Lost Planet's Gary Ward and Casey Cayko on the Secret to Their Cross-Country Working Marriage

LBB’s Abi Lightfoot explores the coast-to-coast yet closer-than-close relationship between Lost Planet’s partner and executive producer Gary Ward and executive producer Casey Cayko, as part of LBB’s Dream Teams series.

Lost Planet’s executive producer duo Gary Ward and Casey Cayko are pretty much inseparable. Well, aside from the close to 3,000 miles between the edit company’s Los Angeles and New York studios.

That’s right. The pair, who get “offended” if the other fails to call them in the morning, are responsible for steering the ship in both New York and LA. But distance doesn’t define their relationship, and they’ve found a unified way of working across offices since Casey returned to the company as EP in 2022.

He’d initially joined as an intern at the age of 23. New to New York and “going broke”, he’d been working on documentaries and bartending in tandem, before deciding that he had to find a new opportunity… an internship at Lost Planet.

“I had no idea what that business model even looked like, and here I am all these years later,” he says. "I learned about and figured out the business, and then I realised I didn’t want to edit, so I became a producer. All of a sudden, I found myself in a very creative environment, and I was doing something. I was meeting editors of films that I appreciated and loved, and hearing their creative insights was fascinating.”

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