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filmmakers
Tara Wray — Director  
 
Tara was born in Kansas.
 
   
Michel Negroponte — DP, Producer  
 
Michel is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker with such directing credits as Space Coast (co-directed with Ross McElwee), Jupiter's Wife, Silverlake, and Methadonia, which recently premiered at the New York Film Festival and on HBO.
 
Alan Oxman Producer
 
Alan's editing credits include Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Storytelling, and Two Girls and a Guy. He was supervising editor and co-producer of Control Room, and the co-editor of Unzipped, which won the A.C.E. Award for Best Documentary Editing. Other co-producing credits include Assisted Living, winner of the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival, and Children Underground, which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2001, and Best Documentary at the IFP Gotham Awards that same year. He has won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Documentary Editing on the PBS series City Life.
 
 
Randy Bell — Co-Producer, DP  
 
Randy's documentaries have won awards from the Cleveland International Film Festival, the New England Film and Video Festival, and the Ivy Film Festival; his work has been honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the African Studies Association, and Harvard University. He is currently working on a five-year project documenting the AIDS orphan crisis in Kenya.
 
 
Cindy Lee — Editor  
 
Cindy holds an M.A. in East and Southeast Asian Studies from Lund University in Sweden and worked in community relations at The Walt Disney Company before becoming a Final Cut Pro instructor at The Edit Center.
 
Lilah Bankier — Supervising Editor
 
Lilah's feature editing credits include Control Room (Jury Award 2004 Full Frame Documentary Festival), Swimmers (New American Cinema Award 2005 Seattle Film Festival) and Unscrewed (First Film Special Distinction 2003 Montreal Film Festival). She was an additional editor on Eat This New York and Tadpole (Best Directing Award, 2003 Sundance Film Festival). Her television credits include The Blues, executive produced by Martin Scorsese for PBS, and programs for Oxygen, NBC and A & E.
 
JJ Evans — Associate Editor
 
JJ is from Indiana. 
 
Jason Zumpano — Music
 
The film is scored by Jason as Sparrow.
 
Richard Kassebaum — Advisor
 
Richard's film work includes producing credits on the PBS special Kingdom of David, and two PBS American Experience documentaries: the two-part Woodrow Wilson biography and John Brown’s Holy War. His latest film, Bill’s Run, aired on POV as part of its 2004 season.
 
 
Monteith McCollum — Advisor  
 
Monteith directed Hybrid, which won a 2001 Truer than Fiction Independent Spirit Award. Hybrid was cited as one of the top 10 documentaries of 2001 by the Village Voice and IndieWire, and was shown on POV and ARTE. He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, as well as grants from NYSCA and the NEA. His newest short film, Lawn, premiered at the Museum of Modern Arts Premieres Series in November 2004.
 
   
Pamela Mulder — Advisor  
 
Dr. Mulder is the Director of the Center for Rural Health and Development at Marshall University and the supervising editor for the Journal of Rural Community Psychology.
 
   
Scott Westphal-Solary — Advisor  
 
Scott was born and raised in Florida and is currently working on a documentary feature titled All God’s Children.
 

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