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A veteran of long-form television, Pharaba began her career working in production on several Movies of the Week. Transitioning from production to development she took a position at Alliance Atlantis in television long-form climbing the ranks to story editor. She was involved in all aspects of development including preparing pitches and working with writers to address studio and network notes. In addition she was involved in negotiations for book, magazine articles, and life rights as well as budgeting for both mini-series and two hour projects. A few of her credits include, HBO CREATURE FEATURES, CALL ME CLAUS, HELL ON HEELS: THE BATTLE OF MARY KAY, HITLER: THE RISE OF EVIL, SALEM WITCH TRIALS, JENIFER, and THE MATTHEW SHEPARD STORY.
She moved to Seeing Eye Productions, heading development for the new company. During her time there, she developed both theatrical and television films as well as series, including WHITE HOUSE WEDDING and FINAL APPEAL. She continued to work with writers and other producers to strengthen her relationships as well as Seeing Eye's slate of projects and the company’s cooperation with Cosmic Entertainment. Pharaba decided to open her own company to pursue her passion, series television. She currently has a number of projects in development at various companies including, Fox Productions, Sci-Fi Channel, WME, and CAA. These projects run the gamut hour longs and comedies containing dark topics such as suicide with THE POINT, gang violence with THE WAR, to lighter fare about blended families (OUR VIDA), and dealing with divorce in a funny way (REVOLVING DOOR).
She shot the pilot presentation for INFAMOUS, which then landed as a webseries deal at 60 Frames, garnering a million hits. She produced THE WIZ KIDZ, an uplifting children’s program designed to empower young people the world over. Pharaba took UNDER THE DESERT SUN to film festivals in both New York and Florida and is currently working on a Red Box distribution deal. With a number of indie features in development, she has high hopes for RAVAGE and LOCK-IN as mainstream horror flicks. In addition, LOST RITES finished its final cut and will be making the festival circuit as she and James Moran, the director, get the feature film set up.
Keeping busy, Pharaba and her producing partner, Jeff Ketcham, financed and shot a webseries about game reviewers called THEGAMEREV.COM which has landed them notice on Jimmy Fallon, KROQ and all over Comic-Con. The goal is to find a buyer for the next season of the series, which should be epic!
Pharaba continues to write and create many different projects as the editing of TO THOSE WHO LEFT US BEHIND concludes and heads to music. This extremely dark short, written by and starring Craig Bonacorsi, is sure to be a festival darling. While putting that together, the old crew decided to launch another episode of INFAMOUS, which will hit the web shortly. There has been a resurgence of interest in the project as it garnered many awards including Outstanding Producer at the LA Web Fest.
Instead of taking his summers to relax, like most college students, Jeff used it as an opportunity to jumpstart his career in Hollywood. He worked in the development department for both Phoenix Pictures and Revolution Studios. Knowing from a young age he wanted to direct, this was the perfect beginning to his career. He knew hands-on experience was what he needed to enhance his natural directing talent. He also knew he needed to know everything he could about all sides of the business.
After college, he decided it was time to tackle the production side. Three days after graduating from Miami University, Jeff made the cross-country trip from Toledo, OH to L.A. for the third time in the same number of years. Upon settling in he began working in the production office on a number of feature films such as Christmas With the Kranks, Bewitched, and Benchwarmers, the last of which he jumped to learn yet another facet of movie making and began working on set.
Having proven himself in the production office Jeff was offered a position with the AD department on Benchwarmers. Combining his hard work ethic along with his ability to problem solve on the fly, Jeff soon had everyone convinced that he was a veteran on set when in reality it was his first studio movie. Soon after the movie finished Jeff worked on numerous projects, some of which include Click and Transformers.
In 2007, he signed on full-time with Happy Madison working directly with Allen Covert. Never satisfied doing just one thing, Jeff continues to tackle numerous side projects with a never-ending zeal. Above all else, Jeff remains an aspiring director. One of his first directing jobs was shooting the pilot presentation of Infamous, which he then went on to help produce, in conjunction with Pander Productions, as a successful web series. Jeff’s most recent directing jobs include a new web series, The GameRev.Com and various music videos for bands such as The Rescues.
Although he left immediately after college Jeff is still in constant communication with his family. They continue to be the biggest supporters/fans of his career. Surrounded by an amazing group of friends, L.A. has become Jeff’s new home and he is definitely taking advantage of what it has to offer. From shooting short films and web series to playing basketball by the beach, he is constantly keeping himself busy.
