Management Team:
Dan Schneider, Esq.: Dan is a co-Founder and Executive Producer of Big Shoes Media, a full service creative production company which is a partnership of Emmy-Award winning director Mustapha Khan and Sundance-Award winning producer/director Tommy Walker. Dan has been practicing entertainment, corporate, new media, intellectual property and real property law for more than 25 years in Manhattan and Woodstock, N.Y. A graduate of Vassar College (AB, 1979, Evans Fellow in Law) and Emory Law School (JD, 1982, Emory Scholar), he is admitted to the New York and Georgia bars, as well as to the U.S. District Court (Southern District, N.Y.). Mr. Schneider has been AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell (www.schneiderpfahl.com). A member of numerous non-profit Boards, including The America The Beautiful Fund (National Secretary), The Giulio Gari Foundation (General Counsel), the Hudson Valley Technology and Commerce (President), and Friends of Comeau. Dan co-founded Woodstock Mediation and First Mondays. Dan also successfully co-wrote the grant application and was project manager for the National Endowment of the Arts Grant for the Woodstock Day School/Woodstock Youth Theatre 2002 Summer Program on Arts in Education/Cultural Diversity.
Jean Sébastien Brettes: launched ReelTag™ (www.reeltag.com) in 2006 in order to make cost-effective digital video production available to large and small organizations through the Web. Over the course of his career, Sébastien has worked in film (Funny Games, dir Michael Haneke), advertisement (Absolut Kravitz) and video (ReadSpeak and First Word projects) both in New York and internationally. Earlier in his career, Jean Sébastien served with distinction in the French Armed Forces and received the prestigious European Commission Leonardo Grant. Jean Sébastien earned a Bachelor of Administration in Economics from the University of Rennes in France.