Jackson, WY – Ski and snowboard film producer Teton Gravity Research (TGR) on Monday announced that Jon “J.K.” Klaczkiewicz, who most recently supervised post-production of TGR’s snowboard film “Deeper”, has officially joined TGR as Head of Production. His expanded role will include overall production management as well as new business development.n”As we went about restructuring our production team to meet our current and future needs, we realized ­ very fortunately that J.K. had all of the qualities that we were looking for in a Head of Production. The irony was that he was already under our roof,” said Todd Jones, one of TGR’s founders. “We were stoked to find out that he was interested in and willing to take on this new challenge. There is no one in the industry more qualified than J.K.”

Klaczkiewicz will supervise all aspects of production activity. This will include management of TGR’s resources, both human and otherwise, formulating budgets, generating new production business, and conceptualizing new revenue streams relating to TGR content. He will report to Jones, who will maintain his focus on the company’s growing new media team and merging the worlds of production and online.

As supervising producer at Teton Gravity Research in 2003, Klaczkiewicz’s efforts earned the Powder Magazine Ski Movie of the Year Award for “High Life”. In 2004, his independent feature-length documentary about legendary big mountain freeskier Kent Kreitler, “Reverence: The Kent Kreitler Story” earned another nomination for Ski Movie of the Year and Best Biography at X-Dance during the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to “Nomads”, a story-based television program aired on RUSH HD, Klaczkiewicz’s most recent work includes “Swift. Silent. Deep.”, the documentary film exploring the roots of the notorious Jackson Hole Air Force.

Klaczkiewicz earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado.