The NEW BIG Plane Trip

Bill VanDerKloot is an independent director and producer whose career includes broadcast commercials, television documentaries and theatrical features. Over the years he has traveled the world producing films on a range of subjects from public sculpture to ethnic history; from southern blues to environmental science. He has won over one hundred international film and television awards, including Emmy Awards and the George Foster Peabody Award.

His company has created projects such as the Atlanta Olympic Film, which was used to win the bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. A broadcast project, FLYING THE SECRET SKY, has aired nationally on PBS and is distributed worldwide by WGBH – Boston and the National Geographic Channels. VanDerKloot Film & Television has also created interactive video installations for the Carter Presidential Museum and Library, and the Special Collections Library at the University of Georgia.

Bill has directed hundreds of commercial and branded content projects for such clients as Invesco, Delta Air Lines, Cox Enterprises, Emory University, Coca-Cola, McKesson, Nisson, Ford, Chick-fil-A, US Marine Corps, and Porsche, to name just a few.

VanDerKloot created of the award-winning Little Mammoth Media children's programs, The BIG Adventure Series®, which are licensed in over 30 countries worldwide. VanDerKloot's projects have been distributed on such venues as PBS, National Geographic, Turner Broadcasting, CNN, HBO, Showtime, as well as digital downloads and theatrical release.

Based in Atlanta, VanDerKloot founded Magick Lantern in 1990, a full service video post-production house and digital production studio serving the film and television industry. He sold the studio in 2013 to concentrate on his own independent productions.

VanDerKloot was the founding director of the Atlanta Film Festival and has written about filmmaking for such publications as American Cinematographer. He was an active board member and past president of the Georgia Production Partnership (GPP), an industry association. VanDerKloot has lectured around the country at such institutions as University of Florida, Georgia State University, New York Churchillians, University of Georgia, Coalition for Quality Children’s Programming, Kennesaw State University, and the New Orleans WWII Museum.