Who We Are
Adam Saunders
CEO
Actor, writer, director and producer Adam Saunders’ newest film, “Re-Election”, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in opposite television legend Tony Danza and Bex Taylor-Klaus has recently completed production and is slated for release in 2025. Previously “Dotty & Soul,” also written, directed, and produced by Saunders in which he starred opposite Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Leslie Uggams was sold to and released by Showtime. Both films were produced by Footprint Features, the company Adam co-founded. With Footprint, he has served as the lead producer of “Darby and the Dead” for 20th Century Studios, “When We First Met” for Netflix; “Shimmer Lake” for Netflix, “About Alex” for Sony, and “Family Weekend” for Paramount. As a filmmaker, Saunders is focused on telling character driven stories for mainstream audiences that provoke conversations. He holds a BA in Drama from Duke University and an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.
Mac Hendrickson
Producer
Mac Hendrickson is a Producer of the upcoming comedy feature “Re-Election” (dir. Adam Saunders, starring Adam Saunders and Tony Danza), and was an Executive Producer for 2022’s “Darby and the Dead” (dir. Silas Howard, starring Riele Downs and Auli’i Cravalho) for Hulu/20th Century Studios. He previously served as the Associate Producer on Footprint’s fifth film “Dotty & Soul,” now streaming on Showtime. Before joining Footprint, Mac co-founded Garden Boys, a live comedy group that performed original sketch and music. With Garden Boys, Mac produced/ wrote five sold-out revues at The Second City, iO Theatre, Annoyance and Stage 773. In 2017, Mac toured with The Second City aboard the NCL Dawn. With his brother Patrick, Mac wrote “Inferno”, a noir web-series produced by Companion Pictures.
Kyle Fong
Director of Development
Kyle Fong is a Bay Area native who has worked across both film and television in the entertainment industry. He most recently worked on the first and second seasons of the Peabody Award winning Apple TV+ drama series “Pachinko” based on the international best-selling novel. Before that, he was on the launch team of Disney+ where he worked on original scripted content across the Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars brands. Prior to joining the streamer, Fong worked at the Disney Live Action movie studio on films such as the live action remake of “The Lion King” , “Jungle Cruise” starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”. He got his start working in the Books to Film group at CAA and is a graduate of Boston University. Fong is also the Director of the Executive Track of Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Foundation Mentorship Lab.
Lisa Callif
Legal Affairs
Lisa Callif is an entertainment attorney whose primary focus is on representing independent filmmakers in all aspects of their movie making, including financing, production and distribution. She was recently profiled in Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyer List as one of Hollywood’s Top 100 Attorneys (2016) and named by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Women Lawyers in California (2016 & 2014). She was also named by Variety as one of The Best and The Brightest (2011). As part of her practice, Lisa does a significant amount of clearance work for documentaries, including rendering fair use opinion letters, which permits her clients to use limited amounts of unlicensed material in their films under the fair use doctrine as codified in US Copyright Law.
Steve Eddy
Company Member
Steve Eddy Executive Produced Footprint’s “When We First Met” (Dir. Ari Sandel) and “Shimmer Lake” (Dir. Oren Uziel), and served as the production executive for the film “About Alex” (Dir. Jesse Zwick). Prior to joining Footprint, Steve was the Vice President of Physical Production at Summit Entertainment. During his time at Summit he was integral in the company’s transformation to a mini-major studio, and was part of a team that oversaw 14 movies and more than $500M in production spending. Projects overseen include “A Better Life” (Dir. Chris Weitz), “Knowing” (Dir. Alex Proyas), “Remember Me” (Dir. Allen Coulter), “RED” (Dir. Robert Schwentke), “Letters to Juliet” (Dir. Gary Winick) and “The Twilight Saga” films. He currently serves as the Director of Physical Production for Netflix Indie. He holds a film degree from Emerson College and lives in Los Angeles with his family.
Eddie Rubin
Company Member
Eddie Rubin has produced, executive produced and/or line produced numerous feature films including the 2019 Sundance Film Festival breakout film “The Farewell” starring Awkwafina for Big Beach, the 2018 Sundance Film Festival hit “Puzzle” also for Big Beach, and the 2018 Netflix Original film “When We First Met” for Footprint Features. Prior to that he consulted on the critically acclaimed “It Follows” (Dir. David Robert Mitchell), produced “Art House” starring Greta Gerwig, “Love and Honor” starring Liam Hemsworth, “Destined” (Dir. Qasim Basir) and “The Last Poker Game” starring Academy-Award winner Martin Landau and Paul Sorvino. Most recently, Eddie produced “The Short History of the Long Road” which Filmmaker Magazine named as one of the most anticipated independent films of 2019.