The Team

Rick Carlson is a 40-year Silicon Valley electronics industry business executive whose technology has fueled the transformation of film making and video streaming.  His step into cinema production occurred after moving to Colorado where he co-produced El Inmigrante, an award-winning documentary about a border tragedy in a rural Texas town. He subsequently co-produced The Wedding Weekend, a comedy about college friends who sang a capella in college and reunite for a wedding. Rick was a board member at Aspen Film, one of Colorado’s most active film arts organizations.  Aspen Film’s Shortsfest is a qualifier for the Academy Awards.  Rick is a member of the Board of Advisors for the College of Computing and the EE/CE Department at Illinois Tech in Chicago.   Rick’s holds a BS in Mathematics from Illinois Tech and is an investment partner with Lanza TechVentures in Palo Alto and an active angel with West Slope Angels and CoVenture, both in Colorado. 

Barclay Lottimer has been involved in the development, production and distribution of films, television, and theatre for the past 40 years. He has produced feature documentaries, films, shorts, commercials, and television projects working with numerous major studios such as Disney, MGM, Columbia, CBS, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Orion, 20th Century Fox. Mr. Lottimer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Virginia Commonwealth University; an Associate Degree in Business from Champlain College and he has studied Psychology and Contract Law at UVM and Santa Monica College. He has been involved in over 75 theatre productions from Shakespeare in Europe to Off-Broadway in NYC with Joseph Papp. Throughout his career he has lectured frequently at universities in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Boulder on topics that include strategic marketing, finance, developing, producing and distribution of film. Barclay has co-produced a well-known, yearly international summit called “AREDAY” in Aspen Colorado, featuring such luminaries as Jimmy Carter, Sylvia Earle, Ted Turner, James Cameron. Mr. Lottimer sat on numerous Boards for theatres, non-profits, and educational organizations. Currently he is a Board Member of the well-known “Delaware Valley Opera Company” in NY.

Award-winning filmmaker Maitland Lottimer has worked in the film and music industry for over 15 years. He got his start as a sound engineer on a  FoxSports travel series where he learned how to use cinema cameras and work on a set. He soon got experience directing actors and writing for productions. He was a touring musician and music producer and worked with many artists and Labels in Los Angeles. Maitland was selected to be an "Olympus Visionary" (with his brother Austin) and has sinse produced a feature documentary, music videos, short films and a multitude of commercial and documentary work out of his video production company

Anatomist Films in Denver, CO.

Maitland is a proficient sound designer, film composer, Editor, Adobe CC expert, a camera operator,  

screen writer, producer, director and actor. 

Award-winning filmmaker and photographer Austin Lottimer got his start making short action films using his father’s cameras before the age of 10. at age of 16, he started working professionally for Good Time Golf, a travel golf adventure television series for FOX Sports. There he began cultivating his trade, working on 52 episodes as a sound man and camera operator. Over the next several years, Austin worked on numerous independent film projects, music videos and documentaries, filling varied roles from key grip to video editor to director of photography, until he and his brother started their own film company. Formerly Trine Films. In 2012, Austin and his brother Maitland caught the attention of Olympus when they won a 48 Hour Film Challenge at the Vail Film Festival with their short film Running Colors. This accomplishment introduced Austin into the Olympus Visionary sponsorship program which he professionally represented Olympus as the only Filmmaker for 7 years. since then Austin has directed and shot multiple documentary feature films, commercials, Industrials, television shows and music videos.