Tim Iaquinta(1960-2004)

Award-winning producer ("Meritt Leming": Best Short Film [1996], Utah Short Film and Video Festival and Best Local Film [1996], Film Front Festival, Salt Lake City UT), director, stunt driver, actor, director of photography, lighting director, assistant director, production assistant, and president of TVI Productions, Inc. Educated at Gateway Technical College in Kenosha (associate degree: computers), he moved to Denver CO and then Santa Monica, California, working with Delta Airlines and Arlington Racetrack in computer maintenance, then joined Universal Studios, working in set lighting at the time of his illness. His career included work for Warner Brothers, Fox, Connection Pictures, Working Title Films, Cinetel, Crystal Beach Enterprises, Western Video Productions, Ventura Media, On Line Productions, Johnny Chevron Productions, Sun International Pictures, Telescene, Angel City Productions, TKO Productions, and Marlis/Seeff Productions, and on the "Looney Tunes", "CSI Miami" and "War Stories" television programs. At the time of his death, he had a number of feature-length script and independent projects in production.