CloudStreet: Soaring The American West (Blu-Ray + DVD)

Vision

Mike Abernathy is an experienced glider and motor glider pilot and has been flying for over 14 years. During the making of CloudStreet, he served as writer, producer, and camera–ship pilot. Through his understanding of flight, science and weather, he helped guide the filming of this vibrant, exciting movie. Mr. Abernathy is the founder of Rapid Imaging Software in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has been developing powerful imaging software products since 1984.

Craft

Dave Pettitt has been a voice talent since 1992 and in that time has lent his voice to some well known clients like Discovery Channel, Disney, History Channel and National Geographic and now proudly to CloudStreet. Today, he works half the year from his studio in British Columbia, Canada and the other half from Mazatlan, Mexico.

Today, Dave is probably best known for his documentary work, including Discovery Canada's two hit programs, Highway Thru Hell and Airshow. Highway has aired internationally in over 100 countries and in production stage for season 4. Dave is also quite proud of a recent campaign for Tourism Ecuador which aired a spot during the 2015 Superbowl.

Art

Music Composer Matt Pavolaitis has written and produced music for numerous television series and documentary films, two of which, Desert Reef and Valles Caldera earned him EMMY Nominations. Many of the films he has scored are about science and environmental issues. Inclusive in his credits are: a ten part documentary series on geology entitled, Outcrops; The Sandias, a PBS documentary on the mountains; Painting Taos; and Glenna Goodacre. His television compositions can be heard on A&E, Discovery, SyFy, and NatGeo.

Recently, he has been writing and producing artists who are involved with AMERICAN IDOL, and THE VOICE, and has acquired major publishing deals with Hollywood Records and Opus One Music. To facilitate this growth, he created Matt Pav Music in both Los Angeles and Orange County California, where he offers composing, producing, and mixing for large format films, television, and music artists. Among his credits are: several TV series, including KNOWN UNIVERSE, CAJUN JUSTICE, SAINT HOODS, Paranormal: FACT OR FAKED, Return to Halletsville (Gary Busey) and Shelter (Regent Entertainment). He also worked for several years at the world renowned Technicolor Glendale.

Colleen Grace Rourke is an American singer, songwriter, and composer whose music has been placed in several motion pictures including The Art of Getting By and The To-Do List. She’s composed music with her husband and producer Matt Pavolaitis on numerous television series including Cold Case Files, Army Wives, Paranormal: Fact or Faked, and My Strange Addiction as well as sang on multiple television commercials.

Passion

Dave Bixler and Phyllis Murray are accomplished still photographers. They were wedding photographers for 10 years before turning their interests to wildlife and nature photography in 2010.

Dave and Phyllis brought various talents to the project. They provided support in a variety of ways including helping with lighting and scene design, maintaining equipment, fixing things that broke and making sure that whatever was needed showed up. They also provided the time lapse photography for CloudStreet and became known as the Time Bandits. Their directive was to find weather and photograph it. Dave and Phyllis traveled over 18,000 miles in the summer of 2013 and produced 139 time lapses. The goal was to capture original time lapses that enhanced the CloudStreet story. They traveled Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana in search of developing clouds, sunrises, sunsets and storms. Needless to say, they found them all. They also learned a lot about dust, rain, hail and dark of night. And the biggest lesson perhaps was that Mother Nature does what Mother Nature wants to do and no amount of pleading can cause her to change her mind.