The creative force behind One Production Place is the company’s founder, Neal Broffman. Broffman has shaped and defined a unique, award-winning creative vision from his vast experience as a journalist in the U.S. and abroad. Based in London, Rome and then Moscow from 1990 to 1999 for CNN he covered major international stories in more than 40 countries as a videographer and editor/producer: from the 1990 Gulf War to the breakup of the Soviet Union to the first democratic elections in South Africa to the war in Bosnia; from Europe to Asia to the Middle East and Africa. Broffman returned to the US in 1999 to work as CNN's National Desk Photographer.
Broffman played a lead role in CNN’s adoption of digital newsgathering gear and field techniques. His last assignment with CNN before founding One Production Place, in 2002, was to help guide CNN’s transition to digital field production. Broffman gave seminars to CNN executives and employees on how to communicate with video using the latest technology and how to apply those skills to newsgathering. He worked with CNN’s London, Rome, Berlin, Mexico City, Miami, Seattle and National Bureaus to help establish what would later become industry-standard practices.
Broffman is unique in his ability to move easily from behind the camera as a director of photography/videographer to the edit room where he is a skilled editor, all while shaping the message as a producer. His extensive contacts within the broadcast industry allow for One Production Place to work with local on-the-ground support in most countries around the world.
Elisa Gambino didn't just read about the collapse of communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the U.S. intervention in Somalia, the war in Bosnia, the 1991 Gulf War, and the first free elections in South Africa; she was there. One Production Place, her Atlanta-based company, produces award-winning short films for organizations to showcase their values and missions.
Based first in Rome and then in Moscow, Elisa spent 15 years as a producer for CNN International chronicling world events.
She interviewed Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, George H.W. Bush, refugees in Somalia and Bosnia, war criminals in Serbia and black South Africans in Johannesburg celebrating their first free vote.
From Amman to Mogadishu to Sarajevo and the deserts of Iraq, she covered each of these complex stories from the front row, and helped make them understandable for viewers around the world.
Elisa received the 1992 News and Documentary Emmy for “Saving Somalia.”
In 2001, Elisa left CNN to fulfill a dream of owning her own business and, a year later, she opened her pasta and sauce company, Via Elisa. She turned to her communication expertise to get the word out.
Her editorial expertise paid off as she pitched her story to magazines, newspapers and national television shows. The Food Network produced two half-hour shows about Via Elisa, Cooking Light magazine and Southern Living each published feature stories, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published business and culinary stories, Atlanta Magazine profiled Elisa’s work and Atlanta Woman magazine put Elisa on its cover.
Today, her product line is available in 35 Whole Foods Markets.
Her business awards include the 2006 Georgia Women Entrepreneurs GWEN Award from Georgia’s Small Business Development Center, and the “We Shine Rising Star Award” from the Atlanta chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.
Elisa studied and worked in Italy for 16 years and speaks Italian fluently. Elisa is married to Neal Broffman and they share an office and home in Atlanta, Georgia.
The creative force behind One Production Place is the company’s founder, Neal Broffman. Broffman has shaped and defined a unique, award-winning creative vision from his vast experience as a journalist in the U.S. and abroad. Based in London, Rome and then Moscow from 1990 to 1999 for CNN he covered major international stories in more than 40 countries as a videographer and editor/producer: from the 1990 Gulf War to the breakup of the Soviet Union to the first democratic elections in South Africa to the war in Bosnia; from Europe to Asia to the Middle East and Africa. Broffman returned to the US in 1999 to work as CNN's National Desk Photographer.
last assignment with CNN before founding One Production Place, in 2002, was to help guide CNN’s transition to digital field production. Broffman gave seminars to CNN executives and employees on how to communicate with video using the latest technology and how to apply those skills to newsgathering. He worked with CNN’s London, Rome, Berlin, Mexico City, Miami, Seattle and National Bureaus to help establish what would later become industry-standard practices.
From Amman to Mogadishu to Sarajevo and the deserts of Iraq, she covered each of these complex stories from the front row, and helped make them understandable for viewers around the world.