Katherine Linton launched her company in 2004 directing and writing the company’s first project, The Evolution Will Be Televised a 90-minute documentary special and the very first program to air on Viacom’s gay channel LOGO. The film provided viewers with an inside-out drive through the seminal moments in pop culture, politics and major events that changed the gay community and its visibility to the rest of the world. Linton was then tapped to produce and direct, The Out 100 for Logo as well as a two season documentary series, Stolichnya Presents: Be Real. Linton also created and produced a two season six part groundbreaking series on Lesbian Sex and Sexuality for Here TV.
Linton has since produced numerous cutting edge and award winning programs for MTV’s series True Life, and was tapped by Lance Bass and Michael Huffington to produce and direct the award winning independent film Mississippi: I Am, about the emerging gay rights fight in that state. She has also executive produced and directed high profile event videos for the James Beard Foundation as well as event and web campaigns for many other corporate and non-profit entities. Linton Media’s 2010 web series, Fight Back New York was nominated for the coveted Webby award in the category “Best Non-Profit and Activism Campaign.”
Prior to forming Linton Media, Katherine was an award-winning producer whose documentaries aired on PBS, Sundance Channel, A&E, Logo, VH1, Bravo, TLC and Discovery Health. She wrote and produced “AIDS: A Pop Culture History” for VH1, which won a Cable Poz Award for Best History Documentary and was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding TV Journalism. She also wrote and produced “Black Las Vegas: In Through the Backdoor” for The Learning Channel, which was awarded a World Medal in Television Programming; as well as “The Junkie Next Door: Women and Heroin” for A&E: Investigative Reports, winner of a Silver Telly Award. She also co-produced “The Addiction Project: The Teen Brain” for HBO with Emmy-Award winning documentary filmmaker Kate Davis, scheduled to air in 2007.
Linton also directed “Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005, aired on the Sundance Channel, and traveled the world in film festivals. Katherine began her career in television as the host and series producer of the national PBS program In the Life, which recently ended after 21 years on-air.
Jorge García-Spitz is a freelance Post-Production Supervisor and Post-Producer. He started studying film as a TA and Film Minor at SMU in Dallas, while getting his B.S. in Engineering and Math. After being a IT consultant, web developer, cook, barback, doorman, event lighting foreman, cheese monger, and bike messenger; he decided to get back into the film biz. While getting by as a grip and production assistant on horror films and commercials, Jorge began interning for Katherine 5 years ago in her Tribeca space.
After cutting his teeth as a PA and AE on the Out 100 for LOGO, Jorge worked in multiple capacities on the creation of episodes for network tv with Be Real, Lesbian Sex & Sexuality and MTV True Life, in addition to supporting the media needs of our non-profit organizations like GLSEN, ESPA, FBNY and the James Beard Foundation.
Besides freelancing for other production companies and shooting or recording sound for friend’s personal projects, Jorge served as the Assistant Director for Theo Stanley on “the Hierophant” and co-directed an award winning short with Jillian Buckley entitled “Je Suis Bike”.
Vincent Venturella is an award-winning freelance Producer and Director of Photography whose diverse platform of work includes feature documentaries, television, commercials, and web campaigns. Since receiving an MFA in cinematography in 2007, Vincent has traveled around the world on various projects, shooting in Cuba, Europe, and throughout the United States.
As a documentary cinematographer, Vincent has shot feature films such as ‘Sun Kissed’, ‘Oye Cuba’, ‘Mississippi: I Am’, and ‘Voice for the Missing’. Working as the Director of Photography for Underdog Films, Vincent has shot branded content for Honda, GE, Proctor & Gamble, Hyatt, among others. Since 2008, he has been producer and cinematographer for the videos at the annual James Beard Foundation Awards at Lincoln Center. In 2010, working closely with Cynthia Nixon, he produced, shot, and edited the web campaign for Fight Back New York, featuring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Rosie Perez. He is the producer/shooter for four ‘MTV True Life’ episodes, including the acclaimed “I Have a Traumatic Brain Injury”. Among his television clients are PBS, MTV, Logo, and Here!