full house productions: company history: Our Partners
Jeff Bush • Fran Bowen • Tino Galluzzo • Phil Lee
Jeff Bush, Partner & Director
Fresh from degrees in physics and theology, Jeff began a career in television production in 1973, working principally in the New York City performing arts community. Teaming up with his wife Celia Ipiotis, in 1981 they founded and produced the long running public television series Eye On Dance & the Arts. His own video work has been seen at Lincoln Center in New York, and at theaters and festivals around the world. He was business manager of the Jose Limon Dance Company, a world renown modern dance company until 1988, when he joined Full House Productions as managing partner.
In 2004 Jeff became involved in the rapidly expanding virtual world “Second Life”, and almost immediately began promoting business applications in this exciting new venue. Early in 2007 he led Full House into a merger with the Lisbon, Portugal, based virtual reality services firm, Beta Technologies, thereby launching Full House into this exploding market. In Second Life, he is known as Jeff Brooks.
Jeff Bush in "First Life" circa 1972
Fran Bowen, Partner & Director
I think Roger Ebert sums it up what we're all about. In the Chicago Sun Times, 1992 - on the 50th anniversary re-release of 'Casablanca', with our restored soundtrack, he said: “Movies are, in a sense immortal. In another sense, however, movies are fragile. They live on long flexible strips of celluloid, which fade, and tear, and collect scratches every time they travel through a projector. And sometimes films burn or disintegrate into dust.”
Trackwise, a part of Full House Productions is an audio restoration facility run by Fran Bowen, who has been in the business of restoring audio “forever”. Below is an excerpt from an article that was written in response to the restored version of “On the Waterfront,” that was engineered by Trackwise.
“It turns out Marlon Brando wasn’t really mumbling all those years,” jested Columbia Publicity Chief Steve Klain after the screening of the 1993 restored version, “it was just a bad soundtrack.” –NEW YORK POST
Fran and her engineers, Richie and Walter, are all devoted to the neglected art of film audio preservation and are invaluable fixtures in this highly creative and technical field. The Trackwise client list includes Anthology Archives, B&B Opticals, CBS Worldwide Distribution, Cineric, Cinema Arts, Florentine Films, The Guggenheim Museum, MOMA, NBC News Archives, New York Public Library, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and many more.
In addition to “On the Waterfront,” Trackwise has restored the sound for the following classic film’s: “Casablanca,” “The Big Trail,” “Citizen Kane,” and “Good Night and Good Luck.” Anthology Film Archives honored George Clooney on March 26, 2007 for “Good Night and Good Luck.” Kenn Rabin, “Good Night and Good Luck’s”: archival scene researcher wrote how original elements were adapted and used in the film. “The 16mm kines were carefully scanned to create HD tapes by Technicolor, New York. CBS kines were then shipped to Fran Bowen at Trackwise at Full House who cleaned up the optical sound to create DATs from the optical soundtracks.”
Fran is a member of AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists), Anthology Film Archives and Film Society at Lincoln Center.
Agostino "Tino" Galluzzo, Partner
THE "SUIT"
Agostino Galluzzo (Tino), graduated, with Phil, from Boston University
College of Communication. He began his career with AJ Armstrong Co.
Inc. (AJA), an International Commercial Finance firm in New York
eventually becoming the Senior Vice President and Manager of the
International Division of Security Pacific Business Credit Inc.
In 1999 Tino founded Azura International Holdings Ltd., a management
consulting company. Azura's clients included Joseph E. Levine Presents
, Media Drop-In Productions, and Cabin Fever Entertainment.
During this time period Phil, and later, Jeff would call on him to be
an advisor as Full House grew and prospered. Thus, his association
with FHP begins with the original studio on 49th Street. The
inevitable happened in 2003 when he became a partner.
Today, he owns an Art Gallery in Lakeville CT. and periodically
commutes to New York to work with FHP on financial and marketing
strategies.
Phil Lee, Partner & Director
Phil Lee is one of the founders of Full House Productions in New York City. What began as a two-man — one studio operation in 1981, Lee has grown into a 20-person, state-of-the-art, New York City-based, multi-studio, audio production company. With an impressive client list that includes some of the top advertising firms, filmmakers, publishing houses, business clients, and movie studios — Full House Productions is leading the way in an evolving industry.
Lee has been ingenious in growing his company through mergers, primarily in 1988 when well-known video-dance director and producer/editor Jeff Bush joined Full House Productions as studio manager. Together they quickly grew the studio into one of New York City’s leading audio houses.
In the mid-90’s, Lee and Bush decided to add audio books to their studio services and so they pursued an opportunity to purchase the Sun Group from award winning recording artist, Arthur Custer. Lee spent two-years mentoring with Custer, while Bush maintained operations at the main studio. In 2000 they merged the two companies in a larger studio — their present-day location on 123 West 18th Street.
Soon after setting-up in their new studio, Lee and Bush decided to approach Fran Bowen, owner of Trackwise®, a well-known audio restoration studio to see if she’d be interested in partnering. Bowen quickly brought her expertise to the group which rounded out the studio services nicely.
Before founding Full House Productions in 1981, Lee had a distinguished career as an engineer and producer. He began at Jimi Hendrix’ infamous Electric Lady Recording Studios in New York City where he worked with renowned artists Kiss, James Taylor, Blood Sweat and Tears, Stevie Wonder, and many others.
From there he moved to the nation’s number one broadcast market at WRVR-FM in New York City. ‘RVR’ was an inaugural member of the newly formed non-profit Educational Radio Network that provided the seeds for today’s National Public Radio. Lee worked as engineer and producer of radio documentaries for The Network Project, an independent group that produced documentaries for broadcast on ‘RVR’.
Soon after he became a United Nations Sound Recordist doing location recording on documentary films throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Mexico. The films focused on United Nations initiatives and were shown around the world to member nations.
After spending five years working with the United Nations, Lee looked to broaden his horizons, so he joined film trailer house, Kanew Manger Deutch. There he created radio commercials for such films as Manhattan, Apocalypse Now, Fame, Raging Bull, and many others. It was from here that he left to found Full House Productions.
Lee hails from Long Island, New York, and resides in New York City. He graduated Cum Laude from Boston University in 1969 and is active in the alumni association there. Lee is a member of SAG, AFTRA, IBEW, The New York New Jersey Trail Conference, Sloop Clearwater, and the Theatre Development Fund.
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