Haskell Wexler, ASC
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Haskell Wexler is considered to be one of the most important cinematographers working in the film industry today. Wexler has photographed a wide range of films that have earned him five Academy Award nominations and two Oscars for Best Cinematography. His nominations came for his work on his first feature documentary, THE LIVING CITY; a short film T FOR TUMBLEWEED; Milos Forman's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST; John Sayles' MATEWAN and Touchstone Pictures BLAZE. He took home statuettes for his work on Mike Nichols' WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF and Hal Ashby's BOUND FOR GLORY. Other films shot for Ashby include COMING HOME, SECOND-HAND HEART and LOOKIN' TO GET OUT. Born in Chicago, Wexler attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year before joining the Merchant Marines. He stayed at sea for five years, became a second officer, then returned to Chicago where he spent ten years making documentary and educational films before moving to California in 1955. |
Lisa Leeman
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Lisa Leeman writes, produces, directs and edits documentary films. She was honored to be a documentary judge at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, served as the past president of the International Documentary Association, and sat on the board of the IDA, as well as the National Coalition of Independent Public Broadcasting Producers. Leeman writes articles specializing in the ethics of documentary filmmaking for the International Documentary Association, and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California. Leeman’s credits include: METAMORPHOSIS: MAN INTO WOMAN, which premiered at Sundance in 1990 and won the Filmmakers’ Trophy. For FENDER PHILOSOPHERS, a portrait of Americans seen through their bumper stickers, Leeman was nominated for an Emmy. Currently Leeman is directing the feature-length documentary OUT OF FAITH, which explores conflicts over intermarriage and assimilation as seen through three generations of a family of Holocaust Survivors. |
Tamara Maloney
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Tamara Maloney, a graduate of UCLA’s Film, Television and Digital Media department, has produced and directed two films: WALTER, and THE THREE BODY PROBLEM. WALTER, told almost entirely underwater, screened at several festivals in the U.S and abroad, and was featured on PBS’s Fine Cut series. THE THREE BODY PROBLEM, like WALTER, has had successful runs at many independent film festivals across the country. Maloney has co-edited and produced Haskell Wexler’s documentary WHO NEEDS SLEEP? and is currently editing a feature. |
Greg Landau
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Greg Landau is an award-winning music video producer, educator and music historian. He is a two-time Grammy nominee and has produced over 30 CDs, motion picture sound tracks and videos. During the 1980’s Landau toured internationally as a guitarist and tresero with the Nicaraguan Nueva Cancion group, Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy and Mancotal, and he shared stages with Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes, Mercedes Sosa, Chico Buarque, Amparo Ochoa and Nicomedes Santa Cruz in music festivals and concerts all over Latin America and Europe. Over the last two decades, Landau has worked extensively with Oscar winning filmmaker Haskell Wexler, and with his own father, Saul Landau, making documentary films in Latin America. He has also done expansive cultural research in Latin America, and has received a doctorate in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. Greg Landau’s production credits include works for PBS, Disney, Sony, Warner Bros., CNN, Lucas Film, Six Degrees Records, McDonald's and StarMedia. As Executive Producer at Starmedia, he has also produced videos with Christina Aguilera, Carlos Santana, Los Lobos, Sub-Comandante Marcos and many others. |