who we are

Polimedia is a non-traditional management and public relations company. We not only have a history in theatre, film, and books, but we produce and promote literary events, from salons to book festivals. We have worked with bookstores, cities and businesses to create and promote events that consistently garner media attention. We help to develop programs which are unique to your purpose and promising in concept. Many public relations companies try to create a cookie cutter mold of their services. We pride ourselves on tailoring our services to the needs of our clients. We are a fair, open-minded company, and love to work with new ideas and concepts.

Charles Lago

Daniel Maynez

Director of Operations for Marketing & Media Relations

Assistant to Charles Lago

clago@polimediaent.com

dmaynez@polimediaent.com

Charles Lago, a native of Great Britain had a successful career in law enforcement before settling in the United States in the early nineties. In 1993 Charles founded the live performance venue Between The Pages Playhouse in Palm Springs, CA. He quickly made his stamp by producing the avante garde, namely well-known performance artists as well the up and coming playwrights out of Los Angeles and across the United States.

In 1994 Charles began working as the manager and producer for Quentin Crisp, the critically acclaimed author and raconteur who took London’s West End by storm with his one-man show, An Evening with Quentin Crisp. After Quentin moved to the United States, Charles then helped revise and launch the

show for a national tour of the U.S., again to critical acclaim. Around this time, Charles also became the manager for performance artist Annie Sprinkle. Bringing her to the forefront as one of the US’s more prominent live performance artists with her show, Annie Sprinkle: Herstory of Porn.

Charles eventually sold Between The Pages Playhouse and moved to San Diego, CA to continue his producing career. In 1998 the San Diego Union Tribune named Charles, "The most prolific theater producer in San Diego.” While working in theater, Charles, who always had a business interest in books and authors, started organizing author book tours around the country on behalf of publishers. He has worked with many well-known authors organizing successful book tours, book signing's and lectures.

During this time Charles continued to organize book tours for individual authors and publishers. In 2002 Charles founded Authors On Tour, a full service author pr company. He personally organized events for authors such as Arianna Huffington, former Presidential Speech-Writer David Frum, Mariel Hemmingway, Heidi Fleiss, and Susan McDougal. Other authors quickly followed and within a few months, Charles was representing up to six authors at a time.

In 2003 Charles founded the Palm Springs Book Festival with Chris Johnson, and to this day continues to be the principle organizer of this ever-growing and successful event.

Authors on Tour continued to grow, working with authors, entertainers and corporate clients. To better serve it’s clients, Authors on Tour was renamed Polimedia. Branching out to now work with film and production companies to promote documentaries and films with a eco/politico/socio message as well as continuing to work with authors and entertainers alike.

Chris Johnson

Director of Operations for Publishing and Website Consultation

cjohnson@polimediaent.com

biography coming soon

Keith Sky

Director of Operations for Film and Script Development

ksky@polimediaent.com

Keith Sky, an established industry executive, began his career in the motion picture industry with positions in distribution and marketing at Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Co, After leaving the studio system he founded the public relations and marketing firm, Americom. Americom has designed and executed campaigns for over 200 major companies in an assortment of categories. These have included clients in film, television, cable, radio, live theatre and numerous filmmakers, production companies and artists.

He has also represented numerous corporate clients in the world of telecommunications and satellite broadcasting, Besides his experience in film

distribution, his experience in film exhibition has had lasting effect on movie goers. He was an innovator in the field of music video. He helped to establish VH-1 and represented numerous video companies as part of the MTV explosion. Many of those music video directors went on to feature film success. Recently Keith Sky also produced “I Am A Backyard Wrestler” for MTV and their TrueLife series marking a 20 year relationship with the network.

He helped to launch the first satellite distribution network with over 800 US television stations for the distribution of commercials and programming. The company, Cycle Sat, became part of the Williams Communications Group, a leader in telecommunications. He also represented Pacific Bell and AT&T and their entertainment departments.

As a media personality, Keith Sky has had a weekly entertainment report with KROQ-FM (Los Angeles), and an entertainment show on Groove Radio 103.1 Los Angeles).

When working with Regent Entertainment, Sky became actively involved in marketing, distribution and acquisition of product for the company. From 2000 to 2005, Sky handled an array of theatrical films including the very popular “Speedway Junkie”, “6^th Happiness”, “Friends and Family” “Looking for an Echo” and “Free Enterprise”. Many of these titles currently play on pay-TV channels. One of the releases, “Sordid Lives” starring Olivia Newton John was one of the hit independent films enjoying among among other accolades, a one year run at the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs, Ca.

In 2004, he Co-Produced with Harry Thomason, The Hunting of the President: the 10 Year Campaign to Destroy the Clintons. The film played in 80 cities and currently is out on Fox DVD. His marketing company handled the coordination of the media in the United States for the film’s release. The highlights of the launch of the film included co-hosting a Q & A with former Vice-President Al Gore at the film’s festival premiere in Sundance. For the theatrical premiere in New York, the film event was honored to have President Clinton attend and introduce the film.

He is currently developing other projects including “Fountain of Youth”, the story about the murder of Ramon Navarro, a famous Hollywood movie star. He is

also developing a bio-pic, “FLIP”, based on the life of Flip Wilson, the Afro-American comedian. He also has worked with Susan McDougal to bring her life story to the screen based on her best selling biography “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk”. He also is co-producer on the upcoming Warner Bros. feature film, “Rodney on the ROQ”. He is developing the project with Mad Chance Productions, which has recently released “Get Smart: The Movie!”

At a time when Keith Sky continues to develop his own film productions, he wants to support fellow filmmakers. He feels with films such as The Hunting of the President and An Inconvenient Truth there is evidence of a new genre of films which deal with the social, political and environmental issues of the day. Keith Sky is committed to providing filmmakers a way to be seen and heard.

A firm believer in providing young filmmakers their start, Keith Sky organized the Dean Film Grant for documentary filmmakers. Underwritten by Fuji Film, one of the projects the grant supported, the political documentary, The Panama Deception went on to win the Academy Award. Sky was an early supporter of American Cinemateque, the Independent Film Project (IFP), Outfest and the Miami Beach Cinemateque.

Keith Sky has also helped salvage two movie palaces in Hollywood. The Vista Theatre, which was originally built by Sid Grauman and the art-deco Regent Showcase Theatre in West Hollywood. Today, both of these first-run theatres are very successful. Keith Sky is proud to say he was part of their revival. Once again, in 2007, Keith Sky worked to stop the demolition of a famous Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach. So far, it remains open through their efforts and the campaign!