WHO WE ARE

After working on various projects Michael Homer and Kelly Nelson discovered a shared passion for story telling and using
the power of film to educate and entertain, then they organized DESK TOP HISTORY. 

It is their shared goal through the DESK TOP HISTORY lens to take risks and create compelling documentary short films
that will not only educate and entertain but inspire young and old alike to want to learn more.



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MICHAEL HOMER | Co-Founder

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"History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
       - David McCullough

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Michael is a trial lawyer in Salt Lake City who practices in state and federal courts. He has published books, chapters in books, and articles on history and legal subjects. His most recent books are On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834-1930 published by the Arthur H. Clark Company in 2006, and republished in paperback by the University of Utah Press in 2010 and Joseph's Temples: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism, was published in 2014 by the University of Utah Press. Michael has also written about Arthur Conan Doyle and the Utah connection of Sherlock Holmes and was invited into the Baker Street Irregulars in 2007. He has also written numerous articles about Italian history and was appointed Honorary Italian Vice Consul to Utah in 2008 and as Honorary Italian Consul in Utah 2012.








KELLY NELSON | Co-Founder

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"People tend to forget that the word history contains the word story."
        - Ken Burns

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Kelly enjoyed a 30+ year career in mergers, acquisitions and managing partner of a closely held merchant bank with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Europe. Kelly developed an interest in film finance and the film industry while living in Los Angeles, including in 2007 the creation and management of a film fund. He grew up in Salt Lake City in a family where home movies were taken upon every occasion. A love of photography developed in his formative years and turned into a life-long passion when he first saw an image appear before his eyes in the dark room during high school. Kelly developed an interest in documentary film making after seeing the Ken Burns Civil War series. In retirement as President from his merchant banking company in 2009, he continued as a producer and manager of a film fund. In 2013 Kelly organized Woosh Productions an independent film production company that cultivates and develops film projects.