Biography
Bill VanDerKloot's career spans four decades and includes short films, broadcast commercials, television documentaries and theatrical features. Over the years he has traveled the world creating films on a range of topics from public sculpture to political history; from southern blues to environmental science. He has won over one hundred international awards, including Emmy Awards and the George Foster Peabody Award.
He produced the Atlanta Olympic Film, Time and Dreams, which helped win the bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. VanDerKloot's productions 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 such clients as CNN, Delta Air Lines, Cox Enterprises, Coca-Cola, McKesson, Chick-fil-A, US Marine Corps, and Porsche, to name just a few. His work has been shown on such venues as PBS, National Geographic, Turner Broadcasting, CNN, HBO, Showtime, as well as iTunes, amazon, and Netflix.
VanDerKloot created the award-winning Little Mammoth children's programs, The BIG Adventure Series®, which are licensed in over 30 countries worldwide. The latest episode in the series was released in 2018.
Based in Atlanta, VanDerKloot founded Magick Lantern in 1990, a video post-production house and digital production studio serving the film and television industry. He sold the studio in 2013 to focus full time on content production.
VanDerKloot was the founding director of the Atlanta Film Festival and has written about filmmaking for such publications as American Cinematographer. He was board member and past president of the Georgia Production Partnership (GPP), an industry association responsible for creating Georgia's wildly successful film tax incentives.
VanDerKloot has screened his films and lectured around the country at such institutions as University of Florida, Georgia State University, New York Churchillians, Coalition for Quality Children's Programming, and the National WWII Museum.
