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  David deVries
David deVries (Producer, Writer, Director) has produced, directed, written and often photographed television documentaries in thirty-one countries for American and international networks. His credits include the four-hour T.R.: An American Lion for The History Channel (winner of a 2003 CINE Special Jury Award for Best Historical Documentary); the Emmy nominated Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids, also for The History Channel, and The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai. His more recent work includes Fields of Freedom, a four million dollar, wide screen film, which he wrote and directed for a new visitor center at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In 2008, David was again nominated for an Emmy, this time for writing the two-hour History Channel special, Life Without People.
 Thomas Skinner
Thomas Skinner (Executive Producer) is Senior Executive Producer at Free To Choose Media where he served as Developer and Co-Writer of The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman and developer and co-writer of The Ultimate Resource and The Power of the Poor with Hernando de Soto. Skinner is an award-winning television and film executive with over 45 years of experience in public and commercial broadcasting. He is an experienced innovator and administrator with a solid academic background and extensive national production credentials. From 1970 through 1993 he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of QED Communications in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he also served as Co-Executive Producer of 16 seasons of National Geographic Specials, the Emmy-award wining Planet Earth, The Infinite Voyage and many other series and specials for PBS. Beginning in 1993, he joined Resolution Productions in Burlington, Vermont where as Vice President for Programming he created several series for TBS, A&E and Discovery including Pirate Tales, Floating Palaces, California and the Dream Seekers, The Story of Money, Battleship, and The Secret World of Air Freight.
Skinner taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and at San Diego State University. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including four national Emmy awards, three Peabody Awards, a Dupont/Columbia Award and was Director of the Academy Award winning film Journey Into Self.
 Bob Chitester
Bob Chitester (Executive Producer) is founder and president of Free To Choose Network and its production and educational initiatives “Free To Choose Media” and “izzit.org.” With more than 40 years of experience creating programs and series for public television and as president of the Erie public television station WQLN, Bob Chitester continues to be creatively involved in the creation of programs and series for Free To Choose Media and izzit.org.
In partnership with his colleague Tom Skinner (senior executive producer at Free To Choose Media) Bob has served as executive producer for: “The Power of Choice: the Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman,” (on PBS) “The Ultimate Resource,” (American Public Television) “The Power of the Poor” (PBS) and “Globalization at the Crossroads” with Hernando de Soto, and “Turmoil and Triumph: The George Shultz Years, a three-part documentary series for PBS.
In 1980 Bob Chitester brought Milton Friedman to public television, and was responsible as executive producer for Friedman’s landmark PBS series “Free To Choose” and the best-selling book that emanated from the series. He is currently in production with a new documentary program celebrating the 30th anniversary of the creation of “Free To Choose,” hosted by Swedish author Johan Norberg.
Bob Chitester holds BA and MA degrees from The University of Michigan and has received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Allegheny College.
On the personal level he pursues physical fitness, (running, swimming and biking), indulges in wood and clay sculpture, reads poetry publicly, is a hunter and cuts several cord of fire wood each year, when he is not flying about in airplanes as part of his responsibilities at Free To Choose Network. Bob and his wife, Carol, have 4 children and 8 grandchildren, one of whom they are raising in their home.
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