Checkmate Pictures
Our work is produced by .Paul M. J. Suchecki who has more than thirty years of experience as an award winning writer, producer, and cameraman. He writes, produces and shoots for LA CityView Channel 35. His feature length documentary "Reverse Aging Now," television’s most comprehensive look at anti-aging medicine (now on DVD) won a 2007 Telly Award for "outstanding achievment in a health and fitness television program."
He wrote for the speed boat television series, "Liquid Extremes," and has written and produced for Fox 11 News in Los Angeles and the nationally syndicated series, “House Smarts TV. In addition to field producing for “Cops” he has written and produced for Fox TV’s emergency shows "Trauma Center" and "Code 3" as well as E! Entertainment Television. He has also produced and directed streaming videos for You Magazine and Current.TV, as well as dramas, promotional tape, music videos and commercials. He has written, edited and shot numerous newspaper, magazine, newsletter articles and web sites.
A graduate of Boston Latin School and Harvard, Mr. Suchecki has a Master's of Professional Writing in Cinema / Drama from the University of Southern California. He also studied at Charles University’s Prague Summer Writing Program, the University of California Santa Barbara Summer Drama Workshop, Harvard's Loeb Drama Center and Carpenter Center of the Visual Arts as well as UCLA Extension in Film and TV Production.
He has taught seminars and production courses at Pasadena City College, the Associated Press Radio and Television Academy, Independent Feature Project West, Lightning Media, Digital Broadcast, the Broadcast Store, Golden State Schools, Film Group Studios, the Video Technical Institute and for the US Navy.
An avid outdoorsman he’s an Eagle Scout and former Commodore of the Marina Single Sailing Club. A tennis player, sailor and triathlete, when he can escape to the mountains he backpacks and skis.
She has worked in post-production at Sony Pictures, helped coordinate productions at New World Television, worked in publicity at Columbia Pictures, worked in music publishing at Film Trax, assisted the hosts at "Travel Daily" for the Travel Channel and the supervising producers of "Designing Women" at Columbia Pictures Television. She applies her superb organizational skill to the the Information Technology Department of the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans. Additionally, she is an accomplished portrait photographer specializing in performers' head shots and sensitive depictions of parents with newborns. Ms. Pomerantz volunteers with the Motion Picture Television Fund's "Elder Connection" program and at the Larchmont Yoga Center.
