Production Team
Deborah Voorhees
Deborah Voorhees’ latest film 13 Fanboy comes out October 22, 2021. A homicidal fanboy, with a deadly obsession, stalks his favorite slasher scream queens from Friday the 13th and Halloween. It stars Dee Wallace (E.T., The Howling, Cujo, Critters, The Hills Have Eyes, Halloween, The Frighteners and more), Corey Feldman (Lost Boys, Stand By Me, Friday the 13th, Goonies), Kane Hodder (played Jason in four Friday the 13ths and Victor Crawley in the Hatchet series), CJ Graham (played Jason in Friday the 13th Part VI and starred in Highway to Hell), final girl Lar Park Lincoln, and fan favorite victims Judie Aronson, Tracie Savage, Jennifer Banko, Ron Sloan and Deborah Voorhees.
Voorhees also directed Billy Shakespeare, Catching Up, Othello: Good Night My Sweet and several music videos. In 2015, Voorhees’ screenplay Genevieve was an official selection of the Beverly Hills Film Festival. Her short film and music video Hip Hop Hamlet was an official selection of Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare Film Festival, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and played in 2016 at the Elsinore Shakespeare Conference in Denmark in celebration of 400 years since Shakespeare's death and is now being included in a German documentary on Hamlet. Her short film Othello: Good Night My Sweet also unspooled at the Elsinore conference. Catching Up, a dark comedy she directed from New York playwright Tom Sime, was a hit at 2017 Texas Frightmare and several other film festivals. In 2014, Voorhees released her first full-length feature film Billy Shakespeare, which asks, “What if William Shakespeare never existed until now?” Billy, our Modern Bard, is caught in a love triangle of confused sexuality, cross-dressing, mistaken identity, and bedroom trysts. The film won the Bardie Award from The Shakespeare Standard. The quirky, off-beat film has been compared to the indie hit Waiting for Guffman and is available on Amazon.
JOEL PAUL REISIG
Joel has been a movie producer for the past 12 years with producer credits on 29 feature films. He has secured worldwide distribution with Walmart, Amazon, Netflix, Hallmark, Lifetime, Icon, Redbox, and theatrical deals with Universal Studios. His films have been translated into multiple languages and sold overseas.
A well-respected expert in the industry, Joel teaches a two-day seminar on the business of the film business. He has been brought to Atlanta, New Mexico, Chicago, LA, and Toronto, Canada to teach his classes.
Recently Joel has begun to produce larger movies for theaters. His film Faith Under Fire was acquired by Universal Studios for theatrical distribution while his next film, 13 Fanboy, is set to release in theaters on 10/22/21.
In addition to movies, Joel is an adventure travel writer. His many adventures include driving in a demolition derby, boxing in the Golden Gloves, driving a dog sled in a ninety-mile race, hiking over the Andes Mountains to Machu Picchu,wrestling an Alligator, racing in the world’s longest kayak race, and a weekend as a bull rider and bull fighter under the training of World Champion Gary Leffew.
A father of three, Joel has always called Michigan home.