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The Company
& Production Team
Behind Kindred Hearts stands a seasoned management and production team united by purpose, passion, and a proven track record in delivering high-quality, emotionally resonant cinema.
With decades of combined experience in film production, theatrical distribution, and storytelling across mediums, our team brings both artistic vision and business acumen to the project.
Each member of the leadership team shares a commitment to creating timeless, impactful entertainment—crafting a film that is as commercially viable as it is culturally significant.
The Company
& Production Team
Behind Kindred Hearts stands a seasoned management and production team united by purpose, passion, and a proven track record in delivering high-quality, emotionally resonant cinema. With decades of combined experience in film production, theatrical distribution, and storytelling across mediums, our team brings both artistic vision and business acumen to the project. Each member of the leadership team shares a commitment to creating timeless, impactful entertainment—crafting a film that is as commercially viable as it is culturally significant.
Below is a list of the key management and production team members for Kindred Hearts, along with a brief description of each individual. All members of the production team are committed to working on the film. Management retains the right to adjust or reconfigure team members in response to scheduling conflicts or to make staffing decisions that further enhance the production’s creative and commercial value.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, KINDRED HEARTS MOVIE, LLC: Kyle Poulin
Kyle Poulin is an entrepreneur, venture investor, and author with a background that bridges faith/values-based storytelling, finance, and innovation. He brings strategic insight and values-based leadership to his role as Executive Producer on Kindred Hearts, supporting both capital development and mission alignment.
Kyle previously served as Principal at the Angel Acceleration Fund, a media-focused venture capital firm affiliated with Angel Studios—the company behind The Chosen. At Angel, he was instrumental in raising the fund’s initial $20 million, managing deal flow, investor relations, and helping guide the firm’s strategic pivot toward film financing. His work placed him at the intersection of values-driven content and venture investment, shaping media that inspires and uplifts.
Kyle brings a rare blend of story-driven investing, entrepreneurial strategy, and capital development to Kindred Hearts at a pivotal stage in its financing and production. As Executive Producer, he draws on his experience as Principal at the Angel Acceleration Fund and managed deal flow and investor relations—to identify and engage investment partners whose values align with the film’s redemptive mission.
He actively forges new investor relationships while leveraging established ones, providing strategic leadership in fundraising structure, pacing, and performance tracking. His data-driven approach includes analyzing historical fundraising outcomes, assessing market trends and forecasts for 2025 and beyond, and evaluating tools that enhance capital-raising effectiveness.
Kyle's leadership not only strengthens the project's financial foundation but also inspires investor confidence in Kindred Hearts’ dual promise: strong market potential and lasting cultural impact for values-hungry audiences. With a deep commitment to meaningful storytelling and hands-on experience in scaling ventures, Kyle is a key partner in helping the film realize both its creative vision and commercial goals.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, KINDRED HEARTS MOVIE, LLC: Steve DeVore
Steve DeVore is a pioneering researcher and entrepreneur with a deep background in film-to-brain research and media production. While conducting studies at Stanford University's Neuropsychology Research Laboratory, he explored the impact of film on the brain, nervous system, and behavior. Building upon this groundbreaking research, he founded SyberVision, where he successfully transformed scientific insights into commercially viable media products.
Under his leadership, SyberVision generated over $500 million in sales with a customer base of over 2 million buyers. One documentary project he wrote and produced acheived $120 million in revenue from an initial investment of just $25,000. With the addition of Japan’s Mitsui Corporation’s Medical Technology Division as an international SyberVision partner, worldwide sales of DeVore’s productions reached nearly $1 billion in 1990’s dollar value. Adjusted for inflation, the total worldwide revenues attributed to his work amount to approximately $2.46 billion in today’s dollars.
Steve now brings his film-to-brain expertise to Kindred Hearts, ensuring the film is both emotionally compelling and commercially successful. His deep understanding of how the brain processes story, emotion, and engagement allows him to optimize key elements of narrative structure, character development, pacing, and sensory cues to maximize audience immersion and retention.
His expertise also extends to marketing, where neuromarketing principles shape trailers, promotional materials, and advertising strategies to trigger curiosity, emotional urgency, and strong word-of-mouth momentum. By applying scientifically backed insights to both production and marketing, Steve plays a key role in ensuring Kindred Hearts achieves maximum audience impact, repeat viewings, and long-term financial success.
PRODUCER- WRITER- DIRECTOR, KINDRED HEARTS MOVIE, LLC EXECUTIVE: Peter Johnson
The late Karl Malden, former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Academy Award winning actor, said of Johnson, "If I were a producer and had a script that I wanted to do, the man that I would hire to direct it would be Peter Johnson."
Peter has produced and directed dramatic, richly textured, historically and faith/values-based films. His professional experience in the commercial film industry, makes Peter well prepared to write, produce, and direct Kindred Hearts.
His credits include: as Director, A More Perfect Union (EMMY), The Mountain of the Lord, Man's Search for Happiness, The Restoration, Zion's Camp. The budget range for A More Perfect Union and The Mountain of the Lord, in 2025 dollars, was $17 million.
Producer and/or Director of The Witching of Ben Wagner (Disney), Encyclopedia Brown (HBO), How Rare a Possession, Journey of Faith, The New World.
Writer of Disney's 1988 top-rated Sunday Night movie, Thanksgiving Promise, with Blaine Yorgason, Co-writer of Monet, a limited television series of 5 episodes for Delphi Productions, and the feature film, Kindred Hearts.
Work with Karl Malden includes The Sting, Part II (Universal); Twilight Time (Dan Tana Productions); SKAG (NBC); Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (Irwin Allen Productions); Miracle on Ice (ABC); Word of Honor (CBS); and The Streets of San Francisco (ABC).
He is a member of the Director's Guild of America (DGA).
The late Karl Malden, former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Academy Award winning actor, said of Johnson, "If I were a producer and had a script that I wanted to do, the man that I would hire to direct it would be Peter Johnson."
Peter has produced and directed dramatic, richly textured, historically and faith/values-based films. His professional experience in the commercial film industry, makes Peter well prepared to write, produce, and direct Kindred Hearts. His credits include: as Director, A More Perfect Union (EMMY), The Mountain of the Lord, Man's Search for Happiness, The Restoration, Zion's Camp. The budget range for A More Perfect Union and The Mountain of the Lord, in 2025 dollars, was $17 million.
Producer and/or Director of The Witching of Ben Wagner (Disney), Encyclopedia Brown (HBO), How Rare a Possession, Journey of Faith, The New World.
Writer of Disney's 1988 top-rated Sunday Night movie, Thanksgiving Promise, with Blaine Yorgason, Co-writer of Monet, a limited television series of 5 episodes for Delphi Productions, and the feature film, Kindred Hearts.
Work directly with Karl Malden includes The Sting, Part II (Universal); Twilight Time (Dan Tana Productions); SKAG (NBC); Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (Irwin Allen Productions); Miracle on Ice (ABC); Word of Honor (CBS); and The Streets of San Francisco (ABC).
He is a member of the Director's Guild of America (DGA).
MUSIC PRODUCER: Michael Lloyd
Michael Lloyd was Vice President of A&R for MGM Records by the age of 20, and for more than 55 years has been producing hit records and soundtracks, earning more than 110 gold and platinum awards and selling over 230 million records.
Some of the artists he’s worked with include, Barry Manilow, Mike Love and the Beach Boys, Sugar Ray, Lou Rawls, Sylvie Vartan, Shaun Cassidy, Belinda Carlisle, The Monkees, Helen Reddy, The Bellamy Brothers, The Osmonds, Stryper, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bill Medley, The Righteous Brothers, Debby Boone, Kimberley Locke, Air Supply, and a special charity selection with Frank Sinatra, just to name a few.
Michael was the Music Supervisor for the film Dirty Dancing, wrote the Latin dance music for Patrick and Jennifer to dance to - and produced the Dirty Dancing soundtrack album. For many years there have been Dirty Dancing, the Musical companies touring all over the world. Dirty Dancing will soon be coming to Broadway.
He’s done the scoring, music supervision, songwriting, song placement, and/or music producing for over 225 motion pictures, TV movies, TV specials and television series. His chart records span SEVEN decades, from the ’60s to the present.
PRODUCER - WRITER, KINDRED HEARTS MOVIE, LLC EXECUTIVE: Quinn Coleman
Co-writer of Kindred Hearts, Quinn previously served as Head of Worldwide Co-Productions and Acquisitions at Warner Bros. studio where he was actively involved in acquiring independent feature films.
During his tenure at Warner Bros., Quinn was instrumental in negotiating and acquiring certain distribution rights to over 125 feature films, including such box office hits as A CIinderella Story (Hilary Duff & Chad Michael Murray), My Dog Skip (Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, & Kevin Bacon), and My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Nia Vardalos & John Corbett).
Formerly, Quinn expanded his business experience in the film and television arenas through employment at leading companies such as Turner Broadcasting, Disney, and Twentieth Century Fox. His responsibilities included preparing film and syndication licensing agreements, formulating domestic distribution strategies to optimize network positioning and profitability in the syndication marketplace, and analyzing film acquisition processes. He also devised innovative methods for synthesizing complex data into meaningful reports.
In addition to his corporate roles, Quinn actively participated in major film festivals including Sundance, Cannes, and Toronto, where he was involved in negotiating and acquiring licensing rights to feature films on a global scale. He holds a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Film Entertainment from the Anderson School at UCLA.
PRODUCER: Kirkland Tibbels
Kirkland Tibbels began his career in the entertainment industry in Chicago in 1994, where he earned a BA in Motion Picture Production from Columbia College Chicago while studying at the famed Second City.
Since 1996, he has financed and/or produced more than 25 feature film and television projects, including the family feature films Mystic Nights and Pirate Fights and the Disney Channel movie Cloud 9. Through his production banners, Kirkland has more than two dozen projects in active development.
Since early 2022, he has secured the rights to 15 published novels, including a best-selling library of true crime books by famed author Jack Olsen. Yellowstone breakout star Jefferson White is cast in the lead of the film adaptation of Southernmost by former Kentucky Poet Laureate and acclaimed novelist Silas House.
Kirkland is also producing the feature horror-action western Draw, which stars Kevin Durand, and the horror-action comedy Battle for 420 with actor Callum Worthy attached to lead.
He will return to Chicago to film People Who Don’t, Don’t, starring Yellowjackets and Disney star Peyton List, along with The Last of Us and The Gilded Age star Ben Ahlers.
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Gordon Lonsdale, ASC
With a career spanning theatrical motion pictures, television movies, limited series, documentaries, and mentoring emerging photographers, Gordon Lonsdale brings a masterful eye and seasoned storytelling sensibility to Kindred Hearts. His vast experience across genres and platforms ensures a visual language that resonates emotionally—something essential to a film as intimate and values-driven as this one.
Having photographed more than sixty major productions, Gordon has refined his craft into an art form. He’s known for creating atmosphere and emotional tone through lighting, movement, and texture—skills that are particularly vital to the period and emotional depth of Kindred Hearts. “I love what I do. I have a passion for it. I love to share that passion with others in the films that I shoot,” Gordon says—a passion that aligns seamlessly with the heart and soul of this story.
Among the over sixty productions in Gordon’s professional career are the following: NCIS: New Orleans (6 Seasons) CBS; Bones, (7 Seasons) FOX; Hysteria, UCP/Peacock; The Rookie:Feds, ABC Signature; Hatching Pete, Disney Channel; High School Musical, Disney Channel; See You In My Dreams, CBS; Stealing Christmas, Ambie Productions; The Last Brickmaker in America, CBS; The Magnificent Seven, CBS/Trilogy/MGM; The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, CBS/Trimark; Houdini TNT/Trilogy; The Last Don, CBS/ Konigsberg-Sanitsky; Northern Exposure, CBS/Universal.
Gordon’s deep experience with both period and contemporary stories, his embrace of emerging technology, and his passion for creating powerful visual narratives make him an ideal cinematographer for Kindred Hearts. “I look forward to many more years of creating illusions in front of my camera and taking the audience to places and feelings they have not experienced”—a sentiment that aligns perfectly with the emotional journey at the core of Kindred Hearts.
CASTING DIRECTOR: Kelly Knox, CSA
Kelly Knox brings a wealth of experience to Kindred Hearts, with a track record of casting powerful, emotionally resonant stories across film and television. His work includes collaborations with top-tier directors and producers such as David Fincher, Damien Chazelle, Nate Parker, Chuck Russell, and Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah.
As head of casting at PureFlix, Knox cast God's Not Dead: We The People and contributed to the acclaimed film American Skin, directed by Nate Parker and starring Omari Hardwick and Theo Rossi. The film won the Sconfini Award for Best Film at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and earned Knox his first casting award nomination.
His versatility shines through credits like Netflix’s documentary series Voir, the true crime mini-series The Promise (directed by Stranger Things’ Uta Briesewitz), and the upcoming BAFTA director James Strong's project starring Dominic Cooper. He's also casting the feature adaptation of Sophie Kinsella’s Remember Me and several films for Hollywood Farms, including Draw and The Unbroken Line, co-written by Justin Ware and Oscar-nominee Richard Friedenberg (A River Runs Through It).
Kelly’s deep industry ties, genre-spanning expertise, and instinct for emotionally rich storytelling make him the ideal casting director for Kindred Hearts. A proud member of the Casting Society of America (CSA), his passion for meaningful, values-driven narratives aligns perfectly with the heart of this film.
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Copyright 2025 Kindred Hearts Movie, LLC
All Rights Reserved