Mark Jonathan Harris - Executive Producer
Mark Jonathan Harris has made three Academy-Award winning documentary films: The Redwoods, a documentary made for the Sierra Club to help establish a redwood national park that won an Oscar for Best Short Documentary (1968); The Long Way Home, a film made for the Simon Wiesenthal Center about the period immediately following the Holocaust that won the Academy Award for Best Feature Length Documentary (1997); and Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, produced for Warner Bros., that also won an Academy Award for Best Feature Length Documentary (2000). He is currently producing a new documentary about Darfur for Warners Independent. Since 1983, he has taught filmmaking at the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California, where he heads the documentary program. |
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Jon Dunham - Producer/Director/Cinematographer
A runner for over a decade, Jon Dunham has completed 21 marathons (including 3 in Chicago) and many other road races. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California's prestigious School of Cinema-Television and has been the recipient of numerous awards including a 2002 Telly Award for No Distance Too Far, a film on the 600-mile California AIDS Ride. As a cinematographer, he has shot such films as Tell Me Cuba and the forthcoming Keepers of Memory: Stories of Hidden Children. |
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Gwendolen Twist - Producer
Gwendolen Twist has worked in the film and television industry for the past seven years. Most recently she was the Associate Producer on two NBC/Discovery Kids programs, Flight 29 Down and Darcy's Wild Life. She is also an avid runner and has completed three Los Angeles marathons. |
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Sarah Levy - Cinematographer
Sarah Levy is an award-winning cinematographer of documentary and narrative films. Her work has aired on PBS, A&E, CBS, the Sundance Channel, Showtime and in festivals worldwide. Sarah received her MFA from the USC School of Cinema-Television where she was awarded the Thomas B. Bush Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Cinematography. In 2001, Sarah received the prestigious Arthur Miller Heritage Award from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for her body of work from USC. In 1998, Sarah co-directed and shot Tak for Alt, Survivor of a Human Spirit, a documentary featured in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Contemporary Documentary series for 2000 "A survey of outstanding recent work in the documentary field." She is currently shooting a PBS documentary about foster kids aging out of the system. |
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Christo Brock - Editor Born and raised outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Christo attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire where he earned an A.B. in Theater. Upon graduating he pursued the life of an actor with Shakespeare and Company in Lennox, Massachusetts and independently in San Francisco. Christo moved behind the camera when he earned his Master's degree in film production from the University of Southern California. There, he studied editing with Kate Amend and directing under Mark Harris, among others. Christo's short film In the Hole premiered in the "Filmmakers of Tomorrow" program at the Telluride Film Festival and then made the festival circuit, picking up a handful of awards. Christo was Associate Producer on Mark Harris' Academy Award winning documentary The Long Way Home. |
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