About the Executives

Chris Elston

Creative Manager

Chris' career as an industry hyphenate started in college with the lead role in the play Doors for the 1995 Drama Showcase. He returned to the Drama Showcase the following year with a one-act play he wrote, produced and directed called The Art of Love and won the Best In Show award. His college experience also included significant involvement in video and radio work, including producing, directing, writing and hosting various radio and television programs. Since then, Chris has written nearly two dozen feature film and television screenplays and has been invited to participate in screenwriting events for festivals in Seattle and Los Angeles. His award-winning short films have played at festivals all over the country, including New York and Los Angeles, and on cable television in 166 countries. Since January of 2004, Chris has been working as a writer, director, actor, camera operator, editor and producer on various film and television projects in Los Angeles involving networks such as ESPN, HGTV, Lifetime, Wealth TV, and Fox Sports Net.

Doug Elston

Executive Manager, General Counsel

Doug is a successful trial attorney focusing on commercial disputes. He has served as General Counsel and Director of Private Equity for a private investment company involved in the acquisition, development and sale of mid-market companies ($25-300 million in value) in a variety of industries and as General Counsel for a national environmental engineering firm. Doug was also the President and CEO of a manufacturer/distributor of highly specialized personal watercraft. He has extensive experience in private equity fundraising, investments, intellectual property, general corporate and corporate legal matters.

Doug has a deep-seated interest in the film industry, having co-authored several feature length screenplays with Chris. Their first collaboration, a legal thriller called Fade to Gray, was a quarterfinalist (out of 6,000 scripts) at the Academy Foundation’s Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, the country’s most prestigious screenplay competition.

Casey Brooks

Technical Manager

While earning his degree in Television/Video Production from Columbia College-Hollywood, Casey served as Director of Photography for the Seth Himes short film Hopeless Romantics and collaborated on a documentary short written by Chris called Dave Valle and Esperanza International. They co-produced and co-directed the project which placed third in the prestigious St. Christopher's National Video Magazine Contest, and was broadcast on the Odyssey Network.

Casey has co-produced, edited and directed photography on nine short films since college. He served as a Production Coordinator for Comcast in Los Angeles for two years where he was responsible for the coordination of original programming among producers and worked as a camera operator on various projects for Entertainment Tonight and networks such as PAX, Wealth TV, and CNN.