OAK ALLEY PRODUCTIONS
Oak Alley LLC is a new production company combining the talents of Cody Olivas, Stuart Tanner and a core of professional production personnel to offer clients a range of film production, marketing and studio services.
Cody Olivas
Cinematographer Director
Stuart Tanner
Producer Director
Producer / Director
Stuart Tanner
Stuart Tanner is a highly experienced broadcast journalist, investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker and writer. He has made documentaries for the BBC, Channel Four, Discovery, National Geographic, Frontline PBS and ITV.
His documentaries have been shown worldwide, have won top awards and generated worldwide headlines. He has filmed in over twenty countries worldwide. Stuart Tanner is a highly experienced senior television producer/director of prime-time programs across a range of genres and subject areas. Over the last 18 years he has worked for major UK broadcasters and international broadcasters. He has won awards for his films for the BBC and Channel Four. His main output has been in the area of current affairs and factual program making. He has acquired a range of key skills that include working as a broadcast journalist and filmmaker on high profile documentary series for the BBC.
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Whilst working for the BBC he made documentaries for the flagship current affairs series Correspondent. These documentaries involved complex and highly challenging investigations into issues and stories of international importance.
Profits of Doom is an investigation into the policies of the World Bank and IMF in developing nations. It was chosen for viewing at the North South Film Festival.
Children of Vengeance is a highly acclaimed film that featured unique access to the Palestinian militias and their personal stories as they struggled with the harsh realities of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The film won the Foreign Press Association’s Story of the Year award. The program was also broadcast by Frontline in the US under the title Battle for the Holy Land.
A third film, The Enemy Within is an investigation into religious persecution in China and featured the story of the Falun Gong. As a senior producer/director he has also worked on a flagship BBC documentary series, Fighting the War, which exposed the harsh realities of the war in Iraq. As part of the journalistic work on these films he has written articles for the leading UK broadsheets and been interviewed on UK television and by the Washington Post. In 2003 the BBC assigned him to make a film about the Iraq war.
A Channel Four news feature about the Ghulja massacre of the Uyghurs won the Amnesty International New Feature Award 1997. Apart from current affairs programs he has also made archaeology and factual entertainment programs. In 2004 he made an hour-long archaeological program for the Channel Four/Discovery series Time Team. The film uncovered the mysteries of one of the first man made monuments built on the British landscape. In 2007 he made high profile documentaries for Channel Four in the UK. Diana; Witnesses in the Tunnel, was an investigation into what actually happened the night Princess Diana was killed. The film won critical acclaim and worldwide publicity. A more recent documentary was for National Geographic in the USA and Discovery Canada. The Science of Interrogation investigated claims of scientific techniques for lie detection. It looked at many cases of actual investigations and what actually helped investigators make sound breakthroughs in their investigations and coercive techniques that lead to false confessions. The film featured the challenges of tracking down and capturing psychopaths.
INDUSTRY AWARDS
Peace with Nature Costa in Rica
Official Selection Wild Life Conservation Film Festival 2020
Official Selection ReelHeart International Film and Screenplay Festival 2020
Children of Vengeance
Winner of Foreign Press Association Story of the Year Award 2002.
Death of the Silk Road
Winner of the Rory Peck Award.
Ghulja Massacre
A Channel Four News feature. Winner of 1998 Amnesty International Press Award.
The Mahogany Trail
Winner of Bill Travers Insight Award at the London International Environmental Film Festival
Producer / Director
Cody Olivas
Cody Olivas is a graduate of the David Lynch Master in Fine Arts Film Program and is recognized as an Award-Winning Cinematographer and Director. He has been teaching as a professor in Cinematic Arts since 2014.
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Cody’s proficiency with on set film production, sound production and sound design has granted him many opportunities to work in and teach the art of film making. While attending the David Lynch MFA in Film he learned from professionals such as David Lynch, Jim Carey, Peter Farrelly, Bill Borden, and worked as an assistant director along side world renowned acting coach Anthony Meindl. After attending the DL-MFA Cody received an Achievement Award for his thirty minute Thesis Film Apotheosis in the 2019 Iowa Motion Picture Awards.
His passion for and knowledge as a Director of Photography has landed Cody many opportunities to work as a DP filming several feature length films, short films, documentaries, commercials and promotional videos.
His knowledge and diligence in sound design have earned him credits on such shows as Agent Carter, Girlfriends Guide to Divorce, Covert Affairs, amongst many more.
Cody is now focussed on narrative films, work for corporate clients and upcoming Oak Alley documentaries that are visually compelling and offer important insights into critical issues of our time.
Cody has also been teaching as a professor at Maharishi University of Iowa in the Cinematic Arts and New Media since 2014. His courses list consists of courses such as Film Equipment Master, Video Editing, Sound Design for Motion Picture, Studio Photography, Smartphone Photography, Digital Music Production, Introduction to Film Making
IMDB: Cody Olivas
INDUSTRY AWARDS
Peace with Nature in Costa Rica
Official Selection Wild Life Conservation Festival 2020
Official Selection ReelHeart International Film and Screenplay Festival 2020
Apotheosis
Winner of Award of Achievement Iowa Motion Picture Association 2018