Roger M. Mayer is a film producer and Head of Production for Traverse Media. Originally from West Covina, California, he has lived in Colorado Springs, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Chicago and currently resides in Los Angeles. When other children went to church growing up in the 70s, Roger's truck driving movie-junkie father took him to the movies. After walking out of a screening of Apocalypse Now (1979) in 1979 with his parents he told them that's what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. It only took another 20 years for him to start. Roger is known for his knowledge of cinema history and theory as well as every facet of film production, from development to pre-production, production, post-production, deliverables and distribution. He worked for the Sundance Film Festival from 1999 - 2012 as a Print Traffic Coordinator and Associate Programmer. He was also the Festival Director and Head of Programming for the Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles from 2003 - 2007 and the Festival Director and Head of Programming for the Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles from 2009 to 2012. Roger started Brooklyn Reptyle Productions, produced with KNR PRoductions and eventually brought himself and his producing partner Veronica Radaelli to Traverse Media, which was started by CEO Cole Payne. Roger is the Head of Development and Production for both Traverse Media and Traverse Terror, its horror division. His love of world cinema is equaled only by his love of world music (particularly outsider, atonal, punk, noise, metal, jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll, outlaw country, underground rap, funk, soul, progressive, Afrobeat, dub, ambient, techno, house, EDM, and maybe some polka) and literature (life-changing novels include "Catch-22", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Crime and Punishment", "Ham on Rye", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Naked Lunch", "Lolita", "The Thin Red Line", "In Cold Blood", "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", "American Pastoral", "Ironweed", "Infinite Jest" and the book that started it all when he was six, "Tom Sawyer" along with the short stories of Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, and Edgar Allan Poe). A bruiser and a bleeder, a producer and a pirate, a lover of cinema and the arts and a fighter of social justice, for the environment and the disenfranchised, he also likes an ice cold beer and living in the eye of the storm.