The story
Pre-Founding
The original founders of the company (Barry Poltermann, Steve Farr and David Dahlman) had previously co-founded Los Angeles based new media production company L’Orange Entertainment in 2004. L’Orange produced cross-media alternative reality game (ARG) content, primarily video, for the interactive agency 42 Entertainment. Projects included (client in parentheses) Hex 168 (Microsoft Gaming Studios/Xbox 360), MSN Found (Windows Live Search) and Last Call Poker (Activision's GUN), and Dead Man’s Tale, an interactive game for Windows Messenger and Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean.
Founding
Poltermann, Farr and Dahlman left L’Orange in late 2006. In March 2007 the team was commissioned to produce a web based documentary series to promote the 2007 Art Chicago International Art Fair. They retained documentary filmmaker Dan Ollman (co-director of the 2005 MGM release “The Yes Men (film)”) to direct the series.
About Face was established as an independent company in May 2007.
Changes
Denise McKee became an advisor to the company in 2007 and officially joined as COO in 2008. McKee previously co-founded San Francisco based LimeLife, a mobile publisher focusing on the women's market.
Connection with Independent Film
About Face filmmakers have directed, edited or produced several notable feature-length documentaries, including “Mad Hot Ballroom”, “American Movie”, "Gunner Palace", “The Life of Reilly”, "The Art of the Steal (2009 film)" and “Collapse (film)”.
From Wikipedia’s article on About Face Media, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4