William Reilly(II)
- Visual Effects
Bill spent his early years in Yonkers, New York making films with the
family Super 8 camera. From there he dreamed of attending UCLA and
becoming a film producer. In the mid 1970's TV commercials were not yet
an art form to which you would aspire...
After attending the UCLA School of Film and Television, Bill joined the visual effects studio Dream Quest Images. At Dream Quest Bill worked in a variety of capacities, both on the set and on the business side, on many of the studio's high-profile feature and commercial projects, including "The Abyss" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". As Bill's involvement in Dream Quest's commercial work grew he played a key role in the studio's opening of a commercial division in 1987.
In 1989 Bill left Dream Quest to become Head of Sales for Lucasfilm Commercial Productions (LCP), the sister company to Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). While there he oversaw all aspects of sales that included jobs that combined live action and visual effects. While at LCP he developed a visual effects seminar that was used as a tool to "demystify the art of visual effects" and he presented his seminar to agencies around the country for the next several years.
By the early 1990's Bill was using his solid background in production to develop strong creative and business relationships at numerous ad agencies around the country. After leaving Lucasfilm, Bill worked for two live action production houses, Partners USA/Fahrenheit Films and HKM Productions before joining the Palme d'Or winning spot shop Coppos Films in 1997 as an executive producer for Mike Bigelow and the directing team of Marty Canellakis and Brian Aldrich.
During this time, Bill worked on a number of high-profile campaigns, including Super Bowl spots for Pizza Hut that starred Donald Trump, Fran Drescher and big production packages for Dr. Pepper, Lay's, Coke and other major brands. Bill also executive produced a number of projects shot for European agencies and their clients and was nominated for a Best Commercial Emmy in 1999.
In April 2000, Bill opened up his own company, Space Program. His strong business relationships proved essential in securing top-level assignments from award-winning agencies across the globe. Over the next eleven years he was fortunate to shoot all over the world and collaborate with many talented directors including Two-Time Academy Award Winning Director/Cameraman Janusz Kaminski, Elma Garcia, Mike Bigelow, Kevin Samuels and Mike Shapiro.
In April 2011, Bill joined Curious Pictures, the New York-based animation and stop motion studio and brought his knowledge of live action and mixed media work to the 19-year old company. He added to the live action part of the company by bringing directors Zach Braff and Scott Duncan with him and subsequently added directors Randy Roberts, Art Streiber, Gotham Chopra and Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker Danny Forster to the roster. Curious projects include SoBe, Target, Starburst, Monster.com, AT&T, Bank of America, DuPont, Head & Shoulders, Metropolitan Opera, Hershey's, Sealy, Purina, New York Times, Head Start, RIF and NBC among others. Oversaw the creation and production of the 2011 Christmas window displays for Coach in the US, Canada, China and Japan.
In 2013 Bill became the Executive Producer of the Hollywood based production company Pictures-in-a-Row (Picrow.com) owned by director Peter Lang. Since joining the company he formally introduced the directing consortium, The Hall, completing notable projects for Staples, Pizza Hut and Verizon. The Hall has enter the advertising community at a time when agencies are looking for content providers and require a creative partner that can provide one-stop production and post production support. The Hall's created a 49-episode campaign for Verizon's sponsorship of the NFL's Twitter feed that has become part of a case study presentation Bill has been giving to ad agencies around the country. Subsequent campaigns for Disney and Sennheiser have only added to the reputation of The Hall as a go-to production resource within the industry.
Bill is (2014) a member the Academy of Television Arts and Science Commercial board and former board member of the AICP.
A native New Yorker, Bill lives not far from the UCLA campus in Westwood where he taught an MFA class in commercial production and directing from 2001-2008. An avid golfer and devout runner, he's been known to tackle a marathon or two when not flying back to New York to look for boards.
After attending the UCLA School of Film and Television, Bill joined the visual effects studio Dream Quest Images. At Dream Quest Bill worked in a variety of capacities, both on the set and on the business side, on many of the studio's high-profile feature and commercial projects, including "The Abyss" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". As Bill's involvement in Dream Quest's commercial work grew he played a key role in the studio's opening of a commercial division in 1987.
In 1989 Bill left Dream Quest to become Head of Sales for Lucasfilm Commercial Productions (LCP), the sister company to Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). While there he oversaw all aspects of sales that included jobs that combined live action and visual effects. While at LCP he developed a visual effects seminar that was used as a tool to "demystify the art of visual effects" and he presented his seminar to agencies around the country for the next several years.
By the early 1990's Bill was using his solid background in production to develop strong creative and business relationships at numerous ad agencies around the country. After leaving Lucasfilm, Bill worked for two live action production houses, Partners USA/Fahrenheit Films and HKM Productions before joining the Palme d'Or winning spot shop Coppos Films in 1997 as an executive producer for Mike Bigelow and the directing team of Marty Canellakis and Brian Aldrich.
During this time, Bill worked on a number of high-profile campaigns, including Super Bowl spots for Pizza Hut that starred Donald Trump, Fran Drescher and big production packages for Dr. Pepper, Lay's, Coke and other major brands. Bill also executive produced a number of projects shot for European agencies and their clients and was nominated for a Best Commercial Emmy in 1999.
In April 2000, Bill opened up his own company, Space Program. His strong business relationships proved essential in securing top-level assignments from award-winning agencies across the globe. Over the next eleven years he was fortunate to shoot all over the world and collaborate with many talented directors including Two-Time Academy Award Winning Director/Cameraman Janusz Kaminski, Elma Garcia, Mike Bigelow, Kevin Samuels and Mike Shapiro.
In April 2011, Bill joined Curious Pictures, the New York-based animation and stop motion studio and brought his knowledge of live action and mixed media work to the 19-year old company. He added to the live action part of the company by bringing directors Zach Braff and Scott Duncan with him and subsequently added directors Randy Roberts, Art Streiber, Gotham Chopra and Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker Danny Forster to the roster. Curious projects include SoBe, Target, Starburst, Monster.com, AT&T, Bank of America, DuPont, Head & Shoulders, Metropolitan Opera, Hershey's, Sealy, Purina, New York Times, Head Start, RIF and NBC among others. Oversaw the creation and production of the 2011 Christmas window displays for Coach in the US, Canada, China and Japan.
In 2013 Bill became the Executive Producer of the Hollywood based production company Pictures-in-a-Row (Picrow.com) owned by director Peter Lang. Since joining the company he formally introduced the directing consortium, The Hall, completing notable projects for Staples, Pizza Hut and Verizon. The Hall has enter the advertising community at a time when agencies are looking for content providers and require a creative partner that can provide one-stop production and post production support. The Hall's created a 49-episode campaign for Verizon's sponsorship of the NFL's Twitter feed that has become part of a case study presentation Bill has been giving to ad agencies around the country. Subsequent campaigns for Disney and Sennheiser have only added to the reputation of The Hall as a go-to production resource within the industry.
Bill is (2014) a member the Academy of Television Arts and Science Commercial board and former board member of the AICP.
A native New Yorker, Bill lives not far from the UCLA campus in Westwood where he taught an MFA class in commercial production and directing from 2001-2008. An avid golfer and devout runner, he's been known to tackle a marathon or two when not flying back to New York to look for boards.