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Rod Crawford: Spiderman
Sonja Watson
Meet a man who prefers the company of spiders.
Credits: Producer/Camera/Sound/Editing: Sonja Watson. Field assistant:
Eli Weiss.
Sonja Watson graduated with a liberal arts B.A. from The Evergreen State
College in 1999. She has since been working for the Seattle Channel
(Channel 21, Seattle's municipal government station), where she
produces, shoots and edits a variety of features about city life,
including a series on local cultural festivals that take place at the
Seattle Center. Rod Crawford: Spiderman screened at the 2004 Northwest
Film & Video Festival. Watson plans to continue making independent
documentaries.
Game Show Duo
Patricia Boiko
A quiz show couple supports their family over 30 years on the game show circuit.
Credits: Producer: Patricia Boiko. Additional camera: Roy Wilson and Michael Nunes. Additional sound: Rick Kowal. Original music composed and performed by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch and John Burdick.
Game Show Duo is the first personal documentary for Patricia Boiko. As
producer, her previous credits include Bombs Away, Millions a Day, a
documentary about the last public tour of the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation after 9/11 (www.hanfordjourney.com). Boiko's films have
screened at the 1 Reel Film Festival and the Hazel Wolf Environmental
Film Festival.
Boiko earned her certification in documentary filmmaking at the
University of Washington. Her passion is documentary filmmaking, but she
loves her day job (and sometimes night job) as a practicing family
physician and researcher. She wrote and hosted a skin cancer prevention
program for Spokane's KHQ TV. She hopes to produce documentaries that
further understanding of complex medical and ethical issues. Boiko
recently received a grant from Humanities Washington to develop Game
Show Duo into a feature.
A Jew's Guide to Christmas
Annie Silverstein
A humorous look at Christmas and Hanukkah.
Credits: Producer: Annie Silverstein. Camera: Annie Silverstein, Lila
Kitaeff, Sarna Lapine and Evan Driscoll. Animation design and editing:
Annie Silverstein.
Annie Silverstein studied history at Macalester College and co-founded
the band Jackaro before changing routes to pursue filmmaking and
teaching youth media programs. She currently lives in Seattle and
directs the Young Producers Project at 911 Media Arts Center. A Jew's
Guide to Christmas is the sum of Silverstein's years and years of
relentless holiday envy.
Tips for Talking to Strangers
Fiona Otway
Turn off the TV, tune in to your neighbor; discover conversation.
Credits: Producer/Editor: Fiona Otway. Camera: Fiona Otway, Malcolm Macklin and Christy Elton. Sound: Stephanie Skourtes, Christy Elton and Chad Aaron.
Fiona Otway is a media maker and media educator with a passion for
community development and social justice. Her work is an evolving
experiment using the form and content of video to help stimulate
personal and cultural transformation.
Signers
Len Davis
A close-up look at the men and women who sign for spare change on the interstate off-ramps.
Credits: Producer/Camera/Editing: Len Davis.
Len Davis' interest in video began at the turn of the millennium, when
he bought a video camera days before a 100-day U.S. journey. Since then,
he's interviewed hundreds of people about who they are and what they
think about the state of the world and has collaborated on a number of
independent media projects. Davis is a global traveler building an
archive of images. He also teaches in the Seattle public schools and
runs an oral history business in Seattle. For more information, go to
http://www.lendavis.net
and
http://www.livehistory.net
Taubman Sucks
Theo Lipfert
How one man's love for a shopping mall created internet law history.
Credits: Producer/Camera/Editing: Theo Lipfert. Music composed by Stefan Hakenberg; performed by Ken Wright (violin), Gregg Rice (violin) and Jim Smith (cello). Sound design: Theo Lipfert. Recording engineer: Ray Tantzen. Supervising sound editor: Jeremiah Slovarp.
Theo Lipfert is a filmmaker who currently lives in Bozeman, Montana. His
short films have played at numerous festivals across the country and
internationally. His previous film, The Displacement Map, won several
"best of category" awards and was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival,
Cinema Paradise and the Pusan Asian Short Film Festival in Korea, among
others. That film was a collaboration with composer Stefan Hakenberg,
who wrote the music for Taubman Sucks as well. Originally from New York
City and environs, Lipfert studied painting and printmaking, earned a
MFA degree from Hunter College in New York, and taught at Hunter and at
Columbia University. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Banff
Centre and Virginia Center for Creative Artists. He is currently an
assistant professor in the film school at Montana State University.
Taubman Sucks will be screened at the Northwest Film & Video Festival
(Nov. 5-13, 2004).
Azi
Jacob Ward
An immigrant war veteran tries to keep tradition alive in a new country.
Credits: Producer/Camera/Editing: Jacob Ward. Sound: Gordon Lingley and Julie Tinker.
Jacob Ward (www.jacobward.com) has worked with digital video as a
producer and editor since 1999. He has produced videos for independent
production companies in New York, Seattle and San Francisco--most
recently for Outside magazine. Ward is currently managing editor of
ReadyMade magazine in Berkeley, California. He hopes to expand Azi into
a broader documentary about the relationship between emigrant war
veterans and their American-born children.
Looking for Lovelace
Molly Norris Curtis
One woman's obsession with a fallen lounge singer.
Credits: Producer: Molly Norris Curtis.
Molly Norris Curtis received her MFA from Vermont College and her BFA
from Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts, where she graduated summa
cum laude and majored in print art and sculpture. She also attended
California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Curtis has
served on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts and the Bellevue
Art Museum School.
Besides having completed dozens of private and public murals, Curtis has
exhibited her fine art extensively in the United States. She is
represented by AT.31 Gallery in Seattle and by Katonah Gallery in
Katonah, NY.
Curtis is an exhibit curator for CHOW Foods, Inc., and is also a
freelance writer who has published essays about art and life in
Ellipsis, Red Headed Step Child, Art Access, Arterial and Queen
Anne/Magnolia News. Her essay regarding the effects of post-modern
theory on her own art--"Identity and Fetish: A Critical Look at Studio
Practice"--will be published in The Raven Chronicles in fall 2004.
Unlisted
Delaney Ruston
After years of estrangement, a physician confronts her schizophrenic father.
Credits: Producer: Delaney Ruston. Camera: Nick Higgins. Sound: Ran Moncaz. Editing:
Delaney Ruston and Felicity Oram. Production assistant: Dara Horenblas. Music: Heather Duby.
Delaney Ruston, a Stanford-trained physician with advanced training in
doctor-patient communication and medical ethics, has been producing
documentaries dealing with medical issues since 1997. In If She Knew,
Ruston depicts her personal struggle with a dying patient whose cultural
background led to conflicts within their working relationship. Ruston's
award-winning work has also concerned the ethics of withholding
information from patients and the ethics of using opiates to treat pain
in certain patients.
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