1980 – A pair of carefree Russian circus performers spawn a child who won’t stop crying at the slightest provocation.

1986-1993 – The child is forced to stop roaming the continent and go to school. There he whiles away the time by drawing a cast of whimsical characters all over his notebooks and daydreaming of becoming a magician. Free time is spent going to the movies and then reenacting scenes from those movies with neighborhood rowdies. One day, a friend lends him a couple of books about filmmaking, animation and visual effects. The boy reads them and realizes his purpose in life.

1993-2001 – Suddenly flung to the opposite side of the globe, the boy lands in the US and now goes to school with a goal – studying film and computer animation. He makes a wild short film in high school and gets an award. He directs a thesis film in college and gets an award.

2001-2003 – The young man graduates from college and learns that no one cares about awards or stuff you made a year ago. He is earns a living as a freelance cameraman and video editor, honing many other technical production skills in the process.

2003 – As a family endeavor, the young man co-writes and directs a low budget feature film. It earns no money, but he still recalls the production period as one of the highlights of his life.

2004-2008 – The young man is seduced by the “corporate sector”. He is invited to work at a large company and earns a good living. But then the company creates another company and puts him in it, then throws him together with another group of people to start a new venture in the world of web video, then a bunch of other mind-numbingly boring corporate crap happens and eventually everything implodes.

Dusting himself off, the young man realizes how important it is to actually pursue one’s dreams, fill one’s life with like-minded people and do what one is truly good at. He returns to freelance production work, concentrating on providing high quality post-production services like motion graphics and visual effects. He also further develops his whimsical web series called Captain Disillusion, which grows in popularity and gets some attention from the press. Having built up a clientèle and a reputation for creativity and technical expertise, the young man decides to take it to the next level.

2009 – Amelik Entertainment, LLC is officially formed and bills itself as a South Florida-based video production company specializing in unique and inventive films, web series, commercials and music videos.

Today – You access Amelik.com, look around and get to the “about” page. We’ve been expecting you. Take a seat. What’s on your mind?