Demetria Kalodimos
Creative Director and Cat Herder
Demetria Kalodimos has anchored and reported television news for more than 30 years. She’s won some of journalism’s most prestigious awards including 15 regional Emmys, 2 National Headliners and 2 Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards.
In 2000, Demetria established genuine human productions, writing, directing, shooting and editing true stories about real people…genuine humans.
Her debut documentary, Friends Seen and Unseen unraveled the mystery of the underground cult preacher Prophet Omega.
Friends Seen and Unseen was a double sellout and award winner at the Nashville Film Festival.
It screened at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles and was selected for Birmingham’s Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.
Injurious George , the true story of the notorious Nashville footstomper, also sold out the Nashville Film Festival, drawing rave reviews from the audience and critics. It was awarded by the prestigious Chicago International Film Festival, and was an official selection of the Indie Memphis Film Festival for outstanding southern storytelling. Injurious George won best mini-feature at the Barebones Film Festival 2002.
Verlon Thompson
True-bador
As the in-house musician for Genuine Human Productions, Verlon Thompson scores themes and background music for documentaries and many of our custom produced projects.
35 years as a professional songwriter and traveling troubadour serve as credentials. As a solo performer, and as the trusted sidekick of Texas Americana songwriting icon Guy Clark, Verlon has entertained audiences from Barcelona to Binger (his hometown in Oklahoma).
Along the way ,his compositions have been recorded by Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson, Anne Murray, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis, Del McCoury, Dierks Bentley, Sam Bush, Trisha Yearwood and many more.
Verlon’s guitar work cannot go unnoticed. His skills can be heard on recordings by Restless Heart, Pam Tillis, and many more, including, and especially Guy Clark.
Verlon co-produced Guy Clark’s Grammy nominated cd “Cold Dog Soup” as well as “The Dark”, “Workbench Songs” and “Somedays the Song Writes You”. For more on his solo career, www.verlonthompson.com
Syncmaster
Carlos Torres is genuine human’s chief editor, lighting designer and frequent director of photography.
He was born the son of a frustrated filmmaker and photography teacher in Mayaguez Puerto Rico.
Tagging along as his Dad shot his twin reflex camera for a living, Carlos learned the nuts and bolts at a young age, along with an appreciation for great cinema. College brought him to the states, where he earned a degree in aviation management and a pilot’s license.
But he soon swapped the air for the airwaves, working in the technical and promotion side of commercial television. A self-taught musician, Carlos has also composed original music for productions by Nashville’s WSMV-TV , Tier One Media and genuine human. His keen ear has earned him the nickname “syncmaster.”. Carlos is married with 2 daughters, Hannah and Zellie. Thankfully for us, he has an unquenchable thirst for new technology.