Team behind America’s Stairway
Paul Lamont
Paul Lamont is a veteran filmmaker whose career spans over 35 years. He has produced, directed, and written numerous documentary films that have been broadcast on public television stations nationwide. In addition to PBS broadcasts, Lamont’s films have been screened at festivals, universities, museums, and institutions around the world and have been recognized with several Emmy nominations as well as multiple other national and international awards.
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Paul Lamont, Producer/Director/Writer
Robert Borgatti
Robert Borgatti is a media professional and former professor/coordinator of the Digital Media, Communication Studies, and Animation programs at SUNY Niagara. His background includes both production and teaching experience in digital filmmaking, photography, web design, graphic design, and social media. He has collaborated with Paul Lamont on several award-winning projects including the PBS documentary films in/word/out and Fading in the Mist. He is a graduate of the M.S. Television & Film program at Syracuse University's Newhouse School and has a B.A. in History from Niagara University.
Robert Borgatti, Producer/Writer
Liev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber, narrator of America’s Stairway, helps bring this momentous story to life. A Tony Award-winning actor, Schreiber has appeared in countless movies and TV shows, and his voice is often recognized from HBO's Hard Knocks.
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Liev Schreiber, Narrator
Jack Cummings
Jack Cummings career spans four decades during which he has worked on major films such as The Natural and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. In addition, his work has been seen on PBS as well as on cable and commercial TV. Most recently, he was Director of Photography for Toward Castle Film’s feature-length documentary, The Songpoet and America’s Stairway.
Jack Cummings, Director of Photography
Neal Ten Eyck
Neal Ten Eyck is an award-winning cinematographer and camera operator based in Western New York, bouncing between narrative, documentary, commercial, and live-action sports with equal parts precision and curiosity. A member of IATSE Local 600 and the Society of Camera Operators, his work spans major networks and streaming platforms. Recent credits include The Revenge of La Llorona (New Line Cinema / Warner Bros.), Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Buffalo Bills (NFL Films / HBO Max), and America’s Stairway (PBS). Neal is drawn to light, shadow, and stories that feel something—always chasing a creative angle (and occasionally writing about himself in the third person). Off set, he’s a proud dad and husband, a devoted dog owner, and a longtime lover of the ocean, music, and good hangs.
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Neal Ten Eyck, Director of Photography
Chris Bové
Chris Bové is a film and video editor of 17 years. His focus has been in documentary and dramatic narrative. He can’t often remember what he had for lunch yesterday, yet since he was twelve he can remember every scene, camera angle, and dialog of the over 20,000 hours of Hollywood films he screened from his family video rental store. That plus three college degrees in filmmaking and an activist’s mind has resulted in a career relentless with projects. Broadcast works for PBS include Glorious Battle: The Siege of Fort Erie, Elbert Hubbard: An American Original, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo. Theatrical DVD releases include Down the Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story, Kali-Ma, and Simon Manor. Bové has been nominated for numerous Emmy Awards and has won many others including CINE Golden Eagles and dozens of Telly Awards. Yet his favorites to win have been high Nielsen Ratings and film festival “Audience Awards”. Bové says, “Those are the ones that prove an audience is fully immersed in every second of the content I’ve helped the director to create.” Chris Bové lives in upstate New York with his wife and two children.
Chris Bové, Editor
John V. Davis, Jr., Location Sound
John V. Davis, Jr.
John V. Davis Jr. has been an audio professional for over 35 years and has gathered the sound elements for a myriad of documentaries, films, and commercials. His documentary work includes Olmsted’s Enduring Legacy, The War of 1812, Herbert Hauptman: Portrait of a Laureate, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo, Through Deaf Eyes, Rising Voices, Lake of Betrayal, The Songpoet, and America’s Stairway. He is also an experienced lighting technician and has worked on major motion pictures including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Marshall, and A Quiet Place II. He has a B.A. in history and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.
Shaun Mullins, Sound Design
Shaun Mullins
Shaun Mullins has been working in professional audio since 1978. In 2000, he started Propellerhead Media, his own audio post facility, catering to TV and film clients as well as providing original music scoring as a composer and musician. Propellerhead Media has produced high quality audio for thousands of TV and radio commercials, films, and videos. As an ADR mixer, Shaun has worked on many prominent films and shows and has hosted such notable actors as Emily Blunt, Josh Gadd, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and William Fichtner among many others. He has also mixed many PBS documentaries that have received global acclaim over the course of nearly 30 years.