Ryan Lynch - Director/Producer

After years crafting strategy and stories for billion dollar companies on Madison Avenue, Ryan Lynch flirted with the scary idea of change.  Spurred on by a ski crash that nearly took away his ability to walk, Ryan left advertising and teamed up with Director/Producer Matt Walker to start Story Developing, the goal was to tell stories the world wanted to hear...sometimes with the help of brands, other times not. 

A few short branded videos followed by a feature length videogame documentary paved the way to what Story Developing would look like today – we make documentary and branded content. In our time we've worked with some interesting people: Pharrell, Jamiroquai, Common, Marina Abramović, and Daniel Arsham. Some big brands including Cadillac, Take-Two Entertainment, Madison House Presents and CAA. We've won a few awards along the way, played film festivals around the globe and hopefully most of all, changed the way people see the world for the better.

Ryan produced a film, COYOTE, and worked with first time director Thomas Simmons to bring the story of sailor Mike Plant and his historic around-the-world sailing adventures to the big screen. To date, the film has sold out nearly all of its festival screenings, won the Audience Award in its US Premiere and was hailed as "The Best Sailing Movie Ever" by the sailing blog, Sailing Anarchy.

Mark Austin Heim - Director/Producer

Mark Austin Heim is a filmmaker based in San Francisco with two decades of production experience. He started his career in Los Angeles with Robert Evans Company at Paramount Pictures and Ridley Scott Associates; while also freelancing as a producer. Mark was a key part on a wide range of projects including feature films, commercials, music videos, and television productions working with artists such as Madonna, Green Day, and Jason Mraz.

Mark then relocated to San Francisco and in 2010 co-founded the production company Maximum Flavor Media, where he produces and directs commercials, branded content, and award winning music videos. His commercial clients include Nintendo, K-Mart, Intel, Facebook, Instagram, PC World, Lytro, Spin, and the Travel Channel. His music clients include Riz Ahmed, Lyrics Born, Gift of Gab, Lateef the Truthspeaker, Del the Funky Homosapien, and Latyrx. Mark is experienced in many aspects of production, given him the ability to carry any project from conception through delivery.

R. Mitchell Roth - Producer

Mitch got his master’s degree in Screenwriting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, but his love has always lived on set, so when he graduated be started his career in production on some major shows in and around the Bay Area and settled into his role as Assistant Director.

As his career progressed so did his passion for producing. In 2010 he co-founded Maximum Flavor Media with his two partners and they’ve been creating projects for tech companies like Facebook and music videos for local legends like Lyrics Born and Gift of Gab.

Recently he had the sublime pleasure to produce and AD a moving piece for Riz Ahmed’s newest album, The Long Goodbye with a top notch creative team including Andrea Gelardin (Creative Director for Lady Gaga) Gareth Fry (Tony award-winning sound designer) Kirsty Housely (award winning director) and Astrid Ferguson (Creative Producer for Gorillaz.)

Anthony Trivisonno - Editor

Bay Area based creative & technical professional. Co-Partner at Maximum Flavor Media. Comprehensive background in editorial and creative direction for film/digital production and post-production. Credits include co-editor of award-winning feature documentary Coyote: The Mike Plant Story. Professional experience ranging from documentary, commercial/branded, music videos, promotions, experimental, and web series.