Cavendish Fante Picture Company London, United Kingdom

Kirsten and John have been working together for 20 years in over 45 countries. This offers clients a uniquely powerful knowledge base of people, places and cultures which is so important in today’s far-reaching content and messaging.

Kirsten: Is an accomplished and award-winning film & commercial director with 20+ years of international experience. Born and educated in England, Kirsten spent much of her childhood in London, Dublin and Venice. She began her professional career as a writer and journalist in the UK, where she became an agency creative director in the 1980’s with accounts that included BMW and American Express. She then moved to South Africa and headed up a film production company. In 1992, she moved to Los Angeles and started her own production company and produced projects for Fortune 500 clients including: FedEx, Kodak, Nike, BMW, Four Seasons, Waldorf Astoria, Cisco, Microsoft, Cemex, Virgin Galactic and Virgin America.

John: Has worked in over 40 countries on feature films, commercials, music videos & documentaries as a cinematographer, editor and producer. He began with a passion for still photography during the turbulent 1960’s while getting a degree in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His photographs appeared in the school’s Daily Californian, as well as, Rolling Stone magazine and Life magazine. He soon gravitated toward film making, and in 1969, shot his first film, “Altamont”, a documentary short, at the now-infamous rock concert that featured the Rolling Stones, with security courtesy of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club.  His first major-studio film was The Right Stuff, where he embarked upon a storied feature-film career in both visual effects and live-action photography that spanned two decades and included work on numerous major-release films including, Star Trek VI, The Jungle Book & 2010. His work as the lead effects cameraman on Innerspace helped Lucasfilm’s ILM team win an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.