The Team

Rick Carlson is a 40-year Silicon Valley electronics industry business executive whose technology has fueled the transformation of film making and video streaming.  His step into cinema production occurred after moving to Colorado where he co-produced El Inmigrante, an award-winning documentary about a border tragedy in a rural Texas town. He subsequently co-produced The Wedding Weekend, a comedy about college friends who sang a capella in college and reunite for a wedding. Rick was a board member at Aspen Film, one of Colorado’s most active film arts organizations.  Aspen Film’s Shortsfest is a qualifier for the Academy Awards.  Rick is a member of the Board of Advisors for the College of Computing and the EE/CE Department at Illinois Tech in Chicago.   Rick’s holds a BS in Mathematics from Illinois Tech and is an investment partner with Lanza TechVentures in Palo Alto and an active angel with West Slope Angels and CoVenture, both in Colorado. 

Barclay Lottimer has been involved in the development, production and distribution of films, television, and theatre for the past 40 years. He has produced feature documentaries, films, shorts, commercials, and television projects working with numerous major studios such as Disney, MGM, Columbia, CBS, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Orion, 20th Century Fox. Mr. Lottimer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Virginia Commonwealth University; an Associate Degree in Business from Champlain College and he has studied Psychology and Contract Law at UVM and Santa Monica College. He has been involved in over 75 theatre productions from Shakespeare in Europe to Off-Broadway in NYC with Joseph Papp. Throughout his career he has lectured frequently at universities in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Boulder on topics that include strategic marketing, finance, developing, producing and distribution of film. Barclay has co-produced a well-known, yearly international summit called “AREDAY” in Aspen Colorado, featuring such luminaries as Jimmy Carter, Sylvia Earle, Ted Turner, James Cameron. Mr. Lottimer sat on numerous Boards for theatres, non-profits, and educational organizations. Currently he is a Board Member of the well-known “Delaware Valley Opera Company” in NY.

Award-winning filmmaker Maitland Lottimer has worked in the film and music industry for over 15 years. He got his start as a sound engineer on a  FoxSports travel series where he learned how to use cinema cameras and work on a set. He soon got experience directing actors and writing for productions. He was a touring musician and music producer and worked with many artists and Labels in Los Angeles. Maitland was selected to be an "Olympus Visionary" (with his brother Austin) and has sinse produced a feature documentary, music videos, short films and a multitude of commercial and documentary work out of his video production company Anatomist Films in Denver, CO.

Maitland is a proficient sound designer, film composer, Editor, Adobe CC expert, a camera operator,  screen writer, producer, director and actor. 

Award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer, photographer, writer, and creative director Austin Lottimer has spent more than two decades working across film, documentary, commercial production, and visual storytelling.

Austin began making films alongside his brother Maitland at an early age, experimenting with their father’s cameras before either was ten. By sixteen, he was working professionally on a FOX Sports travel television series, contributing to 52 episodes as a camera operator and sound technician. That early field experience grew into a career encompassing directing, cinematography, producing, editing, photography, motion graphics, documentary filmmaking, branded content, and commercial production.

In 2012, Austin and Maitland won the Vail Film Festival’s 48-hour “Pen Your Short” competition with their film Running Colors. The project caught the attention of Olympus Cameras, and Austin was subsequently selected for the Olympus Visionary/Trailblazer program, representing the company as a sponsored filmmaker and photographer.

Over the following decade, Austin developed and produced commercial content for a wide range of companies and organizations, creating advertising campaigns, branded films, marketing pieces, micro-documentaries, photography, and digital content. A significant portion of that work was within the running and outdoor industries, including years of content development for Fleet Feet Sports and the creation of a travel-based running series for New Balance. His commercial work often blended documentary-style storytelling with polished cinematography to give brands a more authentic and human voice.

His documentary work includes co-directing and shooting the feature documentary Before the Last Drop, as well as co-directing and photographing The House, The Hand and The Hatchet, a feature documentary exploring the life and work of internationally recognized American sculptor James Surls, now available on Amazon Prime.

Austin continues to direct and shoot commercial and narrative projects while expanding his work into emerging forms of visual production. He develops creative AI-driven commercials and short films, integrating generative tools with traditional directing, cinematography, editing, and motion graphics to explore new approaches to production and visual storytelling.

Alongside his commercial and production work, Austin develops original creative properties for film and stage, including feature screenplays, musicals, short films, and narrative concepts spanning science fiction, drama, comedy, and socially driven storytelling. His work is rooted in a lifelong interest in combining strong visual filmmaking, emerging technology, ambitious ideas, and compelling characters into stories that connect with audiences.