Pellerin Multimedia

Michael Pellerin, founder and CEO of Pellerin Multimedia, Inc. (PMI), is an award-winning DVD producer and filmmaker. He and his PMI team have produced more than 100 hours of behind-the-scenes documentaries for DVDs and earned numerous honors, including The DVD Academys Best Disc of the Year three years in a row for the Collectors Editions of The L... ord of the Rings, produced for New Line Cinema. For the past five years, PMI, a Los Angeles- and New Zealand-based company, has worked with Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson on all of his films, producing all the behind-the-scenes material for The Rings trilogy and, most recently, Universals King Kong. On Kong, Jackson specifically brought Pellerin and his team in to produce the full spectrum of video materials behind-the-scenes documentaries, television specials, promos, marketing spots, internet content and the DVD. The Oscar-winning director also elicited Pellerins help on a unique bonus feature for the Warner Bros. DVD re-release of the original 1933 King Kong the famous Lost Spider Pit sequence. Jackson and Pellerin co-produced and directed a re-creation of this missing scene using exactly the same stop-motion cameras, techniques, period miniatures and props as the original filmmakers. While PMIs roots are in DVD production, the company has evolved into a creative multimedia one-stop shop for original programming and entertainment marketing for DVDs, EPKs, Internet, Television, Trailers, and more. PMIs team of accomplished producers and editors has created projects that range from promotional in-theater campaigns for Cinemedia and VW, to television specials and marketing campaigns, to groundbreaking internet content, such as Peter Jacksons Production Diaries a grassroots internet promotional campaign for King Kong. The Diaries, a revolutionary idea realized by Jackson and Pellerin, gave fans weekly access to behind-the-scenes action throughout Kongs two-year production, highlighting unique and never-before-seen-aspects of the filmmaking process. ...Read More