Parachute Dream Productions

Kaylyn Thornal is an award-winning writer, producer, director and editor, who’s history is deeply rooted in music.  She formed Parachute Dream Productions in 1994.  Her first independent feature documentary, Payoff (1999) followed the roller-coaster lifestyles of several women musicians through 4 turbulent years of label & radio air-play ups and downs. Payoff won several awards and screened at art houses nationally.   She’s also directed, produced and edited a flurry of music videos, as well as shot the New England dates for Lilith on Top, (dir. Lynne Stopkewich) a film documenting the Lilith Fair Tour. Her second independent feature documentary A Centered Universe about prolific sculptor Harry Holl aired on PBS.   Thornal was director of The International Film and Television Workshops (Maine Photographic Workshops) for four years, where she acted as supervising producer to hundreds of short films, commercials, and PSAs screening world-wide. She has worked as a producer, writer, director, cinematographer and/or editor for A&E, National Geographic, The Fine Living Network, Here! TV, The Travel Channel, and PBS among others.

In 2006, Thornal joined forces with Janet Billig-Rich and Gary Kordan to form Sixteen Blue Productions.  Their first joint effort Shut up Stella, based on their 12-part web series produced for Sony/BMG to promote the band of the same name, sold to MTV as a reality series. Sixteen Blue is currently producing a docu-series featuring multi-platinum songwriter Kara Dioguardi titled SongSTRESS, as well as a game show featuring rock musicians, actors and comics titled Celebrity, and are developing a documentary series on the late Ike Turner and his enigmatic family, featuring his last ever performances, recordings and interviews.

Thornal has also been writing, producing and editing a documentary on the life and history of Rav Phillip Berg and his family (currently untitled), who brought Kabbalah to America and who continue to run the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles.  She has also recently produced and edited promotional material for Donna Karan, Ricky Martin and Madonna for the non-profit organization Sprituality for Kids.