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Many years of experience accustomed our team to work professionally for every stage of content creation, from developing a concept to a final product.
Pepperoni Films is a creative and production company based in Los Angeles. We are strategists, marketers, creators, and storytellers who came together to make a world a better place through our creativity. With our creative content, we help novice brands to find their path and for big brands, we are treading new paths. We deeply believe in passion projects to explore and evolve new approaches to our work.
Oleksandr Novichenkov is an independent film producer with more than 15 years of experience in the industry. He has a large body of experience in big projects having worked on successful, award-winning and commercially successful productions, he knows how to organize all processes of production from beginning to end, including maintaining the ability to supervise team members in all areas of pre, production, and post-. Oleksandr is always following new technologies and helping to adapt it, creating new, never-before-seen or heard of ideas and original contributions that ultimately end up being an incredible asset to film industry.
Oleksandr showed himself to be a brilliant producer of colorization as the person responsible for art design in black and white movies being colorized. He has worked with some of the top filmmakers in the industry including Oliver Stone, Timur Bekmambetov, Price Pethel, etc. In 2021, he partnered with Wonderfilm providing technical and post production supervising skills.
Misha started in publishing. He’s worked with Cosmopolitan, FHM and Men’s Health. It was the dawn of an era, and he got to do what would later be called digital content creation. Misha did a short shtick at Havas and moved on to VGNC to work on everything interactive video – from youtube annotations to FWA and WEBBY awarded interactive projects. Eight years later he’s found himself with enough awards and clients to get out of the office and direct/edit full time for the likes of Google and Samsung. Fascinated by mobile-first video he’s founded VeryVertical, the studio dedicated to telling short stories on a smaller screen.
Price has 40 years of experience working in film and television for entertainment, sports, news and commercials; he has been responsible for color, compositing, editing and technology for many top production and post production companies. His entire career has emphasized the issues of color and image quality, with particular interest in the process of film transfer and digital video to film.
Price received an Academy Award in 2002 for the color pipeline in the compositing system “Nuke”, and Emmy Awards for co-development of “The Pin Registered Transfer Process” and “The Electronic Optical Printer” for Composite Image Systems.
As Chief Color Scientist for Lowery Digital Images, Price Pethel designed and operated the high dynamic range for color correcting and color printing system for the restoration of 21 “James Bond 007” films. He has also worked with James Cameron, Digital Domain and Dream Quest in the role of Creative Image Director.
His films include “Aliens of the Deep”, “Zodiac”, “Human Face Project (Gemini)”, “Interview with the “Vampire”, “True Lies”, “Apollo 13”, “Fifth Element”, “Dante’s Peak”, “Titanic”, “What Dreams May Come” and other 3D Movie shots with digital cameras. He also developed and distributed a rendering system for the color processing of the images that the studio produced for Film and Video.
Oleg is the Los Angeles-based Director of Photography and aerial videographer. Oleg was born and raised in a small country village in the Western Ukraine. He went to Kiev to study the Sound Engineering when he already had the higher education in Music (maestro di cappella).
Thanks to his brother – Oleksandr Shevchyshyn, well-known in Ukraine Director of Photography, Oleg has discovered the other aspect of the filming production and found the passion of his life – Cinematography. That is how 12 years ago he set oneself a goal to become one of the best in the filming industry. And after 8 years, Oleg achieved his target by winning two times the highest cinematography award in his home country.
Oleg fall in love with the aerial video after investing many years into the award-winning reality travel-show production, that have been filmed all around-the globe.
Misha’s filming background comes from making documentary short films and fast paced backstage videos. In 2019, Misha shot and directed his first documentary, Street Musicians, telling a story of the Ukrainian street musicians and their contribution to the urban culture. The documentary was listed in the programs of Ukrainian film festivals. Later, he worked on multiple short films and backstage videos. Recently he directed and edited his debut music video Shchedryi Vechir by Kalush Orchestra.
Misha’s portfolio can be found on Vimeo, click here.
Jane has been an art director, specializing in digital color effects and colorization, for over 30 years. The clients she has worked with include The Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies, 20th Century Fox, The History Channel and BBC.
