Misty Tosh Bio
With over a decade in film, television & commercial productions as a Line Producer and UPM, Misty has worked with high profile clients such as NBC, ABC, Travel Channel, Harpo, CBS, Endemol USA, Anisa, Fox News, HGTV, Live Planet, Jerry Bruckheimer Productions, World Race Productions, Comedy Central, ABC and Brillstein/Grey.
She was dubbed the “Queen of Indie Films,” by Screen Magazine and Roger Ebert crowned “Lana’s Rain,” a film she Co-Produced, with his coveted three stars. In addition to creating and directing her own television programs, Misty has PM’ed (and facilitated) the Emmy Award winning show, “The Amazing Race,” taken films to Sundance, and run Bill Murray’s Comedy Central show. She spent most of the past year in Kentucky, Line Producing SOAPnet’s flagship series“Southern Belles: Louisville,” the 2nd highest rated show in SOAPnet history. It's currently airing on SN.
She happily spent most of 2007 on location in Africa as the Production Manager/LP for the ABC primetime special, “Building a Dream: The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy” and Line Produced Oprah Winfrey’s first ever reality TV series, “The Big Give,” which aired in the Spring of 2008. Capping off a one-year stint as Line Producer for Development projects at Oprah Winfrey’s production company last year, Harpo lead Misty into production of ABC’s “Last Comic Standing,” an NBC ratings favorite. Misty also PM’ed the Internet-only baseball television series
(the first of its kind) for MSN and Live Planet and was the
International Production Manager for Season 7 of America’s Next Top Model in Europe.
Misty solo travels the world in search of her next food/adventure project, and has written about food/adventure/travel for MSNBC, the Chicago Sun Times, WEND, and Time Out Chicago magazine. She is the owner of Fatcake Productions, an armchair travel production company that created and sold a food/adventure television special (in which she was the host, director, writer and producer) to the Travel Channel. “Craving Adventure” aired in the fall of 2006, and it was the first time in Discovery Networks history that they’d signed off on the host
producing, writing and directing their own show.
With 4th World Love (fourthworldlove.org), the grassroots NGO she created, at the forefront of her travels, Misty is ramping up for a solo Central American writing trip in her solar vintage travel trailer in search of the next place to raise the 4th World flag. During her down time, she sails her pirate-style vintage sailboat up and down the Pacific. Misty works as a local in LA, NYC and Chicago.
Lisa Colangelo Bio
As a Production Supervisor/Production Manager, Lisa has been behind the scenes in entertainment for over a decade. She's worked in Chicago's indie film world for years which culminated with Sundance Film Festival contender "Design" and has completed projects for television cable giants Comedy Central (Bill Murray's "The Sweet Spot"), Travel Channel/Discovery ("Craving Adventure"), World Race Productions/CBS ("The Amazing Race: Season 6) and Endemol USA/SOAPnet ("Southern Belles: Louisville).
Writing and Producing her first indie feature in Chicago got her into the production world, and Lisa continued polishing her skills with a writing stint for radio legend Steve Dahl's film company soon thereafter. She was commissioned to cover the shocking and sultry underworld of swing clubs and wrote a television pilot based on the open lifestyles based on that undercover mission.
As a finalist in Writer's Digest 75th Annual Writing Competition, her novel-in-progress Yellow Pruett garnered an honorable mention in the children's fiction category. Now complete, Yellowtales, touted as a Huck Finn for girls, is the first in a middle grade series and currently being turned into a screenplay. Combining her great love of film with her own adventurous palate at Fatcake Productions, Lisa produces food/ adventure/travel programs and continues to write scripts, short stories, and young adult fiction.
Her most rewarding challenge, though, has been as co-founder of 4th World Love, a global NGO started with producing partner, Misty Tosh. Born to create community empowerment through grassroots projects in distant lands, Lisa recently returned from the tiny, magical village of Sembalun, Lombok, Indonesia where 4WL opened up a village community development center to great success.
