Carolyn Weidell

Los Angeles-area native, Carolyn Weidell is an owner of six28 Productions LLC, a multi-media entertainment company. Ms. Weidell's role at six28 Productions is to build a viable business by overseeing six28's strategic vision and focus, selection of product, and day-to-day operations. Her extensive business background includes a recent corporate position as Chief Operating Officer for a Los Angeles-based aerial mapping firm. This firm is known as the leader in the LiDAR industry, and it served as the technical advisor for the recent film Deja vu, starring Denzel Washington. Ms. Weidell's business background also includes a lengthy career with FedEx Express, where she served in mulitple senior operations management positions. While at FedEx Ms. Weidell served as a consultant for the Tom Hanks film Cast Away. Following FedEx she gained start up experience with two companies, and eventually gravitated toward the film production business, working first for the Chicago-based independent film company, Strata Productions. During her two years with Strata she played a variety of roles, including on location managing talent needs for courtroom drama Heavens Fall starring Timothy Hutton and David Strathairn, and in the Chicago headquarters managing projects, including investor relations. Ms. Weidell's creative passion is writing. Originally a poet, her interest turned to film and stage in 1999, when she trained in screen writing at Writers Boot Camp in Santa Monica, CA. She has since written several film treatments and a stage play. Ms Weidell began developing these and other projects with partner, Tracy Burns as six28 Productions in 2005. They now own four projects and are in negotiations to own two more stories for film. Ms. Weidell's academic background includes some course work toward a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology (the psychology of corporations) at the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles.