Meet The Team
Bob Furmanek
Bob Furmanek’s storied career in film includes working as the personal archivist for Jerry Lewis, co-writing a celebrated book on the legendary comedy team Abbott & Costello delving deep into the making of all their films, and founding the 3-D Film Archive in 1990. Bringing their restorations to film festivals and special screenings around the world, the 3-D Film Archive quickly became known as the leading experts in vintage stereoscopic film restoration. For over a decade, the incredibly unique and highly specialized expertise of the 3-D Film Archive has cornered the market on vintage 3-D restoration, single-handedly doing more for vintage stereoscopic preservation than any other organization or archive worldwide. With a variety of distribution partners including Kino Lorber, ClassicFlix, Flicker Alley, and BayView Entertainment, Bob and the 3-D Film Archive have brought fans major releases including 3-D Rarities, Gog, The Maze, Robot Monster, Flesh For Frankenstein, Bwana Devil, Dynasty, and It Came from Outer Space.
Jack Theakston
Projectionist, archivist, and film historian, Jack Theakston has spent two decades photochemically and digitally restoring films and is currently working on restorations as Executive Producer of the 3-D Film Archive. Jack is also a consultant for projection installations and historic theater management and is one of the most requested Union Projectionists in New York City movie exhibition, specializing in 35mm and 70mm presentations.
Greg Kintz
With over 35 years of broadcast television experience, Greg Kintz excels in multiple disciplines, including Engineering, Maintenance, and Directing. In the restoration space, he brings an added thirty years of experience in both 2-D and 3-D film restoration. Greg has worked on over thirty 3-D Blu-ray releases with the 3-D Film Archive, in tandem with studios and distributors such as Kino Lorber, Paramount, Universal, MGM and others. His work has received critical acclaim from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, as well as from numerous online news outlets and noted film preservationists.
Brandon Lang
A recent graduate of Montclair State University, Brandon Lang is an up-and-coming filmmaker and a member of the Digital Media & Distribution team at BayView Entertainment. With an interest in telling both fiction and nonfiction tales, Brandon became heavily involved in his university’s “On the Road: Reporting in the Field” course, culminating in a trip to San Francisco to create a 30-minute news program. Additionally, he was the Vice President of Montclair Filmmakers, a college filmmaking club. He has been involved with the 3-D Film Archive since 2024 and is actively developing an exciting bonus feature about View-Master 3D preview reels for an upcoming 3-D Film Archive release.
Rob Medaska
After a childhood movie education from his filmmaker father, supplemented by a decade of private screenings at the 3-D Film Archive theater where he learned the minute details of film preservation, Rob Medaska joins the team as a Production Assistant. Among his entertainment endeavors, he co-developed, helped maintain, and appeared on his dad’s “Classic Movies & More” YouTube channel, where he also conceived questions for special guests, and got behind the camera to film segments. He has also appeared in front of the camera, in a popular Doritos commercial logging nearly 100 million YouTube views to date and has acted in a small role in one of his father’s feature films.
Carl Scheckel
A comics-historian who has interviewed the greats, and was one of the few to interact with the legendarily reclusive Steve “SPIDER-MAN” Ditko during his final years. He has also donated over 70 thousand comics to deployed troops, VA hospitals, underprivileged kids, and literacy programs. And on top of all this, he is a soon to be published writer!