Patti O. White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and television producer. Cutting her teeth at CBS News in New York, White produced for CBS Reports and 60 Minutes, earning three national Emmy awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, three Cine Golden Eagles and two Cable Ace awards.
White is the Co-Founder and Principal at FILMSTERS, a production and development company, operating in Annapolis, Maryland and Los Angeles. White’s credits have appeared on CBS, ABC, Lifetime, Discovery, Turner, and others, and is known for producing feature-length documentaries, docu-reality series and even wildlife films. As a writer (also a member of the WGAE Union), she is drawn to stories on the human predicament. FILMSTERS also creates concepts for scripted TV and true stories to film. Recently she has produced PSA’s for the National Crime Prevention Council and the United States Patent and Trademark Office on anti-counterfeiting geared toward teens. Her new short film which she directed and produced, Don’t Hold Your Breath, is currently on the festival circuit. The film is an emotional story about a young man who nearly succumbs to a Shallow Water Blackout in a swimming pool surrounded by his entire family. The film delivers new information about a little known, but not uncommon event that often ends tragically.
In the past, White was a Producer and Senior Producer for ABC’s Extreme Makeover. FILMSTERS production company credits include the 2013 indie feature film, Jamesy Boy, starring James Woods, Mary Louise Parker, and Ving Rhames. White is also one of the Executive Producers of the 2016 short documentary, Revolving Doors, which explores the cycles of incarceration and re-offending for non-violent convicted felons.
White’s other notable credits include writing, producing, and directing the award-winning feature- length documentary, If I Could, narrated by Sally Field. The production follows an at-risk teen whose mother was featured as a troubled kid, 20 years earlier, in White’s “CBS Reports” film, The Wagon Train Trial. White also wrote and produced the award-winning doc, America At Risk: Seeds of Hope for Turner Broadcasting and the Tribune Co., focusing on an abandoned generation of youth, drug and alcohol abuse, and the breakdown of the American family.
In 2002, White created and co-founded FILMSTERS Academy along with her producing partner, Lee Anderson, a hands-on experiential summer program for youth between the ages of 11-18 that teaches the art of filmmaking now in its 20th year. She is also the Co-Founder and Festival Director with Anderson, of the Annapolis Film Festival, now in its 11th year.
A television producer and filmmaker for three decades, K. Lee Anderson began her career first as a commercial producer, then later — as a news producer, capturing true stories for both ABC and CBS broadcasts in Maryland. Since 1994, she has been a FILMSTERS principal. FILMSTERS, LLC is a production company that develops stories, access, and characters and produces documentaries, reality TV, independent films and commercials, PSAs, and branded content. She oversees all aspects of production management and assists in the development of potential feature films, documentaries, scripted programming, and reality TV series. Her most recent work includes the short documentary film, Don’t Hold Your Breath, a hybrid doc short about the dangers of shallow water blackout featuring actors and the actual subjects and the film is slated for release in the spring. Anderson’s credits have appeared on ABC, CBS, Lifetime, Discovery, Turner, Discovery Health, and others. Producing everything from wildlife shows to wedding series, to reality TV to hard-hitting issue-driven, human-interest indie docs Lee is the recipient of two Telly Awards, a Christopher Columbus Award, and a CINE Golden Eagle award. She was nominated for a CableACE Award for her work on TBS’s Survival of the Yellowstone Wolves. An award-winning producer, her work has also played at top-tier film festivals.
As one of the former producers on the ABC primetime hit series, Extreme Makeover, Anderson handled field logistics and production for three seasons producing over 52 weekly episodes a season. She just completed producing a second national PSA campaign in 3D and live action for the National Crime Prevention Council, the U.S. Patent and Trade Office about counterfeit products aimed at teens. In addition, Lee was Executive Producer of YAWYE (You Are What You Eat) the new digital Millennial platform, and Executive Producer on the award-winning documentary short, REVOLVING DOORS, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017 (Honorable Mention); it explores the cycles of incarceration and re-offending for non-violent convicted felons in Baltimore. Anderson’s other notable credits include producing the multiple award-winning feature-length documentary, IF I COULD, narrated by Sally Field. The production follows an at-risk teen featured in the CBS Reports film, THE WAGON TRAIN TRIAL, twenty years later. FILMSTERS production company credits include the 2013 indie feature, JAMESY BOY, starring James Woods, Mary Louise Parker, and Ving Rhames, based on James Burns, the subject of the award-winning feature doc IF I COULD. Anderson was also a producer on a LIFETIME reality TV pilot, THE BIG SECRET in 2010.
In 2002, Anderson created and co-founded FILMSTERS Academy, a hands-on experiential summer program for youth between the ages of 11-18 that teaches the art of filmmaking. This summer film camp celebrated its 20th year in existence this year.
In 2012-2013, she co-founded the Annapolis Film Festival with her longtime producing partner, Patti White where she still serves as one of two Festival Directors and is an Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors.
Director & Producer- Patti O White
Producer - K Lee Anderson
Editor - Robin Schwartz
Cinematographer – K yle Deitz
Director (Representational Scenes) - James Burns
Original Music Composed by - Matt Dougherty
Casting Director - Lauren Herrel
1st Assistant Camera - Joey Dwyer & Ben Trevey
Sound - Zach Trees, Tom Hauser, & Matt Radlauer
Production Coordinator - Emma Spindler
Key Makeup & SFX Makeup - Lauren Anderson
2nd Assistant Camera -Wes Shiflett
Production Assistant - Mariana Mahoney
Production Intern - Siena Twiss
Executive Producers - Chad Watson & Trisha Watson
Michael Phelps - "Michael Phelps"
Noah Archibald - "Chandler Watson"
Payton Belcher - "Erin Watson"
Wanda Morgenstern - "Trish Watson"
Ron Fazzio - "Chad Watson"
Mariana Mahoney - "Gabby Watson"
Chris Fuller - "Dr. Mark Piehl"
Amber Wilks - "Dr. Idil Aktan"
Laina Martinez - "Addi Watson"
Bob Bowman - "Bob Bowman"
Dusty Milner - "Dusty Milner"
Rhonda Milner - "Rhonda Milner"
Dr. Idil Aktan, Cardiologist
Bald Head Island Ferry
Dean Haller - livelikebenjo.org
Jen Juba, Doubletree Resort by Hilton Paradise Valley - Scottsdale, AZ
The Michael Phelps Foundation: Michael Phelps - Founder, Bob Bowman - Board Member, Marissa Fortier, Managing Director
Dr. Mark Piehl, Pediatric ER Doctor
The Shallow Water Blackout Organization: Rhonda Dawes Milner, MD - Founder and Chairman, Gene W. Milner, Jr. - Treasurer, Britt Jackson - Executive Director
The Shoals Club - Bald Head Island
Capt. Paul Swanson & the Bald Head Island Public Safety Department
UNC Health
WakeMED Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Intracoastal Realty Vacations
Rhona & Dusty Milner
Watson Family Charitable Gift Foundation
Maryland Brain Spine and Pain
Dr. Gary Dix
Dr. Brian Sullivan
Casey and Kristjana Cook
Elizabeth “Aunt B” Liechty
Kelson Asset Management - Brian Rathjen
Carbaugh Family Charitable Trust
Charter Financial Group
Frank & Suzanne Kaiser
Brenda Delong
Carl & Anita Gutschick
Tim & Ann McNicholas
Tom & Nancy Weisenbach
