On Screen/In Person Filmmakers
Tour A
SEPTEMBER 2011
What's 'Organic' About Organic?
Director, Shelley Rogers
 Shelly Rogers
Raised in rural East Tennessee, Shelley Rogers has a Master’s degree in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from Smith College. Rogers produced and directed the documentary film What’s ‘Organic’ About Organic?, which was inspired by her study with seasoned documentary filmmakers, George Stoney and Lora Hays, and interest in food politics, public health, and environmental stewardship. The film has received critical acclaim and has been viewed by thousands of people, with screenings both nationally and internationally. In addition to distributing the film to educational institutions, Rogers has developed the film’s "Green & Screen" campaign, an innovative engagement strategy that combines screenings of her film with volunteer or awareness-building activities to encourage audience participation in the organic food movement. Rogers also co-founded and co-curates a documentary screening series in New York City, called “Hungry Filmmakers,” which is accompanied by a panel discussion and reception with the filmmakers whose upcoming works are related to food and agriculture. Rogers operates Little Bean Productions and has collaborated in filming several food projects including The Dirt Café Sitopia Debate and Salon, Hungry New York, and The Rye Bread Project.
OCTOBER 2011
Beatboxing - The Fifth Element of Hip Hop
Producer, Angela Viscido
 Angela Viscido
Born and raised in Wales and a resident of New York City for the past 22 years, Angela Viscido is a videographer, editor, entrepreneur and the President of Eclectrix, Inc., a full service multimedia specializing in live performances. Viscido is committed to the visual and performing arts, including developing a company to enhance talent in the actors, dance and music industries by creating and developing marketing visuals for the performer. She has captured creative icons such as Hiram Bullock, The Drifters, Bernard Purdie and Lou Marini, Toshi Regan, Citizen Cope and others. Combining 14 years of corporate work with 22 years as a performer and videographer have led Viscido to explore the world of movie making under the creative and dynamic direction of various film directors.
NOVEMBER 2011
Out in the Silence
Directors, Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer
 Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson got involved in documentary filmmaking through his social activism on human rights issues. Frustrated by the limitations of traditional organizing and advocacy and the constraints of his role as a program officer at a private foundation, he picked up a camera with hopes of reaching broader audiences with stories that would inform and compel people to act. Wilson's first film Otros Amores, which examines other forms of love in Oaxaca, Mexico, won the Videomaker Magazine National Documentary Challenge and started him on his way. Since then he and Qwaves.com partner Dean Hamer have produced over a dozen pieces for national cable television and won numerous awards including the Audience Prize at the One-in-Ten Film Festival, Best Short Film at the Barcelona Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, runner-up in the Seeds of Tolerance Competition, and official selection at film festivals in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, London, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Cape Town and Melbourne.
 Dean Hamer
Scientist turned filmmaker, Dean Hamer became interested in journalism and filmmaking as a result of being a frequent guest on television news shows to discuss his research on AIDS, human sexuality and behavior genetics. Convinced that there was a better way to communicate the complex scientific and social ideas raised by these topics, he decided to try his own hand at turning these stories into compelling documentaries. Hamer's debut film The Preacher and the Poet was a winner of the PBS/Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival. In collaboration with Qwaves.com partner Joe Wilson he has produced over a dozen pieces for national cable television and won numerous awards. He has also consulted for many documentary and news productions and written three award-winning nonfiction books including “The Science of Desire,”, which was a New York Times Book of the Year.
FEBRUARY 2012
Concrete Steel & Paint
Directors, Cindy Burstein and Tony Heriza
 Cindy Burstein
Cindy Burstein is an award-winning independent producer. Formerly a community organizer, she received her MFA from Rutgers University to pursue the use of documentary film as a tool for dialogue and civic engagement. She also works with other independent filmmakers to develop public engagement initiatives for theatrical releases, broadcast premieres and educational distribution. She is a 2010 recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award, a fellowship which recognizes women artists engaged in social change.
 Tony Heriza
Since co-founding the Community Media Workshop in Dayton, Ohio in 1974, Tony Heriza has been involved in many aspects of media for social change: producing, editing, teaching and working with community organizations. His work has been broadcast nationally on PBS and featured in many festivals. He is now the Director of Educational Outreach for the American Friends Service Committee and along with his co-producer, Cindy Burstein, is an active member of the New Day Film distribution co-operative.
MARCH 2012
Proceed and Be Bold!
Director, Laura Zinger
 Laura Zinger
Laura Zinger is the founder and owner of Chicago-based, creative content production company 20K Films. In 2008, Zinger independently produced and directed the feature-length documentary Proceed and Be Bold!, which has screened internationally in Italy, Germany, Austria, England and Canada. The documentary also screened as an official selection in seven film festivals, including the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival and the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival in Newfoundland, Canada. Zinger has worked for various film companies, including MGM, Pretty Pictures and MOJO, a post-production trailer house. In addition to 20K Films, Zinger works as the Web Video Producer for Milk For Thought, a new national website dedicated to connecting, empowering and supporting breastfeeding mothers. She previously taught introductory courses in video production and editing at the College of DuPage as well as workshops on HDSLR camera technology and post-production editing and workflow at Calumet Photographic.
APRIL 2012
Milking the Rhino
Director, David E. Simpson
 David E. Simpson
David E. Simpson is a producer, director and editor who has crafted award-winning documentaries for over 25 years. David’s pioneering film about disability culture, When Billy Broke His Head... garnered dozens of major awards including a jury prize at Sundance and a duPont-Columbia Baton for journalistic excellence. David directed Refrigerator Mothers, about the mothers of autistic children, which won top honors at many festivals and aired on public television’s POV. His Milking the Rhino, about community-based conservation in Africa, aired on PBS’ Independent Lens and screened at over five dozen film festivals on six continents. David has edited numerous long-form documentaries, including Forgiving Dr. Mengele (Special Jury Prize, Slamdance 2006), Shtetl (Grand Prix, Cinema du Reel), the critically praised PBS series The New Americans, as well as programs for Frontline and NOVA.
Tour B
SEPTEMBER 2011
TRUST: Second Acts in Young Lives
Director, Nancy Kelly
 Nancy Kelly
Veteran independent filmmaker Nancy Kelly’s documentary trilogy about the transformative power of art includes:Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives, Smitten, and Downside Up. Trust follows the teenage actors of Chicago's Albany Park Theater Project as they transform through courage, storytelling and community. Smitten, an amusing portrait of an 85-year-old contemporary art collector, aired as a PBS Prime Time Special, screened at over 25 film festivals, and won the Audience Awards at the DC Independent Film Festival and Aspen Shortsfest. Downside UP, about how the MASS MoCA contemporary art museum revived Kelly’s dying hometown, aired on the PBS series Independent Lens and in over 125 countries. Kelly directed and produced the critically-acclaimed dramatic feature film Thousand Pieces of Gold, which was released theatrically in the United States, and aired on the PBS American Playhouse series as well as internationally. She made the award-winning documentary shorts: Cowgirls, SweepingOcean Views and A Cowhand's Song. Kelly was a fellow at the Sundance Institute June Lab and is a member of New Day Films, the premiere independent filmmaker’s educational distribution cooperative for social change media.
OCTOBER 2011
Little Town of Bethlehem
Director, Jim Hanon
 Jim Hanon
Jim Hanon is the filmmaker and artist in residence of EGM Films. As film director and screenwriter, he is the creative force behind Little Town of Bethlehem (2009), The Grandfathers (2009), Miss HIV (2008), End of the Spear (2005),and Beyond the Gates of Splendor (2002). Hanon grew up with the simple values of a farming community in eastern Washington State. After attending a small art college, he began his first career in advertising. His career has included being a vice president at Leo Burnett, co-founding Hanon McKendry and Compass Arts, and serving as chief creative officer of Every Tribe Entertainment. He has won numerous international, national and regional awards for creative achievement. Hanon transitioned from advertising to filmmaking as a natural expansion of his artistic abilities and because he felt stories are the most respectful and engaging way to explore emotional insight. He believes that art is a fusion of the subject and the artist. Before he spends a couple of years making a film, he must find a deeply personal meaning within the story.
NOVEMBER 2011
In Good Time, The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland
Director, Huey
 Huey
For 30 years Huey has been making films on artists, education, the environment, and the state of Maine. His films have been shown at film festivals and on television throughout the United States and in Europe. His sixth feature length documentary film, In Good Time, The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland, had its premiere as the Centerpiece Gala at the Maine International Film Festival in 2011. Huey is a recipient of a fellowship in film from the Maine Arts Commission, and is a member of the Maine Touring Artists and the New Hampshire Arts in Education programs. He is the recipient of the first "Huey" award from the Maine Film Commission. This award, named after the filmmaker, is given to an individual who exhibits "Exceptional contributions in film and education in Maine." Huey is a founder of the Maine Student Film and Video Festival and was its director for 31 years. He has been an artist-in-residence in over 150 schools in New England and currently is an adjunct instructor in Communications and New Media, Southern Maine Community College.
FEBRUARY 2012
Money Matters
Director, Ryan Richmond
 Ryan Richmond
Ryan Richmond is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a cinematographer, he has shot more than 60 films and music videos. His cinematography has been showcased in some 50 festivals nationally and internationally, including Sundance and Cannes. His work is currently airing on HBO with the documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama. Richmond’s directorial debut film Money Matters, was the first short film to be nominated for the Independent Feature Project’s Gordon Parks Award (2001). His screenplay for Money Matters was selected by Tribeca Film Festival’s All Access Program, won the UrbanWorld Film Festival’s HBO Screenplay Competition and second place for the Larry Neal Dramatic Writing Competition. The film won Audience Favorite Award at Roxbury International; a Finalist in the HBO competition at the African American Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival; was featured at Urbanworld, Congressional Black Caucus’ Annual Legislative Conference Film Series; and nominated for Best Director at the Pan African Film Festival.
MARCH 2012
Fambul Tok
Director, Sara Terry
 Sara Terry
A former staff correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and magazine freelance writer, Sara Terry made a mid-career transition into photojournalism and documentary photography in the late 1990s. Her long-term project about the aftermath of war in Bosnia, “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace,” was published in 2005 by Channel Photographics. Her work has been widely exhibited, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and in many private collections. In 2005, she received a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her work in Bosnia. She is the founder of The Aftermath Project (www.theaftermathproject.org), a nonprofit grant program which helps photographers cover the after effects of conflict. Based on the conviction that “War is only half the story,” the Aftermath Project seeks to affect media and public understanding of the true cost of war and the real price of peace through its grant program, exhibitions, publications and educational outreach. Fambul Tok is her first documentary film. She was awarded a 2009 Sundance Documentary Institute grant for the film. A 2010 IFP Doc Lab Fellow, Terry is currently at work on her second documentary, about the subculture of American folk music.
APRIL 2012
BLAST!
Director, Paul Devlin
 Paul Devlin
A five-time Emmy winner for his work on NBC's Olympics and CBS's Tour de France coverage, Paul Devlin began making films at age 12 with a Super 8 camera from his father. Devlin's first documentary Rockin’ Brunswick was made while earning his degree in English Literature at the University of Michigan. Since then, he has created numerous independent projects including four feature-length, theatrically-released, films: SlamNation, Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme, Power Trip and BLAST!. These films have screened for millions of viewers in over 120 countries as well as winning over a dozen international film festival awards and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Devlin is currently working on Super Star Dumb, a musical comedy about the broken promise of middle-class rock-and-roll stardom. As an editor, Devlin's extensive credits include commercials, music videos (Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Kenny G), television shows and major sports broadcasts, including CBS's Super Bowl and ABC/ESPN's World Cup soccer coverage. He has visited over 40 countries and has exhibited photographs of his travels. As a writer, he has contributed to The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Filmmaker, The Independent, and Cineaste, among others. Devlin is on the Board of Directors of Nila, Inc., which designs and manufactures environmentally sustainable LED lighting for the motion picture and television industries.
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