Oberon brings together a team of Experienced business managers and financiers who provide the resources for successful film and entertainment professionals.

Operation Management

Mark Hoeger and Andy Anderson operate both OBERON ENTERTAINMENT PROPERTIES, LLC, and its production subsidiary OBERON FILM #1, LLC, as full partners and share the title of co-president.

Mark Hoeger- (age 47)
Mark is a theater and motion picture producer/director with over 30 years of professional experience. His credits include 13 years as Executive Director of the Omaha Theater Company. Mark joined the financially struggling non-profit organization and turned it into one of the largest and most respected professional theaters for young audiences in the nation. Not only did Mark pay off all past debt but he operated the theater with a surplus in every year of his tenure. He supervised the raising of $11.3 million for the renovation of the 46,000 sq. ft. Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center. He has produced and directed scores of commercial and entertainment film and video productions including three feature length productions. His film production honors include a Bronze Medal from the International Film Festival of the Americas and a student Academy Award nomination. Mark teaches film studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and at Oxford University in England.

Andy Anderson- (age 45)
Andy has more than15 years of experience as a professional filmmaker. Anderson Productions Inc. has produced hundreds of commercials for local, regional, and national clients, and has won 3 consecutive Telly awards for cinematography. While often serving as Producer/ Director/Writer/Editor, Andy's passion is for Cinematography. He has served as a second unit cinematographer for Sean Penn's The Indian Runner, O'Pioneer starring Jessica Lang, and both of Alexander Payne's films: Citizen Ruth (with Laura Dern) and Election (with Matthew Broderick). He was the Cinematographer on the low budget feature Omaha: The Movie, which played in 36 cities, was accepted into many domestic and international film festivals, and was picked up by ShowTime and Blockbuster video. He is currently producing, directing, and shooting an hour long $1.5 million music video epic for Chip Davis' newest Mannheim Steamroller DVD.

The Board of Managers

Under Nebraska law that regulates Limited Liability Companies (LLC), the term "manager" has a roughly equivalent meaning to the term "director" under traditional corporate law. In addition to Anderson and Hoeger, the other members of the Board are:

Thompson Rogers (Chairman)- (age 47)
Since 1989, he has founded several successful independent ventures, including the Affiliated Companies, Inc., a private equity investment firm based in Omaha. In addition, Tom was a founding shareholder in each of the following companies: Aspen Holdings, an Omaha-based insurance holding company; GlarNet Communications Services, Inc., a New Jersey-based provider of billing and customer solutions for the telecommunications industry; and VarsityBooks.com (NASDAQ; VSTY), the largest internet-based provider of textbooks and related collegiate products. He is on the board of directors of Aspen Holdings and GlarNet Communications.

Tom is also a director and, through Affiliated, a Shareholder of Philadelphia-based Hamilton Lane Advisors, one the largest private equity advisory firms in the world with more than $38 billion in assets under advisory or discretionary management, and a director and shareholder of Pinnacle Bank, a $2.5 billion Nebraska-based privately held financial institution. Tom is also a board member of LAB-Interlink, Inc., an Omaha-based developer of robotics systems used in clinical laboratories.

Tom began his finance career in banking as a credit analyst at the National Bank of Commerce in Lincoln, Nebraska. He advanced to first vice president at US Bank, where he organized and staffed the loan analysis department and managed a $65 million loan portfolio in the corporate banking division.

Tom earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration form Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, in 1976. He now serves on the College's Board of Trustees.

Mike Hill- (age 48)
Over the past 20 years, Mike has edited a string of film successes. He is an integral part of the Ron Howard's team that created hits like Backdraft, Far and Away, Ransom, and many others. Mike won an Academy Award for editing Apollo 13.

George Krauss-(age 55)
Mr. Krauss serves as an attorney of counsel to Kutak Rock, a national law firm with over 300 lawyers headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. He has practiced law with Kutak Rock since 1972 and served as the managing partner of the firm from 1983 to 1993. In the early 1980?s Kutak Rock helped form Silver Screen Partners I and II, which allowed individual investors to participate as limited partners in numerous film projects including the funding of Disney?s Touchstone Pictures.

In 1996 Mr. Krauss became an independent business consultant to America First Companies. In addition to his legal education, Mr. Krauss has a Masters of Business Administration and is a registered Professional Engineer. Mr. Krauss serves as a director of Gateway, Inc. and of America First Mortgage Investments, Inc, both listed on the NYSE, as well as America First Real Estate Partners, L.P. America First Tax Exempt Investors, L.P., and West Corporation, all of which are listed on the NASDAQ.

Committee of Advisors

In addition to the voting Board members, Oberon has assembled a team of industry professionals who have played a key role in its conception and are valuable assets in setting future policy:

Richard Dooling- (age 45)
An attorney by training, Richard is a nationally recognized Author and Screenwriter. Among his many novels are White Man's Grave (a finalist for the National Book Award) and Brain Storm (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year). Both works have been optioned and are in development by major studios.

Andrew Stone- (age 50)
Andrew is a Producer and a Line Producer. In these capacities he has been in direct control of and responsible for the budgets of a wide range of movies, including Citizen Ruth, O Pioneers!, Steel Magnolias, My Blue Heaven, Spy Hard, and Jerry Maguire. He understands how to get the most out of a budget and has proven his skills creating low budget films in Nebraska. Andrew lives in Los Angles, California, and has agreed to lend his considerable wisdom to Oberon in all aspects of its operations.

Peter Heller- (age 42)
Peter began his career at Universal Studios working his way up to line producer with responsibility for numerous television and film projects culminating in primary production supervision for The Jetsons Movie. He left to become an independent producer where he has made several low-budget features including the cult favorite Barb Wire. He is currently executive producer for two films in play, Don Winslow's Dojo Wars for Warner Brothers and the mystery-horror film Bones for Fine Line. Peter's experience in low-budget Hollywood will be put to use casting and negotiating with principal named talent, the unions, and potential sales agents and distributors.

Don Winslow- (age 46)
Don is an accomplished writer with six best selling novels to his credit including the award-winning Neal Carey detective series. All of Don's novels have been optioned by major producers, including The Death and Life of Bobby Z (a Newsweek Summer Reading Pick) which is currently under production by Donner Shuler Donner. Don's original screenplay Dojo Wars is in production for Warner Brothers as is "Blood" for Danny DeVito's production company, Jersey Films. Don is also the creator and Executive Producer the NBC television series "UC: Undercover."

Sandy Veneziano- (age 39)
As a production designer Sandy's credits include My Favorite Martian, Fatal Instinct, Home Alone2, Father of the Bride, Star Trek-Generations, Dead Poets' Society, and Terms of Endearment. Her knowledge of filmmaking from both a creative and business perspective is extensive.

Beyond its initial feature film, FULL RIDE, Oberon plans to create an investment fund. The fund will make passive investments in all forms of entertainment media content and partially finance one to three major projects a year produced directly by Oberon. The goal is to create a diversified portfolio of valuable entertainment properties for Oberon?s investors.

Work is currently underway on selecting and packaging future projects in partnership with Creative Artists Agency (CAA). "Our initial focus will be on feature film projects that we create and produce ourselves," says Hoeger. "Feature films are the most mature product and market out there. In the future, however, we may explore other entertainment content."

For more information on Oberon Entertainment Properties, contact Mark Hoeger or Andy Anderson at (402) 502-3456 or email mark@oberonentertainment.com.