About Us
We tell stories.
AKA Dinosaurs is a production company created by two people who are unendingly passionate about the human experience.
The highs, the lows, the joys, and the heartbreaks.
Everything we do is about what it is to be alive and experience this incredible world around us. We hope you find something in our projects that reminds you just a little of how wonderful it is to be alive.
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The Team
Katie Tawney
Producer
Katie is a Producer based in Middle Tennessee with credits across PBS, TLC, HGTV, History Channel, Lifetime, Bravo, and YouTube. With a background in both production and the legal field, Katie brings a rare combination of creative storytelling instinct and sharp organizational precision to every project she touches.
Katie manages the full production cycle — from story development and budgeting through scheduling, crew hiring, location scouting, and on-set problem solving. She's known for building teams that are both efficient but more importantly kind.
B.A. in English, Liberty University · Paralegal Certificate, Villanova University
Chris Tawney
DP · Camera Operator · Producer · Editor · Drone Operator
Chris is a Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Producer, Editor, and FAA-licensed Drone Operator based in Middle Tennessee. With credits across HBO, PBS, HGTV, Discovery, TLC, MTV, NPR, Oxygen, A&E, WE TV, Investigation Discovery, NBC, and Fox Business, Chris brings over seven years of professional production experience to every project.
Notable credits include A Very Haunted Renovation (HGTV), We're Here (HBO), The Great American Recipe (PBS), 90 Day Fiancé (TLC), Chasing the Dream (NBC), The Mansion Sessions (NPR Music), A Plan to Kill (Investigation Discovery), Big Little Brawlers (Discovery), Master Distiller (Discovery), and The Rise and Fall of LuLaRoe(Discovery). He's currently in production on House of Flies as Producer and Cinematographer.
Chris is just as comfortable filming narrative as he is working in multi-camera crews or filming as a one-man band. He's fluent across a wide range of cinema and broadcast camera systems and brings strong post-production skills in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and DaVinci Resolve, including editorial, motion graphics, and color grading. He's also a Freefly MoVI Pro owner-operator with extensive gimbal and aerial acquisition experience.
B.S., Liberty University · Master of Divinity, Westminster Theological Seminary
