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The Prinicpals
CASEY CANNON brings a wealth of varied experience to the company, from commercial
production and design with such diverse companies as Vidal Sassoon
and the Coca-Cola Company (on their "Max Headroom" spots) to serving
as an animator in the computer graphics department of Industrial
Light and Magic, to organizing special promotions for Sony Music's
A&R department. She subsequently served as an independent music
video producer with such labels as Morgan Creek and A&M Records,working
with such artists as Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Grover Washington,
Jr., and Tom Scott. In addition to associate producing and supervising
the music for the video documentary "Under Pressure: Making 'The
Abyss,'" she demonstrated her wide spectrum of skills by serving
as both producer and supplement art director for the "Terminator
2" Special Edition laserdisc. During her tenure with ILM she worked
on such films as "Back to the Future II and III", "Ghost", "Joe
Versus the Volcano" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day".
Her computer graphics design and animation work includes "Star
Trek: Generations" and "Strange Days." She produced a multimedia
presentation featuring the Joffrey Ballet performing Prince's
"Billboards" for the 1995 MacWorld Exposition in San Francisco,
while concurrently serving as graphics producer on the Paramount
film "Congo." In addition to being the company's CEO, she served
as BFTR's computer graphics producer on such diverse shows as
"Twister," "The Relic," "Dante's Peak," and "Jerry Maguire,"
as well as BFTR's effects producer on New Line's feature film
"Spawn", Sony/TriStar's "Starship Troopers" and "Men In Black,"
Disney's "Jungle Book 2: Mowgli's Story", Fox/Paramount's "Titanic" and Fox's "Doctor Dolittle."
A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California's
(USC's) fabled School of Cinema/Television, VAN LING spearheaded
the use of Macintosh systems for storyboard processing and visual
effects design on writer/director James Cameron's feature film
"The Abyss." In addition to serving as Cameron's technical researcher
and creative liaison for all aspects of production on the film,
he played a significant role in the design and creation of the
visual effects, and subsequently served as Visual Effects Coordinator
and Creative Supervisor on "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." He produced
both "The Abyss" Special Edition and the "Terminator 2" Special
Edition --the former of which was released theatrically in 1993--
and was the writer/director of the special laserdisc supplements
for those films, widely regarded as two of the best laserdisc
releases ever created. His graphic talents range from designing
logos and trade ads to CD album covers, and he has served as a
guest speaker to both university and computer/film industry audiences.
An active voice in the call for integrating digital technology
into all areas of filmmaking, Ling served as Head of Production
for Cameron's production company Lightstorm Entertainment for
many years before forming BFTR with partner Casey Cannon. In addition
to doing freelance consulting on such diverse areas as visual
effects, digital graphics and laserdiscs, Ling created digital
graphics and displays for the Kennedy/Marshall film "Congo" and
the Amblin film "Twister." He has served as computer graphics
designer and supervisor (and oftentimes as a research consultant)
on such films as "The Relic," "Dante's Peak," "Starship Troopers"
and "Spawn." In his copious free time he wrote and directed the
supplement for MCA's "Field of Dreams" Signature Series laserdisc
and created graphics for Joe Kane's now-industry-standard test
laserdisc and DVD "Video Essentials." He served as BFTR's visual
effects supervisor on "Doctor Dolittle", "Titanic", "Spawn", "Starship
Troopers" and "Jungle Book 2: Mowgli's Story," as well as overseeing
all creative aspects of both the outside and in-house projects
at Banned from the Ranch as company president.
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