Ted Rivera is an award winning filmmaker with over twenty-five years of production and development experience. His student film, the feature length The Night of the Chupacabra, received first prize awards at the North American Science Fiction Film Festival, The Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Berkeley Latino Film Festival. Rivera, a Roger Corman trained producer, has been developing screenplays for the last fifteen years and his current slate of films at different budgets and genres. His first Producing assignment was Dinocroc, the Sci-Fi Channel breakout smash hit. As Co-Producer and assistant to Roger Corman's Head of Production, Rivera was responsible for the breakdown, schedule, and budget of the $1,000,000 film. Prior to making low budget films, Rivera was a development assistant to Academy Award Nominee Alexandra Rose and Academy Award Winner, Jana Sue Memel.