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Who We Are : SAGA Profiles |
The team of SAGA partners, pricipals and coordinators who work
together closely to chart the strategic course for product development,
production and distribution, is as follows:
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| Fred
Watts - President, Pentamedia Associates, Inc. |
Executive
Producer Publishing industry consultant, 21 years
Background: Newsweek, Inc., Regional
Director, 1965-67, Educational Division; books/audio visual sales
and marketing, periodical publishing, management consultant, 1967-77.
Founder, Publishing Design Associates/WNR Books, with Eric Neisenson
and Richard Raihall, 1977-78, succeded by founding of Pentamedia
Associates in March 1979. The highlight of that first year, in
November, was the Lone Mountain Conference
for Writers & Artists, assisted
by his indispensable co-leaders Antonio Montanari Jr., Luella
Potts, and Larry Russell.
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Antonio A. Montanari, Jr. - Owner/Producer |
Audicomm Productions
Supervising Producer Film-Video Producer/Writer/Director-Researcher,
in a 25 year period.
Background: Assistant to Film Editor,
Lila Smith, including KQED, San Francisco. Wrote and produced
U.S.A. vs. "Tokyo Rose"... nominated for an Emmy from
the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; longtime
member N.A.T.A.S. (San Francisco Chapter), serving on Membership
Committee (Chairman, 1976), Scholarship Committee; and Emmy Awards
Judging Coordinator (1991 - ).
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| Robyn
McPeters The McPeters Company Santa Fe, NM |
Public Relations/Communications
Coordinator Publishing, 2 years; Public Relations, 11 years.
Background: Knapp Communications
Corp., Architectural Digest Magazine circulation/promotion department,
1984-85; Burson-Marsteller Public Relations, Los Angeles, 1985-86;
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Los Angeles, West Coast Public
Relations Manager for TBS, CNN, Headline News, TNT, Turner Entertainment
Co., Atlanta Braves baseball, Atlanta Hawks basketball, TBS Sports
and TBS Board Chairman R.E. "Ted" Turner, 1986-92. The
McPeters Company, 1992-present.
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| Annella
Wynard |
Annella Wynard is a writer and producer who has worked on programs
for BBC network radio and television in London and the United
States, ABC television and the United Nations. Her most recent
assignment was a 12-part documentary series for United Nations
Radio on population issues in Africa such as the spread of AIDS
and South Africa's illegal migrants. Other credits include "A
Ray of Hope" a documentary about AIDS and the drug Retrovir
for BBC-TV and "Money and Banking, the Federal Reserve"
an educational documentary commissioned by Auburn University in
Alabama. She is the recipient of a Knight Fellowship at Stanford
University, one of the industry's most prestigious awards, for
the body of her work.
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