WHO WE ARE

Antonio Di Cicco
Owner/President

Antonio Di Cicco is an award winning director/producer/writer. Working for various prestigious broadcast and non-broadcast companies and advertising agencies over the past twenty years, Antonio honed his skills as a multi talented professional, directing, producing and writing.  In 1998 he founded his own production company, Thunderlight Productions Inc.  Through Thunderlight, he continues to work for many impressive clients. 

Antonio’s broadcast credentials include projects for HGTV, Food Network, City-TV, CTV, HBO, Vision TV, W, and the CBC. Broadcast production credits include Green Force, Holmes on Homes, Colour Confidential, Home to Stay, Lynette Jennings’s "Homework’s", Super Dave Osborne and Don Cherry's "This Week in Hockey". He has also directed and produced music videos, which have aired on Country Music Television and Much Music. His corporate clientele includes many Fortune 500 companies such as Chrysler, Ford, GM, Bayer, Pfizer, IBM, Coca-Cola, Levi's, Sony, Kellogg's, Panasonic and Kraft to name a few.

Thunderlight also boasts several original scripted television and film projects currently in development, as well as a dynamic emerging focus on high-concept, market driven unscripted television/new media series project development.

Antonio has directed and produced short films, the latest “RIPPLES” he co-wrote as well.
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Awards:

2006 New York Festivals  (Bronze World Medal)
Bayer Inc. “The Medium”
2002 Silver Medical Marketing Award (USA)
GSK “The Fortress of GAD”
1996 Best Independent Music Video
Diane Raeside "I'm Stronger"

Tim Reid
Editor/Senior Animation Effects Editor

A results-oriented VFX editor, 3-D animator and post-production
supervisor, Tim possess capabilities that go beyond a breath of creative and technical expertise, to include team leadership.
Recognized for the quality of his work, professionalism and his ability to exceed expectations, he has been privileged to create and execute award winning work for Wyeth, Shania Twain, TD Canada Trust, The Movie Network, Magna International and Universal Music among others in industries as diverse as finance, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and sports entertainment.

These projects support branding and core values, clarify messaging, leverage new opportunities, yield impressions and attract attention.  I will bring your company over 20 years of continuous effects experience ranging from 35 mm film opticals to the HD environment.  Specifically, he has developed a broad and meaningful understanding of the intricacies of FCP, AE, Photoshop, DVD Studio Pro, Illustrator and 3DS Max; using both Mac and PC platforms.  On the personal side, he possesses excellent communication skills with a strong sense of humor, integrity and leadership style that is tailored to support and encourage excellence among colleagues.  All this and a passion for flying as well!

ASSOCIATES

 
Madonna McManus
Screenwriter/Producer

Madonna began working in continuity and casting in the Canadian film industry’s tax-shelter heyday of the late 1970’s, then spent many years pursuing a career as copywriter, editor and creative director in advertising and corporate communications. But she could not stay away, and in the mid 90’s transitioned back into the industry as a television line producer, writer, executive story editor and supervising producer. She began to focus exclusively on screenwriting with a move to Europe in 1999, where she joined the illustrious Brussels Writers Group. She returned to Canada in 2004 after the completion of a feature-length screenplay, Sabina, with co-writer John L. Lash. She has since joined Thunderlight Productions and written several dramatic and satirical pilot projects for television.

She is currently collaborating on a feature-length screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s biographical novel Doctor Sax, the legendary beat generation author’s personal favorite of his groundbreaking literary legacy.