Red Warrior Entertainment

Ronald D. Pate, Chickasaw: Executive Producer

Ronald D. Pate, Chicksaw is Indian President and CEO at Red Warrior Entertainment, LLC and Founder/President at Red Warrior Films, LLC (www.redwarriorfilms.com). Currently he is also the Founder/Chief Business Development Officer at Inanovation, Inc, a global Lithium Battery Corporation leading the field in Innovative NanoGreen Solutions in the battery scientific world. With 24 years experience in organizational management including supervision, organizational and leadership development, and fund-raising for profit and non-profit organizations, he has a proven record in managing multi-million dollar budgets and has participated in multiple $100M startup projects. He is familiar with the most prominent Native American Tribes, and associated business, trade, and political organizations. As a leader in the Chickasaw Native American Culture and government, he has also become deeply involved with Oil and Gas business development, business plans, contract management, and casino consultation. With a background in theatre, performing in over forty productions, his interest in film production has become his main focus in life, committed to the vision of Native Voices telling stories that have not yet been heard, stories that will make great feature films for global distribution. He produced the opening segments of the Historical Listening Tour in Washington D.C. at the American Indian Inaugural Ball in 2008, interviewing over 60 elders with partner and director Campbell Dalglish. He has spent the last four years setting up contracts with vendors and the Production Company formed to execute on Red Warrior Entertainment’s 16-film slate.

Campbell Dalglish: Writer, Director, Producer

Founding director of D’Arc Productions (www.darcproductions.org), and an award winning playwright, screenwriter and director, Campbell Dalglish is currently a tenured professor in the film program at City College of New York where he teaches screenwriting and directing, and is an elected member of the CUNY UFS Executive Committee. He is also a Film Commissioner for Suffolk County on Long Island. Most recently he has co-founded Red Warrior Films (www.redwarriorfilms.com) with Ron Pate (Chickasaw), currently in development producing a Historical Listening Tour of the United States Indian Reservations interviewing elders for stories that will eventually be slated for feature film productions. Red Warrior Films is Native owned, and committed to taking the untold POV of Native Americans and getting their stories mainstreamed before a global audience. He is also the current President of The Plaza Media Arts Center in Patchogue, Long Island (www.plazamac.org), screening independent films and offering media classes to the community of Suffolk County. He recently established The George C. Stoney School of Documentary Filmmaking where courses will be taught converging journalism, social activism, and the craft of filmmaking to make short films that make a difference in the world. As a playwright Dalglish has won several awards (THE LIST, BLUE MASS). As a filmmaker he has produced segments for The New Morning Show (Faith and Value Media/Hallmark Channel) five of them dealing with Native American themes on Indian Reservations. His short narrative film Dance of the Quantum Cats won over a dozen international awards and was selected by CINE to represent USA at the 12th International Film Festival of Peace, Hiroshima, JAPAN. It was broadcast on PBS/CPTV as part of a series on emerging directors. Dalglish developed a technique of making films from the perspectives of people living in marginal communities by visiting, interviewing and conducting interactive improvisations with his subjects. The results have been A Hard Way Out (1996 Hartford gangs), The Community Room (1992 Jericho Homeless Shelter), and The Shooting Gallery (1988 Bridgeport Prison). Together with his partner Catherine Oberg, he co-produced with Invisible Dog Inc., an environmental TV pilot Eco Action (2000). For the last five years he and Catherine have been in production on a PBS documentary Ahalani: Living In Harmony With The Sun, featuring an alternative energy lifestyle in their solar home. Dalglish is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Catherine Oberg: Co-Producer, Editor

Catherine Oberg: Co-producer/Editor Catherine Oberg has been working in the television industry in New York City for the last 15 years, contributing over 600 hours of content for broadcasting. Her creative and technical skills range from producing and directing, shooting and editing, writing and researching. Ms Oberg’s work on documentaries, newsmagazine series, live-to-tape talk shows and narrative dramas have been broadcast on HBO, PBS, CNN, FOX, UK's Channel Four, Discovery and the Hallmark Channel. Most recently, as a video journalist, she researched, filmed, produced and edited 38 segments for “Push Pause” on Long Island’s Verizon FiOS-1. The program is a community centered daily variety program and her segments covered arts and crafts, health and food, fashion, sports, social-, and environmental issues. Catherine received her B.F.A from The Kanbar Institue for Film and Television Production at NYU’s Tisch School Of the Arts. In 1999 she received an Emmy Award Honor for her assistant editing contribution on the feature documentary “Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell the Truth,” narrated by Robert DeNiro (HBO Films). She is a judge for the annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, New York Women in Film and Television and the Independent Film Project.