Executive Production Team
George Johnsen
Mr. Johnsen is founder and chief technology officer for Mammoth Vision Inc., a ground breaking digital production-film studio specializing in high value digital visuals and audio for Television, Film and Theme Park markets. And now part of the executive producing team at Cinema Vitesse Productions.
As a developer of technologies for the entertainment industry, Mr. Johnsen has and continues to work with industry giants such as IBM, Sony, Disney, and Roku, to provide better tools for digital production and post production world. Johnsen is himself a pioneer of digital post production and the founder and owner of world’s first digital post production facility designed from the ground up to service the special venue and digital film markets.
For Warner Brothers, he co-produced the hit Si-Fi Television series Babylon 5. He also founded the first digital audio, EFX Systems, where he was instrumentally in many pivotal breakthroughs as Hollywood moved into the new digital age. He played a crucial role in the first entirely digital TV Series, WB’s Babylon 5. Moving forward, Mr. Johnsen has consulted and designed for many high profile audio and video manufactures and has participated in the standards committees for SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) Time Code, Red Book audio standard, the HD International exchange standard, The Visual Effects Society and other professional organizations.
Additionally, his EFX feature film credits include Mortal Combat, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber and Talk Radio. Johnsen has been involved with 43 3D productions and 22 IMAX films, most recently as the producer of the IMAX format film Avenue of the Giants for the Dunsmuir Conservancy. He has been part of over 100 groundbreaking films.
He has renowned industry awards including a Grammy, and Emmy, the Cable Ace, The Themed Entertainment Award and the illustrious Oscar.
Stepping forward, he produced Star Trek: Voyager Borg Encounter for Paramount Properties in digital 3D and recently over saw special effects and animation production on Edward Fudwupper Fibbed Bib, a fully GGI Oscar nominated theatrical short for Nickelodeon. He currently directs and produces all the marquee content for 1500’ screen at Freemont Street Experience in Las Vegas alongside his new and exciting efforts with Cinema Vitesse.
Roger Brehm
Roger Brehm is known for his intellect, compassion, and being a business entrepreneur in the computer and Motorsports industries, and being the youngest Roller Skater at 71/2 months of age where he quickly parlayed those skill sets into being a Skating Champion throughout the eastern USA. He is also renowned as the youngest Pepsi Cola drinker at 1 month of age. Of course, his Doctor wasn’t pleased with that distinction, but he survived to become an avid and accomplished athlete in many different sports including Tennis, Soccer and Football as well as Roller Skating(Speed, Hockey, Figures, Freestyle, & Dance), Skiing, and Racquet Ball, so Pepsi must have been a positive influence on his young life.
After high school, Mr. Brehm soon found himself in the Air Force serving his country where he was trained in Aviation Electronics and became one of the Air Force’s and Americas more prolific Aviation Electronics specialist. After a extended and exemplary stint in the military, Roger returned to his beloved Virginia, determined to make his mark as a professional business man, and as a vision forward entrepreneur started one of the first computer business in Virginia where he transcended the company into one of states more successful computer repair and sales companies and that success continues onward today. He is known throughout the Hampton area as one of the best IT experts. He serves many area businesses as well as government contracts and the military.
Always looking for adventure and a challenge, his Air Force experience generated intense interest in aviation that eventually led him to earn his pilot’s license.
Then, after getting his computer and IT company on the right track, motorsports, specifically NASCAR came calling, a sport that Roger had always loved and in 1992, he formed his own NASCAR team where he not only owned and ran the team, he also drove and maintained the race cars himself competing throughout the Eastern Seaboard where he gained a special skill set for driving and handling of race cars, which he used to help others out, until his retirement from driving in 1998. He now sponsors and supports several drivers in the Southeastern United States area including being instrumental in Terri O’Connell’s current racing efforts out on the national scene. He also launched the ever popular internet TV Motorsports show “Let’s Talk Racing” who boast as its guest many of the sport’s top superstars including veterans and the new up and comers looking to gain valuable media exposure. His show garners millions of views on the internet every year. Through this endeavor, Mr Brehm parlayed his experience in producing LTR a production company “Pitwall Productions” where he produces videos and film for the racing community.
As a Philanthropist, Mr. Brehm supports many charities in the sport and Hampton, Virginia region as well as serving on the Purple Helmet Initiative’s board focused on driving out bullying, assault and sexual harassment. He is also a big hit with the kids when he plays an authentic Santa Clause for several local charities during the Christmas and Holiday season in the Hampton Roads area.
Always looking forward, Roger soon found himself deeply involved with Terri O’Connell’s career leading him, along with Terri and George Johnsen to form Cinema Vitesse productions that includes film, marketing, merchandising, and a strong focus on in house production surrounding Terri’s life story and the cutting edge Dangerous Curves Xx24 docu-reality series.
Terri O’Connell
Terri O’Connell is an international and historic trailblazer in sports, publishing and art, and topping it off; she has a compelling first in history one of a kind life never seen on mother earth before. As an accomplished master of many talents, Terri is a driven soul who is always looking for the next big adventure, always determined and undaunted by the challenges. As a five time national champion race driver with over 525 career victories, whose been called one of the five best ever by motorsports power players, she made it to the pinnacle of motorsports, NASCAR Monster Cup all in the midst of devastating life circumstances that took extreme tolls on her personal and professional life. She also won 10 state and regional championships from Tennessee to Florida.
Adding to her multidimensional interest and talents, as a mechanical engineer and top flight craftsperson, Terri designed, built and won most of her career victories in her own race cars, including all of her National Championships.
In the mid nineties, she courageously restarted her life under the most difficult circumstances, regrouped and soon formed, designed and ran the first apparel company with a Disney Store feel for female race fans, worked as model throughout the South and was a VIP mainstay in the elite NASCAR circles. By the mid 2000’s, with her amazing life story, style and warm personality that was now playing around the world, she was hanging out in Los Angeles, hitting news magazine, entertainment and talk show circuits, walking red carpets and paling around with well known Hollywood and International celebrities, and making her extraordinary mark on history. She even competed in the iconic and famous Cannon Ball Run, sponsored by Volkswagen, Candies Shoes and the Fashion Café for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. After the cross country race, they placed the little yellow Beetle she drove in Rockefeller Center as a huge marketing promotion after the big seven day event.
Undaunted and reinvigorated, and knowing her extraordinary against all odds life, she knew the “whole story” needed to be told, not just talk show sound bites that were in the media stream. Driven, began the daunting process of creating a book that would mean something. Two years later, she released her compelling game changing bestselling memoir, (a 676 page memoir she personally wrote word for word) “Dangerous Curves” in 2009 and by 2012, feeling as if she had unfinished business in racing and longing to get back in the game, she had courageously restarted her championship winning racing career. Committed to prove she still had it, she committed herself to the daunting task. Picking back up where she left off, working eighteen hour days, getting back in race shape and catching up on all the new motorsports technology she quickly proved herself once again as one of the very best in the sport in a historic comeback, by winning.
Known as a workaholic, a creative prodigy and one who is always thinking outside the box , Terri took her ambitions one step farther by forming Cinema Vitesse with her friends and business partners, Roger Brehm, Tammy Genovesse and George Johnsen. CV’s vision centered on producing personal media, television and feature film projects – one being a feature film based on Terri’s page turning memoir and a cutting edge game changing reality series for female race drivers looking to make their mark in the big leagues. In addition Terri O’ and her Cinema Vitesse executives have expanded their efforts to include feature film dramas and special Television projects centered on music, fashion and food.
In 2015, wanting to give back to society she started the Purple Helmet Initiative (In honor of her father’s signature racing color purple, and the color of her iconic racing helmets) to drive out bullying, assault and domestic violence, saying she wanted to focus on these issues because she had lived and survived them herself. As an artist, model and author, supported by her award winning racing career and social activism, Terri O’ is a transitional character focused on creativity in the arts and entertainment as well as in the international motorsports community.