THE FOUNDING PARTNERS OF DESTINY WORLDWIDE ENTERTAINMENT
WILLIAM BYRON HILLMAN
President and co-founder of Destiny Worldwide Entertainment, writer, director, producer of feature films, produced screenplays, television series, award-winning documentaries, music videos, and TV commercials.
With a career that spans over 25 years, William Hillman provides a wide range of knowledge and expertise to the motion picture, television production and entertainment industries. After attending UCLA school of Motion Pictures and Television, Mr. Hillman began his career as an actor (Days of Our Lives, Bewitched, Ice Station Zebra, The Adventures of Ragtime, Quigley). He also worked at Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox Studios, Warner Bros., and the independent Producer’s Studio where Mr. Hillman participated in writing and producing low-budget feature films.
Mr. Hillman continued to diversify and formed his own independent production company Intro-Media Productions, where he produced, wrote and directed a series of feature films. Projects included: Betta-Betta, The Photographer, The Man From Clover Grove, and the TV Pilot Discotech for ABC Television Network.
Expending further, a second independent company was formed, SpectroMedia, where Hillman produced, wrote and directed Double Exposure, wrote the screenplay Lovelines for Tri-Star/Columbia Pictures, produced, wrote and directed Loner, The Master, The Trail Ride, Thetus, Ragin’ Cajun, developed Campus Call and The Hobo for Hemdale, and wrote and pilot show and fifteen episodes Working Together for Universal Studios. SpectroMedia currently holds the copyright of several films, two books, and various film-related projects, songs and music scores. During his tenure, Mr. Hillman toured the country as a motivational guest speaker for collegiate filmmakers.
Presently Mr. Hillman is President of Destiny Worldwide Entertainment, Inc. Destiny is an innovative motion picture production and development company. Films produced under the Destiny banner are: The Adventures of Ragtime (also released under the title Barclay’s Big Adventure), Mr. Toy, and Quigley. Destiny also produced the national infomercials for Quigley and arranged all air-time commercials nationwide. Destiny also created all the products sold in the infomercial and developed the manufacturing of the plush toys, crayons, posters and music albums for Quigley.
Currently Mr. Hillman has adapted the screenplay A Choice To Cherish from a novel of the same name. The novel, written by Alan Maki, is a best seller from Boardman and Holman Publishers.
Mr. Hillman is an active member of The Writers Guild of America (WGA) THE Directors Guild of America (DGA) Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and is a current member of both BMI and ASCAP where he has written and composed songs released on Mr. Toy and Quigley sound track albums, several Christmas songs and the music score for The Photographer.
Mr. Hillman enjoys writing and story development and has just completed his fifth novel.
For more on Mr. Hillman - visit his web site http://www.willilamhillman.com or contact him at info@dweinc.com
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RUSS KAVANAUGH
CEO and co-founder of Destiny Worldwide Entertainment, producer of feature films, music videos, television series and commercials
Under his guidance, the company has developed several motion picture projects, with a number of them completed and released. Quigley, a direct to video motion picture, initially utilized a unique original marketing and distribution approach. This venue is one of the many innovative ideas developed by Mr. Kavanaugh who has sought to combine efforts and create co-ventures with Destiny and other production entities.
Mr. Kavanaugh has extensive experience and relationships with many of the largest production studios, distribution houses, and record labels operating today, giving him the ability to establish key industry relationships for many different purposes.
Mr. Kavanaugh was a producer, co-producer, or associate producer on a number of feature films the list of which includes: Wild Wild West, Money Train, Under Siege II, Rosewood, My Fellow Americans, Dark Territory, Boys On The Side, Quigley, The Adventures of Ragtime, Mr Toy and now is currently prepping A Choice To Cherish as the next feature film for Destiny Worldwide Entertainment.
Mr. Kavanaugh was Executive in Charge of Production for the Wild Wild West music video. Mr. Kavanaugh served as post-production supervisor for many of the Warner Bros. feature films including (but not limited to) Wild Wild West, Jack Frost, US Marshals, and Fire Down Below. Mr. Kavanaugh also worked as pre-production consultant on the film Ali at
Columbia Pictures.
Over the course of his career, Mr Kavanaugh has worked very closely with Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, Song Pictures Entertainment, Relativity Media, The Canton Company, Peters Entertainment, Arnold Kopleson Entertainment, New Regency and Overbrook Entertainment.
Mr Kavanaugh has a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and an MBA.