The Spirit Productions Team of Experts
Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker
Producer/Writer/Director
Award winning writer and filmmaker, Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker is currently producing and writing Mine That Bird, The Movie. She worked on eleven independent films in Los Angeles before writing and directing her first documentary, "When Buffalo Roam". The film won Best Social Documentary Short of 1999 at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Elizabeth's next project was a feature-length documentary, "The Trail of Painted Ponies", narrated by Ali McGraw and judged by Sony Classics in New York. The film won Best Documentary at the White Sands Film Festival of 2005, while Baker won Best Woman Director. It also aired in New York on PBS.
In 2002, Baker worked closely with New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, and also recruited Shirley MacLaine, Val Kilmer, Marsha Mason and members of the New Mexico House and Senate, to pass groundbreaking film legislation. It was the historical beginning of New Mexico's vital film industry.
Eric Zerkel
Producer/Digital Imager/Art Director
Eric Zerkel attended California Institute of the Arts for two years then transferred to The Otis Institute of Parsons School of Design where he received his Bachelor Degree in Visual Communication. Eric was nominated for the Key Art Award on both Judge Dredd and The Prophecy and built the final art for hundreds of major motion pictures over his 17 year career in entertainment advertising, and has also worked as a Disney Imagineer (Splash Mountain, Alien Encounter, Epcot), Puppeteer with Rick Baker on Gremlins 2, Locations Coordinator on Wild Hogs and Art Dept./Prop Maker/Set Decorator on Feature Film In Enemy Hands (2003), TV Commercials (State Fair Mini Corn Dogs, Nissan Sentra, Allstate Insurance, Oreck Air Purifier), Music Videos (Phantom Plant's Lonely Day, Flaming Lips' Do You Realize?), Cable Mini-Series (The Will, The Great Domestic Showdown, Next Action Star, & Angels on the Fairway's Celebrity Strip Poker.
Adam Zerkel
Producer/Production Designer/Art Director
Adam Zerkel has worked as a Design and Decor professional in the Industry for 19 years. Along the way Adam has participated in every aspect of the Art Department's cadre of techniques, and developed an irrepressible network of talented individuals and celebrated vendors.
Notable credits include Production Designing for Roman Coppola, Darren Grant and Mike Mills, Art Direction and Decoration for: Warner Bros., EMI, Virgin, Interscope, Jetset Records and Astralwerks recording artists, and; Leading numerous distinguished Set Dressing crews. Some of Adam's recent projects on set include: Hancock, Get Smart, Melrose Place (2009), Zeke & Luther, Pushing Daisies,and, Dirt.
Larry Mitchell
Larry Mitchell is a Grammy Award Winning Musical Producer and has produced and plays with some of the finest talents in the country. Larry composes soundtracks for Film, Television and DVD’s.


