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Free Road Entertainment is a team of Emmy, Telly, and NAACP award-winning film and television professionals who have worked in their craft across six continents. With over 60 years of combined experience in the media world, the members of Free Road Entertainment have produced content for major outlets such as Travel Channel, Cooking Channel, Amazon Prime, AOL, History Channel, Disney Plus and beyond. In 2015, the founder of Free Road Entertainment was even recognized by the White House Administration for his contributions to the travel industry, exemplifying the team’s essence for adventure.
MEHDY GHANNAD, Co-Founder and Owner
Mehdy Ghannad is the founder of the multi-Telly award-winning Free Road Entertainment. He has been working on an international scale for over 15 years and in that time, has become a trusted expert to represent travel-related products, services, and tourism. Free Road Entertainment is a beacon for travel-related content that showcases Mehdy’s dedication and passion for multicultural experiences that can bring humanity closer together.
Aside from sharing his travel expertise through popular shows that he writes, produces, and hosts, Mehdy has also crafted numerous travel features for the likes of Huffington Post, Matador, AOL, and other regarded online publications. In 2015, his work in the travel industry was recognized by the Obama White House Administration as he was named one of the most influential individuals in travel media. Carrying on that legacy of adventure, Mehdy has amassed a team of creatives who resonate his sentiment for travel under his company, Free Road Entertainment.
Aside from sharing his travel expertise through popular shows that he writes, produces, and hosts, Mehdy has also crafted numerous travel features for the likes of Huffington Post, Matador, AOL, and other regarded online publications. In 2015, his work in the travel industry was recognized by the Obama White House Administration as he was named one of the most influential individuals in travel media. Carrying on that legacy of adventure, Mehdy has amassed a team of creatives who resonate his sentiment for travel under his company, Free Road Entertainment.
EVAN ZISSIMOPULOS, Co-Founder and Director
Widely known for his visual sense of storytelling, Emmy-award-winning Director-Producer Evan Zissimopulos was introduced to filmmaking at a very young age. It all began when he borrowed his parents Sony Digital 8 video camera and began making short films. Not long after in his late teens, he founded his own production company, EGZ Productions. While completing numerous works for his business, he also became certified in Digital Media Production from Saint Petersburg College. Immediately after graduating, he went on to direct his first guerrilla feature film "Trap House" which gained him enough credibility to land other directing and producing jobs by showing outstanding creativity and visual impact with relatively low budgets. Since his directorial debut, Evan has directed, produced, and shot numerous television shows, web series, TV commercials, features, and music videos.
NENMAN WALBE, Producer
The son of Nigerian immigrants, Nenman was raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. where he graduated Boston University with a BS in Communications. He began his journey in the industry at the Food Network, where he learned from the likes of seasoned producer and chef, Emeril Lagasse. Over the course of his nineteen-year career, he has written, produced, and shot hundreds of hours of lifestyle content that has been nationally broadcast through channels such as the Food Network, Fine Living (Travel Channel), TV-One, Disney, BET-J (Centric), Cooking Channel, Own, Revolt TV, and Aspire TV. Nenman was particularly influential in developing TV-One’s Reality Docu-Drama series, “Save My Son with Dr. Steve Perry” (Nominated for the 2013 NAACP Image Award) and was a key contributor to the show “Living It Up with Patti Labelle”.
Throughout this time in the entertainment industry, Nenman has become deeply respected for his creativity, passion and determination to bring projects to their fullest potential on time and on budget, no matter what obstacles he might face.
Throughout this time in the entertainment industry, Nenman has become deeply respected for his creativity, passion and determination to bring projects to their fullest potential on time and on budget, no matter what obstacles he might face.
RYAN GROSJEAN, Director of Photography
Through his work, Ryan aims to speak to multiple people without saying a single word. Ryan’s obsession with film and camera technology began at the young age of 8, leading him to run the camera department for his school's morning news program. Ryan has now established himself as sought after camera operator filming across multiple genres and continents. Ryan has worked on productions for Warner Brothers Studios, Universal Pictures, Discovery, NBC, TBS, NFL Films, Disney+, Netflix, and Amazon. One of his most recent works, Amazon's "Blood & Oil", the production expanded from Hamilton, Canada to Olobiri, Nigeria. That production won best film in the Western African Film Festival.
Ryan continues to grow in his craft and is working toward his goal of seeing how the sun looks from every corner of the world.
Ryan continues to grow in his craft and is working toward his goal of seeing how the sun looks from every corner of the world.
EMMA DEL REY, Photographer
Emma del Rey developed a passion for documenting human interaction while traveling and living in multiple countries across several continents. At an early age, she was recognized for her artistic talents and awarded several scholarships from New World School of the Arts. Emma is driven by the pulse and movement of her surroundings and inspired by every new land she may arrive in. Her photography has been featured in a multitude of art shows across the United States as well as Central America.