Jean-Paul Hellendall is an innovative Arizona feature film Producer with an industry career of 20 years. Jean-Paul was born in Miami Florida, but lived in New York before moving to LA where he grew up. When he was 5 years old he started working as a background extra in film and TV, but as he got older he started paying attention to the crew and how hard they worked to finish the project on time and on budget. He wrote his first short script when he was 12 years old, it was a story about Superman with a different twist. Baby superman landed on the death star and was raised by Darth Vader. His first job as part of a crew was working for Dimension Cable public access Producing and Directing shorts. Then he found himself in Las Vegas, Nevada going to college and making his own short films including The Boyfriend and the critically acclaimed Judgement. He started to work for UNLV shooting the city council meetings and county commission meetings. He would also work on various UNLV shows as a stage manager and Camera man. He would again run the control board and Direct the cameras where and how to shoot. Mr. Hellendall continues to develop feature
JEAN-PAUL HELLENDALL
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films through his company Eagleway Productions and through his contacts he has made over the years.
Robert Clemens
Robert spent the early part of his life in Ranch Palos Verdes, where he discovered is talent for playing violin and trumpet. This is where he first realized his passion for filmmaking. His childhood friend JP Hellendall who was a classically trained actor inspired Robert to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. Robert left community college and studied, cinematography, producing, acting, and directing at UCLA. All of Robert’s professors were successful filmmakers in the entertainment industry, and gave him great insight into the business.
Robert Clemens soon began working on AFI and USC films as a camera assistant. Randal Emmett hired Robert as his assistant in 1998. Mr. Emmett has gone on to produce films like the new Conan the Barbarian film now released. Randal Emmett taught Robert how to pitch and package feature films. Robert soon was working as an assistant to Steve Austin and wore several hats on the project. Steve Austin came to Robert one day and told him how he was having difficulty obtaining talent and investors for Route 66. Robert told Steve Austin what he had learned from Randal Emmett on pitching and packaging features.
Robert spent the early part of his life in Ranch Palos Verdes, where he discovered is talent for playing violin and trumpet. This is where he first realized his passion for filmmaking. His childhood friend JP Hellendall who was a classically trained actor inspired Robert to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. Robert left community college and studied, cinematography, producing, acting, and directing at UCLA. All of Robert’s professors were successful filmmakers in the entertainment industry, and gave him great insight into the business.
Robert Clemens soon began working on AFI and USC films as a camera assistant. Randal Emmett hired Robert as his assistant in 1998. Mr. Emmett has gone on to produce films like the new Conan the Barbarian film now released. Randal Emmett taught Robert how to pitch and package feature films. Robert soon was working as an assistant to Steve Austin and wore several hats on the project. Steve Austin came to Robert one day and told him how he was having difficulty obtaining talent and investors for Route 66. Robert told Steve Austin what he had learned from Randal Emmett on pitching and packaging features.
Steve soon had his talent in place with financing and commenced principal photography. Robert drove the Paramount Pictures truck to Torre Utah for the filming of route 66. He hired a local crew and began construction of the set, he designed the exterior foliage; all of this was accomplished while Steve Austin was still in Burbank, California. When Steve Austin arrived on set he was very pleased with the design of the set. Steve asked Robert if he would like to shoot production stills.
In 2002 Robert completed the filming of his first short film. He wrote, directed and produced the film. Robert entered into a low budget agreement with SAG after he secured financing for the short. Robert Clemens hired a professional crew. The make up artist Natalie Wood had eight Emmys for make up on the television series Star Trek.
Robert hired cinematography Gary Graver who was a close friend and cameraman for Orsen Wells, and has worked on numerous features throughout his career. Robert hired John A Barton to edit the picture, he was and industry professional who cut movies of the week and television shows for CBS. John also edited Jean Claude Van Dam’s movie Death Warrant. Robert scheduled both the talent and crew, and secured film permits for the filming locations. Mr. Clemens continues to write scripts and develop new ideas for future production.