DIANA FULLER / Producer
Diana is a free-lance curator, editor, and producer and the on-going director of the Screenwriting Program at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She is the editor of Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections, published in 2004, by University of California Berkeley Press. She has been curator for contemporary art exhibitions for 40 years. She serves on the Boards of the SVCOW, the The Artists in Residence Program at Recology and the Conflict Awareness Project. She was the last president of the Film Arts Foundation.
CHRISTOPHER BEAVER / Director
Chris produces and directs multi-media projects concerned with the human experience of the environment. His films as a producer, writer, and director include Dark Circle, a feature documentary, winner of a National Emmy Award and a Certificate of Special Merit from the Academy Awards documentary committee, Treasures of the Greenbelt and Secrets of the Bay, about San Francisco Bay and the surrounding open countryside. Tales of the San Joaquin – A River Journey about California’s Central Valley, nominated for the Pare Lorentz Award of the International Documentary Association and his work-in-progress Tulare, The Vanished Lake, reflect his recent focus on water issues and how they affect the environment.
MAUREEN GOSLING / Editor
Maureen Gosling has been a documentary filmmaker for more than forty years and is best known for her twenty-year collaboration with independent director, Les Blank. Gosling recently edited “Smokin’ Fish” by Luke Griswold-Tergis and Cory Mann.Gosling’s 16mm feature documentary Blossoms Of Fire, on the legendary Zapotecs of southern Oaxaca, Mexico, won the Coral Award for Best Foreign Documentary at the Havana International Film Festival. Gosling’s current projects are: “This Ain’t No Mouse Music: The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records,” with Chris Simon and “Bamako Chic: Threads of Power, Color and Culture,” with Maxine Downs.
KYUNG LEE / Additional Editing
Kyung Lee is a videographer and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked extensively in the field and studio environments. She is currently making a documentary film, “Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui” which will be released in 2014. She was an editor and post-production manager at LINK TV, a national satellite television network for five years. Most recently she was a co-editor of a documentary film on the Bay Area poet/experimental filmmaker, James Broughton (BIG JOY).
ELI NOYES / Director of Special Effects
Eli is a veteran animator, filmmaker, director, graphic designer who has been nominated for an Academy Award for animated film, and received the Robert Kennedy Journalism Award, Birmingham Children’s Film Festival gold as well as a Monitor and Ace Award. His work includes projects for Sesame Street, HBO, Scholastic, Nickelodeon, MTV, Pixar, Disney, Oxygen Media and the highly acclaimed Ruff’s Bone for Broderbund Living Books series. As Director of Alligator Planet he continues his multi-pronged creative tradition, creating short films, directing animation for documentaries, editing for non-profits and consulting on a variety of kid’s projects. He has just completed a set of “Go Green” stamps for the U.S. Postal Service.
JIM MCKEE / Sound Designer
Jim is currently an active owner of earwax productions inc., San Francisco, which he co-founded in 1983. As a sound designer, composer, engineer and technical producer, Jim works primarily with computers, samplers and tape, using concrete sound elements and human voice to build impressionistic and abstract sound environments. Works are generally designed in collaboration with film producers, playwrights, radio producers, and performance artists using multi-track recording, samplers, digital editing, computer synthesis and a wide variety of studio processing techniques. His experience includes mixing, engineering and sound design for national broadcast television, radio, commercial and drama, research and production for interactive, multimedia and DVD/CD-ROM.
RIZWAN KHAN / Production and Marketing Associate
Rizwan Khan has a Business Management degree in Marketing from the University of Mumbai and a degree in Cinema from San Francisco State University. He has worked as a business and marketing consultant for production studios and advertising companies. He has worked as an editor and marketing associate on the documentary Objects Of Desire, and as a marketing and distribution associate on the documentary Return To Dak To. He has also worked as a surround staff to The Squaw Valley Screenwriting Program.His short film Death Hypothesis received best surreal cinema award at the Sacramento International Film Festival. We Were Kings, another short, received Campus Movie Fest Award and was selected for the Cannes Short Film Corner and San Francisco International.
MELISSA JOY BERNIER / Production Assistant
Melissa Joy Bernier is an independent filmmaker, writer and visual artist residing in San Francisco. Beginning her career as a video editor and film preservationist, Melissa has since expanded to filming, producing and writing. She has been an integral part of several documentary films in the Bay Area including Repeace and Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful. Currently, she is finishing her debut screenplay, Beautiful and Good Things and acting as Head Editor for Lynn Hershman Leeson’s The Infinity Engine. Additionally she served as a Production Assistant on the forthcoming documentary, Racing To Zero.
TATIANA MONTENEGRO / Production Assistant
Tatiana Montenegro is an independent filmmaker from the Bay Area. Tatiana has studied at the School of Visual Arts, located in New York City, and at City College of San Francisco for film and cinema. She has been part of local independent movies such as Saltwater, and served on teams responsible for putting up the Roxie’s Festival of the Moving Image and the 13th Annual City Shorts festival. Currently, Tatiana is the social media adviser for the Racing to Zero documentary and is working alongside the Roxie theater, located in San Francisco, for events and social media.
CONSULTANTS
Gail Silva: Advisor, Curator for arts organizations, individual artists and filmakers
Vivian Kleiman: Consulting Producer, Freelance producer
Deborah Monk: Advisor, Manager, Artist in Residence Program, Environmental Learning Center
George Rush: Legal Advisor, specializing in Entertainment Law
RACING TO ZERO is a Fiscally Sponsored Project of Filmmakers Collaborative
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