Our Team
Strath Hamilton ~ Co-CEO
Strathford Hamilton, an Emmy and DGA nominated director of prestige films and television shows. He is well known throughout the entertainment industry as the director of the team that created the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” for Saban Entertainment, the most successful children’s show of all time. Mr. Hamilton has directed 10 feature films and several TV movies. Strathford Hamilton’s first film, “Blueberry Hill” starring Academy Award winners Carrie Snodgress and Margaret Avery, was shot in 12 days for $500,000 and sold to MGM for theatrical distribution.
Most recently Mr. Hamilton Executive Produced the films “Almost Sharkproof”, “The Bunker”, “Smitty” and “Treasure of the Black Jaguar”. He also produced and co-directed the Paris Hilton Film “National Lampoon’s Pledge This!”. Over the last 25 years, Mr. Hamilton has managed and produced films and TV shows for both the studios and independents, with combined budgets of over $100,000,000. Motion pictures and TV shows directed by Strathford Hamilton, have been honored with many awards including Directors Guild of America awards, Emmy, Humanitas and film festival awards. His reputation for creating quality, critically acclaimed motion pictures has afforded him access to the entertainment industry’s top actors, screenwriters and directors, many of whom he counts among his closest personal relationships.
Mr Hamilton is a principal in the production and distribution company TriCoast Worldwide, which distributes feature films and television shows internationally. Recent releases include “The Dead” which is one of Anchor Bay’s highest grossing films of 2012 and “Smitty” starring Academy Award winners Mira Sorvino, Lou Gossett JR and Academy Award nominee Peter Fonda. Mr. Hamilton also supervises the production slate for TriCoast Worldwide, and is one of the owners of the state-of-the-art digital post production facility, TriCoast Studios.
After receiving his Bachelors degree from the University of New South Wales in Australia, Mr. Hamilton worked as a TV and radio producer for the ABC in Australia and a record producer for Decca Records in the UK. From there he directed or produced over 200 music videos for top recording artists Prince, Queen, Earth Wind & Fire, The Clash, and others. This led to Mr. Hamilton replacing the director Lindsay Anderson on “Foreign Skies”, George Michael’s documentary of the first rock band to tour China. The documentary premiered at Wembly Stadium in London to 50,000 fans.
He settled in Los Angeles, where he became President of Production for Mediacom Industries, a public company, and subsequently co-founded TriCoast Production Partners Inc. with Ms. Marcy Levitas Hamilton. Strath Hamilton co-founded The Backyard National Children’s Film Festival, a non-profit organization, dedicated to giving children film making and story telling skills.
At TriCoast Studios, Mr. Hamilton directs the company’s creative activities and is part of the the new technology development team working with NASA. Together with Ms. Levitas Hamilton, he also oversees the financing, development, production and distribution of all motion picture and TV projects.
Contact: strath@tricoast.com
Marcy Hamilton ~ Co-CEO
Marcy Levitas Hamilton is CEO of TriCoast Worldwide, a worldwide film and television distribution company, and is founder/CEO of TriCoast TV, creator/distributor of apps and FAST/Linear channels worldwide: Made It Myself TV (lifestyle/craft) and Dark Matter TV (genre-based films and television) available globally on mobile, desktop, and connected TVs.
A multi award-winning editor in New York and Los Angeles, Marcy edited for Oscar winning producer/directors such as William Friedkin, Dino DeLaurentiis, and James Brooks. She formed TriCoast Production Partners in 1987 as the production arm for Mediacom Industries and in 1999, after producing several theatrical films, she expanded the company to provide fill production services under the banner of TriCoast Studios. She produced the feature film Smitty, starring three academy award winners and executive produced over two dozen feature films. She partnered with Time Warner company Leisure Arts to create and produce a line of 17 lifestyle/special interest DVDs on Craft with innovative DVD technology developed at TriCoast Studios.
Marcy developed proprietary technology for enhanced eBooks and started TriCoast Publishing as an approved Apple iTunes vendor and distributor, and is co-inventor of a pioneering film technology for which TriCoast has been awarded a US patent: FILM LANGUAGE (aka BabelON), a process that converts original performances from actors into various languages and synchronizes the lips to match.
Marcy holds a BA with honors in Media and Communications from Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Contact: marcy@tricoast.com
Nick Risher ~ Chief Operations Officer
Risher started his career at Arsenal Films, where he attended film markets to buy such Oscar winners as “Man on Wire” “It Might Get Loud” and “Ida” for Germany. In 2007, he became VP of acquisitions for En2go International, a tech start up headed by Steve Wozniak, which would set out to be the first online SVOD company. He partnered with studios and 200 + independent distribution companies around the world creating a vast collection of content for the public beta launch.
Risher was US President of Operations at Hologate, a VR multiplayer location-based distribution platform which has original games for the system such as Angry Birds and World of Tanks. It has become the largest location-based entertainment system in VR with over 400 locations.
Now he works as COO at TriCoast Worldwide acting as Chief Operations Officer, bringing distribution to independent films and building the premier movie AVOD channel Dark Matter TV.
Contact: nickrisher@tricoast.com
Daisy Hamilton ~ Content Acquisitions
Daisy Hamilton Graduated from NYU with a major in film and a minor in business and went on to spearhead development and film acquisitions for TriCoast Worldwide, where she has acquired over 35 packages and 145 titles for sales and distribution. In 2016 and 2017, Hamilton and TriCoast consulted on the sales and packaging for Red Bull’s European narrative feature film division, Terra Mater, helping build out their distribution pipeline and brokering and structuring a deal for Universal Home Entertainment to handle all of the Red Bull home ent content.
In 2018, Hamilton founded Rock Salt Releasing as a boutique production company and US distribution outfit. By end of 2019, Daisy co-founded a new AVOD platform called Dark Matter TV, focusing on curating libraries of sci-fi and elevated genre films and series. She has acquired over 3000+ hours of content for Dark Matter TV. In 2020, Daisy began producing and packaging content as well, with her first doc being produced for Vice Media on female wrestling legend Chyna (aka Joanie Laurer), released in Q3 2021, Collision, a feature film produced for Netflix South Africa to be released in Q2 2022, and producing/writing for Girls Dorm, an adult animated series for HBO Max Latin America.
Producing and EP credits include: GIRLS DORM animated series for HBO Max Latin America, COLLISION for Netflix South Africa, VICE:VERSA presents CHYNA for Vice, Ivan Sen’s LOVELAND with Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten for Lionsgate, HICKHOK with Luke Hemsworth and Bruce Dern for Cinedigm and SMITTY, with Mira Sorvino and Peter Fonda for Entertainment One/Mattel.
Contact: daisyhamilton@tricoast.com
Avery Street ~ Creative Executive
Born and raised in Indiana, Avery Street had a burning fascination with stories which was stoked by her equal love of films and television. She earned her BA in film and media studies at Arizona State University with an emphasis in screenwriting. After moving to Los Angeles, Street worked in pre-production on such films as Regina King’s One Night in Miami and The Old Ways.
After working her way through different aspects of the industry, she found her way to TriCoast Worldwide where she would rise through the ranks with fresh ideas and a knack for managing new projects. While taking the lead of programming Dark Matter TV, Street has co-developed and written Dark Matter TV’s late night show, Friday Night Frights. Street also spearheads Made It Myself TV by finding new and exciting content, as well as working with underrepresented artists.
Contact: avery@tricoast.com