30 JULY 01
SAN DIEGO, CA, USA
Lee Livinson has joined TransOrbital, Inc. as a Marketing Consultant. Lee is a veteran of more than 35 years in the entertainment industry. Among his credits as a producer are: Runaway Father, a two-hour CBS-TV Sunday Night Movie. This film won the night for CBS-TV and a Film Advisory Board Award. Skeezer, a two-hour NBC-TV Movie-of-The Week won the night for NBC and also received the George Foster Peabody Award and an Emmy nomination. Playing with Fire (shared executive producer credit with Lew Hunter), a two-hour NBC-TV Movie-of-The Week, placed second in the ratings and was honored by the California House of Representatives with a special Proclamation for addressing the growing issue of juvenile arson. The Legend of Walks Far Woman, a 3-hour dramatic special for NBC-TV was the fourth-highest rated program of the week and won the night for NBC-TV. It was also the winner of the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Best Fictional Teleplay Adaptation from a novel. Lee Levinson is producing The Dr. Gisella Perl Story, currently in development for Paramount Network Television and Showtime Entertainment as a two-hour cable motion picture. Lee is a former motion picture and television consultant and producer for The Blue Marble Company, the production arm of International Telephone and Telegragraph (ITT). Blue Marble is the recipient of two George Foster Peabody Awards and 13 Emmy Awards. He is also a member of the Producers Guild of America and The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In addition to producing films, Lee Levinson manages the careers of fiction and nonfiction book authors and screenplay writers. He also conducts filmmaking and television seminars at colleges and universities. Lee also writes a weekly Internet column “How To Produce Movies For Television” for Hollywoodlitsales.com. He is currently writing a book, How to Be a Producer: The Step-By-Step Guide to Making Films Happen.
Lee will work with Kit Lavell and the TransOrbital® marketing team to reach corporate sponsors, partners, and alliances to participate in ancillary markets. His experience working with companies that have integrated media, communications, entertainment, Internet, advertising and retail needs, will help TransOrbital, Inc. marketing efforts to focus on the cross-platform, cross-market content that 2001 TrailBlazerTM will deliver. TrailBlazer clients understand the advertising, branding, and public relations value and benefit that this global media event will bring. This not just a one-shot opportunity - it has legs.
Established in 1998, TransOrbital ( http://www.transorbital.net) intends to win the new "Race to the Moon" by being the first company to orbit the Moon with a completely commercial spacecraft, 2001 TrailBlazer. The spacecraft's prime mission is to return HDTV video and other multi-media content from lunar orbit to market as commercial products. The spacecraft will also deliver a time capsule to the moon, carrying small cargo items such as personal memorabilia and business cards.
The 2001 TrailBlazerTM Project is a for-profit space venture.
"We want to do for the Moon what Jacques Cousteau did for marine exploration- to go, look, sell the images and repeat it again and again."
Point of Contact:
TransOrbital may be reached at:
Tel: 858-455-5900 or 703-960-5953
Fax: 858-455-5979 or 603-619-5538
E-mail: at dlaurie@transorbital.net.
Further information may be found at the TransOrbital website http://www.transorbital.net.