Our Team
We’ve assembled an incredibly talented group of folks to bring Arcade Dreams to life. We’ve got professional filmmakers who have won multiple Emmy awards. We have 3D animation experts, famous sound designers, brilliant graphic designers, award-winning writers, and encyclopedic arcade historians.
But more important than all the trophies and accolades, we have a group of people who are absolute fanatics about arcades and video games.
Zach Weddington
Director
Filmmaker. Arcade Fanatic. Zach is an 80’s kid who found his dreams reflected in the plexiglass screens of arcade cabinets.
Zach’s debut film was Viva Amiga; The Story of a Beautiful Machine, which premiered on Hulu in 2017 and soared up the iTunes charts in several countries.
The film was also invited to show at MAGFest: the Music and Games Festival, and had a special screening at the prestigious Henry Ford Museum on an IMAX screen!
His favorite arcade game is Power Drift.
Bill Winters
Director of Photography
Bill Winters is a multi-award winning Director of Photography with over 20 years experience in the film and television business.
Bill has worked with clients large and small, including Apple, Mercedes- Benz, Electronic Arts, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and many more.
He shot the award winning hip-hop documentary, Beyond Beats & Rhymes, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and has worked on multiple documentaries for Netflix and Amazon.
His favorite arcade game is Ms. Pac Man.
Berge Garabedian
Executive Producer
Berge Garabedian is a serial entrepreneur who founded the popular movie fansite JoBlo.com in his parents’ garage in 1998.
Since then, he's written over 1,500 film reviews for the site and published a book entitled “The 50 Coolest Movies of All-Time”, which featured a foreword by director Kevin Smith. Time Magazine included Mr. Garabedian as “one of the most powerful taste-makers in Hollywood” during his first decade online.
With his production company, JoBlo Movie Productions, he has also executive produced five movies. Meanwhile, the JoBlo brand has flourished on YouTube with nine channels totaling over 5M subscribers and 3.5 billion views. Most recently, he has become a pinball fanatic.
His favorite game is Donkey Kong.
Joe Casacio
Executive Producer
Joe is an entrepreneur with a background in commercial real estate and arcade machines.
Joe is quite simply, a pinball fanatic. We met Joe in May of 2021 when we filmed a pinball tournament that he hosted in the Philly suburbs.
He's been quietly assembling a stunning collection of over 200 rare and vintage pinball machines, as well as some classic video games. He's in the process of putting together a new arcade and we'll be documenting that process from start to finish.
Bruce Zamost
Executive Producer
Our expert on pinball and electro-mechanical history. Bruce is a walking encyclopedia of pinball games.
Bruce spent his teenage and college years studying analytical philosophy and playing pinball. He attributes his success as a trial attorney to the social and technical skills he developed in the arcades of his youth.
Bruce's 38 year contribution to the EM pinball and EM arcade hobby was recognized in 2015 when he was featured in that year's Walter Day Twin Galaxies trading card superstar series.
His favorite pinball game is Gottlieb’s Strange World.
Dave Stiles
Editor
A 12-time Emmy Award winning editor and cameraman. Worked on HBO’s “Hard Knocks”. A video innovator, Dave specializes in precision motion graphics and visual effects.
His favorite arcade game is Satan's Hollow.
Paulee Bow
Music Composer
Paulee Bow is a Birmingham, England-based multi-instrumentalist and composer who has worked in various genres and styles. They're using a variety of retro computers and vintage synthesizers to create a nostalgic soundtrack for Arcade Dreams.
Their favorite arcade game is a rare Japan-only game called The Outfoxies.
Jeremy Reimer
Writer
He’s the Senior Niche Technology Historian at Ars Technica and an award-winning science fiction author. Jeremy obsesses over obscure and beautiful hardware, software, and games.
His favorite arcade game is Wonder Boy in Monster Land.
Adrian Santiago
Production Design / Second Camera
An award-winning independent filmmaker who has worked on three feature-length films and numerous shorts.
His favorite arcade game is Revolution X.
Peter Hirschberg
3D Modeler and Arcade Expert
He built an awesome recreation of a 1980s arcade in his basement called Luna City. Peter did all the animation, logos, and titling for Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade.
His favorite arcade game is Tron.
Ethan Johnson
Advisor
Our expert on video game history. Ethan is a video game historian and Editor of Gaming Alexandria. He’s collected and scanned numerous out-of-print gaming books and game company records.
Ethan is also the creator of “The History of How We Play” blog and video series.
His favorite arcade game is Hydro Thunder.
George Spanos
Advisor
Our technical wizard. George knows the in and outs of video game machine repair, and how to keep games working. His vast knowledge helps us preserve video game history.
George hates all arcade games equally.