- A National Telly Award-winning writer/producer, Gary Keller produced video for a Fortune 500 company and then founded the first-ever official South Dakota Film Office during the first term of Gov. George S. Mickelson. Keller landed in South Dakota from Iowa (his home state) in 1987, immediately beginning to work with "Dances With Wolves" producers Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson, assisting with all aspects of location production and then working with Orion Home Video on the national release of the video by producing a South Dakota tourism video as a companion piece to the original video store release of the 7-Academy Award-winning film, as well as producing a "fantasy weekend" for Orion Home Video brass to promote the film across the video rental platform, from local video stores through the distribution chain. Other major productions Keller worked on during his 12 year career in South Dakota include Jerry Bruckheimer's "Armageddon," and Paul VerHoeven's "Starship Troopers," as well as many other commercial, television and documentary film productions which included "Live with Regis and Kathy Lee at Mount Rushmore," and Ken Burns' "Lewis and Clark, "The Journey of Discovery" PBS documentary, which Keller also served as producer for the Dakota's premiere of the series by personal request of director/producer Burns. As a writer, Keller also penned a feature film script and has a variety of advertising and marketing awards to his credit.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Garrett Smith-Keller
- McCook Lake, South Dakota
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