Management Team
Writer/Director
Miles Hanon
Miles Hanon is the founder and President of Story Front Pictures. Miles entered the film industry as an engineer, designing and implementing robust, versatile camera systems for the award-winning media house Compass Arts. There, he applied his technical expertise to film editing, and a new passion was unearthed: storytelling.
Following this new passion, Miles served as editor for the award-winning documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor and the commercially successful feature End of the Spear. Through these experiences, the cornerstone of Miles’ signature style became increasingly apparent: the fusion of an engineer’s sensibility and a rare, intuitive grasp of story and emotion.
In 2006 Miles founded Story Front and shortly thereafter wrote and directed his first feature film, produced two feature documentaries, and has helped a number of organizations tell their own stories with promos and vision films.
Producer
Tom Livingston
Tom’s career as a filmmaker, video producer, and storyteller has spanned more than forty years. In 1982, he co-founded ProVideo Productions with his business partner Jack Lind. Their creative collaborations include numerous feature documentaries, nationally recognized marketing and public awareness campaigns, and non-profit messaging.
Tom uses documentary storytelling to craft messages for regional, national and international nonprofits and foundations. Included in this body of work are documentaries for Leadership Foundations, Urban Ventures, Kenya Children’s Fund, and the Salvation Army. Crafting story from personal experiences characterize the majority of his film and video work.
Producer
Dave Hanon
Dave has more than 25 years of experience in production management. He has served as the production manager for two award-winning films: the documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor, and the feature film End of the Spear. In 2011, he became the president & co-founder for Gray Hour Productions where he managed post production and visual effects. Dave also served on the advisory board for the Oklahoma Film and Music office from 2011 to 2013.
Dave has managed a diverse range of projects from music videos to commercial shorts to feature films and everything in between. He has traveled and managed projects in over a dozen countries around the world. Although the majority of Dave’s work happens behind-the-scenes, his passion for service, organization and efficiency shines through in each and every project.
Story Consultant
Israel (Jim) Hanna
Israel Hanna is first and foremost a child of God whose life was supernaturally touched, redeemed, and changed forever now over thirty-three years ago. As one who encountered God in this manner, by following that still, small Voice of the Holy Spirit, Israel, along with his wife, and family live daily to serve their Creator God.
Israel is a college graduate, with a B.S. in Secondary Education, and worked on his Master’s degree in Guidance and Counseling up to the writing of his thesis. He is also an ex-Combat Army Infantry Sergeant, an outdoorsman, and expert marksman. His vocational experience has included working nine years for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad as a federal car inspector and car repairman and being employed for ten years with a rural telephone company, as he made his way up from laborer to outside plant construction supervisor. Israel Hanna has also been a spokesman for Full Gospel Businessmen International, which at the time had chapters in 87 countries, and his testimony was first published in the April 1987 issue of their “VOICE” magazine. He went on to become a regular speaker for both this organization and also Alcoholics Anonymous. Israel is overwhelmed daily by God’s miraculous saving grace and is pleased to announce that he is currently celebrating forty-five years of sobriety. For the last twenty-three years, he has enjoyed working as an independent, non-denominational evangelist and missionary in a variety of capacities.
Israel Hanna met his wife, Elizabeth, on the mission field in Australia in 2001, and they were married on the Feast of Passover on April 17, 2003 in Jerusalem, Israel. They now have eight beautiful children and are currently living and ministering in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma area. Their goal is to bring comfort to the broken-hearted and to set those held captive free by displaying the same power that has changed their lives – the power of a Mighty God and Loving Father.