John J. Kelly Entertainment and 6 Foot Films present a Side Gig Production
Directed by Eshom Nelms & Ian Nelms Written by Autumn McAlpin and Ian Nelms & Eshom Nelms Produced by John J. Kelly, Autumn McAlpin, and Brad Johnson Director of Photography Johnny Derango Music by Will VanderWyden Production Design by Lauren Spalding Costume Design by Angela Asay Edited by Traton Lee Casting by Ronnie Yeskel and Jeff Johnson Sound Mixing by Dave West Executive Producers Steven A. Lee and Michael McAlpin Based on the memoir WAFFLE STREET by James Adams Distributed by MarVista Entertainment |
WRITERS-DIRECTORS ESHOM NELMS & IAN NELMS, AKA "THE NELMS BROTHERS," grew up in central California, waging two hundred man G.I. Joe wars and dreaming in John Ford Landscapes. They've made multiple award-winning short and feature films. In 2005, their feature, Night of the Dog, won the Golden Vision Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Audience Award at the Palm Beach Film Festival, and Audience Award and Best Screenplay at the SMMASH Film Festival. Their most recent film, Lost On Purpose, starring Jane Kaczmarek, C. Thomas Howell, James Lafferty, Aaron Hill, Dale Dickey and Academy Award-winner Octavia Spencer received rave reviews and multiple festival wins including Best Film at Beverly Hills Film Festival, Best Directors at FirstGlance Film Festival, Best Film at Reelheart Film Festival, Best Film at TrindieFest, and Best Actress for Jane Kaczmarek at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Fest.
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WRITER/PRODUCER AUTUMN MCALPIN is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and the author of the best-selling graduation gift book, Real World 101. Fascinated by James Adams’ earnest tale of rehabilitation, Autumn optioned his memoir Waffle Street in 2010 to bring the project to the big screen. A graduate of USC’s Masters of Professional Writing program, Autumn’s play In Front of the Children won first prize at 2015’s USC Writing for Stage and Screen competition, and her play Ten Years Left was a selection in the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Her 2013 short film, Shadow, won several awards on the festival circuit and was distributed by the Spiritual Cinema Circle. She has also written and directed national public service announcements for the American Parkinson Disease Association and “Are You Ready?” emergency preparedness campaign. Autumn has penned three other feature films that are currently in various stages of production.

PRODUCER JOHN J. KELLY's production credits include the upcoming eagerly anticipated Deadpool, Paul Feig’s SPY, starring Melissa McCarthy, 2014’s blockbuster Divergent, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection, Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; and Darling Companion starring Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. In 2010, John produced 127 Hours, starring James Franco and based on Aron Ralston’s autobiography, Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The film was nominated for numerous Academy Awards® including Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, and Best Picture. The film was also nominated in many of the same Golden Globe® categories. In 2006, John spent the entire year producing Sean Penn’s Into the Wild, an adaptation of the best-selling book written by Jon Krakauer. Numerous accolades for Into the Wild included two Academy Awards® nominations, two Golden Globes®, four SAG Awards, and two Teen Choice Awards.
John was born in Liverpool, England and raised in Glendale, Arizona. An early interest in theatre led him to the entertainment industry. John first began at Pepin-Merhi Entertainment Group as production controller. He was quickly promoted through the ranks to unit production manager and line producer. During this time, John produced and supervised over seventy episodes of television, forty feature films, and numerous music videos. In 2001, John was hired as president of production for American Cinema International. After his fourth film with the company, John broke away to produce freelance projects. During a period of six years, he produced nine films in Barcelona with the Spanish entertainment company, Drimtim Entertainment. Since, John has worked with directors such as David Mamet on Spartan, Kevin Reynolds on Tristan and Isolde, Brian DePalma on The Black Dahlia, and Roger Donaldson on The World’s Fastest Indian, starring Anthony Hopkins. John’s many producing credits include Gentlemen Broncos, The Lost, Reflections, Fragments, Unnatural Causes, The Lucky Ones, The Deal, Hidden Camera, Waning Moon, One Last Ride, Lost, Back by Midnight, Art Heist, Face of Terror, Purgatory Flats, Windfall and Power Play.
John was born in Liverpool, England and raised in Glendale, Arizona. An early interest in theatre led him to the entertainment industry. John first began at Pepin-Merhi Entertainment Group as production controller. He was quickly promoted through the ranks to unit production manager and line producer. During this time, John produced and supervised over seventy episodes of television, forty feature films, and numerous music videos. In 2001, John was hired as president of production for American Cinema International. After his fourth film with the company, John broke away to produce freelance projects. During a period of six years, he produced nine films in Barcelona with the Spanish entertainment company, Drimtim Entertainment. Since, John has worked with directors such as David Mamet on Spartan, Kevin Reynolds on Tristan and Isolde, Brian DePalma on The Black Dahlia, and Roger Donaldson on The World’s Fastest Indian, starring Anthony Hopkins. John’s many producing credits include Gentlemen Broncos, The Lost, Reflections, Fragments, Unnatural Causes, The Lucky Ones, The Deal, Hidden Camera, Waning Moon, One Last Ride, Lost, Back by Midnight, Art Heist, Face of Terror, Purgatory Flats, Windfall and Power Play.

PRODUCER BRAD JOHNSON was born into the world of silver screens and special effects. His mother Charlene was hair stylist for TV classics such as Mork and Mindy, Brady Bunch, and Charlie’s Angels, and Brad was working on set by the fourth grade in Kenny Ortega’s Newsies. Under Ortega’s continued mentorship, Brad carved his production teeth working on live entertainment shows at venues including the Super Bowl and the Salt Lake Olympics. Owner of 6 Foot Films, Brad is a well-known and well-loved player in independent filmmaking. He has spent the last decade in all capacities of the industry, producing both international music videos for artists including Russia’s #1 band Mumiy Troll, and domestic feature films including Vamp U, Friend Request, and Dawn of the Dragon Slayer. Brad directed and produced Hellespont, which won Best Guerilla Short at 2012’s Action on Film International Film Festival. He has appeared onscreen as an actor in films such as Lifetime’s Scents and Sensibility, Disney’s High School Musical 3, and 127 Hours.

As DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, JOHNNY DERANGO strives to tell a story truthfully, with beauty, grace and technical prowess, regardless of budgetary constraints. After graduating from Columbia College in Chicago, Derango began his career by shooting the Tribeca film festival-bound feature In the Land of Merry Misfits at only 23 years of age, followed quickly by Fox’s one-hour police drama Hollywood Vice. Besides being a frequent collaborator with Waffle Street directors Ian and Eshom Nelms, Johnny has worked as a director of photography for Fox, Warner Brothers, Disney, Discovery Channel, TRU TV, and MTV amongst others. His work has been seen at film festivals including Tribeca, Chicago International, and HBO's American Black Film Festival. Johnny splits his time between Los Angeles and Chicago working as a producer and director of photography.
![]() AUTHOR OF WAFFLE STREET, JAMES ADAMS cut his teeth in the investment management industry as an analyst at Protective Life Insurance Co., where he assisted in the credit evaluation and relative value analysis of an $8 billion corporate bond portfolio. After three years at Protective, Jimmy joined Jefferson-Pilot Financial, trading and monitoring the credit quality of a $3 billion corporate bond portfolio comprised of 120 issuers. He was also instrumental in Jefferson-Pilot’s inaugural issue of $300 million funding agreement-backed notes in June 2005. In early 2006, Jimmy entered the placid waters of the mortgage bond market, where borrowers were known to repay their debts and fraud was a total anomaly. As a vice president in the product management group of a $30 billion money management firm, he serviced 40 client relationships by providing verbal and written commentary on performance, investment process, and portfolio positioning. After three harrowing years in the mortgage market maelstrom, Jimmy sought refuge inside the walls of a 24-hour waffle diner. Waiting tables on the weekend graveyard shift over the next six months, he got a lot more than he bargained for. Although he earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and an MBA in Finance, most of the author’s financial knowledge has been gleaned from his recent foray into food service and the writings of forgotten 19th-century economists.
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