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: 

   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. 

   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 - ).

 

   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. 

 

   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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