Camille Geier is our new Senior Vice President/Head of Studio, overseeing all production and operations. She comes to Curious from Rhino-Gravity, where she was executive producer and chief operating officer for the past seven years.

Camille has a vast amount of experience running a studio and overseeing a range of work from movie titles and visual effects to commercials (both live action and animated). Her movie credits include executive producer of visual effects for Ghost Town (David Koepp) and the soon-to-be-released Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi), among many others. She was visual effects producer on films including Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese), The Hunted (William Friedkin), Bloodwork (Clint Eastwood), Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen), and Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven).

Camille was formerly a senior producer at Industrial Light & Magic and at Colossal Pictures. She is proud to be one of the first members of the Visual Effects Society, and she is also a member of the Producer’s Guild of America.

Lewis guides all digital production at Curious, spanning gaming, film, TV, and commercials. Starting his career at R\GA (New York), Lewis garnered a tremendous amount of experience at a range of large and boutique studios before joining Curious in 1998. Self-taught in the field of computer graphics, Lewis holds a BS in design from Stanford University.

His credits span across all media forms: films, commercials, TV series and music videos. Past clients and credits include Focus Features, Warrior Poets, Team Umizoomi (Nickelodeon), Rockband (MTV Games and Harmonix), Rockstar Games, THQ, Ubisoft, Shrek 2 and Madagascar (PDI/ Dreamworks), and many more.

Lewis can be spotted as the curious man on his Blackberry planting trees in the forests of South America or sprinkling seeds in the ground of an upstate New York farm.

Since joining Curious Pictures in 2005 Mary has diversified our established animation roster by signing live-action directors Steve Chase, Douglas Keeve, Shyam Madiraju, Rob Chiu, Shekhar Kapur, Yann Malka, Greg Ramsey, and David Griffiths and has forged strategic alliances with the Electric Company in Toronto and Mr. Hyde in Paris. Our commercials have received numerous awards from the Webbys, the One Show, Communication Arts, the Art Directors Club, SXSW, and the AICP show.

Graduating from Vassar College with a degree in history, Mary found her first job as a reporter for the Buffalo Courier Express. Three circuitous job moves later she became a copywriter, working at Hill Holliday and then Young & Rubicam. She returned to journalism when offered the editorship of what was then called Back Stage, later re-named (by her) Shoot. After serving as a partner of Commercial Artists Management, an independent repping firm, Mary joined Curious.

Mary is a member of the East Coast board of the Association of Independent Commercials Producers and a member of New York Women in Film.

John’s career spans both the production and agency sides of the business. He was Executive Producer at acclaimed production house Optic Nerve in the 90s and then Executive Producer for JWT New York, Fallon New York, and Nitro USA before joining Curious in 2008. His work on both sides encompasses live action and visual effects for commercials and networks and has included clients such as Merrill Lynch, Kellogg's, Nike, Microsoft, HP, Reebok, ESPN, VH1, and MTV.

Several of the spots John has produced have won One Show awards, and the Starbucks ad “Glen,” which he produced at Fallon, was voted Spot of the Year in 2004.

John is a graduate of Bard College. His short film, “A Letter To Jonathan,” was aired nationally on American Playhouse in 1989 and was nominated for an Emmy.

Dominie works in all aspects of the development and creative process--from the initial idea development through visual/technique exploration to final execution--for our clients, directors, writers, and producers.

Starting at MTV as a storyboard artist on “Beavis & Butt-Head,” Dominie quickly moved up the ranks to become Production Supervisor of the whole studio. She oversaw a number of MTV properties, including Beavis, Daria, The Head, The Maxx, and Aeon Flux. Dominie also was the Creative Director overseeing merchandising for all animated properties, helping to extend MTV shows on to other platforms such as books, games, toys, and scores of other product lines.

In 2004 she joined Curious in the newly created role of Curator of Art & Design.

During her downtime Dominie spends her extra waking hours drawing and writing stories with her husband and their 5-year-old son at home in Brooklyn.

Leopoldo splits his time between Curious Pictures and James Patterson Entertainment as a writer, director, and producer. His television, film, and video game credits include Passage, directed by Shekhar Kapur (Producer), Little Spirit: Christmas in New York (Co-Director),  Kuro Kumo (Producer), Feliz cumpleaños (Producer), M (Producer), Indio (Assoc. Producer), Tae-chi-do (Writer, Director, Co-Producer). The latest feature he is producing, Days of Grace (currently in post production), is a dramatic thriller set in Mexico City and is directed by his brother, Everardo.

In 2008, Leopoldo’s first novel, Ghost Radio, was published by Harper Collins. He also co-wrote a graphic novel with James Patterson, Dangerous Days of Daniel X, which was published by Little Brown also in 2008.

Leopoldo lives in both Manhattan and Mexico City with his wife and two children.

Marina holds a JD in International Law. Her varied background in the entertainment industry spans the fields of production, development, finance, business, and legal affairs.

As a Managing Partner of Visitor Pictures, a film production and finance company based in Los Angeles, Marina recently produced New York, I Love You, directed by Shekhar Kapur, Mira Nair, Brett Ratner, Joshua Marston, Fatih Akin, and many others. Her other credits include Executive Producer of Smart People, Even Money, and Crash (Oscar winner for Best Picture).

Marina was a co-founder and COO of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and built it into a leading independent feature film company dedicated to the production of high-quality independent films. She oversaw all of the day-to-day operations of the company and served as Executive Producer or Producer of the company’s films, including Trust The Man, Alpha Dog, Copying Beethoven, Griffin and Phoenix, and Butterfly on a Wheel.

As an entertainment attorney Marina has been involved in more than 200 film transactions with studios and large independent production companies, including such pictures as The Aviator, Terminator 3, Around the World in Eighty Days, End of Days, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Legend of Bagger Vance, The Bachelor and Autumn in New York. Marina was also partnered with producer Chuck Gordon (Die Hard, Field of Dreams) to set up a revolving line of credit of $500 million.

Previous television experience includes work as an executive involved in the financing, production, and distribution of television programs such as The Last Don (CBS-Mini-series), Pacific Blue: the Series (USA Network), Universal Soldier: the Series, Titanic Secrets Revealed” (Tribune Entertainment), “RoboCop: the Series (Rysher), and Land’s End: the Series (Disney).

Jan has been directly involved in the production of such diverse feature films as the Academy Award-winner Crash (Executive Producer), Copying Beethoven (Executive Producer), Alpha Dog (Executive Producer); and television programs such as Meltdown (Producer) for FX Network, Emmy Award-winning Reefer Madness (Executive Producer) for Showtime, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (Executive Producer) for Nickelodeon, Emmy-nominated Zoey 101 (Executive Producer), Dragon Booster (Executive Producer) for ABC Family, and 30 Days Until I'm Famous (Executive Producer) for VH-1. Recent productions include Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Lucky One, and New York, I Love You.

Before Hollywood Jan was the President of Entertainment, News and Information of ProSieben Television, one of the leading commercial television networks in Germany and the first German media company to go public. Responsible for programming, domestic and international production, scheduling, acquisitions, and marketing, Jan was instrumental in raising annual network revenues from about $150 million to more than $1 billion in over five years, making ProSieben the number one network for kids and young audiences in German-speaking territories.

Born and raised in South America, Jan graduated with a B.A. and an M.A. in Theatre Arts from Brown University and received his MBA in Marketing and Management from Columbia University. He is fluent in German, English, and Spanish.