Our Team
Executive Producers
Stephanie Bradley
Executive Producer
Stephanie was a seven-year-old 4-H and Pony Club competitor and her love for horses never waned. But when Stephanie graduated from college, she hung up her spurs and moved to Atlanta to work for Ted Turner. She worked for TBS and TNT Sports for 10 years then went on to freelance for ESPN, the International Broadcast Center, and Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet and Science Channel. Stephanie covered 5 Olympics and 3 Paralympics. While covering the Summer Games, she was always assigned to the Equestrian sports! After fifteen years in sports television, she moved back to Virginia and started riding again. Stephanie then got back into competing, but realized her great love was working with the horses on the ground and focusing on their health through nutrition, proper hoof care, and enrichment.
Stephanie’s first adoption was seven years ago, a rescue named Brooks, who was a young paint that had been starved. Then last year she added a beautiful gray mare, Umi to her herd. Stephanie often thought of starting her own rescue but knew she wasn’t “tough enough” to witness what many of the rescues have to see, so Voilà is her way of giving a voice to those who aren’t being heard.
Joel Westbrook
Executive Producer
Joel developed a love affair with horses after following his wife and daughter into riding at the tender age of 48. His steady steed Stonewall, a draft/thoroughbred cross, took very good care of Joel out fox hunting.
Joel’s experience in media has spanned 50 years. He has accumulated every production credit and held virtually every management position in nonfiction television. As Executive Vice President of Turner Productions, he managed a slate of programming including Jacques Cousteau’s Rediscovery of the World, National Geographic Explorer and David Attenborough’s Trials of Life. As Sr. V.P. & Executive Producer of Time-Life Television & Video, he established and ran an original production division. Time Life productions included two ten-hour documentary series — History of Rock ‘n’ Roll and Lost Civilizations. Lost Civilizations aired on NBC and won a Primetime Emmy Award.
Westbrook was founder and owner of Alexandria Productions, Inc. where over 12 years, he produced specials and series for PBS, NBC, TBS, Nat Geo, Discovery, TLC and a total of over a dozen domestic cable channels and international broadcasters.
Production Team
Line Producer Andrea Basdekian
Stanley Stalinski
Director of Photography
Stanley is an award-winning director & cinematographer of film and television production. He has worked in over forty-five countries. In 1997 he traveled to Mozambique for a film on landmines, and in 2001 to Thailand for a film on trafficking in women. Both programs aired on PBS. Over three years, he worked as cinematographer for the Learning Channel’s “Archeology” series filming in Jordan, Egypt, Israel, and Ghana. Stanley was the Director of Photography for “War Child”, a critically acclaimed feature length documentary on Emmanuel Jal, a former Sudanese child soldier turned rapper. In the recent past, he has worked on projects for the French TV channel Arte and The Discovery Channel.
Tony Black
Editor, A.C.E.
Tony is an Emmy Award-winning producer and editor who has worked on documentary and commercial projects for, among others, The National Gallery of Art, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, and NBC. His contributions include editorial services for the K Street (HBO Studios), the Emmy Award-winning series Lost Civilizations(Time-Life/NBC), Homicide (NBC/Baltimore Productions), Velvet Killers (National Geographic), the Emmy Award winning Saving J.J. (National Geographic), Extremely Weird (NBC) and the Emmy Award-winning Vermeer: Master of Light (National Gallery of Art). In over 40 years in the television and film industry, Tony has edited dozens of documentaries including the award-winning six-hour series Making Sense of the Sixties, Tutu and Franklin: Journey Towards Peace and Marian Anderson for PBS.