Dave Tanner is a Producer / Director with over 20 years of experience in the film industry. He is also a founding partner of North by Northwest  Productions. In addition to heading up the Nonfiction Division, Dave enjoys  raising urban chickens and honing his pottery skills.

FACT: He throws a mean teapot.

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Megan Schuyler is a Producer / Editor who also dabbles in screenwriting and directing. As the main editor for the Nonfiction Division, some of her favorite projects are those that have featured cowboys, skateboarders, pirates, and other daring individuals.

FACT: She has a not-so-secret love for the Hulk and Harry Potter.

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Val Thomas-Matson is an Executive Producer for the Nonfiction Division. She holds more than two decades of experience in television and community advocacy. Her sunny disposition has found itself on episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy, and as host Auntie Lena in the children’s show Look, Listen & Learn.

FACT: She leaves the sweetest phone messages you’ve ever heard.

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Kim Cosgrove is the newest Producer for the Nonfiction Division, and comes to us with a Masters’ Degree in Broadcast Journalism from University of Montana. She has worked on a variety of award winning documentaries for Montana PBS, and she is also an avid triathlete.

FACT: She bakes homemade treats for nearly every shoot.

North by Northwest is a full-service production and post-production studio led by a team of experienced filmmakers and equipped with the script-to-screen means to develop, produce and deliver entertainment for film and television. As a successful production company for 15 years, our team has developed and produced award-winning and critically acclaimed content for numerous distributors and regional and national broadcasters including: PBS, American Public Television, Millennium Films, Think Films, FOX, MGM Home Entertainment, the Hallmark Channel, HDNet, BRAVO, HBO Family, and Showtime.

The Nonfiction Division of North by Northwest is committed specifically to the production of story driven, content driven and purpose driven documentaries and long-form projects—everything from agriculture to vocation education to American history—projects that deliver important content in a compelling manner to a critical audience.

Our mission as a division is: collaboration, creativity, humanity. We are passionate about working with academic institutions, nonprofit organizations and other groups who share our core mission to enrich and educate. Equipped with the resources of the larger North by Northwest facility, we provide video production services with a team approach, committed to working equitably and effectively through the visual medium.