Eugene Corr
Producer/Director
Corr has broad experience in both fiction and non-fiction filmmaking. He wrote and directed the documentary Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey(with Robert Hillmann), for which they were nominated for an Academy Award in 1991. He also wrote and directed the dramatic feature film, Desert Bloom (Jon Voight, AnnaBeth Gish) 1986 (Selection Officelle, Cannes Film Festival).
In addition, Corr has worked as a second unit director on major motion pictures, written or co-written dramatic features, and written for TV. He has directed episodic television, including such shows as: Crime Story, Miami Vice, Shannon’s Deal, I’ll Fly Away, and Arli$$. He has also directed television commercials for Chelsea Pictures, NYC. Most recently he co-wrote, with Edwin Dobb, the documentary, Butte, America in 2008.
In July 2007, Corr commenced shooting in Cuba on his documentary, From Ghost Town to Havana, following the lives of young baseball players, 10-15, living in poor neighborhoods in Havana, Cuba and West Oakland, California. Corr's father was a legendary baseball coach in Richmond, California, for 40 years.
He has three children, three stepchildren, three grandchildren, three ex-wives, and lives in Berkeley with his youngest daughter, Liza, 17.
Roberto “Chile” Perez
Cinematographer/Co-Producer/Cuban Co-Director
Widely regarded as one of Cuba's finest cinematographers, Chile's images have traveled the world. He has worked as Director of Photography on hundreds of documentaries including productions for ABC, CBS, NBC, Discovery Channel and the Halogroup in the United States; NHK and TV Asahi of Japan; Canal Arte of France; and O Globo y Manchete of Brazil. Chile creates frames of great depth and stunning visual beauty, perfect to capture the raucous, sensuous, color-saturated vitality of Cuba.
Among his important documentaries are: "When I think of Che," "Lennon in Havana," "Cuban Art Series," and the documentary series, "Spiked Wings." He has received dozens of awards in national and international competitions.
Ashley James
Director of Photography
Ashley James is co-founder of Searchlight Films and a member of the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. His Director of Photography credits include Blacks & Jews; Street Soldiers; Crumb; The Color Of Honor; Booker; and Ancestors In America. Ashley James’ work has covered historical, racial, artistic, religious, and cultural topics for cable television and national broadcast, for which he has been awarded numerous grants and awards. A former ballplayer, Mr. James has deep roots in the Oakland community, where he is currently the station manager of KTOP/Channel 10, Oakland, CA. He continues working as Director of Photography on film projects around the world.
Monica Lam
Cinematographer
Monica Lam's current work as a producer includes The Bonesetter’s Daughter: The Making of an Opera. She has produced international reports for the PBS series FRONTLINE/World, including Paraguay: Sounds of Hope, about a social entrepreneur’s effort to transform Paraguay through music, and China: Silenced, about Muslim Uighurs living in Xinjiang, China. Her most recent story for FRONTLINE/World, A Message from the Sea, took her to the Faroe Islands to examine how new research on mercury contamination is affecting the centuries-old whale hunting tradition there. Lam also co-produced and shot a news magazine piece about the American right-to-life movement and fertility technologies for Swiss National Television.
Meg Pokrass
Associate Producer
Meg Pokrass, associate producer for FGTH, is the author of "Damn Sure Right", a collection of flash fiction (2011) from Press 53. Meg runs the "Fictionaut Five" author interview series for the popular literary website Fictionaut, and serves as Editor-at-Large for BLIPMAGAZINE (formerly Mississippi Review). Meg doesn't cook very well (burns rice, chars oatmeal), but takes care of 7 animals -- including a bearded dragon lizard named Hubert. She lives with her small creative family in the Sunset district of San Francisco.
Editors
Rick Tejada-Flores
Michael Chandler
Steve Bloom
In eight years at Pixar Animation Studios, Steve Bloom has edited documentaries about Venezuelan tepuis, pioneering sound Ben Burtt, chef Thomas Keller's creative process, and the comapny's early history. Interspersed with those were seven animated shorts, including Boundin', One Man Band, and Lifted. Prior to Pixar, he worked at ILM and PDI/Dreamworks; cut an independent feature, The Breahting Show (released on Film Threat DVD); and the documentary "Shakespeare's Children" (directed by Irving Saraf and Allie Light), which won a National Educationl Film Festival Gold Apple Award.
Additional Cinematographer
Steve Burns
Steve Burns was Director of Photography for the Showtime movie Manhood, and the independent feature films Berkeley, Scheme C6 and Attitude. He co-produced and was production designer for Heat and Sunlight which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He art-directed the feature films Signal 7, On the Edge, the American portion of Until The End Of The World and the NBC TV movie of the week The Long Road Home. Mr. Burns also produced and shot additional photography for Stones and Paper, a documentary about the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, for the PBS series American Masters.
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Eugene Corr
Producer/Director
Corr has broad experience in both fiction and non-fiction filmmaking. He wrote and directed the documentary Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey(with Robert Hillmann), for which they were nominated for an Academy Award in 1991. He also wrote and directed the dramatic feature film, Desert Bloom (Jon Voight, AnnaBeth Gish) 1986 (Selection Officelle, Cannes Film Festival).
In addition, Corr has worked as a second unit director on major motion pictures, written or co-written dramatic features, and written for TV. He has directed episodic television, including such shows as: Crime Story, Miami Vice, Shannon’s Deal, I’ll Fly Away, and Arli$$. He has also directed television commercials for Chelsea Pictures, NYC. Most recently he co-wrote, with Edwin Dobb, the documentary, Butte, America in 2008.
In July 2007, Corr commenced shooting in Cuba on his documentary, From Ghost Town to Havana, following the lives of young baseball players, 10-15, living in poor neighborhoods in Havana, Cuba and West Oakland, California. Corr's father was a legendary baseball coach in Richmond, California, for 40 years.
He has three children, three stepchildren, three grandchildren, three ex-wives, and lives in Berkeley with his youngest daughter, Liza, 17.
Roberto “Chile” Perez
Cinematographer/Co-Producer/Cuban Co-Director
Widely regarded as one of Cuba's finest cinematographers, Chile's images have traveled the world. He has worked as Director of Photography on hundreds of documentaries including productions for ABC, CBS, NBC, Discovery Channel and the Halogroup in the United States; NHK and TV Asahi of Japan; Canal Arte of France; and O Globo y Manchete of Brazil. Chile creates frames of great depth and stunning visual beauty, perfect to capture the raucous, sensuous, color-saturated vitality of Cuba.
Among his important documentaries are: "When I think of Che," "Lennon in Havana," "Cuban Art Series," and the documentary series, "Spiked Wings." He has received dozens of awards in national and international competitions.
Ashley James
Director of Photography
Ashley James is co-founder of Searchlight Films and a member of the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. His Director of Photography credits include Blacks & Jews; Street Soldiers; Crumb; The Color Of Honor; Booker; and Ancestors In America. Ashley James’ work has covered historical, racial, artistic, religious, and cultural topics for cable television and national broadcast, for which he has been awarded numerous grants and awards. A former ballplayer, Mr. James has deep roots in the Oakland community, where he is currently the station manager of KTOP/Channel 10, Oakland, CA. He continues working as Director of Photography on film projects around the world.
Monica Lam
Cinematographer
Monica Lam's current work as a producer includes The Bonesetter’s Daughter: The Making of an Opera. She has produced international reports for the PBS series FRONTLINE/World, including Paraguay: Sounds of Hope, about a social entrepreneur’s effort to transform Paraguay through music, and China: Silenced, about Muslim Uighurs living in Xinjiang, China. Her most recent story for FRONTLINE/World, A Message from the Sea, took her to the Faroe Islands to examine how new research on mercury contamination is affecting the centuries-old whale hunting tradition there. Lam also co-produced and shot a news magazine piece about the American right-to-life movement and fertility technologies for Swiss National Television.
Meg Pokrass
Associate Producer
Meg Pokrass, associate producer for FGTH, is the author of "Damn Sure Right", a collection of flash fiction (2011) from Press 53. Meg runs the "Fictionaut Five" author interview series for the popular literary website Fictionaut, and serves as Editor-at-Large for BLIPMAGAZINE (formerly Mississippi Review). Meg doesn't cook very well (burns rice, chars oatmeal), but takes care of 7 animals -- including a bearded dragon lizard named Hubert. She lives with her small creative family in the Sunset district of San Francisco.
Editors
Rick Tejada-Flores
Michael Chandler
Steve Bloom
In eight years at Pixar Animation Studios, Steve Bloom has edited documentaries about Venezuelan tepuis, pioneering sound Ben Burtt, chef Thomas Keller's creative process, and the comapny's early history. Interspersed with those were seven animated shorts, including Boundin', One Man Band, and Lifted. Prior to Pixar, he worked at ILM and PDI/Dreamworks; cut an independent feature, The Breahting Show (released on Film Threat DVD); and the documentary "Shakespeare's Children" (directed by Irving Saraf and Allie Light), which won a National Educationl Film Festival Gold Apple Award.
Additional Cinematographer
Steve Burns
Steve Burns was Director of Photography for the Showtime movie Manhood, and the independent feature films Berkeley, Scheme C6 and Attitude. He co-produced and was production designer for Heat and Sunlight which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He art-directed the feature films Signal 7, On the Edge, the American portion of Until The End Of The World and the NBC TV movie of the week The Long Road Home. Mr. Burns also produced and shot additional photography for Stones and Paper, a documentary about the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, for the PBS series American Masters.
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