JUDG E S

Tonnisha J� English-Amamoo

TJE COMMUNICATIONS

Tonnisha J. English-Amamoo is a mom, wife, and full-time business owner at TJE Communications. Tonnisha provides digital marketing solutions to small business owners and non-profits throughout Central Ohio and has been doing so for nearly 10 years. Her mission is to help her clients level the playing field between themselves, and large corporations, through digital marketing solutions.

Ryan Wright

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Ryan Wright is a cinematographer working in the commercial production industry in Detroit, Michigan. As a child, Ryan always knew he was creative at heart. His passion for art began as a boy through drawing his favorite cartoons, video games, and comic book characters — even winning a few drawing contests along the way. After taking several broadcasting, film, and television classes throughout middle school and high school, his passion for drawing grew into a love for filmmaking. While attending Central Michigan University, Ryan continued to develop his craft as an image maker by working in several different capacities within the video production industry including: corporate videography, wedding videography, live broadcast production for PBS, as well as taking a few internships including one for Toledo’s own, Madhouse.

After graduating from CMU, Ryan has gone on to work as a cinematographer for brands such as Rocket Mortgage, State Farm, Meijer, Forbes, and The Cleveland Cavaliers. His projects have taken him all across the U.S. from Detroit and Toledo to Miami and Santa Fe, with projects ranging in scale from smaller social media campaigns to larger scale national broadcast commercial productions. Though utilizing cameras, lenses and lighting to create images and tell stories is Ryan’s true passion, getting to work with the incredible professionals, artists, craftspeople, and just all around kind-hearted people that make up the cast and crew on a film set is what makes his work so enjoyable.

Brigette Burnett

Emmy award-winning journalist Brigette Burnett is the CEO of Choice Productions, a video production and marketing company. Burnett has a passion for helping people through storytelling.

The ability to command a room and engage an audience has allowed Burnett to secure moderating roles with Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Sally Field, Natalie Morales, and Tiffani Thiessen. In her new role as a film producer, she was recently on tour with New Edition and has worked on live and recorded shows such as Live with Summer Walker, Jeanie Mai’s Hello Hunnay, Real Housewives of Potomac, and Unsung.

Burnett currently volunteers for Corners Outreach, an organization focused on serving underprivileged children. She's from Michigan but her career in television has taken her to stations throughout the midwest and now throughout the world.

Crystal Gale Phelps

TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART

Crystal Gale Phelps is an advocate for Toledo with a passion for collaboration, empowering others, and innovation. She is an arts marketing professional, independent artist, and curator with deep roots in northwest Ohio. A mover, a shaker, and rabble rouser, Crystal is unafraid to push the boundaries of existing structures. Her passion to move the community forward is entrenched in mutual aid, trust building, and equitable practices that contribute to the deconstruction of colonial patriarchal structures.

Deke Ludwig

MADHOUSE

Deke Ludwig is a director of photography at Madhouse. Deke studied cinematography for a year at Columbia College Chicago and spent some time in India studying overpopulation, poverty, global supply chains and women’s issues before transferring to the University of Vermont, where he got a degree in environmental studies. His passion is making beautiful films that will hopefully make the world a better place. He’s also quite handy. If a wheel falls off the equipment cart or the Madhouse van needs retrofitting to accommodate gear, Deke makes it happen.