Writer / Director / Producer
W. Scott Peake

Scott, as managing partner, writer and director developed his first project with Whatever Entertainment, a feature film adaptation of Geoff Nicholson’s novel "What We Did On Our Holidays". W. Scott Peake penned the screenplay and directed the British dark comedy called PERMANENT VACATION which stars Frank Harper (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Gina Bellman (Coupling), Michael Bowen (Magnolia), and David Carradine (Kill Bill Vol. 1). Permanent Vacation won a Best Actor nod for Frank Harper’s performance at the SoCal Indie Film Festival in Huntington Beach. Permanent Vacation also received the Jury Award at the Pensacola Film Festival.

W. Scott Peake born March 13, 1965 in Mountain View, California received his MFA from the Florida State University Film School in 1993. In Scott’s final year at FSU he was chosen to direct one of the five thesis films the film school produced that year. During his last semester Scott was offered an internship at W. B. Doner advertising in Southfield, Michigan. Upon graduation Scott was the first intern in Doner’s history to be offered a full time job as a Producer. While at Doner, Scott started to build his reel directing several campaigns for the Detroit Zoo and the Michigan Humane Society. His spot, “Zoo Cruise, ” went on to win several awards, including a Clio and was named one of Ad Ages’ “100 Best” in 1996.

Scott soon left Doner and was snapped up by BBDO/Detroit to work on the Dodge account. Due to the nature of the Dodge campaigns, Scott has become very knowledgeable in special effects and post-production. This knowledge has become extremely valuable in Scott’s approach to directing.

Scott left BBDO and moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 1996. While building his directing reel, Scott freelanced at Ogilvy and Mather/ Detroit and Chiat/Day. In January of ’99, Scott signed with the now defunct Elsewhere Films, for commercial and music video representation.

Currently Scott is developing The Stringman Incident and Karolina two optioned scripts and Hell or High Water, set in the Wild West, which he is writing. Scott is actively involved in Film Independent and Film Specific.

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Writer
Gina Viola

Gina Viola, born September 11, 1968 in New York received her bachelor’s degree from The University of California-Riverside in 1990. For several years after graduating, Gina worked in the trade show industry, by 1997 she was producing trades shows for Canon Communications in Los Angeles.

In 1997, Gina left her position at Canon and started her own temporary employment agency, Trade Show Temps, aimed specifically at the trade show industry in California. Today Trade Show Temps is a multi million-dollar business with over 500 temporary employees on the roster and staffing events all over California.

In 2003, Gina and her husband, W. Scott Peake, started Whatever Entertainment for the purpose of developing and producing motion pictures. “Permanent Vacation” is Gina’s first feature film.

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Director of Photography
George Reasner

In the film business since 1989, George progressed to full-time shooter after working his way up through the grip, electric and camera departments on independent features. He has photographed numerous commercial and music video projects, as well as features and dozens of short films. His commercial and short films have won multiple awards including the Clio, Gold Lion, Advertising Age Best Of, AMPAS Student Emmy and multiple film festivals nods. George has also worked in emerging technologies as a Director/DP on electronic press kits, enhanced CD and DVD’s and live web casts for dance music clients such as System Recordings, Kinetic Records, Spundae Recordings and Club Avalon.

In addition to his camera work, George is also an experienced DJ and music producer as one half of the LA-based duo Eskimo Brothers. He holds a sporadic monthly DJ residency with the ROAM collective, and is signed with electronic music label R-Factor Recordings.

George recently co-produced and photographed a feature-length documentary about the dance music scene called “Liquid Vinyl, ” which premiered at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival, later won Best Documentary at the 2005 Pensacola Int’l Film Festival, and will be distributed by 7th Arts Releasing. Also in 2005, George won Best Cinematography Award for the digital short film “Into The Maelstrom” It was written, shot and edited over 3 days for the Los Angeles 48 Hour Film Festival. George is currently directing and shooting another documentary entitled “Banana Prophets” and he recently completed post production on the feature film “What We Did On Our Holidays. ” George's next feature will be "Bare Knuckles" for director Eric Etebari in the summer of 2007.

George holds an M. F.A. in producing and cinematography from the Florida State University Film and TV Conservatory, and a B. A. in Communications from Wake Forest University. He is currently living the dream in Hollywood, CA.

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