Steve Feazel, Producer

Besides being a video producer, Steve is an author, speaker and performs as a Christian standup comedian.

He is an ordained minister and has served as pastor, executive director of a Youth for Christ chapter, executive at a Christian TV station, and as an adjunct professor and staff member at a Christian college.

He first ventured into video when he wrote and served as executive producer of the award winning documentary, Every Young Man’s Battle, which was based on the popular book by the same name. He and Mike Edwards first combined their talents on this project.

Steve was one of the creators and original producers of the Christian standup comedy TV show, Bananas. His recent book, Letters to Tanner highlights the Christian heritage of America and the principles of the Founders.

Steve’s wife, Edythe, is a retired academic librarian. They live in Gambier, Ohio and have two grown sons and two grandchildren.

More information on Steve is found on his personal website.
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Karie Hughes, Producer

As founder of Passion & Principles since 1994, and now Director of Prevention for Crisis Pregnancy Center of Greater Phoenix her passion for the hearts and minds of this generation is unsurpassed.

Using her personal testimony of The 4′s Abstinence, Adoption, Abortion and Acceptance, Karie makes the parent/teen connection with honesty and sincerity. Her casual authoritative style captures the audience as she shares life experiences that span the gap of generations. Karie’s presentations offer facts, fun and hope for the future.

Karie has written a curriculum specifically for churches so youth pastors can take the message of sexual integrity into their youth groups.  Her public school curriculum was approved in 1997 by Arizona Dept. of Health Services and well received in 54 public schools. Her testimony is published in Power Of Teachable Moments, Focus on Family and author Jim Weidmann and Marianne Hering.

Karie resides with her husband Fred in Chandler, Arizona along with their son, Clif, 19 years old, and Whitney, who is 17 years old. She is also a new Grandmother, from her daughter, Kim and son-in-law Kyle.

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J.A. Ted Baer, Co-Producer and Legal Counsel

After graduating from Middlebury College, and Duke University Law School, and being admitted to the New York Bar, Ted began his law practice in New York as a judge advocate for the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. Upon leaving the Navy, Ted wrote and produced an album of songs, before joining the law department of Columbia Pictures in New York City.

A year later he joined the law firm of Arrow, Silverman and Parcher as an associate, specializing in music law. In 1976, he left the firm to join the business affairs department of CBS Entertainment in New York, where he eventually ran the New York branch of the department. In 1981, CBS promoted Ted to Vice President, Business Affairs and transferred him to Los Angeles.

In 1983, he became Vice President in charge of all business affairs for MGM/UA Television, leaving in 1984 to start his own production company, where he wrote and developed a number of film and television projects. He returned to United Artists in 1985 to help run its new television business affairs office, and, after being admitted to the California Bar, finally started his own law firm in 1987, specializing in film and television negotiations.

Specifically, Ted handles legal and business negotiations and documentation (including rights negotiations, talent negotiations, production financing, distribution and completion bond agreements, and production legal) for entertainment companies producing television and feature film projects, and for television and feature film performers, writers, directors, animators, composers, producers, and investigative reporters, in connection with television, feature film, interactive media, internet, publishing and merchandising projects, including the business negotiations for gallery showings for photographers, and the representation of individual performers and producers creating entrepreneurial ventures.

Ted resides and has his offices both in Santa Barbara, and in Los Angeles.