Our Team
Decades of experience producing film and television, combined with modern software, to make Periscope the fastest way for indie producers to build a financier-ready budget.
Joshua Dixon
Joshua Dixon is a film producer, director, and CEO of Mbrella Films, one of Southeast Asia’s most established and internationally recognized production companies. Under his leadership, Mbrella has expanded its international footprint through multiple co-productions and strategic partnerships across regions, producing and servicing projects for Netflix, HBO, and other major networks and OTT platforms. The company has become a trusted alternative for American, European, and Asian productions seeking to maximize production value, access incentives, and streamline operations in Southeast Asia.
Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, Joshua studied at Full Sail University before founding a boutique advertising agency in his hometown. He produced and shot as director of photography on several independent films in the US before relocating to Thailand, where he established his first company, Wind Up Films. When Wind Up merged with a local production house, Mbrella Films was born — and grew steadily year over year into the largest production service company in Thailand. Today Mbrella runs a full-time post-production department alongside dedicated production divisions for commercials, features and series, and non-scripted, staffed by more than 40 full-time crew. Its team is fluent in English and overwhelmingly third-culture: raised abroad, speaking two or three languages.
Mbrella and Joshua became especially valuable to the Korean market after King the Land landed as Netflix’s #1 non-English series worldwide, shot in Thailand with Mbrella providing full local production services and Joshua serving as local producer. The success opened the door to a run of Korean studio productions for JTBC, Studio Dragon, CJ ENM, and their productions Price of Confession, Made in Korea, and Love in the Big City.
Joshua brings a comprehensive understanding of the entire production pipeline and lifecycle — from development to delivery — and also consults for producers and production companies looking to shoot in Thailand or optimize their international workflows.
Most recently, Joshua led Mbrella through an acquisition by Friday Industries, the media and entertainment holding company founded by Kris Eiamsakulrat — an Oscar-shortlisted producer and co-founder of a family-backed global investment management firm. Friday’s film network operates as EST N8, connected to Jaeson Ma, the co-founder of 88rising (media company and music label behind artists like Rich Brian and Joji) and chairman and co-founder of the EST Studios film-finance and sales group.
Through the Friday partnership, Mbrella now offers rebate financing against Thailand’s local rebate and tax-credit incentives.
Joshua has now been based full-time in Bangkok for 13 years, and speaks Thai. He is married to Rinda Dixon, who is also Thai, and they have a 1.5-year-old son together. They all return often to Texas to visit family.
A dedicated barbecue obsessive, he regularly smokes brisket and ribs for the Mbrella team, sharing a heavy dose of American — and distinctly Texan — culture with them all.
Adam Pray
Twenty-five years in production, across four continents and roughly every seat in the room — assistant, line producer, post producer, showrunner, company founder. The through-line has been a preference for the markets other people skip: I have built films in Albania, Nigeria, and across Africa and South America, and for the last four years I have been producing and overseeing production in Thailand and the wider region. What I do well is bridge cultural gaps with the universal language of moving images.
I decided to be a filmmaker at ten and never revised the plan. I graduated from Humboldt State University California with a degree in Film in 2002, moved back to Chicago, where I am from, and was blessed with an internship with Harold Ramis — which became a job as his assistant. I stayed through the making of The Ice Harvest.
From there I went to work as an assistant for Lindsay Doran on Stranger Than Fiction. She is the smartest person I have met in this business, and she mentored me. She is the reason I understand creative producing as an ethos rather than a job title — what the work actually is, what it is for, and what it costs to do it properly.
Inspired by her, at 25 years old, I immediately went out and raised $100,000 in private equity to produce my first feature, Counting Backwards. The film performed respectably and secured distribution.
I moved to New York and kept working while I chased a second film: assisting Neil Burger on The Lucky Ones (where I also directed second unit) and Peter Sollett on Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, then producing documentaries for National Geographic at Market Road Films, the company owned by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage and her husband Tony Gerber. I spent two years there as Head of Production, from 2008 to 2009.
Rucksack Productions — 2009 Onward
Traveling Africa for National Geographic gave me the idea that became Rucksack Productions. The thesis was straightforward: there are undersaturated markets full of filmmakers with stories and no route to an audience, and I could help build that route.
Rucksack produced the first sitcom ever made in Albania, Radio Radio (2009), and Brooklyn Shakara, a pilot about a Nigerian Romeo and Juliet set in Brooklyn. I produced and AD’d commercials to fund the company while it found its feet. In 2014 I produced Femrat, an Albanian-language romantic comedy that became the highest-grossing film of all time in Albania. I later created, directed, produced, and showran Skanderbeg, an Albanian epic war comedy series.
There were other adventures, and a fair number of misadventures, across Africa, South America, and Europe.
Post Production
I know post very well and have done some post producing for film and television — a CW series, 2 Sentence Horror Stories (subsequently on Netflix), and during COVID I remotely post-produced the feature thriller The Apology for RLJE. Running a post pipeline from another hemisphere, in a year when nobody could be in the same room, turned out to be excellent preparation for how I work now.
Southeast Asia — 2019 to Present
In 2019 my wife took a posting in Cambodia and we moved the family out of New York. In 2022 we relocated to Thailand and I joined Mbrella Films.
Since then I have produced ten films and television shows originating from all over the world. I oversee production on Mbrella’s service work and continue to develop original material. I have developed my own slate tracking software where I manage 32 projects in bidding, 5 projects in active development and a smattering of others across Post, Sales and distribution.