Our Team
Our team combines deep industry experience with hands-on support, helping productions move confidently from planning through wrap.
Ryan Corrigan Whetsel
Ryan Corrigan Whetsel (he/him) is a producer and accountant from Chicago. Ryan has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Illinois for over 10 years. Originally from St. Louis, Ryan moved to Chicago and received his B.A. in International Film and Media Studies as well as a B.B.A. in Accountancy from Loyola University Chicago. Following undergrad Ryan worked at Tribune Media owned Cars.com transitioning it from a private subsidiary into a $600M public company as the Manager of Financial Reporting. He then returned to graduate school to get his M.F.A. in Producing from DePaul University. Ryan went on to work in production accounting for Legendary Entertainment / Amazon’s Paper Girls and NBC Universal’s Chicago Med. Ryan has been part of the creative teams for both narrative and documentary independent features which have played at Tribeca, Chicago International Film Festival, Saint Louis Filmmakers Showcase, and other international festivals. He is excited to join Full Spectrum Features with a special interest in using film to draw attention to social injustices and amplify underrepresented stories.
Director of Finance
Eugene Sun Park
Eugene (he/him) is a filmmaker and producer working in narrative and experimental forms. His films have screened at over 400 festivals, micro-cinemas, museums, and alternative screening venues around the world, including SXSW, BAMcinemafest, Outfest, Frameline, Chicago International, Cleveland International, Chicago Underground, Athens International Film + Video Festival, and Antimatter. His feature-length script Michael’s Story (a fictional drama inspired by the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin) won the screenplay competition at the 37th Asian American International Film Festival in New York.
Eugene is the 2020 Community Impact Scholar of the Harvard Business School Alumni Club of Chicago, and he was the 2019 recipient of the Jan and Frank Cicero Fellowship at the Newberry Library. Described by Newcity as “essential to the film world of Chicago,” Eugene was recently inducted into the magazine’s inaugural Film 50 Hall of Fame.
Co-Founder // Co-Executive Director
Jason Matsumoto
Jason (he/him) is a fourth-generation Japanese American producer and musician from Chicago. Jason co-produced The Orange Story, an early Full Spectrum project funded by the U.S. National Park Service that aims to provide educational content about civil liberties as told through the lens of Japanese American incarceration during WWII. Jason is the director and primary composer for Chicago-based music ensemble Ho Etsu Taiko. Jason is also a strategy consultant for Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten (Tokyo), a 150 year old traditional Japanese instrument maker who officially serves the Emperor of Japan. Prior to joining Full Spectrum’s staff, Jason spent 10 years in the financial derivatives industry, retiring in 2017 as Director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s strategic pricing team.
Co-Founder // Co-Executive Director
Thomas Droste
Thomas Droste (he/him) is a burgeoning writer and artist based in Chicago. He received his B.B.A. from the University of Michigan, working in creative/educational organizations including as a finance intern for the Metropolitan Museum of Design in Detroit and as a programming associate for the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Thomas is passionate about bolstering the next generation of consciousness-raising creatives, and is excited to assist with tax credit and production finance through Full Spectrum’s subsidiary, RedShift Financial.
Financial Associate
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