JACK WALSH, Producer, is an award-winning independent filmmaker and public television producer. His recent executive producer credits include and then one night: The Making of Dead Man Walking, which won a regional Emmy 2002; Independent View, a 17-part national series on independent film, which he also developed; and Season by Season, a 22-part national cooking series with chef/host Michael Chiarello, all produced at KQED. Additionally, he was the series producer for the Living Room Festival, an innovative program of independent productions that aired on KQED in the 1990s.

VIVIAN KLEIMAN, Executive Producer, is a veteran of over twenty years of independent film production. Her credits include several documentaries for television including Forgotten Fires, co-produced with Michael Chandler, and Color Adjustment and Tongues Untied, both with acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. She teaches documentary film at Stanford University.

DAWN LOGSDON, Editor, was the editor on Rob Epstein & Jeffery Friedmanıs award winning Paragraph 175 and on KQEDıs acclaimed documentary The Castro. She also edited Teaching Tolerance, for the Southern Poverty Law Center, School Colors for Frontline, and Lebanon: Meaning in Ruins for the Childrenıs Defense Fund.

TAYLOR MALI, Narrator, is a poet and performance artist in New York City. Mali produced two spoken word CDs, several books, and won three national slam poetry championships. He was featured in the films Slam and Slam Nation.

SHARON WOOD, Scriptwriter. Her writing credits include three Oscar nominees: Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press; Straight from the Heart; and Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren. Wood recently served as writer on Paragraph 175, an HBO documentary that took the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival.

STUART TIMMONS, Writer, is a freelance writer and the author of The Trouble With Harry Hay, Founder of the Modern Gay Movement. He writes in the areas of AIDS and social policy, and gay and lesbian culture. His work has appeared in Spin, VIBE, The Advocate, The LA Weekly and The Los Angeles Times.

LINDSAY SABLOSKY, Associate Producer, is the co-producer of Daddy & Papa, a documentary by Johnny Symons, which premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Currently, she is producing The Hard Straight (working title) by Goro Toshima, an hour-long documentary that follows three ex-convicts as they make the radical transition from prison life to the outside world.

TOM CHRISTENSEN, Associate Producer, has produced and directed several independent works. Prior to his entry into filmmaking he led a distinguished career in publishing.

MARSHA KAHM, Cinematographer, has over twenty-two years experience shooting documentary and commercial projects. Her credits include the HBO documentary Rachelıs Daughters, HIV: uninfected (does not equal) un-affected, and Uncommon Places: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

SOPHIE COMSTANTINOU, Cinematographer, has recently completed shooting for the HBO documentary Born in Slavery. She shot numerous projects for PBS, including Home Front, and Presumed Guilty. Constantinou has also lensed many independent documentaries including My Comrade Yankee and Some Real Heat.

PHILIPPE ROQUES, Cinematographer, has worked on a number of award winning projects including Tom Shepardıs Scoutıs Honor, the PBS series A Question of Equality, and White Christmas. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Film at Vassar College in New York.

JAY FARRINGTON, Sound Recordist, recently completed work on Celebrity and the City for KQED-TV, and, Wild At Start - High Technology Adventures and the American Dream for PBS. He works frequently for 60 Minutes II, 20/20 and Dateline.

LORETTA MOLLITOR, Sound Recordist. Her credits include Deadly Deception (Academy Award, Best Documentary Short), Straight From the Heart (Academy Award nominated), and Coming Out Under Fire. She received a national Emmy Award for her sound work on The Celluloid Closet.

TIM JONES, Composer, is a composer for films and commercials in Los Angeles. His credits include scores for Embattled Buddhists: Under the Rising Sun, The Forsaken (Sony Pictures), Possessed (Showtime), The Fury Within (USA Network), and Lightning (Porchlight Entertainment).

SHIRLEY GUTIERREZ, Online Editor. In 2002, Gutierrez received a Northern California Emmy for Community Programming for "Homefront", a documentary about gentrification and displacement in San Francisco and Richmond. In 2003, her most recent film, "Lonely Island: Hidden Alcatraz", received a Northern California Emmy for Educational Programming. Gutierrez worked on "And Then One Night", the story of the San Francisco Operaıs production of "Dead Man Walking", and "Brother Outsider, The Life of Bayard Rustin", which screened at Sundance in 2003.

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