PHOTO ALBUM

Advisory / Editorial Personnel

Julia Reichert - Assoc. Producer
Reichert is a two-time Academy Award Nominee for Best Feature Documentary for Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists and Union Maids. These films and two others, Growing Up Female and Methadone - An American Way Of Dealing, all screened nationally in the U.S. on PBS.

Reichert and partner Steven Bognar won the Prime Time Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking for their four-hour epic documentary A Lion In The House . Lion was a prime time special over two nights on PBS, and was nominated for the Indie Spirit Award. Reichert wrote, produced and directed the feature film Emma & Elvis (which screened at numerous international film festivals), and produced (with Steven Bognar) The Dream Catcher , a feature film directed by Ed Radtke. The Dream Catcher has screened in over 20 international film festivals, won numerous awards and is seen on the Sundance Channel.

Parallel to her filmmaking career, Julia Reichert has worked for years building the independent film community. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the godmothers of American Independent film. On a national level, Reichert co-founded New Day Films, a distribution co-operative for independent films, and The Film Fund, a foundation that supported the making of social issue media. Her work with the Film Fund helped birth the Independent Feature Project. Reichert is also Professor of Motion Pictures and Professor in the Dept of Community Health at the School of Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

Reichert has written for the Independent Film & Video Monthly, authored the classic Doing It Yourself, A Handbook on Independent Film Distribution, and a chapter of With Both Eyes Open, Seeing Beyond Gender, edited by Johnson and Kalvern.

Reichert's work has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the American Film Institute, and ITVS. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship and with Steven Bognar is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and has received support from the Ohio Arts Council and the MacDowell Colony.

PHOTO ALBUM

Advisory / Editorial Personnel

ALB

Toby Shimin – Video Editor Shimin began her film career as a sound editor, where she worked on such projects as Fire from the Mountain and Working Girls, which won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

She switched to picture editing in 1988 when she cut The Children's Storefront, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary. Since then, she has cut numerous films that have been accepted at Sundance, including A Leap of Faith, Martha and Ethel, and Out of the Past, which won an Audience Award.

Shimin has cut several diverse projects for PBS, including AIDS Warriors for the 2003 season of Wide Angle and two projects for American Experience: Miss America, which premiered at Sundance in 2002, and Seabiscuit, for which she was nominated for a 2003 Emmy. Most recently she edited episode two of the Emmy-nominated Reporting America at War, and Three of Hearts: a post-modern family, which premiered in September 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival.

Shimin is currently working on the feature length documentary Mothers of Bedford and recently completed work on A Sea Change, currently garnering awards worldwide. Toby is a principal of Dovetail Films, a production and editing company she co-founded with Dina Guttmann in 2001. She studied film at Hampshire College, where she earned a Bachelors of Arts.

Carol McAdoo – Advisor
Carol McAdoo is founder and principal of the McAdoo Resource Network. Founded in 1997, the work of MRN is focused on personal and professional development and positive organizational change. Most recently Carol has been working with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization to support the development of palliative and hospice care in prisons and jails across the country.

BACK TO PHOTO ALBUM