Filmmakers

Lisa is a Director of film, family and city communications. Her film WHERE WE MEET won Best New England Short 2017 in the Shawna Shea Film Fest and Lisa received the Boston Women in Film award for the 2016 Boston 48Hr Film Project. Her team has placed in their Best of Boston 2016 & 2017 for their films LOVE UNLOCKED & PROBATION. In addition, Lisa is the Communications Director for the City of Quincy, a photographer and wife and mom to 2 amazing kids, 1 dog, 1 bird & 7 fish. She is in production on the web series NOT LIZ. Lisa is proud to be making her feature length directorial debut in Sweeney Killing Sweeney.

Michael King formed Wizard King Productions in 2017. He has been in and out of the production end of film/video business for the past thirty years. After a successful venture in the bar/restaurant business at the famed Eliot Lounge in Boston, he returned to the film business as producer of the 12-episode reality/documentary show “The British Miler” for the BBC. His next project was producing the documentary “Bannister, Everest on the Track” which was then followed by the feature “Sweeney Killing Sweeney”. He is also in production of a new documentary about the ’68 Olympic black power salute of Tommie Smith and John Carlos and a 8 episode web series, “Not Liz”.

Brian Menz, editor of Sweeney Killing Sweeney, is originally from St.Louie, MO. An art school grad-jee-ate and lifelong, obsessive movie junkie, he's won six Emmy awards, been nominated for twenty-five of 'em, and is working hard to improve that ratio. In his spare time he enjoys writing unsettling screenplays, romantic candlelit dinners and long walks in the woods.

Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Boston, Jordan Beard is a filmmaker and photographer. He fell in love with films at a young age and later went on to study film making at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. After college he lived and worked in New York City and Berlin before returning home to Boston to rejoin his collaborator Alistair Wilson to start the production company Weekend Studio. Often on the road, he has worked on productions in Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, China, Ethiopia, and Germany. Outside of narrative and experimental projects, Jordan primarily works as a director of photography on commercial productions.

Mark’s began his creative path as musician & actor. Musical theater to film he's maintained a presence both in front of, and behind the camera. He’s traveled the world as a broadcast media professional, stringer reporter and executive producer in both national and Boston radio. A nationally award winning creative production & jingle writer. He began his own production company in 2014 and has produced, shot, directed and voiced many local/national commercials, TV pilots, music videos, docs, etc… Worked on, musically scored, acted in award winning short films, etc.... Mark continues his function as the liaison for the City of Quincy, working with the Mass Film Office, to assist films and studios that want to film in the state. As a producer, assistant director and music supervisor on Sweeney Killing Sweeney, it has been a collaborative, “dream come true” experience of a lifetime.

Bill Braudis, writer, spent over 20 years doing standup comedy (that’s a long set), over 10 years writing for TV in many different capacities and now seven years (and counting) teaching script writing at Boston University. Braudis has had his screenplays optioned and place highly in recognized competitions, but SWEENEY KILLING SWEENEY, is his first feature to be filmed. But that doesn't mean Braudis has given up on his dream of someday writing a lavish Broadway musical about the secret lives of kitchen cutlery. “The Lonely Ladle,” is still bouncing around in his head.

Alistair Wilson has been an avid filmmaker since his teenage years. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Alistair worked in New York as a PA on such productions as The Other Woman, and also won in competition at the Ivy Film Festival for his own directed work. In 2016 he returned to his Boston roots in order to start the production company Weekend Studio with Jordan Beard, where he primarily works as a producer on commercial productions.