Base Camp Films

Since its founding in 2001, Base Camp Films has maintained a busy slate of projects in non-fiction/reality television, and has expanded its scope of work to docu-series, documentaries, and web-based entertainment properties.

It’s longest lasting series, The Great Christmas Light Fight for Fremantle/ABC, has completed a full decade of successful seasons, winning multiple awards, and handing out $3 million in prize money to families with the best Christmas displays in the country. Showrunner Brady Connell also served as Executive Producer/showrunner on the CBS series Secret Celebrity Renovation and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for Endemol/ABC.

Base Camp Films has produced dozens of non-fiction projects including Six Degrees of X for Sony Television International, the successful 8-episode series Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive for E! Entertainment, a million-dollar prize special for GSN entitled Worldwide Web Games, a scripted comedy webisode series for The Second City, a highly-rated documentary special for the Discovery Channel, a set of reality commercials for Suzuki, and No Boundaries, a 13-episode remote location series in partnership with Ford Motor Company and Global TV Canada.

Base Camp has developed television projects for dozens of buyers, including FOX, YouTube, A&E, Discovery, Disney Channel, E!, Buzzfeed, MTV, Spike, Chinese television, and TLC. Base Camp has partnered with studios and companies such as Imagine Television, Activision, BBC Worldwide, Electronic Arts, Fox21, FoxTV Studios, ITV Studios, and Scott Free Productions on various non-scripted and scripted formats created or acquired by Base Camp.

Base Camp released its first iTunes app based on its own multi-level character-based children’s property The Historables. The company also has a long-standing relationship with The American Red Cross, with whom it has developed a doc reality series based on the volunteers and staff of the organization.

With various strategic partners in networked media, Base Camp is in development on several large-scale hybrid reality shows, and on projects ranging from non-fiction features, to VR/AR, to internet entertainment experiences. Base Camp founders and co-owners Brady Connell and Jim Jusko seek to carve out new territory in entertainment, using their experience in non-fiction television as a basis for creative exploration in other media.

Representation:
United Talent Agency (310) 273-6700 - David Kirsch, Geoff Suddleson

REALITY TELEVISION

THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT
Fremantle / ABC  (10+ seasons)

$1 MILLION TO SAVE THE WORLD
Sony Pictures Television (development)

UNTITLED REALITY COMPETITION SERIES FOR CHINESE TELEVISION
LIC / CCTV CHINA

EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION
Endemol / ABC

SIX DEGREES OF X (creators)
Sony Pictures TV International

X-QUEST

Imagine Entertainment / 20^th Century Fox TV / FOX (pre-production)

WORLDWIDE WEB GAMES

GSN

THE GIFT
Flame TV / SCI FI

FILTHY RICH: CATTLE DRIVE
JT Ent.-J2 Ent. / E!

STREET RACING: PEDAL TO THE METAL
Fox TV Studios / Discovery Channel

NO BOUNDARIES
Lionsgate / The WB Network / Outdoor Life Network / Global TV Canada

MUSIC MOGULS
MTV Studios / MTV (pilot)

SPECIALTY PROJECTS

THE HISTORABLES
Children’s iTunes release for iPad and Android

THE SECOND CITY WEBISODES
Comedy webisode series for Second City

COMMAND AND CONQUER X
Bonus anniversary release for Electronic Arts

RUSSIAN ROULETTE
PSA for AIDS Service Center

SUZUKI COMMERCIALS
Reality-style adventure spots for Suzuki Corporation

Brady Connell
Connell is an Emmy Award winning Executive Producer/showrunner/director with 30 years of television producing experience. Connell’s work has fueled the success of popular reality programs such as Survivor, The Amazing Race, and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He is a two-time Emmy recipient for The Amazing Race, an NAACP Image Award recipient for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and a Humanitas Prize winner for writing in children’s programming.

Connell serves as Executive Producer/showrunner on all Base Camp projects, and is an Executive Producer/showrunner and DGA director for hire. He is a member of the Hollywood Television and Radio Society, the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and is a graduate of UCLA.|

Jim Jusko
Along with Connell, Jim Jusko served as Executive Producer/showrunner on Six Degrees of X (Sony), Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive (E!), Street Racing: Pedal to the Metal (Discovery Channel) and No Boundaries (Lionsgate/WB).

Jusko’s background in scripted television and features includes serving as one of the producers of Disney’s theatrical family feature Air Bud and as an executive producer of the Lionsgate feature, Dead Heat, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Anthony LaPaglia. He also served as associate producer of the original Lifetime Channel movie, Touch Me, starring Amanda Peet.

Prior to founding Base Camp Films, Jusko served in key executive positions supervising international co-productions for Keystone Pictures (Canada) and Beyond Films (Australia). He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a member of the academic board of the European Master in Audiovisual Management headquartered in Rome. He is a graduate of UCLA and University of California, Berkeley.

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