1. MainEventVideos.com
MainEventTVshows.com
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Since 1980, Filmmaker Dean George Papadeas has exclusively produced nitro drag racing,
motorsports and automotive TV and video entertainment programs. His company Main Event Video/
Entertainment was first to produce cars shows for the virgin home video market and cable TV.
* 68 Entertaining Nitro Drags and Motorsports programs.
* 12-episode Classic Drag TV Series NITRO WARRIORS hosted by “Big Daddy” Don Garlits
* 13-episode TV Series of Rods & Customs, Muscle Cars and Automotive
...on the Set of the TV Series:
NITRO WARRIORS
3 MOTOS 5 SPIRITS 2 COMMUNICATORS 5 TELLY AWARDS 3 IAMA’S 2 SUFFOLK FESTIVALS
“Twenty-some years ago director Dean Papadeas took his video camera to a drag race and wound up changing
the look of drag racing video presentation. The "swoopy shot" of running alongside and around fuel cars,
shooting from the hip, and in the driver’s face style of camera work that he started using during the 1980s
with Main Event Video have since become standard in motorsports coverage.”
Chris Martin, Senior Editor, DRAGRACINGONLINE.com
On the ESPN2 NHRA broadcast drag cars look and sound small and unimpressive for the most part.
Viewers can’t smell the nitro or the burned rubber, nor feel the ground shake when the driver steps on the
throttle. Only the Dean Papadeas-produced and directed DVD’s have come close to the real deal.
Jeff Burk, Publisher, DRAGRACINGONLINE.com
“The pioneering owner of Main Event Video was instrumental in revolutionizing drag racing photography.
A master at achieving outlandish camera angles and innovative close-ups.”
Gray Baskerville, Senior Editor, HOT ROD MAGAZINE
“Dean Papadeas is a name that many avid drag racing fans don't know but they should. Papadeas was the man
who single-handedly changed the way that drag races were filmed and presented on television. He, through his
Main Event Entertainment company, invented the swoopy camera moves, in your face techniques and frenetic
editing cuts that are now standard practice in the presentation of racing today.”
Brian Lohnes, Editor, BANGSHIFT.com
“Papadeas taught all the others how to videotape drag racing in its own element and present it in such a
manner that it grabs the viewer by the ears and eyes and turns ‘em every which way but loose.”
Don Prieto, Senior Editor, DRAG RACER MAGAZINE
“The pioneer of drag racing video ingenuity. Several years ago, he was using camera angles, exciting close-ups,
and editing techniques that have been copied ever since.”
Randy Fish, Senior Editor, DRAG RACING USA
“Dean uses his cameras with considerable imagination.”
Ralph Novak, Senior Editor, PEOPLE Weekly
“Producer/director/cameraman Papadeas has literally and single-handedly changed the look of all motorsports
productions you see on TV!” Kenny Youngblood, HI-PERFORMANCE Magazine
“Smooth camera work and sharp editing have always set his product apart from all others.”
Bruce Bennett, SUPER STOCK & Drag Illustrated
“Truly innovative and original.” Tony DeFeo, Editor, CARS ILLUSTRATED
“Papadeas is a creative cameraman making very dramatic use of close-ups and slow-motion photography and
somehow manages to be in all places at all times.”
Tim Bernsau, Feature Editor, CAR CRAFT Magazine
“The best video cameraman in the business.” Tony Williams, SUPER STOCK & Drag Illustrated
“A Papadeas-produced show is food for the senses. His interest in items like heart and soul and blood and guts,
and what makes his subjects tick dominates his productions.
Chris Martin, Senior Editor, NATIONAL DRAGSTER
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