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Kent Gibson was co-founder and President of Cosmos Studios, a media company focusing on science-based entertainment, based on the works of Carl Sagan. In the past four years he has raised millions of dollars and planned and executed public relations campaigns that have placed numerous stories on the front pages of newspapers nation-wide. He is experienced in deal-making and the legal aspects of production and distribution, having placed programs on several networks. He is an expert in motion picture production and post-production and owns Soundesign, a 28-year-old production and post-production services company in Los Angeles. He runs NFX - The Non-Fiction Exchange, a group of 250 Los Angeles documentary filmmakers. He also is a pioneer in digital painting and graphic design.
� EDUCATION - B.A. Yale University (Psychology-Communication), M.A. from Stanford University Film School (Dept. of Communication).
� AWARDS - Winner - Prime Time Emmy Award - PBS series COSMOS. Nominee 2004 Emmy Award as Executive Producer for Cosmic Journey - The Voyager Interstellar Mission and Message (A&E). Sound Designer 2003 Doc Emmy - Galileo, Battle for the Heavens - NOVA, Grammy Award team member - Gimme Some Truth, the Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album - long form video. Grammy Award Long Form Videodisk - Physical starring Olivia Newton-John and the Grammy Winning Long Form Video The Heart of Rock & Roll, Starring Huey Lewis & The News. CPB Silver Award & NEMN Silver Apple Award Papakolea, A Story of Hawaiian Land. Multiple Clio Awards and other Emmy Nominations.
� COMPANIES - Co-Founder and President, Cosmos Studios. Cosmos Studios is the primary funder of Cosmos One - the first solar sail spacecraft. Owner of Soundesign (28 years), a production and post-production services company. Mr. Gibson was also a founding partner in Rosebud Films, where he wrote, produced and/or directed over fifty music and documentary films and videotapes for network television and cable.
� EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Cosmic Africa - documentary feature (In release), Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt - documentary Feature (A&E), Cosmic Journey, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (A&E), Leviathan - documentary feature, Cosmos One, the First Solar Sail, The Best of COSMOS (PBS) Producer-Director.
� FEATURES � Sound Designer and Mixer, The Tillamook Treasure (Brite Lite Studio), Writer - dramatic feature screenplays, Familiar, Boola Boola, Rise. Sound Designer & Mixer, Naked in Ashes and Origins of Yoga (Paradise Filmworks) - Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer - America's Heart and Soul (2004 Disney release), Sound Designer & Mixer - Purple Heart (Claymore Productions), Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer - Borrowing Time (2004 feature film). "Videogram" versions (for home video) of some sixty motion pictures for Paramount Pictures. Sound design & mixing - The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Orion Classics - Lily Tomlin). Associate Producer - Spirit of the Wind honored at Cannes "Un Certain Regard", Montreal Film Festival, Winner - USA Film Festival.
� THEATER (ON TV) - Directed and edited videotape versions of stage productions for HBO including Journey's End starring Maxwell Caulfield, Andrew Stevens & George Wendt and The Wager, starring Mark Harmon, Hart Bochner, David Marshall Grant and Glynnis O'Connor. Sound design for LA area theatrical events.
� DOCUMENTARIES - Sound designer & mixer for over one hundred cable TV shows.
� TELEVISION SERIES - Sound designer / supervisor and mixer full seasons of fourteen television series.
� THEME PARKS - Graphic Designer GE's Centennial of Flight exhibit segments - Rockefeller Center 2003. Designer of Nature Rediscovered (Showscan - Seville World's Fair), Designed and installed theme park attractions - Paramount Parks, including the Top Gun and Days of Thunder attractions. Sound Mixer - Ghost of the Queen Mary, Museum of Tolerance - 2 installations.
� STAFF - Staff positions at Pacific Video, KCET - Community Television of Southern California. TV Producer and media research director for The Stanford Heart Program (NIH -"3 Community Study" - 4 years), Lecturer in Writing and Directing in the Stanford University Film School. Partner in Trays Chic - caterer and event planner.
� JOURNALISM - Kent Gibson has written extensively on food, wine and travel in a column called Consuming Passion (15 years). He is a member emeritus of the California Restaurant Writers Association.
� ORGANIZATIONS - Director's Guild of America, West, NARAS, SMPTE, ATAS, IATSE, Board of Directors - NPF, LA., Exec. Director Non-fiction Exchange (NFX) 2005-2006
Reviews
The Tillamook Treasure (2006)
Treasure hunt in Oregon. Enjoyable and well made. Star is a star.
Suzanne Doyon makes an auspicious debut as the star of this PG movie set in Manzanita and Tillamook, Oregon. She shows an ethereal energy and power with nary a false note. It doesn't hurt that she is drop dead gorgeous - all this at 14! Most all of the actors do a lively job and story moves along swiftly thanks to direction by newcomer, Jane Beaumont Hall. Producer, Richard Doyon has an extended cameo as a dufus treasure hunter - de rigueur role for this genre - but well played. Music by Peter Buffett is very engaging, and amazing marionette puppets make a convincing tie-in. Heartily recommended - especially if you are tired of family fare riddled with violence and explosions.