John Peterman

John Brian Peterman was born in 1973 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Mary Josephine (Cotter) and Herman Arthur Peterman III. John spent his younger years in Kingwood, Texas with his siblings. He went to University of North Texas to study film, but dropped out to pursue his entertainment career.

John got his start in the film industry as an extra in the 1996 romantic comedy, Tin Cup, co-written and directed by Ron Shelton, and starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo with Cheech Marin and Don Johnson in major supporting roles. Shortly after filming ended, John traveled to Austin with a close group of his filmmaker friends and got work as a production assistant learning the tricks of the trade while networking with some of Hollywood's future iconic storytellers. That road eventually landed him in Los Angeles at a time when the industry was being introduced to digital filmmaking. While in Los Angeles, John got his first job at Fox Television on a new singing competition series, "American Idol". John took his knowledge of working on live television and moved to New York City where he landed a job at Viacom on MTV's "Summer on the Run", "Spring Break", and "New Year's Eve" specials. He eventually moved into the world of reality television when he his career took an abrupt turn.

In 2008, John began his short stint into documentary filmmaking. He co-produced his first documentary film along with Richard Vagg, Esther Stone, and Kay Rothman called "The Brain," for Darlow Smithson Productions.

He followed up with the critically acclaimed, "Unwrapping the Shroud: New Evidence" in 2009, which was hailed by both the scientific and religious communities. Although he continued working in reality television after a successful run making documentaries, John had a burning desire to return to his first love of making motion pictures.