The Team Behind Midnight Odyssey
Li Wallis
In the quiet, deliberate way she composes a shot, Li Wallis carries the weight of a life lived across continents. Her work is as much about what’s left unsaid as what fills the frame—a sensibility shaped by painting under the northern light of Europe, documenting human resilience in remote corners of the globe, and writing stories that resist neat categorization.
Born in Roanoke, Virginia, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Wallis earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism before uprooting herself to Europe, where she reinvented her career as a fine-art oil painter. Her creative path soon intertwined with humanitarian work, serving as an artistic program creator for NGOs and documenting human-interest stories in Africa, South America, and Asia. For these contributions, she was awarded Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC and became a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.
The pull of narrative filmmaking led her to film school, where she set herself a rigorous challenge: producing one short film every week for an entire year. She credits this relentless pace with sharpening her technical precision and deepening her commitment to the craft. Her background in visual arts remains at the heart of her cinematic style—an instinctive command of light, color, and composition—which she brought to her debut feature, Flights of Reverie, an atmospheric, character-driven mystery set in Berlin.
With her creative partners, Wallis founded Midnight Odyssey Productions to champion bold, elevated projects that venture beyond the expected—films that linger in the mind and imagination long after the final frame fades.
John Dooley
John specializes in script writing and content development for film and TV series. As a former News Photo Editor at The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London, he also worked in a number of editorial photography roles for sister titles The Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph Magazine. After seven years at the publication, he became a freelance photojournalist based in Los Angeles, where he covered the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2008 U.S. presidential election and numerous California wildfires. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Le Monde, among other international publications.
Rounding off several years in the USA, John returned to London to manage and tutor at the Leica Academy in Mayfair. He was chosen to launch the digital version of the M camera through a promotional film. He has been a regular content contributor to Black + White Photography magazine where he wrote his own monthly column, Viewfinder. His photographic writing led to further features for The Independent newspaper, Rouleur cycling magazine, Digital Photographer magazine and The Telegraph Online. Additionally, John was a camera tester for Ricoh Japan, and his collaboration with Hasselblad resulted in the architectural photography book: Crestwood Hills: The Chronicle of a Modern Utopia.
John was the stills photographer for Director Andrew Piddington’s 2015 film Sins Of A Father, starring Lambert Wilson, and produced by Graham Leader (producer of In The Bedroom – nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture in 2002).
Robin Czerny
Berlin based writer, director and producer Robin has worked in the film industry for over twenty years. His award winning work as an actor has provided him with the experience of working on innumerable productions and has given him a thorough insight into scripts and character development. Having played the lead in several feature films in German, he shot his first leading role in English - which was released in 2024.
Always making the best out of every character he was given the opportunity to portray, Robin’s desire for getting behind the camera and realizing his own ideas grew. In order to develop his first feature film script, he studied the art of scriptwriting and produced several films.
‘Cannes Affaire,' a medium-length film that he wrote, directed and produced, premiered in the USA in 2025. He is currently directing his latest screenplay, ‘Hypnophobia,’ about the blurred lines between dreams and reality. Robin is one of the co-writers behind Midnight Odyssey Productions' next feature film in development entitled, 'The Assembly.'