Carl MacNeal - Editor

Carl has been editing for over 13 years now. He started his career in the independent film and documentary world where he edited too many documentaries to count and a bunch of films including his own feature documentary on Burningman that played at Austin, Central Florida, Bar Harbor (where he met Rani) and his home town Boston's film festival. Music videos include the Lemonheads and Letters to Cleo (which he directed) and countless local Boston acts you have never heard of. His commercial list is way too long to get into but lately he has been doing VW (David Kellogg - Anonymous) for Arnold, First Tennessee Bank (John Bekemeier - Picture Park) for Thompson & Company and SPDR's (Gerry Casale - Picture Park) for Allen & Gerritsen. Carl likes to fix up old things including a 1962 Austin Healey, a 1976 International Scout and an early 1900's stairway factory which he hopes to live in someday. Carl plays bass guitar and violin fairly well, is a darn good snowboarder, avid reader, avid biker, avid yoga practicer, great cook and in 1988 was the US Army Soldier of the Year (it makes for good conversation).


Daniel Metzler - Editor

Daniel Metzler is Boston's newest editor, we think, there could be a newer one we don't know of, let's not be petty. After attending Emerson College here in Boston he headed out west to LA to pursue a film career that included a stint at Superior Assembly in Santa Monica, this is when he fell in love with editing and out of love with Los Angeles (mainly due to the 405). So, he moved back east to New York City where he landed an assistant editor job at Homestead Editorial. After three years of working with such clients as MasterCard, Jaguar, Verizon, and Audi Dan realized that there was one thing that NYC wasn't... his hometown of Boston. Dan wanted to be around his family and have a career here in Boston. Dan moved here and we abducted him immediately. While at the POD, Dan has cut spots for First Tennssee Bank (Thompson & Co) and Mass. Tourism (Connely & Partners). Dan is a Boston sports fanatic and desperately wants to celebrate a Red Sox World Series so we gave him an edit suite that faces the Fenway (that way when he works late he can see the lights of the park and cry!). Dan's experience really helps in finishing in LA and NYC, he knows all the good places to eat, I mean transfer.


Thangarani Nathaniel - Producer

Thangarani Nathaniel is of Indian descent, we call her Rani (pronounced Ronnie) and now that that is out of the way we can talk about her. She has a science degree in Ocean Studies with a Math minor and a Chemistry Concentration from Maine Maritime Academy which only means she is smarter than most of us filmy people. She also used to be an accountant for the Harvard School of Public Health so she can watch a budget. Other jobs include cab driver, bartender, scallop fishing, worked at the Aquarium in Boston and her Dad's a doctor. So she can make a drink, order sushi, keep you in budget and recommend a cab and a doctor for you. Not bad. She broke into the industry at 2 am recording a shopping cart rolling for the VW "Carriage" ad on Carl's reel. She swears that she is going back to school for her Master's degree in fish counting any day now. Call her for bids, reels, or in the case of Brickyard's flame artist Dave Waller - advice on visual effects for how fish see (it is for a VW ad - we don't really know what he wanted). Rani is learning how to play sitar, plays clarinet and didjerido, practices yoga, is a competitive sailor, loves dogs and is not as good a snowboarder as Carl, but she just received a new board so we'll see this winter. Rani also takes care of this web site so Carl no longer wants to answer questions on how this is done.


Paul Kwiatkowski - Director

Paul Kwiatkowski is Boston's newest Director (see Dan's bio disclaimer) and our newest assistant editor. Really, Paul is amazing and gets the most disturbing looks out of a DV camera and film. We have high hopes for Paul in the music video world, he has already done well in the independant film genre and had a film play at the Coolidge in Boston which will air on HBO on September 13th. He just finished a film for the Oni gallery and is working on a new script with Matthew Stokoe (he is like Bret Easton Ellis). If you like lesbians, tranvestites and naked old men then you will like Paul. He has a reel.