Turtles Crossing acts as a sales agent for independent producers to assist them in placing their films with first class distribution through theatrical, television, dvd/vod, non theatrical and special markets.

Susan Jackson has worked in feature film distribution for over twenty years, holding executive positions in sales, acquisitions and marketing at The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Vestron, Goodtimes, BMG/Bertelsmann, Sony and the BBC. Jackson's last corporate job before launching Turtles Crossing, LLC was heading up BMG Independents in New York, an all rights distributor of independent film created to provide theatrically released feature films to BMG's North American DVD division. There, Jackson acquired and distributed theatrical, DVD, TV and international rights to multiple films.

In 1999 Jackson started indie sales company Turtles Crossing, LLC selling hundreds of films to studios, TV and independent distributors in the USA.

In 2002 Jackson Executive Produced the hit indie film Cabin Fever. Jackson came on at script stage, brought in investors and sold the film to Lions Gate at the Toronto Film Festival. Produced for $1.4m Cabin Fever is considered one of the most profitable and successful indie features worldwide of the last decade. Jackson has gone on to Exec Produce many more indie films, which Turtles Crossing has successfully placed in distribution.

In 2004 Jackson founded Freestyle Releasing with business partner Mark Borde, which has remained one of the top independent theatrical distributors in the USA for the last 5 years. Some of Freestyle’s most successful releases include The Illusionist ($40m box), The Haunting of Molly Hartley ($14m box), Dragon Wars (11m box), An American Haunting ($17m box), Bottle Shock ($5m box), The Collector ($8m box), My One and Only ($3m), Me and Orson Welles starring Zac Efron and Claire Danes and That Evening Sun starring Hal Holbrook.

Turtles Crossing, LLC also negotiated and manages Freestyles output deals for DVD/VOD/PAY TV AND CANADA.

Born in the UK, Jackson lives in Malibu, California and is an avid skier, tennis player and surfer. Jackson is married to British Production Designer Ben Morahan who designs commercials for major advertisers, television and film.

Chris Charalambous has worked in the film industry for over ten years. Chris identifies new film projects for Turtles Crossing and works with producers during the sales process to keep them updated on the progress of their projects and marketing coordination.

Prior to joining Turtles Crossing, Chris worked as an executive at Pierce Brosnan's production company, Irish DreamTime. He worked on five Irish DreamTime films that were independently financed and sold to major distributors for theatrical release.

In 2000-2001, he worked at MGM Studios in theatrical marketing research, international marketing and theatrical production.