Scott Macleod
Bio
Scott MacLeod is an award-winning independent film producer and founder of CKM Entertainment. Born in Michigan and raised in California, he studied acting at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at The University of California at Irvine.
Scott produced the horror feature film ROGUE RIVER, starring horror legend Bill Moseley, Michael Cudlitz, Chris Coy, and Art Alexakis. It was released by Grindstone Entertainment and Lionsgate. Right before the start of the pandemic, Scott executive produced the award-winning sci-fi feature film WARNING, starring Annabelle Wallis, Alice Eve, Kylie Bunbury, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Thomas Jane, and Alex Pettyfer. The film won numerous film festival awards including the Audience Award and Méliès d’argent Award for Best European Feature-length Film at the Trieste Science + Fiction Festival and Best Produced Screenplay at the Sochi International Film Festival. The Exchange handled sales and the film was released by Lionsgate.
Most recently, while in the middle of the delta surge of the pandemic, Scott went to Montana to produce the feature film drama MENDING THE LINE, starring Brian Cox, Sinqua Walls, Perry Mattfeld, Patricia Heaton, Chris Galust, and Wes Studi. The film had its World Premiere in 2022 at The Woodstock Film Festival and later had its West Coast Premiere at the San Diego International Film Festival where it won the prestigious Valor Award. XYZ Films handled sales. Blue Fox Entertainment released the film theatrically nationwide in June 2023 and Sony Pictures Entertainment released the film digitally September 2023. It debuted this year on Netflix and skyrocketed to #1 in the U.S. and landed on their coveted Global Top Ten list.
Scott is a U.S. Army Veteran and lives in Northern California with his beautiful wife of 21 years and three beautiful children.
Courtney Blythe Turk
Bio
Courtney is a producer with a broadcasting, production and theatre background. She worked under Fábrica de Cine (Silence, The Irishman) until becoming an Executive of the film finance and development production company Foxtail Entertainment in 2016. She is an Executive Producer of NEON and Sam Levinson's Assassination Nation (Sundance Film Festival 2018), starring Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård, Suki Waterhouse and Joel McHale. A few other films produced are The Ticket (Tribeca 2016) starring Malin Akerman and Dan Stevens, Netflix & Marti Noxon's To the Bone (Sundance 2017) starring Keanu Reeves and Lily Collins, and director Kate Brooks’ award winning documentary The Last Animals (Tribeca 2017) set in Africa following the conservationists battling poachers and trafficking syndicates to protect elephants and rhinos from extinction.
JB Carlin
Bio
Award-winning director JB Carlin first made his mark directing Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow’s infamous “Picture” music video where it broke records and won numerous awards and accolades. He went on to collaborate on several more music videos with Kid Rock before flourishing in the advertising world.
JB has directed hundreds of global advertising campaigns for top brands like Nike, Jeep, General Motors, Dicks Sporting Goods, Texas A&M, UPS, Alfa Romeo, Champion, US Navy, Chevy, Chrysler, Dodge, Lincoln, Hyatt, American Family Insurance, Partnership For A Drug-Free America, to name a few. He has gone on to direct highly-acclaimed talent such as Morgan Freeman, George Lopez, Ray Romano, Cindy Crawford, Simon Baker, Andy Dick, Ben McKenzie, Alan Thicke, Bob Seger, Eminem, and many more.
JB has also written and developed numerous TV series and feature films. Most recently, he created a series with producer, Jeff G. Waxman, called, The Forest, which sold to USA Network, UCP, and Ryan Reynolds company, Dark Trick. JB lives in the Pacific Palisades, CA with his wife Laura and their two kids, Finn (7) and Hadley (5).
