- Jane Kachmer is a 20-year veteran of the talent management and film industry. Jane is responsible for igniting the careers of world renowned big wave surfer, Laird Hamilton, and former pro beach volleyball star and model, Gabrielle Reece. Her talent management company, Kachmer Management, provides comprehensive marketing, personalized management and corporate sponsorships for professional athletes and their growing businesses. Jane is currently working with Gabrielle Reece on Gabby's new magazine-style broadcast titled The HoneyLine, which airs on The Rachael Ray Show. The HoneyLine interviews guests such as Sheryl Crow and Courteney Cox to help get answers to women's modern day questions about health &fitness and balancing relationships in the home to concerns about the global climate. Jane is a partner in the creation and production of www.theHoneyLine.com website and co-produced fitness DVDs with Gabrielle Reece under their Viola Entertainment LLC banner. She is simultaneously helping launch Laird Hamilton's fitness book, "Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul, and Of Course, Surfing" which hit retailers in October 2008. Jane also manages big wave surfer, Dave Kalama, Laird Hamilton's tow-partner. She recently joined the Natural Resource Defense Council's (NRDC) Leadership Council, which works to protect wildlife and wild places to ensure a healthy environment for all life on earth. Jane shares her time as the executive producer and partner in BamMan Films, a production company she created with Laird Hamilton and Dave Kalama. BamMan specializes in action sports programming and entertainment, specifically surf inspired films and commercials. BamMan produced the newly released film 'Water Man', which won Best Cinematography at the 2008 Surfer Poll Awards. BamMan produced 'Path of Purpose' a short documentary close to Jane's heart about Laird Hamilton and Dave Kalama's efforts to help fund and raise awareness for Autism. 'Path of Purpose' premiered on the Sundance Channel in July 2008. 'All Aboard the Crazy Train' (2005) is another critically acclaimed film produced by BamMan as well as the films The Ride/The Day and Riding Giants. The Ride/The Day won Best Picture at the X-Dance Film Festival in 2004, and the critically-acclaimed big-wave surfing documentary, Riding Giants was featured opening night at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and acquired by Sony Pictures Classics just days after its premiere. BamMan also produced Strapped (2002) and Laird - White Knuckle Extreme (2001).
Jane has an extensive career in the entertainment industry reaching back to the mid 1980s, where she began her career at Progressive Artists Agency. Jane quickly started managing actor, Mickey Rourke, and ran his production company RedRuby Productions until 1992. Jane became involved early on in film production with films such as Angel Heart, Barfly, Prayer for the Dying, Francesco and White Sands and was an associate producer on 'Homeboy'.
Two of Jane's most well known productions are Coty's Davidoff and American Express commercials featuring Laird, which ran during the 2005 Academy Awards show. Other production credits include: executive producer on Fit TV's Insider Training, producer on 'The Ride' a one hour television show for National Geographic (2004), producer on A Film about T.J. Lavin (2003), the opening sequence 'big wave stunt' for the James Bond Film, Die Another Day (2000), and Gabrielle Reece's book, "Big Girl In The Middle" (1997).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jane Kachmer
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