again in the production department of Paramount’s WHAT WOMEN WANT starring Academy Award Winners, Mel Gibson and Marisa Tomei. The film grossed over 180 million. In 2001, Jorgensen worked on the CBS Studio Lot, now owned by Viacom, as a floating production assistant. With an impending SAG strike, Jorgensen decided to leave Los Angeles and returned to Chicago to start his own full service production company.
Upon his return in 2001, Jorgensen completed his fifth feature film entitled BREAKERS INCORPORATED. Breakers Inc. which was recognized for its marketing technique of creating a single film “tour”. The tour included several major universities in the Midwest, including Indiana University, Northwestern University, and Marquette University.
In 2003, Jorgensen and director Michael Leber officially formed VIDEOWORKS CHICAGO LLC, a full production house located in the heart of Chicago. The company split into three divisions later that year. The first being VIDEOWORKS CHICAGO LLC who’s main focus is corporate video work. The second, Poetic Productions, is considered the top special event videography company in Chicago and has been featured on VH1’s MY BIG FAT FABOULOUS WEDDING, The Knot Magazine, Brides.com, Bride’s Magazine, and WGN. The third division is the creative company STOCK YARD FILMS, focusing mainly on creative film and video works, as well as industrial and commercial work. They are most recognized for their music video work as well as several press awards and honors with their work in exercise video production.
Feature Films
Metal Mech – Fantasy Productions
Haddon County – Fantasy Productions
Illinois Smith and the Quest for the Jolt – Flyte Entertainment
Haddon County 2 – Flyte Entertainment
Breakers Incorporated – Flyte Entertainment
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle - Universal Studios
What Women Want - Paramount
Music Videos
"Black & White" - Dick Prall (2007) Authentic Records / Paperwork Media
"Audio & Murder" - The Frantic (2007) Sinister Muse Records
"Day Two And Counting..." - The Hallow (2007) Window Licker Records
"Bela (Lugosi) Ain't Got Sh*t On Me" - The Hallow (2007) Window Licker Records
"Rain" - Dead Town Revival (2007) Sinister Muse Records
"Trees" - Marty Casey & The Lovehammers (2006) Stock Yard Films
"Thrown Away" - Undercast (2005)
"Any More Lonely" - First Class (2004) Johann's Face Records
Commercials
GAP – Artistic Interlude / Commercial For Stock Yard Films
Fogo De Chao- Commercial For CityExplorer.TV
BodyWedge 21+ / Commercial & Series of DVD’s For Stock Yard Films & Home Shopping Network
Patrick Goudeau – Series of Exercise DVD’s For Stock Yard Films
Allstate & Leo Burnett 50th Anniversary – For Poetic Productions
Awards & Honors
1997 BEST FEATURE FILM (2nd place) - Chicago Youth Film Festival
1997 AUDIENCE CHOICE - Chicago Youth Film Festival
2004 BEST WORKOUT VIDEO (Honorable Mention)- REAL SIMPLE MAGAZINE, October 2004 issue
2005 MOST INNOVATIVE WORKOUT VIDEO – HEALTH MAGAZINE, January 2005 issue
2006 BEST MUSIC VIDEO (nominee) – MIDWEST INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
2007 NATIONAL CREDIT - VH1’s MY BIG FAT FABULOUS WEDDING
2007 BEST FAT BURNING VIDEO – FITNESS MAGAZINE, January 2007 issue
--Kejsport 19:31, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Biography and Career
Keith Jorgensen, born on August 14th, 1979, and is the oldest of two boys born to Eric and LaVerne Jorgensen. Jorgensen began creating films around the age of 10 with the family's video camera. He finished his first feature film, METAL MECH, at the age of 14. Future business partner Michael Leber was introduced to them shortly after the film's completion. The three went on to complete 3 additional feature films including HADDON COUNTY, HADDON COUNTY 2: THE RETURN, and ILLINOIS SMITH AND THE QUEST FOR THE LAST JOLT. Jorgensen had finished all four films before his 18th birthday. ILLINOIS SMITH AND THE QUEST FOR THE LAST JOLT won several awards in 1997 from the Chicago Youth Film and Video Festival including Best Feature Film and Audience Choice.
Upon graduation from Marian Catholic High School, Jorgensen entered film school with friends Ken Czechanski, and Michael Leber, at Columbia College Chicago.
In 1999, Jorgensen worked in the production department of Universal Studios’s THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE as a production asistant at the age of 19. The film did not fair well in it’s release and was deemed a bust. In 2000, Jorgensen worked again in the production department of Paramount’s WHAT WOMEN WANT starring Academy Award Winners, Mel Gibson and Marisa Tomei. The film grossed over 180 million. In 2001, Jorgensen worked on the CBS Studio Lot, now owned by Viacom, as a floating production assistant. With an impending SAG strike, Jorgensen decided to leave Los Angeles and returned to Chicago to start his own full service production company.
Upon his return in 2001, Jorgensen completed his fifth feature film entitled BREAKERS INCORPORATED. Breakers Inc. which was recognized for its marketing technique of creating a single film “tour”. The tour included several major universities in the Midwest, including Indiana University, Northwestern University, and Marquette University.
In 2003, Jorgensen and director Michael Leber officially formed VIDEOWORKS CHICAGO LLC, a full production house located in the heart of Chicago. The company split into three divisions later that year. The first being VIDEOWORKS CHICAGO LLC who’s main focus is corporate video work. The second, Poetic Productions, is considered the top special event videography company in Chicago and has been featured on VH1’s MY BIG FAT FABOULOUS WEDDING, The Knot Magazine, Brides.com, Bride’s Magazine, and WGN. The third division is the creative company STOCK YARD FILMS, focusing mainly on creative film and video works, as well as industrial and commercial work. They are most recognized for their music video work as well as several press awards and honors with their work in exercise video production.
Feature Films
Metal Mech – Fantasy Productions
Haddon County – Fantasy Productions
Illinois Smith and the Quest for the Jolt – Flyte Entertainment
Haddon County 2 – Flyte Entertainment
Breakers Incorporated – Flyte Entertainment
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle - Universal Studios
What Women Want - Paramount
Music Videos
"Black & White" - Dick Prall (2007) Authentic Records / Paperwork Media
"Audio & Murder" - The Frantic (2007) Sinister Muse Records
"Day Two And Counting..." - The Hallow (2007) Window Licker Records
"Bela (Lugosi) Ain't Got Sh*t On Me" - The Hallow (2007) Window Licker Records
"Rain" - Dead Town Revival (2007) Sinister Muse Records
"Trees" - Marty Casey & The Lovehammers (2006) Stock Yard Films
"Thrown Away" - Undercast (2005)
"Any More Lonely" - First Class (2004) Johann's Face Records
Commercials
GAP – Artistic Interlude / Commercial For Stock Yard Films
Fogo De Chao- Commercial For CityExplorer.TV
BodyWedge 21+ / Commercial & Series of DVD’s For Stock Yard Films & Home Shopping Network
Patrick Goudeau – Series of Exercise DVD’s For Stock Yard Films
Allstate & Leo Burnett 50th Anniversary – For Poetic Productions
Awards & Honors
1997 BEST FEATURE FILM (2nd place) - Chicago Youth Film Festival
1997 AUDIENCE CHOICE - Chicago Youth Film Festival
2004 BEST WORKOUT VIDEO (Honorable Mention)- REAL SIMPLE MAGAZINE, October 2004 issue
2005 MOST INNOVATIVE WORKOUT VIDEO – HEALTH MAGAZINE, January 2005 issue
2006 BEST MUSIC VIDEO (nominee) – MIDWEST INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
2007 NATIONAL CREDIT - VH1’s MY BIG FAT FABULOUS WEDDING
2007 BEST FAT BURNING VIDEO – FITNESS MAGAZINE, January 2007 issue
--Kejsport 19:31, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Anthony Chidiac (December 30, 1970) is an Australian entrepreneur and pioneer in Recordable DVD Technology. He Pioneered Real-Time DVD Authoring using Windows XP and was invited to encode and burn the first DVD during Bill Gates' keynote speech using a band he had managed, Bonacci and Wood. This warm-up band to Gates’ keynote speech became the content matter of the encoded DVD, played back to the audience of 17,000 at the MGM Grand Arena and within hours, thousands of copies were made freely available to keynote attendees.
From 2003-2006, Chidiac initiated a three year project in Reservoir, Australia, to research and develop a new concept that progresses the internet cafe from a place where mainly tourists frequent into an integrated venue that caters for not only tourists, but ordinary people looking to socialise and use technology at the same time. The venue was labelled “o3 convergence cafe”. The concept was a finalist in a competition run by Yahoo to find the world's internet cafe of the year.
From 2003-2006, Chidiac initiated a three year project in Reservoir, Australia, to research and develop a new concept that progresses the internet cafe from a place where mainly tourists frequent into an integrated venue that caters for not only tourists, but ordinary people looking to socialise and use technology at the same time. The venue was labelled “o3 convergence cafe”. The concept was a finalist in a competition run by Yahoo to find the world's internet cafe of the year.
The 2007 Jimbo Wales video appeared on on October 23, 2007. In the video, Jimbo Wales explains that as founder of , the Wikimedia Foundation needs donations in order to develop Wikimedia projects more thoroughly in different languages. The video sets out the project's missions and shows Wales speaking to people in several countries including India and South Africa, showing how people in such countries utilise and other Wikimedia projects as a source of knowledge where knowledge is not readily available otherwise.
THE SHOW
Live with Mitch and Paige, a local television show in Grand Rapids is hosted by Mitch Harvatin and Paige Fawcett. Live with Mitch and Paige has been on GRTV since August of 2007. Since August Live with Mitch and Paige has been the only local “Teen Show” for the Grand Rapids area.
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Mitch Harvatin, 14 lives in Rockford and attends Rockford Public Schools. Harvatin has two (2) brothers, Chasse (11) and Jacob (9). Harvatin has two (2) parents, Pete who is an Organizer for the Carpenters Local 100 and Stacey who owns a Jewelry Store in Grand Rapids. Harvatin has been a member at the Community Media Center since mid 2005 and started “3-Minute Rant” which has been replaced with “Live with Mitch and Paige”. Harvatin plans on being a journalist when he’s older and wants to go to Grand Valley State University or Ferris State University for broadcasting.
Paige Fawcett, 14 lives in Rockford and attends Rockford Public Schools. More information still to come.
HISTORY OF THE SHOW
Before “Live with Mitch and Paige” it was the show “3-Minute Rant” a local rant and/ or rave show. In mid 2007 Paige Fawcett was promoted to the desk and that’s when producers started to come up with a new theme of the show. In August of 2007, producers got it, a new theme a show for teens in the community, they called the new show “Live with Mitch and Paige”. Since August, 2007 producers got to work, with new graphics, a new set and a new intro. At the end of August Live with Mitch and Paige was on the air with a sneak preview for the next week (August 27th) to kick off the season premiere! In October of 2007, Live with Mitch and Paige wanted to expand because it’s only on for 30 minutes (7:30-8:00 PM) so we put our Special Projects manger to work and they got a new show already planned. “Mornings with Mitch and Paige”. “Mornings with Mitch and Paige” kicked off in November, 2007 at 11 AM. The show is still LIVE in the GRTV-Studios. It has different segments “Weekend Movies” and “Weekend Adventures”. “Mornings with Mitch and Paige” is still a 30 minute show.
SEGMENTS
“Live with Mitch and Paige” has several different segments “Paige’s Book Review”, “Hot Technology”, “Daily Blog”, “Grand Rapids Spotlight”, “Small Cents, Make Cents”, “Weekend Movies” and “Weekend Adventures”.
CREW
Live with Mitch and Paige is a big show with guests each week. With a big show that means we need a big crew. Live with Mitch and Paige has about 15 crew members to help set up the show and help put it on.
LIVEWITHMITCHANDPAIGE.COM
Live with Mitch and Paige expanded even more in September of 2007. We kicked off our new web-site www.livewithmitchandpaige.com. It helps teens find out what's coming up in the next shows and more.
Live with Mitch and Paige, a local television show in Grand Rapids is hosted by Mitch Harvatin and Paige Fawcett. Live with Mitch and Paige has been on GRTV since August of 2007. Since August Live with Mitch and Paige has been the only local “Teen Show” for the Grand Rapids area.
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Mitch Harvatin, 14 lives in Rockford and attends Rockford Public Schools. Harvatin has two (2) brothers, Chasse (11) and Jacob (9). Harvatin has two (2) parents, Pete who is an Organizer for the Carpenters Local 100 and Stacey who owns a Jewelry Store in Grand Rapids. Harvatin has been a member at the Community Media Center since mid 2005 and started “3-Minute Rant” which has been replaced with “Live with Mitch and Paige”. Harvatin plans on being a journalist when he’s older and wants to go to Grand Valley State University or Ferris State University for broadcasting.
Paige Fawcett, 14 lives in Rockford and attends Rockford Public Schools. More information still to come.
HISTORY OF THE SHOW
Before “Live with Mitch and Paige” it was the show “3-Minute Rant” a local rant and/ or rave show. In mid 2007 Paige Fawcett was promoted to the desk and that’s when producers started to come up with a new theme of the show. In August of 2007, producers got it, a new theme a show for teens in the community, they called the new show “Live with Mitch and Paige”. Since August, 2007 producers got to work, with new graphics, a new set and a new intro. At the end of August Live with Mitch and Paige was on the air with a sneak preview for the next week (August 27th) to kick off the season premiere! In October of 2007, Live with Mitch and Paige wanted to expand because it’s only on for 30 minutes (7:30-8:00 PM) so we put our Special Projects manger to work and they got a new show already planned. “Mornings with Mitch and Paige”. “Mornings with Mitch and Paige” kicked off in November, 2007 at 11 AM. The show is still LIVE in the GRTV-Studios. It has different segments “Weekend Movies” and “Weekend Adventures”. “Mornings with Mitch and Paige” is still a 30 minute show.
SEGMENTS
“Live with Mitch and Paige” has several different segments “Paige’s Book Review”, “Hot Technology”, “Daily Blog”, “Grand Rapids Spotlight”, “Small Cents, Make Cents”, “Weekend Movies” and “Weekend Adventures”.
CREW
Live with Mitch and Paige is a big show with guests each week. With a big show that means we need a big crew. Live with Mitch and Paige has about 15 crew members to help set up the show and help put it on.
LIVEWITHMITCHANDPAIGE.COM
Live with Mitch and Paige expanded even more in September of 2007. We kicked off our new web-site www.livewithmitchandpaige.com. It helps teens find out what's coming up in the next shows and more.