JOE FRAZZICA

Executive Producer/Director

Joe is the driving force and Executive Producer in charge of Frazzica Productions Pty Ltd founded in 2003. Joe has completed film production courses with the Melbourne Film School and was the Executive Producer of Horse Rush TV Series 1,2 & 3. Joe has had a crash course in production under the watchful guidance of business partner Stephen Pullin in Los Angeles USA. Joe has worked on the set of many Pullin Television TV shows in the USA as a Producer and Cinematographer. Joe has a natural gift for filming and managing large sets.

Currently working on various projects including 1320X Australia, Drift Rush TV and Horse Rush TV and various other corporate jobs including directing his first documentary Marwari – War Horse of the Maharaja. Joe has grown into a experienced producer. Recently Frazzica Productions has started holding motor sports events. Joe has simultaneously ran a motor sport event and directed a shoot on the same day with a cast & crew of over 200. Currently residing between Melbourne Australia and Las Vegas USA. Joe is working on numerous production projects. In his spare time Joe enjoys spending time with his family and the sport of “Drifting”. He still holds on to his dream of becoming a Drift Pro and racing on the circuit one day.

Email: joe@frazzicaproductions.com

www.frazzicaproductions.com, www.horserush.com, www.horserushtv.com, www.1320xaustralia.com, www.marwarimovie.com

 

LUKE GEISSBUHLER

Director of Photography

Marwari War Horse of the Maharaja Documentary

Raised by two Swiss graphic designers, Luke Geissbühler was taught the principals of color, shape and visual balance early in life. While earning his undergraduate degree in cinematography at New York University, he honed a gift for the mechanical as a Bolex technician, taking apart intricate spring-wound cameras under the watch of an elderly sage master. Upon graduating, he was hired by the prestigious effects studio R/GA where he worked on visual effects for high end commercial clients. After years of intense work in motion control, blue screen, digital compositing and tabletop photography, he began to pursue his career as a freelance cinematographer.

During the 18 years of production since then, Mr. Geissbühler has been called upon to shoot features, commercials and documentaries all over the world for the likes of Jay Roach, Adam McKay, Barry Levinson, Barbara Kopple, Doug Liman, David Byrne, Jane’s Addiction, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Sony Pictures in addition to commercial clients such as Volkswagon, Captain Morgan, Nike and Victoria’s Secret.

The vast diversity of his work has informed a style of classic naturalism and delicate control. His documentary work is a continuous study of natural light, human movement and simply doing more with less. His narrative work brings factors of control, beauty and storytelling that inform his approach on a daily basis. In this pursuit, he has lensed successes as varied as Helvetica, Borat, The Muppets and Deadline. His aim is always to develop unique and powerful looks for any project that he takes on, with ideas that are tailor made to support the work of the director and the story first and foremost.

Aware of the environmental effects of traditional film production, Luke has always looked for the most captivating, low impact methods of photography, and has been an authority on cutting-edge HD cameras and innovative production methods for years. He has served as an advisor to Arri Panasonic and Red on their HD cameras. He is an avid runner, self taught engineer, designer of two electric vehicles and once sent a camera to near-space and back, just for fun.

Some of his sixteen feature films include the award winning Acts of Worship, Mail Order Wife, and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for make Benefit most Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Some of his long form documentary work includes Barry Levinson’s Hard Ball, Barbara Kopple’s Bearing Witness, Janes Addiction’s Three Days, as well as the design documentaries, Helvetica and Objectified.

Luke is presently filming Urbanized, the third of the Helvetica design series and will be beginning photography of a feature thriller project in the Arctic. He has just completed photography on the HBO pilot The Miraculous Year directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

www.lukegeissbuhler.com

 

TATIANA GACITUA FRAZZICA

Executive Producer/Director

Tatiana began her media career with the prestigious Jill’s Casting Agency 1996 in Melbourne Australia. Tatiana has appeared in many Australian productions as an actor including Neighbors, Good Guys Bad Buys, A Violent Earth, various music video clips and Stingers on a recurring basis. After assisting the producer on the set of Stingers. Tatiana decided that she preferred a life behind the camera. Tatiana returned to the Melbourne Film School and completed documentary film courses and approached Ch31 in Melbourne to make a Horse TV show in 2003. After been told to do it herself the first series of Horse Rush TV went to air late 2003 in Australia and the USA. Horse Rush TV was the first Australian horse TV show sold to the USA. After the second series of Horse Rush TV. Tatiana and Joe headed to the USA to work on a reality television, a show based around Drag Racing. Stephen Pullin and Jack Shaffer accomplished award winning producers took Tatiana & Joe under their wing and showed them how to make reality TV.

During 2009 Frazzica Productions launched 1320X Australia a spin off from the most successful car TV show in the USA produced by Pullin Television. Tatiana now has many projects under her belt including working on her first documentary film, Marwari – War Horse of the Maharaja to be released in 2013. After being invited to film the Marwari horses in India in 2004, Tatiana & Joe always dreamed of returning to film the Marwari horses in Rajasthan on film. After 8 years their dreams have come true and they have assembled an amazing team to complete this documentary film. Tatiana is currently in the final year of her Masters of Commerce degree from Swinburne University, her recent report on Telecommuting is in the process of being published academically. In her spare time Tatiana loves to spend time with her family & horses. Tatiana is currently based between Melbourne Australian and Las Vegas USA.

Websites: www.frazzicaproductions.com, www.horserushtv.com, www.horserush.com, www.1320xaustralia.com, www.marwarimovie.com

Follow @TatianaVegas

Producers

LUKE ZIETARA

Producer/Production Manager

Luke has been working closely with Tatiana and Joe since 2007.  Luke has grown into an experienced producer.  Luke has ran events and managed large production sets in the role of Production Manager.  Luke comes from an event background being the founding member of the Victorian Drift Club.  Luke has managed the set of 1320X Australia in Alice Springs and Queensland.  Luke has also produced segments for Horse Rush TV and co-ordinates The Way of the Horse DVD production for Equitana Australia.

Luke’s passion is Drifting and he is a well respected driver and racer in the Drift community.  Luke is the producer of Drift Rush TV and is currently in the process of preparing to compete in the 2012 Formula Drift pro series in the USA under our team; Drift Rush.   Luke is located between Australia and Las Vegas USA.

ANDREW KNIGHT

Producer/Post Production Producer

Andrew’s passion for storytelling began as soon as he was old enough to hold a pencil, but the transition from the written word to the moving image began straight out of high school, thrown in the deep end with a position at St Kilda post production house Go-Motion Digital. There he earned his wings as an editor and post-production all-rounder.

Just three years later, he spread his wings to found his own production company Fragile Films, which continues to this day, collaborating with other production companies developing long and short form projects for the film and broadcast industries, as well as producing short and feature films of their own.

In an effort to improve his directing and producing skills, Andrew has trained in a number of other areas of production, including cinematography and sound recording, in order to carry on the all-rounder philosophy he had in post-production, through to both pre-production and production as well.

Andrew is very much looking forward to opportunity of working with Frazzica Productions in helping develop ‘Marwari: Warhorse of the Maharaja’ from script, to principle photography, all the way through to completion of post-production.

Links:

The Stolen – Feature Film: Making of video
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/customer-stories-video-film-and-audio/fragile-films-and-the-making-of-the-stolen

Andrew’s Vimeo Channel:
http://vimeo.com/user2461377/videos

Jake Ludowyke – Fragile Films Australia

Assistant Producers

ADAM KENT

Adam has worked with Frazzica Productions since 2006. Adam has trained on set with Pulllin Television in the USA as Joe’s assistant on numerous productions. Adam has also been on set as a cameraman and has numerous credits to his name. Horse Rush TV Series 3, 1320X USA, Summernats 2008, The Way of the Horse DVD 2011, Equitana from 2007-2010, Andrew Bowe DVD 1 & 2 and 1320X Australia 2009 as a Producer directing Miss Australia host of the behind the scenes footage for television. Having assisted Joe on large sets in the USA of up to 200 crew and at numerous motor sports events in the USA and Australia. Adam is looking forward to visiting India for the first time and working on the documentary about the making of Marwari – War Horse of the Maharaja.

JAKE LUDOWKYE

Producer

‘The making of the Marwari doco’, untitled

 

Production Assistants

Rocky Cudzilla

Cameras

To many to list!

Photographer

Adrian Miller

Editors

Rebel Films Post

Post FX USA

Frazzica Productions

Fragile Films

Cast

Kimberly Busteed – Miss Universe 2007 – Host 1320X Backstage

Chris Diggles – Host 1320X Australia

Tatiana Carrera – Host Horse Rush TV

Webmaster

Frazzica Productions Pty Ltd

Runners

To many to list!

Security

Rocky Cudzilla

Solicitor

Maurice Blackburn – Melbourne Australia

Accountant

Bansal Group Pty Ltd

Special Thanks

The following people have helped make all our projects possible.

Aron.D, Sandra Romero, Pat Rottura, Vezden Velevski, Sam Frazzica, Tony Viagis, Megan Cain, Kylie Cain, Manolo Mendez, Natasha Berisavac, Kate Mendez, Carlos Tabernaberri, Heath Ryan, Corrie Aurora, Sally Laster USA, Dan Guerrea, Maureen Rodgers, Colleen Lethbridge, Leanne Davey, Nichol Emanuel, Dr Grahame Jefferies, Dr Tony Hanegraff, Danni Symons, Mark Burnell, Micki Cohen, Robin Cohen,  Jack Shaffer, Stephen Pullin, Rasa Pullin, Steve Betts, Bonnie, Navin, Patrick Gottsch, Andrew & Nicky Bowe.