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Bill VanDerKloot’s career spans over forty years, encompassing short films, broadcast commercials, television documentaries, and theatrical features. Throughout his journey, he has traveled globally, producing films on diverse subjects ranging from public sculpture and political history to southern blues and environmental science. His work has earned him more than one hundred international awards, including Emmy Awards and the George Foster Peabody Award.
He produced the Atlanta Olympic Film, Time and Dreams, which played a key role in securing the bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. VanDerKloot’s projects include special video installations for the Carter Presidential Museum and Library, the Columbus Museum, and the Special Collections Library at the University of Georgia.
Bill has directed hundreds of commercial and branded content projects for clients such as CNN, Delta Air Lines, Cox Enterprises, Coca-Cola, McKesson, Chick-fil-A, the US Marine Corps, and Porsche, among others. His work has been featured on platforms including PBS, National Geographic, Turner Broadcasting, CNN, HBO, Showtime, as well as iTunes, Amazon, and Netflix.
He created the award-winning Little Mammoth children’s programs, The BIG Adventure Series®, which are licensed in over 30 countries worldwide. The most recent episode of the series was released in 2018.
Based in Atlanta, VanDerKloot founded Magick Lantern in 1990, a video post-production and digital production studio serving the film and television industry. He sold the studio in 2013 to dedicate himself fully to content production.
VanDerKloot was the founding director of the Atlanta Film Festival and has contributed writing on filmmaking to publications such as American Cinematographer. He served as a board member and past president of the Georgia Production Partnership (GPP), an industry group instrumental in establishing Georgia’s highly successful film tax incentives.
He has screened his films and delivered lectures nationwide at institutions including the University of Florida, Georgia State University, New York Churchillians, the Coalition for Quality Children’s Programming, and the National WWII Museum.
