Lightning Bear Productions (IMDB) is a US television, film, media and advertising agancy.

Lightning Bear was founded in the fall of 2005 to provide support for the feature film “Middleton.” In 2007, Beverly Hills, California-based entrepreneur and filmmaker Michael J. Brown joined Lightning Bear to expand the company's reach in the marketplace. Brown purchased the company in January 2008.

Brown began looking for a community outside the saturated Los Angeles film market that could support the budding operation and decided on Dallas. Brown now shares time between Los Angeles and Texas.

In April 2008, Lightning Bear began production of “A Hero’s Welcome ,” a feature length documentary film focusing on Lt. John Finn, the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient. Finn was awarded his Medal of Honor in the battle at Pearl Harbor. At the time of filming, Finn was 99 years old and was the first recipient to receive the Medal of Honor from Pearl Harbor and was also the last living recipient from Pearl Harbor. In April 2009, “A Hero’s Welcome” premiered at ceremonies at the State Theater in Gainesville Texas on April 4 in front of hundreds of guests and Lt. Finn.

In May 2008, Lightning Bear began production of a national television show. "Beer Babes & Movies " has reached an estimated 40 million households throughout the United States and features a couple of average guys surrounded by plenty of hot girls as they review the latest movies and entertainment news. Popular TV celebrity Tommy Habeeb serves as the primary host of the show which airs on Mav-TV, a digital cable channel station created by men for men. Habeeb is probably best known for his affiliation with “Cheaters,” a syndicated reality TV show that features detectives staking out the wayward and the amorous.

In 2009, Lightning Bear began to move in the direction of a more full-service media company and advertising agency. The year was a busy one for Lightning Bear, including more than quadrupling the size of the office and staff and upgrading its state-of-the-art equipment. The company now offers full high definition capabilities and an in-house visual effects studio.

Its staff includes the addition in 2009 of chief counsel Curtis Clinesmith, managing editor Marty Sabota and Chief Operating Officer Rochelle Cummings.

Lightning Bear Productions proudly offers the ability to meet a myriad of needs, including creating and maintaining Web sites, marketing needs, creation of television commercials, media buys, putting customers in front of the media, handling promotional items, generating music videos, branching out into more visual effects, leveraging our experience to more efficiently and effectively get the word out about a client’s products or services, branching into movie theater advertising with the ability to put video into every major theater chain in the country and create promotional items, as well as continue to write and produce films, videos and commercials.

Some Lightning Bear Productions highlights for 2009:

• Creating a music video for prog-rock band The Raven Charter called “Thousand Worlds.” It features incredible computer generated graphics.
  
  
• Creating a touching video for United Way of Denton County. The video, which featured three clients of the local United Way, was shown at a luncheon on Sept. 18. The video also received Internet interest.
  
  
• Creating two music videos for Mark Salling, an actor and musician who plays the character Noah “Puck” Puckerman on FOX’s hit musical comedy “Glee.”
  
  
• Selection of Brown’s documentary film, “A Hero’s Welcome,” to be shown in the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin. It was introduced on Veteran’s Day and continues to be shown in its Texas Spirit Theater. The film is based and on Gainesville’s Medal of Honor Host City Program honors nearly a dozen Medal of Honor recipients and a Texas town that came together to remember them. The film was first shown at ceremonies at the State Theater in Gainesville on April 4. Inking a deal that will allow “A Hero’s Welcome” to appear on a new online television network, StayTunedTV.net. Frank Zanca thought that Brown’s film would be a great asset to his webisode lineup. To bring StayTunedTV.net to fruition year, Zanca teamed up with, among others, Timothy Ryder, former producer of “That '70s Show” and “3rd Rock from the Sun.” The pair formed Big Smiley Entertainment and conceived of an idea of a Web site that would feature webisodes being produced by independent filmmakers.
   
• Writing a feature about and photographing Dr. Om Prakash, an 85-year-old psychologist-turned-life coach, whose inspiration for helping others was fueled when as a young man he worked for four years as a community organizer in Gandhi’s movement. He said Gandhi transformed him from being a self-centered person into a giving and helping person. He says inspiration he had for Gandhi goes on today.
  
  
• Landing contracts for higher profile clients, such as a company that provides management consulting, performance and quality Improvements, and best-in-class staffing services.
  
  
• Acting as a content provider for many news organizations and simultaneously giving Lightning Bear clients global coverage via the Internet.

Based in Dallas, Lightning Bear Productions maintaines a presence in Los Angeles. President and executive producer Michael J. Brown says that “companies are coming to us that in the past would go to Los Angeles or New York. They know they can get big city, expanded production qualities here.” Helping make that possible is the addition this year of an in-house studio that offers Hollywood quality visual effects. The studio is housed in Lightning Bear’s new 3,000-square-foot plus office and studio.