We are Fun Little Movies. By that we mean that we’re a fun group of people who love making movies. The “little” in Fun Little Movies means the films are short, not the employees. Mind you, we’re very open to hiring little people, but feel free to approach us no matter how tall you are.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Frank Chindamo, President, is a global authority on mobile entertainment, an Adjunct Professor at USC and Chapman University, as well as an instructor at UCLA in mobile/web video production.  As a speaker, Frank has participated in over 300 panels on Mobile Video for CES, Natpe, Digital Hollywood, to name a few and has been flown to speak on the subject in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, New York, Toronto, Las Vegas, and Sydney.  FLM has garnered more than 25 awards, including Mofilm Grand Prize at GSM in Barcelona, where Chindamo was handed the keys to a 2010 Chevrolet by actor Kevin Spacey and covered by CNN, the BBC, and the Washington Post. In 2008 at Cannes, FLM beat MTV and Orange for The Content Award sponsored by Nokia.   And at 2010 CTIA, FLM won both Best Comedy and Best Animation. These awards were won for FLM’s excellent content, including the acclaimed Turbo Dates and Mr. Wrong series, which helped the Babelgum Smart Comedy Channel, (which Frank created) outperform all five of the other competing channels on Babelgum.

Frank has a BFA in Film/TV Production from New York University and a MFA from Columbia University in Screenwriting & Film Production.

Nick Alexander, Chief Operating Officer, Nick Alexander has worked at Fun Little Movies for over two years providing planning, implementation, and optimization of technical and business strategies and workflows. Having built a highly customized Content Management System to handle the company’s growing library of over 1600 films, Nick has vastly increased the efficiency of video encoding and delivery, in addition to providing actionable statistical analysis of content and viewership data. The automation of workflows has allowed Nick more time to provide additional services including sales support for over 50 distribution clients in order to increase FLM’s distribution footprint and recognition.

In addition to Nick’s work at FLM, he provided web design and content programming and promotion for the launch of the comedy channel on the video site Babelgum.com, contributing to its garnering of 60% of the site’s nearly 1 million monthly views. Nick has also co-taught a course at UCLA Extension called “Beyond Youtube: Making Mobile and Internet Movies That Sell” and has spoken publicly about new media filmmaking and video technology at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada and for the Public Television Service in Taipei, Taiwan.

Nick began his career as the Founder and CEO of a video production company that created promotional and industrial videos for clients such as British Petroleum, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Consortium for Educational Change.

Nick has a BA in Cinema-Television from The University of Southern California.

Kabir Shukla, Director of Business Development, spent time working in hospital administration before moving on to health advertisement sales and healthcare public relations.  Kabir moved to Los Angeles from Manhattan to find a way to merge the health and entertainment industries.  Fusing his healthcare expertise and constantly growing entertainment business knowledge, Kabir has been vital in growing the FLM brand and outreach.  He has been brought on specifically to help the growth of LaughMD and the liaising between LaughMD and their client hospitals.

Kabir has a BS in Healthcare Management & Policy from Georgetown University.

Mary Beth Rim, Chief Financial Officer, has experience in business operating tax agencies, restaurants, talent management, and film production companies such as Aruffo-Rim Agency Inc., Los Feliz Place L.L.C, Model Line Inc. and Chaotik Management L.L.C.  She graduated from West Chester University with a B.A in Theatre Arts.

Paul Allen, Chief Technical Officer, began his career over 30 years ago in New York, designing, building and managing Video Studios of America (VSA), the first tele-production/post production facility to accommodate the launch of cable television and Public Access for Queens, NY.  During his tenure, he edited the first music video for MTV, consulted for numerous companies and produced hundreds of projects for broadcast, educational, corporate, and entertainment applications. Paul left VSA in 1984 to Produce and Direct “Beat The Pros”, a sports handicapping series on USA Networks for the Trump Plaza Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ. Paul was part of the team that filmed the first High Definition feature film as well working with an HK, developing the technology that created the first High Definition graphics for feature films like Jurassic Park.  He was a producer and director for a video for United Artists Against Apartheid featuring musicians such as Bruce Springsteen and Bono.

His most recent project was to design and build the infrastructure for NGTV, the first multi-portal Internet Network whose chairman is rock legend Gene Simmons. Paul’s design has been lauded by industry experts and copied by many large organizations including NBC, CBS, Wachovia Bank and others. He is recognized as a leader in media technology and often called upon for consultation from multi-national organizations.

Paul has a BAS in Communications Science from Queen College, City University of New York (CUNY), a Masters in English from Brooklyn College, CUNY and an Honorary Doctorate in Communications from Queens College, CUNY.

Lynn Chindamo, Director of Creative Development, created the music video and web-series “Mr. Wrong” (virtual dates with the terminally undateable!) which was produced by Fun Little Movies and financed by Babelgum.  Lynn then created the mobile comedy series “Chihuahua Races” for PETCO’s 3rd Annual National Chihuahua Races and co-wrote and directed Discovery Networks‘ first animated comedy series for its Planet Green Channel. Her third series, “Bad Mommy” (the world’s worst mom gives the world’s worst parenting advice), was also sold to Babelgum and produced by Fun Little Movies. She also created and co-wrote the animated series, Ms. Rabble (The miffed-off, miserable, misgivings of a cranky but funny female) for the re-launch of www.lime.com.  Her new work has helped FLM become a Finalist in the Mobile Entertainment Magazine Awards against the BBC, a finalist for the Streamy Awards, and the winner of the 2010 Brighthand Mobile Film Festival at CTIA.  In 2009 Lynn was asked to judge the Emmys.

Lynn studied writing, directing and producing at the University of Southern California and Los Angeles City College.