Lance Catania
Executive Producer, Direcor/DP, Writer

Lance Catania's obsession with film, mostly horror, began with his Mother. His first memories as a child were staying up late on Saturday nights with his mom, watching the old, classic horror films on WGN-TV's "Creature Features". Tired of Lance stealing the family's 8mm movie camera to make films with his friends, Lance's parents bought him an 8mm film camera for his 9th birthday.

It was inevitable that Lance's destiny was in the film production business.

Mr. Catania has over 20 years of experience as a Director/Cameraman and a Lighting Director. During that time he directed projects for many of Chicago's largest advertising agencies and Fortune 500 Companies.

His commercials have won numerous Midwest Emmys, Telly, Questar, Monitor, and Philo awards, and a Silver Medallion from the internationally renowned Chicago International Film Festival.

Catania's clients have included advertising agencies: Foote Cone and Belding, Leo Burnett, A. Eicoff, Bayer Bess Vanderwarker and J. Walter Thompson. Broadcast companies: WLS-TV, WBBM-TV and FOX in Chicago. Entertainment companies: Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount, Dreamworks, Tribune Entertainment and Miramax Films. Corporate clients: IBM, Motorola, Pepsi-Cola, Sears, Abbott Labs, Searle, Arthur Anderson and Miller Brewing Company.

He has served as Lighting Director on many Live Corporate Events and Broadcast Television Shows. Some live corporate clients include: IBM, Motorola, John Deere, Abbott Labs, Searle and the American Medical Association.

As Lighting Director, some of the television shows he has served include: MTV Comedy

Special, Bears Post-Game 1988, 89, 90, Sportsvision Sportsweek, At The Movies with Rex Reed, The U.S. Farm Report, Book Tours, The Ebony Jet Showcase. Most recently, he is Lighting Director and produces the opening credits sequence for WLS-TV's "190 North" show; the highest rated locally produced T.V. show in Chicago..

Mr. Catania attended Columbia College of Chicago for Film Production. He has four children, loves punk rock music and is the ultimate horror film fan. Thanks Mom.