Fenton Bailey
President & Executive Producer, World of Wonder
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Award-winning film director and producer Fenton Bailey founded World of Wonder Productions with Randy Barbato in 1990. Since then, they have directed and produced a wide variety of documentary features and series for US and UK broadcasters US and UK such as HBO, BBC, Bravo, Channel 4 UK, Vh1, Showtime, MTV, AMC, Trio, and Court TV.

In the states they have created defining work for several of America's most exciting cable channels, from Showbiz Moms & Dads (Bravo), an in-depth look into the lives of fame-hungry families, Monica in Black and White (HBO) and Gay Republicans (Trio), which won the Audience Award at the AFI Film Festival 2004.

In the UK they have created such hits as Manhattan Cable, The Adam and Joe Show, Hot Property, Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture and Pornography: The Secret History of Civilization.

In 2003, Bailey and Barbato released their first dramatic feature film, Party Monster (based on their documentary of the same title) starring Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green. This year marks the release of the feature documentary Inside Deep Throat, which the pair directed, and produced with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer.

World of Wonder is currently in production on the series, Showdogs Moms & Dads, which delves into the world of enthusiastic dog breeders and Tammy Faye: Death Defying, which follows the televangelist's life and death struggle with cancer.

For more information, check out The Wow Report, the daily blog at http://www.worldofwonder.net.