13 Months of Sunshine’s Executive Producer and Co-Producer Jeff Bartsch has been expanding his interests and projects into the television commercial realm, producing a top five Finalist in the 2009 Doritos Crash the Superbowl contest.

“It is amazing and such an honor to know that one of our entries has been selected,” Jeff Bartsch, a 29 year old graduate of Newell-Fonda High School, said in a phone interview from Los Angeles this week.

Bartsch and his team have already won a $25,000 finalist prize.

Bartsch attended Grace University in Omaha for two years after his high school. He then moved to Los Angeles to study film at Biola University, originally hoping to become a studio musician. He had to drop out before completing the degree, out of funds, but was able to find a job as an assistant film editor and was promoted to full editor after a couple of seasons.

Bartsch continues to strive to expand his talents, and has started to produce short films. He executive produced his first full-length feature, the romantic comedy “13 Months of Sunshine,” an Ethiopian-American film billed as “A story of love, coffee and the American Dream.” The independent flick is playing internationally in theaters and at film festivals.

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