About Safe Harbor Films, LLC

Tony A. Angelo
President

Tony A. Angelo is the fire and passion of SHF. He has invested more than 10 years of his life in developing SHF and its flagship projects to their current stage. He was born in the Bronx in 1957 and raised in Brooklyn. As a child, he had a talent for entertaining family with his singing and dancing, but developed a love for the stage after moving to the West Coast and attending John Marshall High School in Los Angeles, where he was under the tutelage of long-time drama coach Gerald Winesburg. Tony began his career in the movie industry in 1988, when he worked on movie sets coordinating the actors, actresses, models, and extras. With his Bronx and New York City upbringing, he never lost his accent and uses expressions like "badabing" and "fuggetaboutit." Tony has more than 30 years of experience on films and television shows assisting casting directors and as an on-set coordinator. While at Central Casting, he was promoted to a supervisory role within months of being hired, thanks to people skills he honed working with entertainers when managing rock bands. He acquired his in-depth knowledge of film and television production by working his way up through nearly every level. This allowed him to master the inner workings of the film set and production politics until he rose to assistant director, associate producer, and producer, while also developing his extensive acting and talent-coaching background.

Tony also has a strong business and sales background, leveraging his bilingual background (English and Spanish) to receive accolades for high sales at all levels, be it weekly, monthly, or annually. For example, the first year he worked in the auto-sales industry, he was named Salesman of the Year. Tony is known for his work ethic, integrity and straight talk. He attributes his work ethic and integrity to his father, who served in the Army Transportation Merchant Marines in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He has his own flair, style, and perspective on life and the film industry. Once you have met Tony, you will have a new perspective on Hollywood and one man's will to succeed with his passion for film production.

Bill Kilpack
CFO/COO/Vice President/Screenwriter

Bill Kilpack has 30 years' multidisciplinary experience in management, budgeting and price negotiation, public relations and marketing, and public speaking. He planned and implemented marketing, advertising and media strategies for a successful U.S. Senate campaign, and for companies with revenue ranging from $7–300 million, receiving Inc. 500, Utah 100 and Entrepreneur of the Year awards. He has reformulated corporate approaches to communication, including revision of previous materials and establishment of more effective methods. He has been a college communication instructor since 1996 and, in addition to formal coursework, taught seminars on subjects like Communication, Creative Writing, Editing, Graphic Design, Layout and Design, Mass Media, Marketing, Public Speaking and the Seven Steps of Selling. He has coached presidents and CEOs in public speaking, including ongoing critique and polishing. He is frequently solicited as a guest speaker/seminar instructor for corporate, college and high school students, as well as a guest on podcasts and videocasts.

Writing under W.D. Kilpack III, Bill is an award-winning and critically acclaimed internationally published writer, with works appearing in print, online, radio and television. His first three novels each received the International Firebird Book Award and The BookFest Award, while Crown Prince also received the International Impact Book Award. His novella, Pale Face, received special recognition from L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest. In total, his books have received 24 awards.

He received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Westminster University. As an undergrad, he double-majored in communication and philosophy, while completing the Honors Program. As a graduate student, he earned a master of professional communication (writing emphasis). He was also a high-performing athlete, qualifying to represent the USA in Greco-Roman wrestling, and was a nationally recognized wrestling coach. He is an accomplished cook and is happily married to his high-school sweetheart. He is father to five children, as well as helping to raise five step-children. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he continues to live.

Tom Konkle
Showrunner/Producer

Tom Konkle has been described as a "techie with the mind of a poet." Originally from Fairfax, Virginia, he currently lives in California, with 30-plus years experience in the entertainment industry. He began his career as a comic actor and writer, leading to his appearance on The Art of Football comedy show, where he went toe-to-toe with John Cleese, and Baskets with Zach Galifianakis and Emmy-winner Louis Anderson. As an actor, he has since expanded his range to include sarcastic heroes and diabolical villains. In addition to acting, he is a director, author, studio staff writer, and producer. He directed, co-wrote and starred in the award-winning film Trouble Is My Business, and directed the short films The Longest Knife and Hyperion Chronicles.

Tom has written episodes of the Warner Bros series, Be Cool, Scooby Doo, and has also written and produced 19 screenplays for television, short films, and industrial films. He has made guest-star appearances on television, including The Office, Community, and Arrested Development.

The remaining Monty Python members asked him to direct and perform in their never-before-seen sketches in the live show, Owl-Stretching Time. He has a thorough understanding of production, post-production, distribution, and promotion through social media, with more than 100 project credits. He worked under producer Graham Ford (Time Bandits, Brazil, Gandhi) and has worked for all of the major networks. He is co-owner of the production company Lumen Actus, LLC.

Vernon Wells
Producer

Vernon Wells is an actor, producer, and director from Victoria, Australia, currently living in California. He began his career in entertainment as a lead vocalist in the very successful Australian band Inkers Ink. He was then cast into a series of commercials, print ads, and local Australian TV shows, which began his acting career. Vernon starred in two highly successful stage plays, The Birthday Party and Hossana. Hossana brought him to the attention of George Miller, director of The Road Warrior series. Vernon's big screen break was being cast as Wez in The Road Warrior in 1981, where he was a psychotic, post-apocalyptic gang leader pursuing the hero, played by Mel Gibson. (Wells later spoofed that same role in the teen comedy Weird Science in 1985.) Also in 1985, he played another villain, Bennett, who squared off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando. Wells has played many villains on film, in addition to a variety of other roles in 350-plus projects. He has received five Best Actor Awards in the last 10 years.

He has produced more than 20 film and television projects since the mid-1990s, and more recently took on responsibilities such as writing and directing.

Alison Kilpack
Associate Producer

Alison Kilpack is a key part of how SHF functions, "keeping things rolling," as Tony likes to put it. Leveraging her broad background, ranging from the airline industry to bookkeeping to project management to business ownership to psychology, she participates in a wide range of SHF functions, be it copy editing, prioritizing tasks or dispute resolution. As office manager at Provo Municipal Airport, she performed bookkeeping and accounting services. As a sales representative at Dorling Kindersley, she implemented corporate marketing plans. She has 16 years experience coordinating energy-efficiency projects with the regional utility to reduce power consumption by private businesses and other entities, requiring a fine eye for detail to meet very meticulous legal requirements.

Alison is also creative. After being published in the cross-stitch trade press, Alison started her own business, A Smile In My Pocket. With A Smile In My Pocket, she developed and implemented manufacturing processes, created instructional materials, and built a four-state retail network selling her original primitive-embroidery patterns. Thanks to the power of the Internet, A Smile In My Pocket has customers in 35 states and four countries. Alison enjoys music and movies, gardening, and spending time in the mountains. She is a devoted mother of three children, five stepchildren, and a growing number of grandchildren. She has also devoted time to today's youth as team mom for several wrestling programs, Cub Scout Cubmaster, and served in many leadership roles at her church, be it youth groups or other organizations. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brigham Young University where she received a University Scholar Scholarship.

Katherine Norland
Consultant

Katherine Norland is an actress, film producer, writer, and poet living in Los Angeles. Over a relatively short time, she has appeared in more than a hundred feature films, short films, television programs, national television commercials, music videos, and voice-over work. She is known for her appearances in Malcolm In The Middle, Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck, FREE to a Good Home, Reality Terror Night and The Pendant. For her starring role in On The Fringe (which she also co-wrote), she was a Best Actress Nominee at the 168 Hour Film Festival and won the B.O.M.B. Award for her outstanding performance at the Las Vegas Black Film Festival. She was named Best Actress in a Leading Role by Dhar Mann Studios (whose content has garnered more than 35 billion views). The first short film Katherine wrote and directed, Loves Lost and Found, won the Audience Choice Award at the Shortie Challenge Film Festival. She produced and starred in the feature film Cannibal Corpse Killers.

In addition to her acting career, she is an author, encouragement coach, and motivational speaker. Norland uses her social media presence to encourage and motivate others by providing inspiring content, with a half-million followers across four social-media platforms. She was born in Saint Peters, Minnesota. Each of Katherine's irises is a different color, a condition called heterochromia. Her right iris is bright blue, whereas her left iris is light hazel. She is married to Director of Photography Robert (RT) Norland and they have two sons.

Cal Nez
Production Consultant

Cal Nez, a Navajo from the Tachiinii Clan grew up in a hogan on the Navajo Nation in Tocito, New Mexico. He was raised by traditional grandparents who he credits for teaching him self-reliance and business sense by giving him a herd of sheep to tend when he was 12. Nez applied those lessons to his present venture, a graphic design and advertising company, Cal Nez Design. Nez considers himself an artist that works in communications and has been in business for 34 years (one of the longest running Navajo-owned businesses in the nation).

Beyond his business acumen, Nez has spent his life learning and expanding his knowledge of Navajo culture and spirituality, even when living outside the Navajo Nation. It is this deeply seeded desire for ensuring that his culture is represented accurately that drew him to accepting a position as Production Consultant with Safe Harbor Films for Pale Face. He not only wants to help make sure that the Navajo culture and Ramah Indian Reservation life are represented right, but also to continue to be an example to other Native Americans who might doubt themselves. He said, “If a Navajo boy who grew up on the dirt floor of a hogan can make it in corporate America, certainly anyone who believes in themselves can make it.”

Walter Welsh
Head SPFX Makeup Artist

Walter Welsh was born and raised in the small town of Martinez, CA, where he grew up around sports, cars and motorcycles. His love of sports eventually led to him playing college football and doing some bodybuilding after an injury ended his football career. He always had a passion for movies, science fiction and art, and earned a bachelor of fine art from California State University of East Bay, graduating from the Cinema Makeup School. He has worked in special-effects/makeup in Los Angeles in various FX shops/studios, in roles ranging from shop hand to fabricator to sculptor and mold maker to prosthetic designer and creature design on productions like Covenant, The Unexpected, Hell Hole: Dark Harvest, Grimm and Womb (now in pre-production).

He creates high-end prosthetics, foam fabrications, creature design, painting, on-set makeup, latex and foam masks, armor fabrications/costumes, and weapon replicas/props. Walter was a finalist on Season 10 and Season 13 of Face Off and has since participated in many workshops, conventions, productions and makeup courses all over the United States, Canada and China.

Jillian Clary
Social Media Specialist

Jillian is pursuing a bachelor’s degree at BYU-Idaho with a major in communication emphasizing digital and social media. She earned an associate degree in social and behavioral sciences from Saddleback College in California, where her interpersonal communication class sparked her interest in pursuing a greater depth of understanding and breadth of knowledge in communication. She loves the creativity involved in digital and social media, and has a strong background in reels and social-media grids.

She is also a seasoned gymnastics coach and competes in power lifting while maintaining a 3.7 GPA.

Garrick Kilpack
Programmer/Game Developer/Web Developer

Garrick Kilpack is an experienced video-game developer and programmer in a wide range of areas. He programmed bug fixes in the Pro-Stitcher simulator for Handi Quilter, as well as implementing additional skew morphing functionality for end users. He has experience in more than 20 development environments and programming languages and has won first-place awards for his work at multiple Project Showcases at Neumont College of Computer Science, including being selected to present on behalf of the college at the FanX Salt Lake Pop Culture and Comic Convention.

Garrick is also an avid tabletop role-playing gamer since his childhood, regularly revising game rules for smoother play and more realistic, logical game use. He has experience in direct customer service and employee supervision, ensuring compliance with government requirements and health codes. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Neumont College of Computer Science with a bachelor of science in software and game development and has appeared on every President's List with a cumulative GPA of 3.95.