Your contributions will help us travel out of state and meet other people who want to share their stories. Calderon has connected with dozens of individuals who have yet to tell their stories, including family members of victims. Without your help, their accounts will go unheard.
What We Need & What You Get
- Our goal is $10,000, which will assist in shooting interviews in Washington, Florida, Colorado, and Idaho. The funds will also assist in additional editing, licensing, archival footage, equipment rentals, and animation/reenactments.
Our intention is not to make yet another cheap true-crime serial killer doc, exploiting grisly details to capture attention. Anyone can find these videos on YouTube if they wish, but people have not heard the personal stories from those who were closest to him, and from those whose lives were forever changed by his crimes. We need your help to transcend the talking-head-archival-footage style and give these stories the cinematic treatment they deserve.
Team Biographies
Director: Celene Beth Calderon was born in Los Angeles, California but moved to Park City, Utah in 1993 at age 6. Little did she know, the festival she grew up around would become the ultimate goal and dream of her life. Although, she grew up dancing for many years, she found herself engaged with film through her days in college. While attending the University of Utah, she obtained a B.A. in Speech Communications Intercultural Studies and began exploring the idea of the entertainment industry and became infatuated with documentaries. 4 years ago, she began to pursue a second bachelor's degree in film but decided to take a different route after she took a class specifically on the Sundance Film Festival. After that semester, she decided tovolunteer for the festival and to begin her early journey in film. By sheer luck, she was placed in Sundance’s Documentary Film Program and will be returning to the program this year in 2018. Calderon had plans to make a documentary in a 5-7 year timeframe and had hopes for ‘Theodore’ in those years. However, upon a discussion in the DFP office in 2017, it was decided that she would embark on her film the very next day. Calderon has grown up with the Sundance Film Festival in her backyard and feels it is time for a female “Parkite” to share the stage with the world and tell a story that has yet been revealed to the masses.
Executive Producer/Producer/Editor: Timothy John Psarras has shot, and edited countless short videos for various corporate, educational, and other clients. He was assistant editor on a 70 minute educational documentary about the connection between arts and culture in East Africa and Oman, which was produced for the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. He was also lead editor on a 70 minute foreign policy documentary about the history and future of Brazil's borders, produced for Brigham Young University. For the last year Timothy has been cooking pizza full time while spending his free time producing, shooting, and editing for Theodore. It has been an adventure to say the least.
Producer: Sean Ravarino McKenna was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended the University of Utah and graduated with a B.S. in Sustainable Tourism Management. In 2014, McKenna took a position in hospitality in Northern California and started writing his first project, a sitcom series based off his experiences in a unique and entertaining situation. After relocating to Utah in 2015 he began a feature length screenplay which he completed with his friend and colleague Timothy Psarras. In January of 2017, his friend Celene Beth Calderon approached him and asked him to come on as a producer for a documentary she had been wanting to start about Ted Bundy, entitled “Theodore.” This was McKenna’s first venture into production of a documentary film
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