Sergio Camacho, Wayne Chance, Laura Dunn, Willie Fontenot, Sylvia Gutierrez, Mat Hames,
Vance Holmes, Don Howard, Isaac Mathes, Mitko Panov, Rocket Productions, Geoff Union

Sergio Camacho (Cinematographer)
In 1994, Sergio received a B.A. in film from Harvard University where he worked with several award-winning filmmakers including Ross McElwee, Robert Gardiner, Rob Moss and Richard Rogers. His thesis film At 22: Pictures from Home was screened at the Sinking Creek, Big Muddy, Houston International and New Director/New Films Film festivals. Since graduating, he has worked professionally as a documentary cinematographer for cable television and various independent documentaries, including a documentary short recently featured at Sundance Film Festival. He is currently on fellowship studying screenwriting at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.

Wayne Chance (Sounds Recordist, Sound Designer)
Wayne has been a Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Film Mixer and Musician for many years. He's worked on both commercial and independent projects, and has several awards and credits to his name. His clients include; GSD&M Advertising agency, Budweiser, Polygram Records, USA Network, Bruce Hornsby, Lyle Lovett, and many others. Currently, Wayne is the Film Mixer and Digital Audio Specialist for the Radio, Television, and Film Department at The University of Texas at Austin.

Laura Dunn (Producer, Director)
Laura Dunn, Founder and Executive Director of Two Birds Film in Austin, Texas. MFA Film, University of Texas at Austin, 2002. THE SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION (1999, 31 minutes, video) documents a labor strike at Yale, won best documentary at the 1999 National Student Film Festival and toured to 40 universities with the nationwide Michael-Moore sponsored McCollege Tour. BABY (1999, 5 minutes, 16mm), which connects sex to population control, was a college winner in the World Population Film and Video Festival 1999. It was featured at Exit Art's annual exhibition of new artists, NYC, summer 2000 and Aldrich Museum of Art. GREEN (2000, 47 minutes, 16mm) documents pollution along the Mississippi River Petrochemical Corridor. It won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Student Documentary, Hollywood, CA; Global Vision Grand Prize for World Population Film Festival; Best Documentary at the Making Waves National Student Film Festival, NYC; Gecko Award at Cinematexas, Austin; Honorable Mention at Flicker Film Festival, Chicago, IL; and played at SXSW, Doubletake Documentary, and Great Plains Film Festivals. BECOME THE SKY (2002, 53 minutes) maps energy and politics 4,000 miles across Texas and was nominated for the 2002 Student Academy Award. Dunn was recently awarded a Rockefeller Media Fellowship for Mai Mayim, a documentary that looks at the Middle East conflict from within the context of the ecological need for water in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.

Willie Fontenot (Associate Producer, Still Photography)
"The grandfather of Louisiana's environmental movement", Willie has been organizing citizen groups to fight for environmental justice for 30 years. As community liaison for the Louisiana Attorney General's office, he has documented toxic pollution throughout the Mississippi River petrochemical corridor. Selections from his collection of over a thousand photographs are featured in GREEN.

Sylvia Gutierrez (Web Designer)
With fifteen years experience in the printing design industry, Sylvia is combining the talents and skills she has developed in graphic and web design and is currently pursuing a career as a freelance designer doing both web and print work.
www.rojo-design.com

Mat Hames (Graphics, Animation)
After three years of slaving away in the bowels of an Orwellian Video Production company in Dallas, Mat struck out on his own as a freelance broadcast designer in '97. He pounded the pavement in Austin from '97-'99, working on projects for a wide range of ad firms and post houses before founding Alpheus, a progressive design and production studio, in 2000. Mat is co-owner and Creative Design Director. Recent projects include a national spot for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
www.alpheusmedia.com

Vance Holmes (Aerial Photography)
A long-time Austin-based professional cinematographer, Vance has experience shooting just about anything you can imagine. He works on Austin CityLimits, rents cranes, does commercial and documentary work all over the country and specializes in aerial photography.

Don Howard (Executive Producer, Director, and Editor)
Was born in Waco, Texas, and graduated from Baylor University in 1979. He moved to Austin to study philosophy at the University of Texas and began directing television programs for Austin Community Television in the early 1980's; he received the Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas, in Television and Film Production, in 1987. Since that time he has done freelance editing on numerous commercial, corporate, and music video projects (including the films Dazed and Confused and Cultivating Charlie) and has produced and directed documentaries of his own, on cowgirls:All-Girl Jackpot (1987), Texas high school marching bands:Pride Check- Fritztown Band is Super Great! (1989), the Edsel Automobile Owners Club:Edsel (1990), and his hometown: Letter From Waco (1996). The ITVS-sponsored Letter From Waco has been broadcast twice nationally by PBS. Mr. Howard is currently on the faculty of the Radio/Television/Film Department of the University of Texas at Austin,
where he teaches non-linear editing.

Isaac Mathes (Cinematographer)
In 1994 Isaac Mathes received a BA in the University of Chicago's interdisciplinary BA program Fundamentals, Issues and Texts, concentrating on Russian, Greek and English literature. Photographic practice, mixed with travel and foreign language study fellowships, led him to pursue a synthesis, via the cinema, of his creative and collaborative interests. In 2000 he received an MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin, having shot all of his qualifying projects in Russia. Since then he has taught a variety of courses in media production and aesthetics at leading institutions, including: UT-Austin, VGIK in Moscow (as a Fulbright scholar) and the Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, NY. He balances teaching with freelance cinematography, favoring handheld operation and the careful use of natural light. He recently lensed award-winning projects for directors Laura Dunn (Green, Become the Sky), Spencer Parsons (Resolution, Once and Future Asshole), David Barker (Seven Days) and Athina Tsangari (The Slow Business of Going). He also operates Tuning Fork Films, the American-Russian co-production entity by which he produced and directed several documentary/narrative hybrids: Between the Dog and the Wolf (1998, Award for Expanding the Boundaries, Cinematexas Festival), The Navel (2000, Honorable Mention for insight into the Russian situation, Seoul Net Festival) and Moscow Diary (2002). Tuning Fork is currently developing a narrative feature film about an astronaut's crash landing and recuperation, to be shot in the Russian countryside, in partnership with St. Petersburg-based Mzhalalafilm.

Mitko Panov (Director, Professor)
Born in 1963 in the southernmost state of former Yugoslavia, the Republic of Macedonia. For his film works, Panov has received several international festival awards among which the Golden Palm for best short film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991. The other awards include: First Prize at the International Short Film Festival in Ismailia, Egypt, 1995 and the Egyptian Film Makers' Society Special Award for Best Film; Grand Prix at the International Short Film Festival in Monte Casino, Italy 1990; First Prize for Best Student Film at the International Film Festival in Rimini, Italy 1987; First Prize at the International Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel 1986; Second Prize at the International Short Film Festival in Krakow, Poland 1986; and Main Prize at the International Student Film Festival in Munich, Germany in 1985.
www.utexas.edu/coc/rtf/fs/panov/index.htm

Rocket Productions (Online Edit)
Austin-based online editing services with extensive experience editing a wide variety of projects from political campaign ads to non-profit documentaries and commercial advertising.
www.rktproductions.com

Geoff Union (Music)
Geoff received a B.A. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 1994. Geoff is a local musician and recording artist with a repertoire of bluegrass, Indian and rock.