DIRECTORS
Tony Carne and Trevor Drane have considerable expertise in production and an intricate hands on knowledge of rights management. The principals of the company, Tony Carne and Trevor Drane, have over 30 years of experience in the industry, gained at 20th Century Fox and Harper Collins in Tony’s case and Palace Pictures, Virgin (PVG), Castle Communications and First Independent Film for Trevor.
Their production roster includes three series of the hugely successful ‘Faces Of The Underworld’ Series 1 & 2 aired on Discovery’s Quest channel to unprecedented audience figures and Series 3 will air on TV3 in Ireland. Sticking with the true-crime genre, the company also produced two documentary features ‘Essex Boys: The Truth’ and ‘The Krays: Kill Order’ and is now developing further projects including Canadian sci-fi action series ‘Starhunter’ and the latest instalment of investigative crime series ‘Fraud Squad: Scam Me If You Can’. Twice BAFTA nominated for BBC co-productions, Revelation’s current partners include FremantleMedia, Neal Street Productions, CBS, Discovery and 20th Century Fox as well as independent film and TV producers such as MoliFilms and Kew Media.
Tony Carne founded Revelation Films in 1992 as a video and television production business following a successful career at CBS/Fox, Harper Collins and Simitar Entertainment. Under his guidance, Revelation became one of the leading independents and worked with such notable partners as Channel 4, BBC, The Terrence Higgins Trust and discovering Lily Savage.
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Trevor Drane joined Tony in 1996 having previously been an executive board member at major indie, First Independent Films. Trevor’s notable successes are many and varied. He was honoured to collect a lifetime achievement for ‘Dirty Dancing’ whilst at First Independent and also the prestigious Freddie award for international marketing excellence at Hanna Barbera during his time as head of the company’s home entertainment output after commissioning the first two new Flintstone animated works in 20 years with the successful movies ‘Viva Rock Vegas’, and ‘I Yabba Dabba Do’ .
ADVISORY BOARD
Vinfinity Media Ltd has appointed a non-executive Advisory Board of industry professionals who have a wide range of expert experience spanning the automotive, film production, sales and rights management sectors.
The directors of Vinfinity have partnered with every one of the advisors on previous projects, and will continue to partner with them on Vinfinity Media projects moving forward. The board compliments and expands the company’s
network of contacts within both the film and automotive industry. The advisory board will consult and where appropriate participate in the management of the projects Vinfinity represents.
Greg Glass has 30+ years of experience in the development, marketing and sales of entertainment content, entertainment brands, licensed products and talent. His specific expertise is in the areas of content development, branded entertainment and business development.
Greg began his career in the music business, handling regional and national distribution and marketing for the Handleman Company where he spent 11 years working directly with the country’s largest mass merchant retailers. From retail distribution, Greg would transition to the label side, working for 12 years with independent labels Simitar Entertainment and BCI Eclipse – both offshoots of the famous K-TEL brand. From 2006 to 2017, Greg would transition again, this time to television, to help expand the efforts of BCII in its core business of cable television programming production/sales, as well as create branded and commercial units at the company. His most recent contribution being the creation of a strategic alliance with Vaylian Studios for the creation of ground-breaking AR/VR/MR and VFX content for traditional advertising, experiential marketing and app engagement. For 2018, Greg is putting 100% of his efforts into advanced digital media as the Director of Business Development at Vaylian Studios.
Vaylian was founded by Damien Christian D'Amico, a director, editor, and visual effects artist with 10+ years experience in commercial & experiential advertising, series television, feature film, installation, and web-based content. After attending Cal-Arts, Damien launched a career in the television and film industry, first working as an editor and VFX artist, and then moving into writing and directing.
In 2015, Damien founded Vaylian Studios with Melody Misiaszek as a destination for clients looking to create innovative and original commercial campaigns. Damien serves as executive creative director whilst Melody is head of creative production. Melody got her start in the ed-tech industry and brings over a decade of experience in Digital and Content Marketing and Creative Development.
One of the first projects for Vaylian was to build a synchronized video installation displayed on 3 large LED monitors, which premiered at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. After the success of that show, Vaylian began working extensively in emerging platforms such as Augmented & Virtual Reality, App design + development, Web Interactive, and Experiential Installations.
In March of 2017, Vaylian created the first ever interactive 360º experience for the travel + food online media brand, Thrillist. In November of 2017, Vaylian launched an experiential marketing AR program on the Microsoft HoloLens––the first of its kind––for fortune 500 company, Johnson Controls. In January of 2018, Vaylian’s virtual reality experience, “Born to Baja,” (produced for Ford Motor Company by GTB) won the Lumiere Award for Best VR Brand Experience.