Michael D’Asaro impacted thousands of lives around the world as a renowned saber fencer and coach by using fencing as a metaphor for life.
Gregory Lynch Jr Bio
Greg Lynch graduated in 1987 from San Francisco State with a B.A. in screen writing. He later complemented that with an additional certificate in writing from UCLA. With his degree in hand, Greg relocated to Los Angeles where he spent the next twenty two years building sets for the movie industry. He worked on everything from Tremors to Dreamgirls to The Amazing Spiderman.
During that time Greg focused a lot of his artistic output on Photography. He obtained his first SLR at 16 and his passion for photography has only grown since then. He has done quite a bit of commercial work in the Martial Arts filming everything from exercise tutorials to Shaolin Monks climbing the holy paths in Dengfeng.
Ten years ago he acquired his first video camera. He put that to use making short films and documenting marital arts tournaments. He produced hundreds of short films under the Badass Bunny Productions banner for Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine. You can find these films populating their Youtube channel.
Greg Lynch Jr produced, as well as many other jobs, the feature length documentary ‘The Last Captain’ about legendary Hungarian Olympic Sabre champion and coach, George Piller.
Stro: The Michael D’Asaro Story is his feature directorial debut.
Doug Nichols Bio
After 25 years in Animation and Visual Effects working for studios like Pixar, Disney and Lucasfilm, filmmaker Doug Nichols embarked on an effort to preserve the history of his favorite sport – fencing. Creating the West Coast Fencing Archive, he began the exhaustive process of researching the people and personalities that exemplified this unique sport.
Initially writing histories for web publication, the idea of translating some of these stories into film began to take shape in early 2016. To that end, Nichols produced and directed the feature Documentary The Last Captain about the life George Piller.