Our Team
Strath Hamilton ~ Co-CEO
Strathford Hamilton, an Emmy and DGA nominated director of prestige films and television shows. He is well known throughout the entertainment industry as the director of the team that created the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” for Saban Entertainment, the most successful children’s show of all time. Mr. Hamilton has directed 10 feature films and several TV movies. Strathford Hamilton’s first film, “Blueberry Hill” starring Academy Award winners Carrie Snodgress and Margaret Avery, was shot in 12 days for $500,000 and sold to MGM for theatrical distribution.
Most recently Mr. Hamilton Executive Produced the films “Almost Sharkproof”, “The Bunker”, “Smitty” and “Treasure of the Black Jaguar”. He also produced and co-directed the Paris Hilton Film “National Lampoon’s Pledge This!”. Over the last 25 years, Mr. Hamilton has managed and produced films and TV shows for both the studios and independents, with combined budgets of over $100,000,000. Motion pictures and TV shows directed by Strathford Hamilton, have been honored with many awards including Directors Guild of America awards, Emmy, Humanitas and film festival awards. His reputation for creating quality, critically acclaimed motion pictures has afforded him access to the entertainment industry’s top actors, screenwriters and directors, many of whom he counts among his closest personal relationships.
Mr Hamilton is a principal in the production and distribution company TriCoast Worldwide, which distributes feature films and television shows internationally. Recent releases include “The Dead” which is one of Anchor Bay’s highest grossing films of 2012 and “Smitty” starring Academy Award winners Mira Sorvino, Lou Gossett JR and Academy Award nominee Peter Fonda. Mr. Hamilton also supervises the production slate for TriCoast Worldwide, and is one of the owners of the state-of-the-art digital post production facility, TriCoast Studios.
After receiving his Bachelors degree from the University of New South Wales in Australia, Mr. Hamilton worked as a TV and radio producer for the ABC in Australia and a record producer for Decca Records in the UK. From there he directed or produced over 200 music videos for top recording artists Prince, Queen, Earth Wind & Fire, The Clash, and others. This led to Mr. Hamilton replacing the director Lindsay Anderson on “Foreign Skies”, George Michael’s documentary of the first rock band to tour China. The documentary premiered at Wembly Stadium in London to 50,000 fans.
He settled in Los Angeles, where he became President of Production for Mediacom Industries, a public company, and subsequently co-founded TriCoast Production Partners Inc. with Ms. Marcy Levitas Hamilton. Strath Hamilton co-founded The Backyard National Children’s Film Festival, a non-profit organization, dedicated to giving children film making and story telling skills.
At TriCoast Studios, Mr. Hamilton directs the company’s creative activities and is part of the the new technology development team working with NASA. Together with Ms. Levitas Hamilton, he also oversees the financing, development, production and distribution of all motion picture and TV projects.
Contact: strath@tricoast.com
Marcy Hamilton ~ Co-CEO
Marcy Levitas Hamilton is CEO of TriCoast Worldwide, a worldwide film and television distribution company, and is founder/CEO of TriCoast TV, creator/distributor of apps and FAST/Linear channels worldwide: Made It Myself TV (lifestyle/craft) and Dark Matter TV (genre-based films and television) available globally on mobile, desktop, and connected TVs.
A multi award-winning editor in New York and Los Angeles, Marcy edited for Oscar winning producer/directors such as William Friedkin, Dino DeLaurentiis, and James Brooks. She formed TriCoast Production Partners in 1987 as the production arm for Mediacom Industries and in 1999, after producing several theatrical films, she expanded the company to provide fill production services under the banner of TriCoast Studios. She produced the feature film Smitty, starring three academy award winners and executive produced over two dozen feature films. She partnered with Time Warner company Leisure Arts to create and produce a line of 17 lifestyle/special interest DVDs on Craft with innovative DVD technology developed at TriCoast Studios.
Marcy developed proprietary technology for enhanced eBooks and started TriCoast Publishing as an approved Apple iTunes vendor and distributor, and is co-inventor of a pioneering film technology for which TriCoast has been awarded a US patent: FILM LANGUAGE (aka BabelON), a process that converts original performances from actors into various languages and synchronizes the lips to match.
Marcy holds a BA with honors in Media and Communications from Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Contact: marcy@tricoast.com