“Gryphon Productions is an award-winning company with 27 years in the broadcasting industry. Gryphon has been using SS Media Co as our web designer/web master for over 5 years. We were impressed with the creative/technical ideas for our website, from the start. And throughout the years they have provided us with excellent service, making updates and adjustments to the site as needed, even suggesting new formats and up-to-date interfaces for our site. We have had many compliments about our site from top movie industry people in Hollywood and from TV executives in Washington DC and New York. SS Media Co’s design of our website has created a top-end professional and innovative look to Gryphon Productions and has increased our visibility worldwide. It is our calling card with television networks and movie studios and has proven to be a very powerful tool. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend SS MEDIA CO. and Scott Smith to other companies and invididuals wanting to increase and improve their web presence.”

- Peter von Puttkamer, President – Gryphon Productions Ltd.

Biography

Peter von Puttkamer and Sheera von Puttkamer have created more than 120 documentaries and have been producing international award-winning films in the United States and Canada over the last 25 years. Their company, Gryphon Productions Ltd. have created documentaries for The Learning Channel (TLC), Animal Planet, Discovery Channel Europe/International, Discovery Canada, GLOBAL-TV, C.B.C., CTV, S.B.S. (Australian Public Television) and various Canadian specialty channels. These programs have won more than 65 international awards.

Peter von Puttkamer?s fascination with indigenous peoples, anthropology, archaeology, mythology, music and wildlife has led to work around the world.  Whether working on heart-felt personal stories, socio-political issues or broad adventure-based entertainment documentaries, filmmaking for the von Puttkamers has always been a blend of mind, body and spirit.

Peter’s climbed through ancient caves used for human sacrifice in Mexico, filmed then eaten giant 12? tarantulas with Venezuelan blow-gun hunters, filmed sacred mask rituals and dances of North American natives, recorded soul music classics with legendary recording artists, worked with AIDS survivors, chased Caribou herds on the Arctic Circle, joined a hunt for Bigfoot and documented the heart-wrenching tales of terminally-ill patients.

Their films have been specially selected for Festivals and retrospectives in Italy and Brazil. Their films/series for TLC/Discovery Channel/CTV such as “Sasquatch Odyssey” and “Monster Hunters” have dealt with the strange world of cryptozoology.”Sasquatch Odyssey” won several awards and was selected for the prestigious 1999 IDA Doctober Festival screenings in Los Angeles- qualifying it for Academy Award nomination ?Monster Hunters? produced for TLC screened at the New York International Independent Film Festival in New York and LA and has won 2 Platinum Awards at the 2002 Worldfest Houston. In 2003-2004, Gryphon created & wrote/directed/co-produced an 8 hour, 24 segment series “Beyond Invention” for Discovery Channel.  Winner of 3 American Indian Film Festival Awards, Peter von Puttkamer’s Native Indian films have had a major social, cultural and political impact.  Along with his partner Sheera, Peter is currently producing/developing Feature Documentaries with Animal Planet, History Channel and Sony Pictures.

Jo is no longer the nerdy girl she once was, but now a hardened, smart talking “man”. Everyone notices the obvious change, but hasn’t yet figured out “who” she really is. Jo is on her own, battling the Trancers and kicking some ass!

For those who aren’t familiar with the previous Trancers films, Helen Hunt played the love of Jack’s life, and Jo is their daughter. You do see a picture of Helen on the refridgerator, but sorry, no cameo’s. The weapons are realistic and actually sound like real guns, not the cheezy sound effects that you sometimes hear in a big budget Hollywood movie! Trancers 6 was an incredibly FUN movie, you sometimes feel like you’re battling the Trancers right along with “Jo”/Jack.

The cast was a good mix also. Besides Jack and Jo, other main characters included: Jennifer Capo as “Shauna”, the tough as nails peson in charge of the Trancers, Robert Donavan as “Malvern”, Timothy Prindle as “Mark” and Jere Jon as “Sam”. Each one brings a different and energetic performance to the film. Director Jay Woelfel has successfully kept the Trancers series alive and well. For Trancer fans and Horror fans alike, this is a must see. Plenty of suspense, blood, gore, and ass kickin’!

*A note for the Trancers Fans: Tim Thomerson is only in this film for a brief period of time, and clips from previous films were used for his scenes, not actually Tim himself. But, you will see him in on the DVD since it also includes the very first Trancers film as well!

]]> http://www.ssmediaco.com/2007/01/trancers-6/feed/ 0 http://www.ssmediaco.com/2007/01/revenge-of-the-extras/ http://www.ssmediaco.com/2007/01/revenge-of-the-extras/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:13:42 +0000 Shannon Smith http://www.ssmediaco.com/?p=899 When small-time film fanatic Cameron Baine comes to Hollywood to make it as a Movie Extra, he soon learns Hollywood ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. He lands the part of an Extra in the action movie, “Explosive Hill – Part Deux” but much to his dismay he’s herded into a holding area like cattle going to slaughter. He soon learns that in Hollywood an Extra is at the bottom of the food chain. Cam befriends a quirky group of veteran extras, who are mostly out of work industry cronies and once on set Cam and his friends are ridiculed, taunted and tormented by an unruly film crew. Things become even more complicated when Cam develops a crush on Catharine Willows, the knockout Executive Producer, who just happens to be the Director’s girlfriend. The practical jokes come to a boiling point when two of Cam’s fellow extras are tricked into being Crash Test Dummies for a scene that’s going to be cut from the film. After severe injuries and sheer humiliation, Cam rallies round his new friends and convinces them it’s time to step into the spotlight. He plots a scheme to take over the production. One by one Cam and the gang kidnap the crew and complete the film to rave reviews. This fast paced physical comedy is a guaranteed riot!

Co-starring Mindy Sterling (Austin powers 1, 2 and 3, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Drop Dead Gorgeous), Colin Mochrie (ABC’s Who’s Line is it Anyway?, The Drew Carey Show and Lucky Numbers), Michael Cade (California Dreams) and Maeve Quinlan (The Florentine),  this heart warming, fast-paced comedy is guaranteed fun.

]]> http://www.ssmediaco.com/2007/01/totally-blonde/feed/ 0 http://www.ssmediaco.com/2007/01/net-games/ http://www.ssmediaco.com/2007/01/net-games/#comments Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:41:34 +0000 Shannon Smith http://www.ssmediaco.com/?p=931 The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel, a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer.

IMDB – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330203/

Scott Smith – Devil on computer Screen & computer effects designer
Shannon Smith – computer effects designer & Filmed Devil on Computer Screen

Under the flag of his production company Extraordinary Media Group, the Canadian born Andrew has not only written, directed and produced a plethora of independent films but also discovered one of the music industries hottest new talents – the undeniably smooth Michael Buble.

Trained as a singer and pianist, Andrew has long loved the swinging sounds of Frank, Dean and Sammy. Thus when production on his film Totally Blonde began in 2003, Andrew called up local Vancouver singer Michael Buble and asked him to appear in the movie. Not long after shooting the film, Buble inked a record deal with Warner Brothers music giant David Foster (Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Josh Groban). To date, Buble has sold over 11 million albums worldwide and has been nominated for two Grammy awards.

Signed with Universal Music as both a producer and composer, Andrew wrote and produced the singer’s debut Indie album Totally Buble which landed at number nine on the Billboard charts, and went on to further produce Buble’s music video DVD. The album was then re-released as the Kings of Swing and coupled Buble’s vocal talents with those of the legendary Frank Sinatra.