The Filmmakers
Producer
Tim Cleveland is a 3 time Emmy Award winning Sound Editor for
Warner Bros. Studios. His passions are motorcycle riding, hand cycling
and everything involving the outdoors. He has hiked and cross-country
skied extensively throughout his favorite mountains in the Sierras, and
continually has the drive to push himself beyond his disability. For the
past several years, he has been working on ways to help himself and
others witness the wonders, and feel the magic of nature in person.
In his travels, Tim has been fortunate enough to meet several wounded
veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan war. Most surprising to Tim are
their stories of struggling within their own country to receive proper
healthcare. This journey and documentary are his way giving several
very special veterans a gift for their courage and sacrifice. Additionally,
it will showcase a systemic problem that has denied these heroic
Americans the medical coverage they were promised when volunteering
to serve for our country. The scars of battle will forever remain with these
men and women, and they should not be deserted in their time of need.
Writer/Director/Producer
Ryan Kirby is an award-winning director/producer. His projects have
screened in film festivals around the country, and numerous works
have been featured across the web. Ryan’s clients have included CBS,
VH1, Linzack Ent, and Lucas Arts. Ryan has worked on productions
spanning from narrative film and television, to a newfound passion
in documentary. This passion has inspired Ryan’s desire work with Tim
in documenting the journeys of (7) disabled veterans of war, as they
take an arduous, yet picturesque motorcycle trip down the Continental
Divide, and share their stories of triumph and tragedy without allowing
their disabilities to hinder their quality of life.
As the son, nephew, and friend of men and women who have served
in the military for nearly four decades, beginning with the Vietnam war
to the current war in Iraq, the idea of Veteran affairs is one near and
dear to Ryan’s heart. “Uniting the Divide” is a culmination of shared
and related angst in wanting to bring such an important issue to the
forefront, and stirs a very real need to give these men and women
a platform from which to speak.
Writer/Producer
Christopher Babers is an award winning writer/director and made his
rounds on the film festival circuit with his film, “Keys”. “Keys” has been
viewed in 50+ fests across the world, and has collected numerous awards,
most notably the “Grand Jury Prize” at the New York Film and Video Festival.
Christopher got his “Behind the Camera” start as a network television writer
in Hollywood; however, an invitation to the prestigious Sundance Filmmakers
Lab in 2004 led to Christopher’s desire to expand to feature filmmaking.
Most recently, Christopher was accepted into the highly competitive MFA
in Cinematography program at AFI.
Christopher maintains a long history of activism and community service
while volunteering with the following organizations: The Union Rescue
Mission, Project Angel Flight, The Boys and Girls Club of America, and
LAWorks,. Continuing to nourish his need to “give back” he and his
partners at Simple Complex Media have joined the Emmy Award winning
Tim Cleveland to raise the necessary funding to shoot “Uniting The Divide”.
Cinematographer
Levie Isaacks, A.S.C. has worked on location and in Hollywood,
California as a cinematographer and Director of Photography for the
last thirty years. Levie was born in Houston, Texas and served in the
Army as a commissioned officer and as a platoon leader in Vietnam.
His cinema life began while working part-time at a local television
station in Austin, Texas while attending the University of Texas.
There he was handed a newsreel camera and that is when the love
affair with film and telling stories began. After graduation, he continued
to work in broadcast journalism and later in commercials and documentary
films in his home state of Texas. There, he was also able to garner
experience as a camera operator on films shooting on location in Texas.
Then the time came for him to move to Los Angeles to try his hand at
being a Director of Photography of movies and television. He got his
first feature film at Roger Corman’s Concord studios in Venice, California.
From that time until now he practiced his craft on
independent films
and television. Levie was nominated for a “Cable ACE” award for an
episode of “Tales From The Crypt” and his TV credits include “Dawson’s
Creek” and “Malcolm In The Middle” which won a Peabody award.
His feature credits include shows for MGM, Universal and Paramount Studios.
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