Antonia Kao
Director/Producer
Antonia is a documentary filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose films have screened at numerous film festivals, including Women in the Director's Chair, The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and Outfest. Her directorial credits include Lullaby (1999), which won an Outfest Audience Award for Best Experimental Short; Straight White Men and Me (2000), which won an Anti-Defamation League Dore Schary Documentary Finalist Award; and, now, Pup (2005), which won the CineKink Best Documentary Short Award. She holds a BA in English and Women's Studies from Wellesley College and an MFA in film production from the University of Southern California Graduate School of Cinema-TV.
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Bryan Donnell
Cinematographer
Bryan Donnell studied studio art and creative writing at the University of North Carolina and was an exhibiting artist for several years before turning his focus to film. He received his M.F.A. in film production at USC, where he was nominated for the Eastman Kodak Scholarship for nationally outstanding student cinematographers. Films he has shot have been screened at numerous major international film festivals and have received many awards, including a student Oscar, two student Emmys, and Best Short at Cannes. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
www.bryandonnell.com

Ann LeSchander
Editor
Annís editing credits include Ocha Cups for Christmas , an Emmy award-winner for best dramatic short, and The Real Billy the Kid , a documentary. She has also edited comic shorts for Fox Television Italy. Previously she has directed and edited the short documentary Small Town U.S.A. , which explores the state of small towns today. As a writer/director, Ann's short film The Day Before has won critical acclaim in festivals across the country including the "Best of the Fest" trophy at the Rochester International Film Festival. Ann received her B.A. from Colgate University and her M.F.A. from the University of Southern California Graduate School of Cinema-TV.

Greg Sirota
Editor
Greg Sirota is an editor living in San Francisco.  A graduate of New York University Film School, Greg has edited documentaries and narrative films which have aired on PBS, Sundance, History and Discovery Channels.  His directorial work has been screened at film festivals around the world.  Currently he is working for Lucasfilm, Ltd. as a documentary editor.

Eleanor Yerbury
Sound Editor/Mixer
has worked as an independent sound designer in the Bay Area since 1999. A master of Pro-Tools with an uncanny ear for sound design, Eli brings a wealth of experience to her projects. She recently completed sound work on Unsu Lee's Happily, Even After (Tribeca Film Festival) and Mitch Altieri's Lurking in Suburbia (CineVegas Film Festival) both due for release in 2004. Other recent projects include Thirst (2004), Confessions of A Burning Man (2003). and Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story (Toronto Film Festival).
www.slinkyboa.com

Benjamin Decker
Composer
Hailing from Oakland, CA, Benjamin Decker has been writing, recording and producing music for 20 years. He studied music, as well as audio engineering, at S.F. State University. Specializing in contemporary genres, Benjamin prefers composing and recording in real-time with real instruments. Working closely with a film's director to create audio and music that truly become an integral part of the viewing experience is his goal. www.palominosound.com

Wally Scharold
Composer
is a music-nerd. Whether he is composing for chamber orchestra, virtual death metal bands, children's toys, or whatever, his music evokes encyclopedic knowledge of all genres to the point that any and all attempts at classification are lost and really serve no practical purpose whatsoever. While too many people in the art-music world are busy dropping names and turning up their noses, he is quite happy playing with the dirt at the bottom of the hole he has dug to keep him snugly beneath it all, and ohhhhh what a view it is.
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Lisa M. Gray
Sound Supervisor
At the age of three Lisa taught herself to play piano. Her passion for music started there and never stopped. She graduated from Berklee College of Music with a degree in Music Production and Engineering. Lisa has her own audio post-production company focusing on documentary film, video, and radio. Since living in the Bay Area she has put great effort into creating programs for youth and incarcerated adults, empowering them with access and knowledge to music and music technology. Her greatest passion is working on documentary media and collaborating with others.
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Dana Clark
Associate Editor
is an independent filmmaker who believes in telling stories that spark and activate people. She recently completed her studies at The Evergreen State College where she enjoyed interdisciplinary studies and used them to combine socioeconomic studies with filmmaking. Her short documentary, Bands Against Bush: A Record Of Dissent , recorded a day of artistsí protest in Olympia, WA, and has been screened at various film festivals. Mine , a 16mm short that Dana co-produced, premiered at Outfest and has won awards at many film festivals. Danaís current project, Phoenix , a Super8 short, is in post-production. Dana is working with Lucasfilm Ltd. on a documentary film project that includes over 100 historical short documentaries that will be companions to the Young Indiana Jones series soon to be released on DVD. Her commitment to community and storytelling is deepening as she connects herself to her new community in San Francisco. Dana strives to continue to tell the untold stories of people and experiences that are underrepresented.

Alicia Dwyer
Additional Camera
is currently directing a feature documentary narrated by Martin Sheen about Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers. She was a producer and additional cinematographer on the Academy Award-winning documentary Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, narrated by Judi Dench, and an editor on the feature film and HBO series Pandemic: Facing AIDS, narrated by Elton John, music by Philip Glass. Alicia has worked as a cinematographer in the US, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East and Europe and on an Emmy Award-winning comedy short, Sway. A graduate of Princeton University and University of Southern California film school, she has received special recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives for work on the issue of HIV/AIDS and is a Distinguished Visitor in Global Studies at UC Santa Cruz where she teaches documentary filmmaking.

Chindy Lee
Additional Camera
enjoys shooting movies and reading manga. Her work has appeared in various film festivals, including the LA Shorts Fest, Seattle Film Festival, New York Urban Film Festival, as well as on Discovery Times Channel and HBO family. She currently resides in LA with her husband and houseplants.

Aymae Sulick
Additional Camera
Aymae's documentary credits include The Season , an ESPN television special; Living By Instinct: Animals and Their Rescuers , winner of a 3rd place student Emmy; and The Size of It , recently featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her goal is to travel and shoot internationally and to use her creative abilities to explore social issues and observe/experience other cultures. She has thus far traveled and shot widely, including in Europe, Japan, Israel, and Egypt. Aymae received her M.F.A. in film production at the University of Southern California Graduate School of Cinema-TV and currently resides in Los Angeles.

Robert Bahar
Producing Consultant
is co-founder and coordinator of Doculink , a grassroots networking organization for documentary filmmakers with more than 900 members around the world. He is currently producing the veritÈ documentary Made in L.A. , which documents the experiences of Latina immigrants working in downtown Los Angeles' garment industry. He produced and directed the award-winning documentary Laid to Waste and has worked for Academy-Award winning documentary filmmaker Tracy Seretean. He has line-produced and associate-produced several independent films including the upcoming Untitled Jeff Goldblum Project and ITVS/PBS' Diary of a City Priest , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He recently served on the selection committee for the International Documentary Association's InFact Film Festival and holds an M.F.A. from The Peter Stark Program at the USC School of Cinema-Television.

Yana Gorskaya
Consulting Editor
is a writer, director and documentary editor whose editing credits include Spellbound , the Academy-nominated documentary which follows eight children from all over the country on their way to the National Spelling Bee, Friendly House , a look at the first and most successful drug rehabilitation home for women in the United States, and In the Name of Love , an exploration of Russian marriage agencies. She received her B.A. from Columbia University, Magna Cum Laude, and her M.F.A. from the University of Southern California Graduate School of Cinema-TV with numerous honors. Originally from Russia, Yana met and married her wonderkind French husband in New York.

Julie Vizza
Consulting Editor
has favorably contributed to a number of acclaimed feature and documentary projects, most notably as editor of writer/director Eugene Martin's Diary of a City Priest , an official selection at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Her earlier work with Martin on the 1998 drama Edge City screened at the Berlin Film Festival and won first prize at the Hamptons Film Festival. Most recently her editorial work on the 2002 Winter Olympics was recognized with an Emmy for Outstanding Technical Remote Team. A graduate of the Temple University Film and Television program, Vizza was born in Italy and is fluent in Italian. Her latest projects include work as editor on the documentaries Finding Norman by director Ally Walker, and director Erica Hamilton and producer Robert Bahar's Breaking Convention .

William David Hite
Titles Designer
is a Compositing/ Visual Effects/ Motion Graphics Artist who just moved to Walnut Creek from New York.

Norm Anderson
Voiceover Talent
Born and raised in the woods of Western Massachusetts without running water, electricity or television, Norm currently resides in Los Angeles while working as a screenwriter, director and voice over artist. He has electricity, TV and a DVD player now and is quite happy about it.

Philip Jean-Pierre
DVD Box Designer
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