The Documentary

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PATTI WHEELER founded A BEAUTIFUL LIFE STOLEN after losing her precious son Wyatt to a little known killer, Kratom. For fifteen years, Patti traveled the world as a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines. When she became a mother to twin sons, she nurtured the spirit of adventure in them from a young age. Inspired by their travels, Patti authored the award-winning book series, Travels with Gannon & Wyatt, which takes readers on educational adventures around globe. Patti has made a difference in countless lives through her philanthropy and desire to make this work a better place. A BEAUTIFUL LIFE STOLEN begins a new journey in a fight against an industry of greed and deception. Patti has always believed her most important and purposeful role in life was being a mother. 

Joanne Rubino is a creative, development, and production force behind highly acclaimed and award-winning biopics, scripted series, and documentaries. As the founder of Be Brave Media, Joanne has developed a slate of series and feature projects. IP/Rights driven stories that include, Slinky, Hershey, Baldwin-Felts, The Bill Tilden Story, The Harry Greb Story and many others.

A creative executive at heart with years of experience as a production executive, she identifies and develops new content ideas utilizing her skills to ensure the marketability and profitability of each project, meeting and exceeding ratings goals on numerous projects including, critically acclaimed and award-winning Hatfields & McCoys, Texas Rising (History limited series with numerous Emmy and SAG nominations) and Surviving Compton(Lifetime TV movie that, along with companion documentary, attracted more than nine million viewers). In addition, Joanne received an Emmy nomination for her work on Brando, a Turner Classic Movies documentary and has brought hundreds of hours of highly rated programming to audiences across multiple platforms.

Currently, Joanne is producing several ground-breaking documentaries including Saving Sophie: The Road to a Cure documenting the journey of a new cancer therapy and A Beautiful Life Stolen, exposing the truth about the dangers of Kratom and getting the word out to help save lives and in some way vindicate the lives of those already senselessly taken from us.

The Neese Twins were born in North Carolina and hold a BFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. They serve as co-executive producers on the EMMY nominated Netflix series THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, and previously as supervising producers for CRUEL SUMMER, UNREAL and DEAR WHITE PEOPLE. 

The brothers have partnered with DON CHEADLE and Radicle Act Productions to adapt the Russian television show CALL CENTER for American television. They've also adapted the true story of the lawyer for hacktivist group Anonymous into an elevated series, ANONYMOUS LAWYER with former Sony TV president Jeff Frost producing. 

In the podcast space, they are writing and directing a new series for VOYAGE MEDIA called HARD DRIVE – a grounded YA sci-fi narrative coming out fall 2024. BAY MILLS has tapped the brothers for developing a space comedy, TOURISTS, slated for market in 2024 with BOATROCKER STUDIOS. 

Most recently they've teamed up with RAINN WILSON to create a dark drama in which he will star called BLACK STAR CANYON. They wrote and directed a spec TV pilot starring Emmy nominated CONSTANCE ZIMMER and NTARE MWINE entitled, GUARDIAN ASSHOLE and are currently producing and / 2nd unit directors on KEVIN COSTNER’S western HORIZON. They have previously written and directed for SHARON STONE, EMMA ROBERTS, and MALIN ACKERMAN and others and continue to be sought after to develop, show run and direct for celebrity and platforms across all genres and have a number of IP Rights driven iconic stories in the works for tentative release 2025. 

The brothers have also signed on to direct two powerful documentaries in the fight against cancer, SAVING SOPHIE: THE ROAD TO A CURE and A BEAUTIFUL LIFE STOLEN, the fight against the dangerous supplement Kratom.