Nathan McMahan

Folks sit around corporate boardrooms, campfires and sports bars and talk about a Director’s Vision. Except, they don’t.  

They just want to watch a movie and be entertained. They want to laugh, cry, gasp, scream, sit on the edge of their seat and leave with a smile or check the back seat before they drive away. 

It’s a long road from here to there. And you need someone to lead the charge. However, the charge is usually lead by the idiot, a bit touched, with the loudest voice or outfit. Sometimes both. But it’s not a charge without the army behind it. Any fool can lead, but the smart man is part of a team that supports each other and has each other’s back. A team that by their sheer existence negates the fear of failure.  Or be something so large that it cannot, by its very nature, fail. 

Nathan has spent the last decade producing and occasionally directing for Walt Disney World. He has witnessed the folly of the later and has exemplified the former. Lead by Example. Do not gentle into that good night go or wander about without a plan. Do not suffer the folly of men. I can do that just fine on my own. The director sets the tone and timbre of the set and subsequently the film.  

Ever since his Student Thesis won the award for Best Student Film at the Edison Film Festival, he’s been directing. But more importantly, he’s been leading folks to interesting and exciting places they would not have ventured by themselves. Short films, commercials, corporate nonsense, Home Shopping Network B Rolls, Projects that have never seen the light of day and numerous spots lost to the sands of time under the weight of companies buried and gone. But constantly and consistently directing little bits of adventure and wonder.