Rita would be grateful if you made a contribution to the Operation Houston Fund that will go to help her homeless friends still on the street: http://www.WA2S.org/donate
Tom McPhee
About Tom McPhee
Tom is the founder and Executive Director of the World Animal Awareness Society - October 2009 – Present
The World Animal Awareness Society, also known as WA2S Films, WA2S.org and WA2S is an award-winning Ann Arbor, Michigan based media non profit with offices in NYC and LA, and focused solely on producing stories specifically about contemporary interaction between humans and animals - for all delivery platforms.
In 2015, WA2S is once again - 4th year in a row - a "Top-Rated" non profit. In 2015, WA2S was featured in: Time, USA Today, Popular Science, New York Times, Yahoo News, The Drudge Report, and many more - see WA2S Press:http://www.wa2s.org/press-room
WA2S Films YouTube Channel videos are being viewed 1,000,000 times a month.
WA2S Films provides production services for broadcast companies like Endemol, NatGEO and others.
WA2S Films is currently in post production on 2 hour long features about stray dogs in America for PBS.
10 years ago, Tom went to New Orleans and documented much of the animal rescue efforts following Hurricane Katrina. What he discovered was an entire world he had no idea existed and one most people never pay attention to: the world of animal rescue. Tom found people risking everything, sometimes their lives, to rescue these animals, other peoples pets. The results of this observation? The multi award-winning AN AMERICAN OPERA The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever!www.AnAmericanOpera.com
This journey set him on a path to discover/uncover the many ways humans and non-human animals interact. As the World Animal Awareness Society - WA2S.org, we scour the World for stories to film and present about this relationship.
By producing compelling documentaries to be shared with the world and providing raw aggregate-able footage to educational institutions for further research, the World Animal Awareness Society will accomplish its vision of creating an opportunity for people to have greater human - animal awareness, and to witness the human evolutionary arc in real time
Tom is a digital content creator. He creates original digital content as it relates to human - animal interaction.
Tom is the Executive Director of the World Animal Awareness Society, and an award winning producer & director of film, TV, and multi-language interactive media. He owns 2 media companies, Cave Studio and Man Smiling Moving Pictures and has a passion for trying to understand life's mysteries.
Tom served as Show-runner, Director and Host-Character for two animal-centric TV shows broadcast in Canada on The i-Channel and Pet Network (Tom McPhee's Rescue Journal and Rock & Roll Dogs) in 2009. He produced, directed and was principal creative force behind the multi award-winning documentary, An American Opera: The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever! (2008) chronicling the animal rescue efforts post Hurricane Katrina, with footage shot in New Orleans becoming part of a NatGeo, PBS Nature, and 2 Animal Planet specials in 2005.
He is Producing the American Strays Project, a legacy initiative for the WA2S. The series is in production, playing and available for syndication. More here: http://www.WA2S.org/american-strays
I spent the better part of 2010 on expedition filming human-animal interactions post disaster in: Haiti, the ALL EYES ON THE GULF Expedition, and for 2011 in Japan covering the post quake-tsunami-radiation disaster for the WA2S.
I created and produced FLIXTOUR, the premier, nationally sponsored, college targeted, indie film tour - in the mid thru late 90's, lauded by indiewire, MovieMaker, Filmmaker and MovieLine magazines as the next 'thing' with sponsors as diverse as Pelle Pelle & Discover. FLIXTOUR achieved memorable successes, including launching indie icon Kevin Smith's ongoing & highly successful college speaking series, and more serendipitously, helping launch the comedy directing career of then almost broke Paul Feig (Freaks & Geeks. Bridesmaids). Paul wrote F&G while presenting his indie film on FLIXTOUR in 1998.