About
Since its founding in 2001, Base Camp Films has maintained a busy slate of projects in non-fiction/reality television and expanded its scope of work into long-form drama, independent features, commercials, DVD special releases, and web-based entertainment properties.
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Base Camp has completed production on several reality projects including the pilot it recently created for Sony Television International entitled Six Degrees of X, the successful series, Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive for E! Entertainment Television, a million-dollar prize special for GSN entitled Worldwode Web Games, a highly-rated documentary special for the Discovery Channel, and the series, No Boundaries a thirteen episode remote location shoot for the WB Network in partnership with the Ford Motor Company, and a set of reality commercials for Suzuki.
Base Camp has also developed television projects for Discovery, MTV, Disney, TLC, Spike TV, E! and SciFi cable networks, as well as for the FOX network with Ron Howard and Imagine Television (X-Quest). Base Camp has partnered with studios and companies such as Fox21, FoxTV Studios, Scott Free Productions and BBC Worldwide on various non-scripted and scripted formats created or acquired by the company.
For video game giant, Electronic Arts, Base Camp produced the bonus DVD highlighting 10 years of EA’s successful game franchise, Command and Conquer. BCF also produced live action sequences for video game promotions for ActiVision’s Bee Movie and Shrek the Third promos.
Base Camp also has a long-standing relationship with The American Red Cross, with whom it has developed a documentary series based on the volunteers and staff of the organization. The company also owns the multi-level children’s property “The Historables,” and represents the half-hour animated Columbus Day special We Think the World is Round for worldwide distribution.
With their strategic partner in networked media, Spectrum MediaWorks, Base Camp is in development on the large-scale hybrid reality show X-Quest, along with other projects ranging from non-fiction features to internet entertainment experiences. Base Camp founders and co-owners, Brady Connell and Jim Jusko, seek to carve out new territory in entertainment, using their experience in non-fiction television as a basis for creative exploration in other media.
Representation:
United Talent Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
Credits
REALITY TELEVISION
EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION
Executive Producer/showrunner & Consulting Producer
Lock & Key Prods. — Endemol — Seasons 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 — 2007-2012
SIX DEGREES OF X
Creators/Executive Producers/showrunners
Base Camp Films — Sony Pictures TV International — 2007
MYCRIME
Executive Producers/showrunners
Base Camp Films — Sony Pictures TV International — 2007
X-QUEST
Executive Producers/showrunners
Imagine Ent., Base Camp Films — 20th Century Fox TV (pre-production) — 2007
WORLDWIDE WEB GAMES
Executive Producers/showrunners
Base Camp Films — GSN — 2006
THE GIFT
Executive Producers/showrunners
Base Camp Films, Flame TV — SCI FI (pre-production) — 2006
FILTHY RICH: CATTLE DRIVE
Executive Producers/showrunners
Base Camp Films, JT Ent./J2 Ent. — E! (8 episodes) — 2005
WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Director*
New Screen Ent., Jay and Tony Show — ABC (6 episodes) — 2005
AMERICAN START-UP
Executive Producers
Live Planet, Base Camp Films — SPIKE (development) — 2005
OUTBACK JACK
Executive Producer*Nash Entertainment — TBS (10 episodes) — 2004
STREET RACING: PEDAL TO THE METAL
Executive Producers
Fox TV Studios, Base Camp Films — Discover Channel special — 2004
RACE TO THE ALTAR
Co-Executive Producer/Director*
LMNO Productions — NBC — 2003
NO BOUNDARIES
Executive Producers/showrunners
Lions Gate/Base Camp Films — The WB Network/Outdoor Life Network — 2002
MUSIC MOGULS
Executive Producers
MTV Studios, Base Camp Films — MTV pilot presentation — 2002
THE AMAZING RACE 1, 3, 4, 5
Supervising Producer/Producer* — TWO-TIME EMMY RECIPIENT
Bruckheimer — CBS — 2001-2004
ECO-CHALLENGE
Supervising Producer/Director* — EMMY AWARD NOMINATION
Mark Burnett — USA — 2000
SURVIVOR
Senior Producer* — EMMY WINNING SEASON
Mark Burnett — CBS — 2000
WILD THINGS*
Earthview, Inc — Paramount — 1997-9
RESCUE 911*
Arnold Shapiro — CBS
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FEATURES/MOWs
AIR BUD** (Kevin Zegers, Buddy the Dog)
Associate Producer
Disney — 1997
DEAD HEAT** (Keifer Sutherland)
Executive Producer
Lions Gate — 2001
TOUCH ME** (Amanda Peet)
Associate Producer
Lifetime — 1994
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SPECIALTY PROJECTS
COMMAND AND CONQUER X
Bonus DVD for anniversary release
Base Camp Films — Electronic Arts — 2006
RUSSIAN ROULETTE
PSA - CLIO Nomination
Base Camp Films — AIDS Service Center
SUZUKI COMMERCIALS
3 reality-style adventure spots
Base Camp Films, Bang Productions — Suzuki Corporation — 2004
* Denotes Brady Connell sole credit
** Denotes Jim Jusko sole credit
Founders
Brady Connell
As an Emmy award winning director and producer, Brady Connell has 20 years of television producing experience, and has received over 20 international awards for his short films and a CLIO nomination for his commercial work. Connell’s work has fueled the success of popular reality programs such as “The Amazing Race,” “Survivor,” and “Eco-Challenge.” He is a two-time Emmy recipient for “The Amazing Race,” and also directs many of Base Camp’s projects.
Brady is an executive producer on ABC’s hit reality series, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and he directed the ABC reality series, Welcome to the Neighborhood. Connell has served as an executive producer / showrunner on all Base Camp Films projects.
Brady Connell is a member of the Hollywood television and Radio Society and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and is a graduate of UCLA.
View Brady Connell’s Reality Directing Reel (as of 2003):
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Jim Jusko
Along with Brady Connell, Jim Jusko served as executive producer / showrunner on Six Degrees of X (Sony), Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive (E! Entertainment), Street Racing: Pedal to the Metal (Discovery Channel) and No Boundaries (Lionsgate Television and the WB).
Jusko’s background in scripted television and features includes serving as one of the producers of Disney’s theatrical family feature Air Bud and as an executive producer of the Lionsgate feature, Dead Heat, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Anthony LaPaglia. He also served as associate producer of the original Lifetime Channel movie, Touch Me, starring Amanda Peet.
Prior to founding Base Camp Films, Jusko served in key executive positions supervising international co-productions for Keystone Pictures (Canada) and Beyond Films (Australia). He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a member of the academic board of the European Master in Audiovisual Management headquartered in Rome. He is a graduate of UCLA and University of California, Berkeley.
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