About the Filmmakers
KAYLA TABISH - PRODUCER
Kayla has always been committed to breathing life into projects
that illuminate aspects of life and characters
with whom
audiences might not be familiar and would otherwise
ignore.
To that end, she recently helped produce
the critically acclaimed
"Loren Cass",
an
independent feature that had its U.S. Premiere at the
CineVegas
Film Festival,
and international premiere at the
Locarno
Switzerland Film Festival.
"Loren Cass" went on to screen in 20+ festival cities around the world,
received an IFP Gotham Award nomination and
opened theatrically in New York City and Los Angeles
to incredible reviews
from the New York Times, Variety,
and the Village Voice
among many others.
For reviews and other information please visit
However, it was at CineVegas where Kayla met filmmaker
Dan Peterson
whose "Have Love, Will Travel" was also
premiering.
During a chance conversation, he described in detail a film he
was developing called "Pretty".
Kayla immediately fell in love with the story and,
on the spot, volunteered to produce it with him.
In the interim, they produced
the
short film,
"goodbye"
and are currently producing the webseries
"5150".
DAN PETERSON - WRITER DIRECTOR PRODUCER
An Air Force veteran, Dan utilized the G.I. bill to attend
Columbia College film school.
His
credits include writer of various television shows such as
"Party
of Five" and "The Untouchables"
Dan's independent film, "Backroad Motel",
an anthology featuring fictional characters
inhabiting a dingy motel room somewhere along Route 66,
caught the attention of Jonathan Taplin, producer of,
among
other films, Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets".
So impressed
by Dan's film, Taplin transformed "Backroad Motel"
into
one of the first internet series or "webisodes"
In between writing and filmmaking gigs
Dan spent random periods of time as
Quentin Tarantino's
personal script typist
and once sat in a room for a week alone
with
Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and Director David Dobkinprior to principal photography and transcribed their notes
as they discussed the script for "Wedding Crashers".
During those years, Dan also spent a
brief
period working part-time as
driver/bodyguard for "Private Dancers".
However, that experience inspired him to write, produce and direct,
"Have Love, Will Travel"
a starkly honest and
unflinching journey into
a dark underground world rarely seen
by most people.
It was "Have Love, Will Travel" that
Sundance
Film Festival Programmers, Trevor Groth & Mike Plant
invited
to premiere at their own CineVegas Film Festiva
Dan's current producing partnership with Kayla Tabish
has resulted in the semi-controversial, yet powerful, short film,
the currently in production webseries
and development of the powerful teenage romance/dramatic
feature film
