Sascha Schneider ( Director) is an Emmy- and DGA Award-winning producer/director of Hill Street Blues, also nominated for a Daytime Emmy. He co-directed the award-winning documentary Chuppa: The Wedding Canopy, about the multi-generational impact of the Holocaust on his family, and directed episodes of TV series Berlin Break and Scarecrow and Mrs. King. He produced the network TV shows Nash Bridges, Dellaventura, The Division, Commander in Chief, Dirt, and more recently Graceland, Snatch and Manhunt, in addition to other series, TV movies and films.
Among his early film industry jobs, he traveled the world with National Geographic and produced documentaries for David Wolper Productions (now the Wolper Organization), including microscopic segments of Wolper’s iconic Oscar-winning horror/doc, The Hellstrom Chronicle.
He directed and exec-produced Baked Ziti, a little mob comedy written by Kaenan & Dominic Oliver. The three re-teamed for Ben & Tony, written by the Olivers, starring Donald Watson, Dominic Oliver and Mariann Aalda. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774019
Susannah d’Arcy (Producer) is a dynamic Producer of television series, feature films, luxury “live events” and musicals. She is President of BritCan Media, a global film and television company with production and distribution capabilities, and currently has several films in pre-production. Among her other projects is a musical featuring a Motown 70’s iconic band. She worked in Budapest on the NBC Dick Wolf production FBI International, and produced a $30M luxury live event in Egypt.
Susannah is a member the Producers Guild of America and serves as their chairman of Live Events. She is a Los Angeles Board Member of French In Motion and an Ambassador to the Red Cross of America. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201059/
Kaenan Oliver (Screenwriter, Co-Producer) is a prizewinning writer, a script consultant, researcher, trivia game writer, children’s book editor and a former copywriter at Warner Bros. She has a prize-winning novel and short stories to her credit, and has served as a story analyst for entertainment companies and producers. She and Dominic co-wrote the award-winning script Coney Island, a coming-of-age feature based on a formative summer in Dom’s childhood. Together with partner Jay Flynn, they co-wrote the novel Jitterbug Lift plus award-winning screenplays To Kill a King (about Richard III), Conduct Unbecoming and more. The trio sold a movie for Lifetime and developed a feature at Sony.
In addition to co-writing and co-producing Ben & Tony, she wrote and produced the gangster short Whitey On The Run and comedy short Baked Ziti. She also writes and produces Auburn Production’s nonpartisan PSA series We Can Do Better America with Donald and Dom. https://dobetteramerica.org.
Ernie Charles (Co-Producer, 1st AD) grew up in a family of five in rural Ohio, where he was crowned as County Fair King. He attended Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio where he received a Computer Science Degree. He loved playing football and baseball, but also found a love for acting during college. After graduation, he moved to New York City where he trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and at Carnegie Hall with the Robert X. Modica Meisner Studio. He performed in numerous theater productions. While pursuing his love of acting, he also did some modeling. A life-size replica of him as a pipeline worker is on display at the New York Mercantile Exchange Museum. Ernie currently resides in Los Angeles.
He performed in two art installations for renowned video artist Bill Viola. The first was “The Voyage,” which was part of the exhibit called “Going Forth By Day” at the Guggenheim Museum during 2002 in New York City. The second was “Observance,” which was part of the exhibit “The Passions” at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2003 in Los Angeles.
Ernie wrote and acted in I Need a Drink, a comedy short he’s developing as a feature film. He has written a stage-play called, Not My Hometown and a pilot script For The Love of Soup. www.imdb.me/erniecharles
ENDLESS THANKS TO OUR WONDERFUL CREW of ARTISTS
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER – WE MAKE MOVIES
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY – MIKE A. OJEDA
EDITOR – MIKE A. OJEDA
MUSIC – FABIAN FERNANDEZ
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR – ERNIE CHARLES
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR – HEIDI SCHOOLER
LOCATION SOUND SUPERVISOR – HILARY STEWART
MAKEUP AND HAIR – JEFF SWAN
FIRST ASSISTANT CAMERA – JUAN FRAUSTO
GAFFER – TRISTAN MOFFAT
PHOTOGRAPHER – KIMBERLEE PETERSON
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS – THOMAS CALLAHAN / KEVIN SNYDER
SPECIAL THANKS to FRIENDS OF BEN & TONY
EXTRA-SPECIAL THANKS IRA & SUZANNE SCHNEIDER
IN MEMORY OF LAURANE C. SHEEHAN
An Auburn Productions Film
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED by DONALD WATSON & DOMINIC OLIVER
CREATED by DONALD WATSON, DOMINIC OLIVER, KAENAN OLIVER
WRITTEN by KAENAN OLIVER & DOMINIC OLIVER
STORY by KAENAN OLIVER & DOMINIC OLIVER & DONALD WATSON
Ben & Tony 