MARK A. ALTMAN
is a television and motion picture writer/producer/director who most recently served as Co-Executive Producer of TNT’s hit series, The Librarians. Previous TV credits include Agent X (TNT), Castle (ABC), Necessary Roughness (USA) and as Executive Producer and Co-Creator of Femme Fatales for HBO, for which he also directed several episodes. He recently wrote and directed the motion picture comedy, Can’t Have You, as well as directed the comedy special, Aries Spears: Comedy Blueprint for NBC/Universal.
In addition, Altman has sold numerous pilots including to USA Networks and, most recently, developed pilots for Beacon Pictures, El Rey Networks and Sony Pictures Television. Altman has also sold feature scripts to such studios as Dreamworks SKG, Beacon Pictures and Constantin Films. He produced the $30 million film adaptation of the bestselling video game, DOA: Dead Or Alive, which was released by Dimension Films. His first film was the award winning, Free Enterprise, starring William Shatner and Eric McCormack, which he wrote and produced and for which he won the WGA Award for Best New Writer at the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival prior to its theatrical release. He is also a producer of the House of the Dead series, based on the videogame from Sega, released by Lionsgate. In addition, he produced James Gunn’s superhero satire, The Specials.
His bestselling two-volume book, The 50 Year Mission: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized History of Star Trek, was released by St. Martin’s Press in 2016 in hardcover to unanimous critical acclaim including accolades in The Wall Street Journal, Booklist and Publishers Weekly. His follow-up on Buffy The Vampire Slayer was published in September 2017. A follow-up on the 1978 and 2004 TV versions of Battlestar Galactica, So Say We All, was released in August 2018 to rave reviews.
Altman has spoken at numerous industry events and conventions, including ShowBiz Expo as well as the Variety/Final Draft Screenwriters Panel at the Cannes Film Festival. He was a juror at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival in Barcelona, Spain. He has been a frequent guest and panelist at Comic-Con held annually in San Diego, CA and a two-time juror for the Comic-Con Film Festival. In addition to being a graduate of the Writers Guild of America Showrunners Training Program, he is a member of the Television Academy.
Altman is also the co-host of the popular new podcast, The 4:30 Movie, in which a band of experts curate dream movie theme weeks in homage to the classic ABC 4:30 Movie.
ASHLEY E. MILLER
Ashley Edward Miller is a writer/producer best known for the films THOR and X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, as well as TV’s BLACK SAILS and FRINGE. Currently, Ashley is working on a new feature adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s RED SONJA. His new series, the second season of LORE, drops October 19th on Amazon Prime.
Miller is also the co-host of the popular new podcast, The 4:30 Movie, in which a band of experts curate dream movie theme weeks in homage to the classic ABC 4:30 Movie.
STEVEN MELCHING
is an Emmy- and Writers Guild Award-nominated writer, story editor, and producer on many animated TV series, including Star Wars Rebels, Transformers Prime, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, The Batman, Jackie Chan Adventures, Men in Black: The Series, Extreme Ghostbusters, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
While his great-grandfather, Elmer, worked as a studio carpenter at RKO on films like King Kong and Citizen Kane, that proved to be of little help because he was dead long before young Steve sought to begin a career in showbiz himself. And studio executives are not impressed by the distant offspring of people who built sets for old black-and-white movies. After graduating from the USC School of Cinema-Television, Steven worked a variety of entry-level jobs in Hollywood, including film production assistant on the Kid ‘n Play opus House Party 2 (“The Pajama Jam!”), script reader, and theme park puppeteer before getting his first break writing for the seminal 1990s X-Men: The Animated Series.
Steven has also written comic books for Dark Horse, video games for LucasArts, co-wrote and produced an award-winning short film, and co-created the pioneering Star Wars fan film “Troops.” He is currently working on the upcoming series Carmen Sandiego for Netflix, Star Wars Resistance for Lucasfilm Animation, and writing a short bio about himself.
Melching is also the co-host of the popular new podcast, The 4:30 Movie, in which a band of experts curate dream movie theme weeks in homage to the classic ABC 4:30 Movie.
DAREN DOCHTERMAN
has been working in the motion picture industry for over 30 years. His career in Art Departments on over 80 feature film and TV projects started with his first movie job on The Abyss when he was 20 years old. He has been a Concept Designer on many high-profile feature films including:
CONCEPT DESIGN
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
- Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas
- The Chronicles of Riddick
- Exorcist III
and most recently:
- Westworld Season 2
- Passengers
- Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Independence Day: Resurgence
- Star Trek: Beyond
He also worked for two and half years as Lead 3D Designer on Steven Spielberg’s unproduced Robopocalypse.
In the visual effects world, he has been a Storyboard Artist and Visual Effects Artist working with the VFX and commercial production company Moving Target in Los Angeles, where he contributed matte shots and visual effects shots on several films and television productions.
- The Company Men
- Love and Other Drugs
- Get the Gringo
- August: Osage County
- Bosch
- The Founder
- Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
He is widely known for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor for Robert Wise on the director’s edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 2001.
Daren has been an adjunct professor in the Entertainment Design Department of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, for 7 years where he taught “Architectural Interior Concept Design” and “3D Modeling”.
Dochterman is also the co-host of the popular new podcast, The 4:30 Movie, in which a band of experts curate dream movie theme weeks in homage to the classic ABC 4:30 Movie.
He lives in suburban Los Angeles.
