Team
Philip Harder: Director & Writer
Philip Harder writer/director has directed numerous commercials and music videos for clients including Apple, Sprint, The Gap, Target, Advil, Gerber, NHL, Disney and Hewlett Packard. His music videos include Prince, Foo Fighters, Incubus, The Script, CSS, Nada Surf, Rob Thomas, Liz Phair, Babes in Toyland, Macy Gray, Hilary Duff, Low, Cornershop, Trampled By Turtles, Pulp, The Cranberries, Barenaked Ladies, Matchbox Twenty, Afghan Whigs, all of which feature Harder's visual experimentation and energetic style.
Harder has earned several top distinctions including an MVPA award for Best Alternative Video, MTV Awards video nomination, SXSW short film award, and a nomination for MVPA's Director of the Year. His dance shorts have earned numerous awards including the Jury Award at the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center New York, and Best Experimental Film Award at the Brooklyn International Film Festival.
Harder's cinematography credits include the 2016 feature film "Yoko The Cherry Blossom", shot and distributed in Japan, dir. Gen Takahashi, "Snow" which was nominated for a Spirit Award and "Low Movie" which premiered at the Lincoln Center, New York. His most recent documentary film is “A Work In Progress: Albert Milgrom’s Cinema Journey” (2018).
Scott Franklin: Executive Producer
Scott Franklin is a producer and actor, known for his films with Darren Aronofsky including Requiem for a Dream (2000), Black Swan (2010) and The Wrestler (2008), Noah (2014), Mother (2017) and several other films through his production company Protozoa with Darren Aronofsky including White Boy Rick (2018), Jackie (2016), Zipper (2015), and Aftermath (2015) Scott is an executive producer at Protozoa production company with filmmaker Aronofsky. The company currently has three year first look deal with Regency Enterprises to develop film and TV projects.
Producer
Patrick Riley is a veteran technology entrepreneur, producer and musician. Patrick has directed and produced dozens of music videos, documentaries, and short films.
In 2008-2009, Patrick was Isabella Rossellini’s Assistant Director for an original series (Green Porno) she created for the Sundance Channel. He also served as Assistant Director for the Sundance Institute Filmmaker’s Lab for three years. Two of his Sundance projects become feature films: “Paperman” (2009) starring Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone & Ryan Reynolds, and “Here” (2012) starring Ben Foster.
Executive Producer
Brian started off his career producing premiere cable movies for HBO, Showtime, SyFy Network and Lions Gate TV, before segueing into independent features, television and commercials.
Some of his recent indie feature credits include Lionsgate’s upcoming film, “Angel of Mine” starring Noomi Rapace, Yvonne Strahovski and Luke Evans and written by Luke Davies (Lion, Beautiful Boy); “Prison Logic” starring Romany Malco and Regina Hall and Executive Produced by Will Packer and James Lopez; Lionsgate’s “Reclaim” starring John Cusack and Ryan Phillippe, Sony/Sam Goldwyn comedy, "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy" starring Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte, Nick Kroll and Lake Bell and "Relative Strangers" starring Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates, Bob Odenkirk, Ron Livingston, Christine Baranski and Neve Campbell.
On the TV front, Brian produced the FX comedy pilot, “What’s Going On? With Mike Mitchell” which included celebrity guests Will Ferrell and Jennifer Lawrence. He also Executive Produced multiple episodes for two seasons of HBO’s comedy series, Funny or Die Presents, including the Sundance winner, “Drunken History: Lincoln/Douglas” starring Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle; works by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant (“Reno 911”), Jeremy Konner (“Drunk History”), Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“Skull Island”) and The Daniels (“Swiss Army Man”).
Brian is also a seasoned Commercial, Fashion and Documentary Producer. He’s produced spots for directors Dayton/Faris (“Little Miss Sunshine”); Nicole Holofcener (“Friends with Money”), Seth Rogan & Evan Goldberg (“This is the End”); Jason Reitman (“Juno”), Miguel Arteta (“Cedar Rapids”), Todd Field (“Little Children”), Bob Odenkirk (“Breaking Bad”), Grant Heslov (“Goodnight and Good Luck”) and an IBM documentary for Academy Award Winning director, Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”). He produced numerous spots for the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the Oscars and the award winning Kmart campaign, ‘Ship My Pants’ which earned 3 Silver Lions at Cannes.
He is currently attached to produce the political thriller, COLLISION based on the NY Times best selling book, the comedy project DREAMGIRL for Warner Brothers and the female-driven actioner, CONTRACTION among others.
Executive Producer
Since establishing T Group in 2010, Jennifer Daly has created, sold and produced over 50 series, pilots and presentations to a wide range of networks. Daly oversees and manages a production slate that includes over 100 episodes of Mystery Diners (Food), Storage Hunters (truTV), Storage Hunters UK (Dave), Container Wars (truTV), Invention USA (History), The Xperiment (BET), A Wicked Offer (CW) among many others. T Group has co-production partnerships with Jack Osbourne’s Osbourne Media, Canadian producers Matthew Kershaw and Jay Kovitz’s Interior Day Entertainment, Ann Lewis Roberts’ Roberts Media as well as British producers Natalka Znak and Simon Jones and their company Znak & Jones.
Erik Helgeson: Executive Producer
Audience Choice Award winning documentary producer. Tuscaloosa is his first narrative feature film.
Dan Riley:
Executive Producer
Dan is an experienced technology entrepreneur, musician, and global keynote speaker. He has shared musical billings with artists of national and international acclaim. He works with industry leading organizations around the world helping them transform their vision and strategy, while inspiring audiences with insight, energy, and powerful storytelling.