DIRECTING

Prest is a multiple award-winning Producer, Director and Writer.  He has directed, produced and overseen hundreds of hours of broadcast, syndicated, cable and international programming. Prest has also served as Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Writer-Creator, Supervising Producer Showrunner and Director for numerous series and specials for networks such as: ABC, CBS, UPN, FOX, PBS, Discovery, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, A&E, The Travel Channel, Sony Pictures Television, SYFY, The History Channel, HGTV, Comedy Central, Fox, Universal-NBC Sports, Animal Planet, VH1, Court TV, 20th Century Fox, Fox Movie Channel, international markets and more.

Prest has Overseen and Directed series, specials and Multi-cam events on 6 continents in around 97 countries and currently, all but 2 U.S. states. 

Prest served as Showrunner  and Co-Executive Producer for OceanGate Expeditions. Prest followed the 2021 and 2022 full expedition and deep sea submersible  in the North Atlantic Ocean, Titanic Wreck Site and in and around St. John's Newfoundland and across the United States for a follow doc series / Feature Documentary on the companies scientific research dives down to the wreck site of the Titanic and Beyond. 

Prest has Directed the ENGLISH DUBS for numerous foreign Feature Films and TV series for NETFLIX.  The projects that have been released to date have all landed in the Top 10 movies or TV shows in the U.S. and Internationally on Netflix. 

Prest has served as an Executive Producer, Development EP and  Co-Director on an ongoing project with Full Throttle Media and Films for a proposed documentary limited Series on the one-of-a-kind, historic ARNO XI Timossi-Ferrari Hydroplane. The project, which is currently in development and production has taken Prest throughout Italy Including: Ferrari, Ferrari Classiche in Maranello, Italy, Lake Como, Lake Iseo, Milan, Modena, the U.S. and beyond. 

Los Angeles based Prest, served for eight years as an Executive Producer, Showrunner, Director and Sr. VP of Development for Full Throttle Media, in Austin, Texas.  Prest also wrote many of the projects for the company which included: Documentary, Promo, Live Multi-Cam events, Branding and Streaming, Direct Marketing, Commercials as scripted projects. These productions were filmed all over the United States and Throughout the world. 

Prest owns all media rights and adapted the screenplay for the award-winning memoir, “THE LOS ANGELES DIARIES”. The screenplay won pre-selection / official selection status  at the CINEMA LA INTERNATIONAL FILM & SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL. Academy Award winning director, Steven Soderbergh is a consultant & advisor to the project. He also owns the exclusive rights "A RACE to FREEDOM" - the thrilling true-life story of test pilot, Hydroplane racing pilot and CIA operative, Mira Slovak, in an exclusive arrangement with the author and publisher of Slovak's incredible memoir.

His original comedy Screenplay “HARRY'S FILE” was awarded the GRAND JURY PRIZE for Best Screenplay at the FILM INVASION LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in late 2016. In early 2017, it advanced to the quarter finals of the prestigious CINEQUEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. In May 2017, the script was named one of the top three in the LA COMEDY FEST screenplay competition and took 2nd place in the NY INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY AWARDS and placed 4th (of top 5) at the MALTA INTERNATIONAL FILM & SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL.The script won BEST COMEDY SCREENPLAY at the 2017 AUSTIN COMEDY FILM AND SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL. Harry’s File was an official screenplay selection for the 2018 PORTLAND COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL. It was an official selection at the World Film Fair Screenplay Competition in NYC in 2018 and in January 2019 was selected as a Semi-Finalist in the TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY competition held during the Sundance Film Festival. 

Prest has Directed, Produced and overseen both scripted and non-scripted projects. 

He served as Co-Producer on the hit web series: PAYDAY: THE WEB SERIES – based on the popular first-person shooter video game: PAYDAY – THE HEIST. Prest also directed all of the EPK-and Behind the Scene materials for the project. Payday - The Web series is directed by Demian Lichtenstein (3000 Miles to Graceland). 

He served as: Co-Executive Prod / Showrunner & Director for the Wolper Organization (Roots, Bates Motel, LA Confidential) and Warner Brothers on a special: THE GHOST SPEAKS for A&E and BIO CHANNEL. Prest was an Executive Producer, Co-Creator, Director and Showrunner for The Travel Channel special – CITY SWAPPERS. 

Prest was the Showrunner and a Director for Season 1 of the hit ABC Saturday series - OCEAN MYSTERIES with Jeff Corwin  and He was the Showrunner for Season 2 of the hit SPIKE TV series: DEADLIEST WARRIOR.

He Directed,Produced & Adapted a popular NEIL GAIMAN short story – WE CAN GET THEM FOR YOU WHOLESALE – from Gaiman’s bestselling short story collection – SMOKE AND MIRRORS. The short film which GAIMAN also narrates, premiered at Long Beach Comic Con. Produced through Prest’s LifeLike Productions, LLC, the short stars BRIAN HOWE and DANIEL ROEBUCK with visual effects by Catalyst Media (Titanic, Twilight, Matrix Revolutions, Spiderman 3. 

Prest was showrunner and writer for 13 episodes of the FOX MOVIE CHANNEL series:THIRTEEN NIGHTS OF FRIGHT with NEIL GAIMAN. 

He Executive Produced, Wrote and Directed the award-winning feature documentary film: RABBIT HASH – THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE which tells the true story of the town of Rabbit Hash, a sleepy little Kentucky town that elected a dog named Goofy as their mayor. The award-winning film also spawned a comedy special for Animal Planet called, MAYOR DOG – which he also Exec Produced and Directed. 

Prest  has also worked extensively as an award-winning screen and stage actor, writer and voice over actor and has an extensive background in sketch comedy and Improvisation.

Boston University - School of Fine Arts - Theatre Arts

Wright State University - Theatre Program - BFA, Liberal Arts, Cinema Studies