CAST & CREW
INSPIRED Director Charlie Gage began his career at a young age as a founding partner of a multimedia event services company before joining Mayan Pictures, where he wrote, directed and produced the short suspense/horror film Pandora’s Other Box. Charlie’s extensive experience behind the camera is the result of years of working with on music videos, feature films and national commercials, as well as a team member at Capitol Records. On the print side, Charlie worked for two years as editor of Joey Magazine, where he helped to catapult the gay youth publication into the national spotlight.
In early 2002, Charlie teamed up with longtime friend J.T. Tepnapa to create the film Masturbation: Putting the Fun into Self-Loving. Masturbation went on to become a smash hit, screening in countless film festivals in six countries, receiving numerous awards, international distribution, and has even been featured in sex-education classrooms and documentaries.
A few years later he joined Telekinetic Entertainment producing DVD bonus features for such films as Wedding Date, American Pie Presents: Band Camp, and The Roger Corman Collection.
Telekinetic next ventured into documentary filmmaking with Charlie as the associate producer on We're All Angels. This award-winning film premiered as a Showtime Exclusive for a year and a half years, and it can now be seen on the Logo.
In 2008, after being swept up in the wave of protests and rallies following the passage of California's Proposition 8, Charlie joined long time friend Ian McIntosh to produce and direct his first full length feature documentary INSPIRED: The Voices Against Prop 8 under the banner of Purple Ray Pictures. Charlie is very proud of their work on INSPIRED, and hopeful this film can truly help inspire a new generation of activism and equality.
Charlie Gage
Director/Producer
Ian McIntosh is a longtime filmmaker who has recently been helping to bring Hollywood spectacles to the screen through the magic of Visual Effects. After years of working as a makeup artist for print and runway, Ian took his talent to independent films before making the leap to Hollywood and digital effects working on such films as Polar Express, Beowulf and 2012.
While working on the Hollywood superhero film Watchmen, Ian witnessed the passage of Proposition 8, and decided to fight back as he knew he could. “Growing up in a passionate and politically outspoken home, I was taught that you don’t back down when everyone says you’ve lost,” says Ian. “We hope that this can be our contribution to the struggle for equality.”
This is Ian’s first time acting as a producer on a film, and his first time working on a film based in reality. “I’ve always been a visitor and creator of amazing worlds. It’s such a joy and a tremendous responsibility to work in the real world, and a world that I have such a vested interest in.”
Ian McIntosh
Producer
