Saboteur

Cleverly Crafting immersive, mesmerizing, even epic moments that emotionally connect with who we are.
Saboteur. Ready. Aim. Create.

There’s a new landscape to be navigated as technology changes and borders fade away in the new media landscape.What’s necessary is not only a new way of thinking, but working. Thus Saboteur. Organized as a directorial collective, Saboteur is first and foremost multiple artists in one, fulfilling every aspect of the pre-production, production, and post production process at the same time.

Taking a different aim by being entrepreneurial, technically fluent, and untraditional at the same time, Saboteur works in smaller teams, with simpler equipment, streamlining a large part of the film making process. This way, they not only create the vision, they execute every aspect of it along the way. Coming in different styles and having several features and hundreds of commercials under their combined belt (along with the awards to prove it), this tool box of talent is sabotaging the way film is being made.

Saboteur Crew

Steve

It’s been thirty years since Steve Beck first loaded film into a motion control rig.

Since then, he’s helped computer graphics come home to roost in the commercial broadcast arena. He’s witnessed Cray computers turn into Apple laptops. And he’s noticed how the digital image is finally looking like film (whew!). But beyond these watershed moments, what Steve’s gleaned most is that finding and building the right partnerships in life can make your career. The smarter the better, actually. Given that insight, and all the rewards that have come with it thus far, Saboteur is his first collective endeavor. Talk about timing.

Ivo

Ivo Horvat’s unhealthy obsession with epic imagery began at an early age.

Frustrated by the imprecision of crayons and paper, he conned his parents into buying him a computer so he could teach himself digital illustration, which was quite impressive considering the field would not come to exist for another two decades.

Studying automotive design at Art Center College temporarily satisfied his creative appetite – but it was soon obvious to Ivo that the joy of illustrating highly improbable vehicles was surpassed by the thrill of also designing the highly improbable worlds in which they operated.

Armed with his portfolio, he left school and entered the world of entertainment. The industry further enabled his obsession. This passion is evidenced by more than 60 feature films his artistry can be seen in and the industry wide technology he has innovated.

Peter

Peter Gornstein made his first film when he was 15 years old

– and it was a piece of shit. But there was this one scene in the film, every time it played, the small talk vaporized, people stopped eating their popcorn and within a few seconds the scene had everyone spellbound. Seeking out those moments of magic is for Peter what it’s all about.

Weather it’s making a car commercial, PSA about the environment, a post apocalyptic fiction film, concept work on massive Hollywood productions, or AAA video games – for Peter it’s all about creating that space where concept, execution and technique merge together into an emotional body blow – then passing it onward to his audiences.

Kathy

More than a highly accomplished producer, Kathy Tishler is a production consigliere who seamlessly negotiates the innumerable decision points every production requires.

Over the nearly 20 years since Kathy emerged from Chicago as a production assistant, she has amassed a portfolio of bona fides spanning the multiple genres of commercial production from automotive to comedy to beauty to celebrity. She has been privileged to lead projects with top agencies and directors on commercial and new media campaigns for national and international clientele. Kathy ensures the tools and talent are in place to realize all commercial and creative objectives.