DIRK DETWEILER – Senior Producer & Video Manager
Dirk Detweiler began his career in entertainment in Atlanta in 1977 as a production assistant on commercial
and industrial film crews. Quickly moving into the camera department, over the next several years he traveled
around the world working with the Coca-Cola Company on educational, industrial and sports projects.
After joining the I.A.T.S.E. New York Local in 1983, Detweiler signed up for the union’s feature film assistant
camera program and was accepted to work under Douglass Hart on Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters.”
He joined the Directors Guild in 1994 as a 1st assistant director and began working on high-profile commercial
campaigns as a producer/AD.
In 1996, he started Sedna Films, a production service company in Aspen, Colorado, and teamed up with
Writer/Director Glen Owen to form Storyville Pictures. Well-versed in all current film and video formats,
Detweiler and Sedna Films have produced advertising and industrial media and music programming for clients
including Subaru, Panasonic, Discovery, The Weather Channel and TNT Creative Services. Among the his
production credits are “A Song’s Best Friend – John Denver Remembered,” a documentary for Sony/BMG
Music; “The Drop,” a dramatic short released through Regal Cinemas; “The Winning Edge,” a sports TV series
for Challenger Films targeting elementary-school children; “Drama Is,” an image campaign for TNT featuring
Steven Spielberg, Holly Hunter, Treat Williams, Kyra Sedgewick, Courtney Cox, Uma Thurman, Mel Gibson,
Dennis Hopper, Peter Jackson, and John Travolta; and a series of Turner Sports campaigns featuring sports
and music celebrities Jimmie Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Ben Wallace, Dirk Nowitzki, Jeff Gordon, Tiger
Woods, Jay Z, Justin Timberlake and Jamie Foxx.
Detweiler divides his time between New York, Los Angeles, and his home in Aspen.
DAVID FULMER – Senior Producer and Book Editor
David Fulmer is the author of seven critically-acclaimed and award-winning novels, all music-related. He has
been nominated for a LA Times Book Prize, a Barry Award, and a Falcon Award, has won a Shamus Award, a
Benjamin Franklin Award, and AudioFile Golden Earphones Award.
His books have been selected for numerous “Best of” lists, including Borders Books “Best of 2003 List,”
Atlanta Magazine’s “2008 Best of the Shelf” and New York Magazine’s “Best Novels You’ve Never Read,” and
have received rave reviews from the The Times Picayune, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The San
Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Post, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
BookList, Kirkus Reviews, The Baltimore Sun, Mystery Review, The Detroit News, The Telegraph (UK), The
Plain Dealer, The Boston Globe, Crimetime UK, The Tennessean, Library Journal, Jazz Review, Alfred
Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other publications and book
websites. Most recently, he was nominated for the 2009 Shamus Award for Best Novel for The Blue Door.
His seventh novel, The Fall, was released in March of 2010 by Five Stones Press. The Night
Before, an adult holiday novella, was released in December as an ebook and will be released in
bound form in 2011.
Among his production projects, the audio series “Americana – A Mosaic of American Music” has been featured
on NPR-affiliate WABE-FM and on WMLB-AM, both in Atlanta. He wrote and produced the documentary
"Blind Willie's Blues," which Video Librarian called "nothing less than the economic, social, and historical
evolution of America's indigenous music.” He is also the co-producer of “Piano Red – The Lost Atlanta Tapes,”
which was released in August, 2010 on Landslide Records.
Between 1988 and 1999, he worked in the motorsports industry, managing large-scale communications
programs that included PR, advertising, marketing communications, and media production.
David Fulmer lives in Atlanta with his daughter Italia.www.davidfulmer.com
EDDIE OWEN - MUSIC DIRECTOR
Born and raised in the Atlanta area, Eddie Owen's introduction to the music business came while he was
attending Georgia State University in a Bachelor of Science program and bartending on the side. He began
booking acoustic acts at a Decatur club where he was working, including the Indigo Girls, who later gained
national prominence. After spending a decade learning the ropes, he created Eddie's Attic, also in Decatur.
With Owen in charge of the music, the club quickly evolved from a venue for mainly local and regional acts to
featuring the likes of John Mayer, Shawn Mullins, India Arie, Angie Aparo, Sugarland, Sheryl Crowe, Ani
DiFranco, and David Wilcox, and rose in prominence to one of the most important stops in the nation for A-list
acoustic artists. Last year, Owen decided to give up his ownership of the venue, but remained on board to
manage the music bookings and club operations. In the meantime, he has partnered with Daren Wang of the
Decatur Book Festival for a series of concerts at Agnes Scott College’s Presser Hall. Owen lives in Madison,
Georgia, with his wife and two children.
MICHELLE SMITH - Project Manager
Michelle Smith spent thirty-two years in the world of finance with JPMorgan Chase in New York, starting in
1977 as a Portfolio Assistant, later as a Business Analyst, then spending her final eight years with the company
as an Assistant Vice-President of Corporate Meetings and Events. She took her three decades of experience
managing funds and programs and transitioned those corporate skills to non-profit. She began a new career in
2010 as the Director of Event Marketing for the National Urban League, one of the nation's most storied non-
profit organizations. At the same time, inspired by a lifelong passion for music, she formed her own company,
Beyond Events Management, LLC, focusing on artist and event management, budgeting and contract
negotiations. In addition to earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Finance at Adelphi
University, she continued her education at Stony Brook University, New York University School of Continuing
& Professional Studies, Baruch College - City University of New York (CUNY), and the New York Institute of
Finance. She lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
In her capacity as Project Manager for "Death Don't Have No Mercy," she will be responsible for budgets,
finances, contracts, sponsorships, marketing, and other areas related to the funding and operation of the
project.
Dirk Detweiler began his career in entertainment in Atlanta in 1977 as a production assistant on commercial
and industrial film crews. Quickly moving into the camera department, over the next several years he traveled
around the world working with the Coca-Cola Company on educational, industrial and sports projects.
After joining the I.A.T.S.E. New York Local in 1983, Detweiler signed up for the union’s feature film assistant
camera program and was accepted to work under Douglass Hart on Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters.”
He joined the Directors Guild in 1994 as a 1st assistant director and began working on high-profile commercial
campaigns as a producer/AD.
In 1996, he started Sedna Films, a production service company in Aspen, Colorado, and teamed up with
Writer/Director Glen Owen to form Storyville Pictures. Well-versed in all current film and video formats,
Detweiler and Sedna Films have produced advertising and industrial media and music programming for clients
including Subaru, Panasonic, Discovery, The Weather Channel and TNT Creative Services. Among the his
production credits are “A Song’s Best Friend – John Denver Remembered,” a documentary for Sony/BMG
Music; “The Drop,” a dramatic short released through Regal Cinemas; “The Winning Edge,” a sports TV series
for Challenger Films targeting elementary-school children; “Drama Is,” an image campaign for TNT featuring
Steven Spielberg, Holly Hunter, Treat Williams, Kyra Sedgewick, Courtney Cox, Uma Thurman, Mel Gibson,
Dennis Hopper, Peter Jackson, and John Travolta; and a series of Turner Sports campaigns featuring sports
and music celebrities Jimmie Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Ben Wallace, Dirk Nowitzki, Jeff Gordon, Tiger
Woods, Jay Z, Justin Timberlake and Jamie Foxx.
Detweiler divides his time between New York, Los Angeles, and his home in Aspen.
DAVID FULMER – Senior Producer and Book Editor
David Fulmer is the author of seven critically-acclaimed and award-winning novels, all music-related. He has
been nominated for a LA Times Book Prize, a Barry Award, and a Falcon Award, has won a Shamus Award, a
Benjamin Franklin Award, and AudioFile Golden Earphones Award.
His books have been selected for numerous “Best of” lists, including Borders Books “Best of 2003 List,”
Atlanta Magazine’s “2008 Best of the Shelf” and New York Magazine’s “Best Novels You’ve Never Read,” and
have received rave reviews from the The Times Picayune, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The San
Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Post, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
BookList, Kirkus Reviews, The Baltimore Sun, Mystery Review, The Detroit News, The Telegraph (UK), The
Plain Dealer, The Boston Globe, Crimetime UK, The Tennessean, Library Journal, Jazz Review, Alfred
Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other publications and book
websites. Most recently, he was nominated for the 2009 Shamus Award for Best Novel for The Blue Door.
His seventh novel, The Fall, was released in March of 2010 by Five Stones Press. The Night
Before, an adult holiday novella, was released in December as an ebook and will be released in
bound form in 2011.
Among his production projects, the audio series “Americana – A Mosaic of American Music” has been featured
on NPR-affiliate WABE-FM and on WMLB-AM, both in Atlanta. He wrote and produced the documentary
"Blind Willie's Blues," which Video Librarian called "nothing less than the economic, social, and historical
evolution of America's indigenous music.” He is also the co-producer of “Piano Red – The Lost Atlanta Tapes,”
which was released in August, 2010 on Landslide Records.
Between 1988 and 1999, he worked in the motorsports industry, managing large-scale communications
programs that included PR, advertising, marketing communications, and media production.
David Fulmer lives in Atlanta with his daughter Italia.www.davidfulmer.com
EDDIE OWEN - MUSIC DIRECTOR
Born and raised in the Atlanta area, Eddie Owen's introduction to the music business came while he was
attending Georgia State University in a Bachelor of Science program and bartending on the side. He began
booking acoustic acts at a Decatur club where he was working, including the Indigo Girls, who later gained
national prominence. After spending a decade learning the ropes, he created Eddie's Attic, also in Decatur.
With Owen in charge of the music, the club quickly evolved from a venue for mainly local and regional acts to
featuring the likes of John Mayer, Shawn Mullins, India Arie, Angie Aparo, Sugarland, Sheryl Crowe, Ani
DiFranco, and David Wilcox, and rose in prominence to one of the most important stops in the nation for A-list
acoustic artists. Last year, Owen decided to give up his ownership of the venue, but remained on board to
manage the music bookings and club operations. In the meantime, he has partnered with Daren Wang of the
Decatur Book Festival for a series of concerts at Agnes Scott College’s Presser Hall. Owen lives in Madison,
Georgia, with his wife and two children.
MICHELLE SMITH - Project Manager
Michelle Smith spent thirty-two years in the world of finance with JPMorgan Chase in New York, starting in
1977 as a Portfolio Assistant, later as a Business Analyst, then spending her final eight years with the company
as an Assistant Vice-President of Corporate Meetings and Events. She took her three decades of experience
managing funds and programs and transitioned those corporate skills to non-profit. She began a new career in
2010 as the Director of Event Marketing for the National Urban League, one of the nation's most storied non-
profit organizations. At the same time, inspired by a lifelong passion for music, she formed her own company,
Beyond Events Management, LLC, focusing on artist and event management, budgeting and contract
negotiations. In addition to earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Finance at Adelphi
University, she continued her education at Stony Brook University, New York University School of Continuing
& Professional Studies, Baruch College - City University of New York (CUNY), and the New York Institute of
Finance. She lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
In her capacity as Project Manager for "Death Don't Have No Mercy," she will be responsible for budgets,
finances, contracts, sponsorships, marketing, and other areas related to the funding and operation of the
project.
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