Leadership
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Brian Ide: Producer/Director
Having grown up in Iowa, Brian Ide was very fortunate to have access to great public education. He has now lived in Los Angeles for 11 years and was motivated to create ReDistribute under his Meriwether Productions umbrella by seeing the incredible challenges that young people in urban areas face. The challenge as he saw it, was how to create a business model that was sustainable, financially beneficial to those involved while also significantly benefiting young people with limited resources. The grassroots model of ReDistribute accomplishes this. He expects to generate a substantial return for his investors while generating tens of millions of dollars for Charity. He is excited to make the first project benefit public education and is looking at focusing on medical research and treatment in 2011.
Brian has worked in many facets of the entertainment industry for 15 years. He began in the local theater in Iowa, and by the age of 22 Brian found himself commuting several hours each day to volunteer on film and commercial shoots. Years later, Brian formed Meriwether Productions, whose mission is to tell stories that inspire people's lives. Now, six years later, Brian has produced and directed a variety of successful, compelling projects, including his recent award-winning feature film, Clear Lake, WI. He is also been hired to direct Remembering Rachel and La Nouvelle Orleans in 2011. In addition to filming throughout the U.S., he has helmed projects in Jerusalem, Germany and Honduras.
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Spero Stamboulis: Producer
Spero Dean Stamboulis is very thankful to have had many opportunities in his early life. Even while growing up in a lower income household he was blessed with a loving family and a few outstanding, committed and supportive teachers. They truly made the difference in his education, success and his overall life! Those caring mentors made it possible for him to face growing up with a learning disabilities and now Spero takes those early lessons of patience and hard work and utilizes them in his career. With over 20 years of working on television, in films and on commercials, he is eternally grateful for their support and looks forward to impacting the lives of other children in need. This is why he is excited and proud to be part of ReDistribute.
A talented actor with numerous television and film credits, as well as countless commercials under his belt, Spero Stamboulis has also been featured on General Hospital, The Tonight Show and Sex And The City. Spero holds a degree in finance from the University of Connecticut and has recently finished producing the feature films, Clear Lake, WI and Silverlake Video: The Movie, and is in preproduction on the feature films Six and Night of the Mannequins set for late 2010 and Remembering Rachel in 2011.
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John Goldsmith: Production Designer
John believes that at the heart of ReDistribute is a very direct way of giving back, of transforming consumption into an offering, of saying thank you. This very much interests him. Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly.
John has worked in Hollywood for twenty years, art directing such projects as No Country for Old Men, the HBO series John Adams, the soon-to-be-released Straw Dogs, and the upcoming Michael Mann-directed pilot "Luck" for HBO. John has also set designed on such films as The Last Samurai, Spiderman, City of Angels, and Natural Born Killers.
