Joe Schilling(I)
- Production Designer
- Production Manager
Joseph was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas; he relocated to Los
Angeles, in 1989 to get more active in film production and
distribution. Joseph worked as the operations manager at A.I.P. Studios
in Culver City, CA from 1989 to 1991; he moved over to Hemdale
Communications in a similar capacity from 1991 to 1996, with additional
duties including production design work and post-production supervision
(including the remastering, re-transferring and remixing of
"Terminator"). While at Hemdale, he took on his first production
designer feature duties for "Grizzly Mountain," which included the
ground-up construction of a period-accurate log cabin for the film
(which set was also later used in the Jim Jarmusch film "Dead Man"
starring Johnny Depp). Joseph moved over to Plaza Entertainment, Inc.
in 1996 and in 1998 relocated their warehouse operations to
Fayetteville, AR. In 2002 he joined Hannover House as operations
manager in Arkansas. In addition to his daytime duties with Hannover
House, Joseph also worked on development of several of his own
projects, including the feature drama, "Daddy's Little Hero." Joe
married Deborah Midgett in Las Vegas in 1990.