WGA SIGNATORY Christopher Newton ..

Jill A. Hargrave is Founder and President of EagleVision Productions, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit production company. She is an award-winning independent documentary producer, fundraiser and screenplay writer. Over the years, she produced a number of Emmy-nominated documentaries for NJN Public Television. Always interested in screenplay writing, she expanded her career after relocating to Vero Beach, Florida in September, 2012. Two screenplays, “The Bottom Line” and “Fields of Grace” were recognized in several contests in 2021 and 2022, including the Atlanta Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Scriptapalooza, LA International, Screencraft and Santa Barbara International. She is currently writing a biopic about the “Unsung Hero of the American Revolution.”

As an explorer, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and author, Anne Mason’s life reads like an extraordinary adventure book. Her journey began as a young girl traveling and studying throughout Europe, especially in England, where she developed her love of teddy bears. In the following years, she took to exploring new heights, literally, as she scaled the frigid ascent of Mount Everest’s Base Camp (17,600 ft). From there she appeared as a principal actor in the 2009 adventure documentary film, Journey to Everest, wherein the American team narrowly escaped an icy fate after they were bumped from a flight at Lukla airport that would later crash in the mountains.

Back in the States, while recovering from a serious illness that suspended her traveling adventures, she took to exploring the confines of her own imagination. It was through this inward self-discovery that Anne first combined her passion for the teddy bear and her love of children to create the world of the delightfully wonderful “Mr. Biddle.” Through a single teddy bear and his forest friends, Anne began her recovery and built up a world that would allow others to experience the profound of friendship, adventure, learning, and gratitude that she learned throughout her own travels.

Anne Mason is originally from Dallas, Texas. She is an alumna of Sweet Briar College with a degree in International Relations. Her greatest accomplishment to date is climbing Mount Everest twice and surviving two plane crashes as seen in the documentary, Journey to Everest.