BIO

Ted E. Haynes

Co-Founder

Ted E. Haynes, a Pittsburgh native with a passion for storytelling, co-founded Confluence Productions in an effort to bring character driven entertainment to the screen. To date Ted has written, produced, directed, and even acted in nearly twenty short and feature films winning numerous accolades for his work.

While contributing to the film community Ted, who holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Westminster College (PA), has established a successful professional background in sales management. This enables him to have a strong grasp on the business aspect of the film industry to ensure commercial as well as artistic success. Ted currently resides in a newly restored row house in Lawrenceville, PA with his wife and their two dogs. He continues to develop new projects for the screen, and is very excited about his future endeavors.

Michael A. Smith

Co-Founder

Michael A. Smith has had 25 years of experience that has lead him to making movies. He acted in every play and musical in his high school years and had an Associate’s Degree in Electronics by the age of 18. These offered him a background in theater and the willingness to accept ever developing technologies in today’s digital media. In college, a friend thought he would make a good Disc Jockey so he began his career being a wedding and on-air DJ.

Michael soon proved that we could shoot and edit wedding videos better than those with film school training and he realized his path was in visually story telling. Today, Michael is an award winning Producer, Director, and Cinematographer of movies, shorts and documentaries. He volunteers his time to the local PTA and Boy Scouts and is a Guest Lecturer at the Dubois Business College School of Movie Making.

Rodney Deloe

Producer

Rodney W. Deloe CPA – CFO of Gatesman+Dave, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA’s fastest growing fully integrated marketing communications agency. Rod has over twenty years’ experience in public accounting and private industry, serving a broad mix of clients including professional, entertainment, and real estate entities.

Suzanne McGugin

Marketing Specialist

Suzanne has obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from Middle Tennessee State University and has since has had an eclectic array of jobs that has left her a “Jill of all Trades”.

She has had her hands on everything from Financial Advising to successfully running a restaurant and currently works as the Marketing Coordinator for a vocational institution in Pittsburgh, PA.

All of her various and random experience has allowed her to obtain a true knowledge of today’s society and a grasp on the melting pot of personalities out there in the world.

By working with Confluence Productions she is able to help express the creativity of the owners and position this unique production company as an stand out agency in today’s filmmaking culture.