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JOSH ETTING - PRODUCER BIO
Josh started his career in comedy, producing live stand-up comedy shows, before segueing into television and feature film, as well as commercials.
Some of his recent feature credits include the Amazon Freevee rom-com Puppy Love with Lucy Hale & Grant Gustin, the Lionsgate/Hulu thriller Angel Of Mine with Noomi Rapace, Yvonne Strahovski and Luke Evans and Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison with Romany Malco and Regina Hall. Some other credits include the Lionsgate thriller Reclaim with John Cusack and Ryan Phillippe, Relative Strangers with Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates, Bob Odenkirk, Ron Livingston, Christine Baranski and Neve Campbell, The Godfather of Greenbay with Lauren Holly, Tom Lennon and Tony Goldwyn, Tough Luck with Norman Reedus and Malibu's Most Wanted with Jamie Kennedy, Regina Hall, Taye Diggs, and Anthony Anderson.
Josh was also an Executive Producer on the Docu-series Inside Comedy with David Steinberg and Steve Carell for Showtime, What's Going on? with Mike Mitchell for FX with Will Ferrell and Jennifer Lawrence and Executive produced multiple episodes over both seasons of HBO’S FOD Presents, including the Sundance winner "Drunk History: Lincoln/Douglas" starring Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle; as well as shorts with The Daniels, Lennon and Garant, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner. In addition, Josh was a writer and producer on the WB's The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, as well as one of the creators of Living With Fran and The Starlet for the WB Network and I Will Survive for VH1.
BRIAN R. ETTING - PRODUCER BIO
Brian started off his career producing premiere cable movies for HBO before segueing into independent features, television and commercials.
Some of his recent independent feature credits include The Seeding which recently premiered at Tribeca in competition and picked up by Magnet and XYZ Films, Amazon Freevee’s Puppy Love starring Lucy Hale, Lionsgate/Hulu’s Angel Of Mine starring Noomi Rapace, Yvonne Strahovski and Luke Evans, the Sony/Samuel Goldwyn comedy A Good Old Fashioned Orgy starring Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte, Nick Kroll and Lake Bell, and Relative Strangers starring Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates, Bob Odenkirk, Ron Livingston, Christine Baranski and Neve Campbell.
On the TV front, Brian Executive Produced multiple episodes for two seasons of HBO’s comedy series, Funny or Die Presents, including the Sundance winner, “Drunken History: Lincoln/Douglas” starring Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle, plus works by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant (Reno 911), and The Daniels (Everything Everywhere All At Once).
Brian is also a seasoned commercial, fashion and documentary producer. He’s produced numerous spots for directors Dayton/Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), Nicole Holofcener (Friends with Money), Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg (This is the End), Jason Reitman (Juno), Miguel Arteta (Cedar Rapids), Todd Field (TAR), Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), Grant Heslov (Goodnight, and Good Luck), Jon Krisel (Portlandia), and Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth).
He recently produced the Target/Diane von Furstenberg collaboration fashion shoot, along with the documentary about VANS shoes founder Paul Van Doren directed by Doug Pray that premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Brian is a graduate of UCLA with a BA in American Literature and Film. His first industry experience was as an assistant to JoAnne Sellar (“Phantom Thread”) and Daniel Lupi (“Her”) on River Phoenix’s final film, “Dark Blood”.
Garlin Pictures also serves as a production service company.