Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, an award-winning filmmaker, and a mother. Her films have been selected at over 80 film festivals around the world, including Sundance, Tribeca, and Rotterdam. Her films have won over 20 awards including Audience and Grand Jury Prizes, and have been translated into six languages. Her last two films include "The Tribe," and "Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness." Tiffany lectures worldwide on the Internet and her filmmaking and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Headland Center for the Arts. She has also served as the on-air Internet expert for Good Morning America. Currently, she is the director of The Moxie Institute, an organization that creates media and experiences around social issues using emerging technologies. Tiffany is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow.
www.tiffanyshlain.com
Anecdotes from the filmKen Goldberg appreciates contradictions. He is an artist
and professor of Robotics at UC Berkeley, where he founded the
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. He earned his Ph.D.
in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. His artwork
has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Pompidou Center
(Paris), Ars Electronica (Austria), and the ICC Biennale (Tokyo).
He has published over 150 papers with his students and held
visiting positions at San Francisco Art Institute, MIT Media
Lab, and Pasadena Art Center. Goldberg was awarded the National
Science Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995 and named IEEE
Fellow in 2005. He has never dated anyone named Barbie.
www.ken.goldberg.net
Gil Gershoni is the Founder and Creative Director of Gershoni,
an award-winning communication design agency based in San
Francisco. For over 15 years, Gershoni has led integrated
branding and interactive projects for clients like Nike, The
BBC, The Patrón Spirits Company, Clif Bar and many
more. Gershoni’s work has appeared in a wide range of
venues from Communication Arts, Print and How magazines to
the Whitney Biennial and Sundance. A noted lecturer, Gil Gershoni
is a member of International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
and is an advisor to national design schools.
www.gershoni.com
Peter Coyote has performed for some of the
world's most distinguished filmmakers, including Barry Levinson,
Roman Polanski, Pedro Almodovar, Steven Spielberg, Walter
Hill, Martin Ritt, Steven Soderberg, Diane Kurys, and Sidney
Pollack . Coyote became
a professional theater-actor during his early twenties, first
as an actor at San Francisco 's Actor's Workshop, and then as
an actor -writer-director at the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Coyote
has also starred in a number of television movies and mini-series,
among them "A Seduction in Travis County," "Living
a Lie," "Privileged Information," "The People
vs. Jean Harris," "Echoes in the Darkness," and "Buffalo
Girls." Recently he played Harvey Milk in Showtime's
Execution of Justice. Coyote is well-known for his voice-over
work, and in 1992 won an EMMY as the host for the nine-hour
series, "The Pacific Century." Coyote currently
plays Warren Keaton in ABC's "Commander-in-Chief."
www.petercoyote.com
Actress/Poet/Playwright/Native
New Yorker Vanessa Hidary grew up on Manhattan's culturally
diverse Upper West Side. Her
experiences as a Sephardic Jew with close friends from different
ethnic and religious backgrounds inspired her to write "Culture
Bandit," a solo show that chronicles Vanessa's coming of
age during the golden age of Hip-Hop and her dedication to fostering
understanding and friendship between all people. Her performances
have been aired on HBO's "Russell Simmon's Presents Def
Poetry." She has been featured in The New York Post,
Time Out New York, The Jewish Week, Spitkickers.com, The Forward,
URB magazine, BUST Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Albuquerque
Journal, and Lilith Magazine. Vanessa is also a member
of the burlesque troupe "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad."
www.hebrewmamita.com
Paul Godwin has worked for 20 years as a professional composer
in NYC and San Francisco. His recent credits include
the West Coast Premiere of Tony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul" at
Berkeley Repertory Theatre for which he was awarded the Bay
Area Critics Circle Award for Best Composer. Other
film credits include "Road Scholar" with Andre
Codrescu and other documentaries. Paul has created original
music for games by Purple Moon, Gravity/Grolier and IBM/Crayola. He
is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and has done additional
musical studies at Mills College. His work with Jewish
music includes studies in Hebrew chanting with Zen Tziona
Cohen and as producer of her album, "The Hebrew Book
of Ascending." Paul is the creator and lead singer
of The Sippy Cups, a pop-rock band for preschoolers, currently
creating mosh pits throughout northern California.
www.thesippycups.com
Son of a wedding videographer and photographer, Stefan received
a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Iowa State University
in 1994 and began working in New York City as a print graphic
designer. He then transitioned to web design and then web
animation not only for interactive design but for film. In
2000, Stefan's first film, "Latin Alive" was included
on the Best of Resfest DVD volume 1. By 2003, Stefan
left the world of web-based animation for that of film and
television. Shortly after, "Terminal Bar" won the
Jury Prize for short film at the Sundance Film Festival. Stefan
continues to work on motion graphics for food, film, and fun.
www.touristpictures.com
In March 2005 Carlton received a Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University. He is a San Francisco based arts educator, writer, and filmmaker. Carlton has taught art history, architecture, and film theory at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Carlton also develops education guides for KQED-TV's Spark series on Bay Area artists and art organizations. He was a contributor to SFMOMA's educational multimedia project "Making Sense of Modern Art," and has written for ArtandCulture.com. Carlton also helped establish the Mission Minyan, a grassroots organization of young Jews who get together on a regular basis for spirited traditional davening and related festivities in San Francisco's Mission District.
Romy Itzigsohn was born in Los Angeles with lots of Barbies
and has always wanted to work in the production of her own
films. After neither applying nor graduating from USC’s
film school, she traveled through much of Europe and Asia,
living and working in New Zealand and Australia only to find
a home in San Francisco. Here she was inspired to meet
a group of talented and intelligent personalities in the making
of The Tribe, who subsequently bribed into her employment. Luckily,
Romy’s interests have been limited to issues of assimilation,
Judaism, and Barbie, making this process like a dream come
true. She is currently working in pre-production on
the evolution of her latest script.
Dave Nelson's career spans over twenty years in the film/sound
and recording industry. His work involves an interesting mixture
of documentaries, feature, and short films, and albums some
that have been nominated for Academy, Emmy and Grammy Awards.
It is his intuitive and improvisational style constantly keeps
him in demand as one of the most sought after sound designer/engineers
in the industry. He is currently heading Outpost Studios in
the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. With the largest 5.1
mix room in San Francisco, a live room, and a large Foley
pit he has made Outpost Studios the independent audio post-production
facility in the Bay Area to come to. Being a part of the film
and music community has always been a focus of Outpost Studios
and Dave is happy to be a part of San Francisco's and the
world's cinema.
www.outpostfilm.com
Contrary to popular belief Thomas
Eugene is not Jewish. He does however love working on movies,
especially if he gets to animate Barbie dolls. Thomas
started his artistic career as a classical ballet dancer under
Larry Long at the Ruth Page Foundation in Chicago. He has danced
with Louisville Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Gus Giordano‚s
Jazz Dance Chicago. After discovering the wonderful combinations
of pizza, beer, and terrible movies from the 80‚s, Thomas
decided to hang up his dancing shoes and moved into the world
of graphic design. He
currently works in SF as a freelance designer at Odopod, Carat,
and 8speed Multimedia.
www.onesmallroom.net
A native of New Orleans, LA, Matt Ganucheau has been
creating and performing electronic music for over 8 years.
In 2004, Matt graduated from The Berklee College of Music
with degrees in Film Scoring and Music Synthesis. Shortly
after, he moved to the Bay Area to pursue a career in sound
design and composition. Since his arrival he has completed
three short film scores, a full featured game score, and has
had several compositions appear on international compilations.
He currently keeps his daytimes occupied by working for electronic
music giants such as Native Instruments, BEAM, and Robotspeak.
www.ganucheau.com
Dalan McNabola has been a musician
since 1993 and has been editing since 1999. His films have been
shown all over Northern California, including the Pacific Film
Archive, and in Canada.
Sophia’s work has earned international acclaim for tackling difficult topics
with artistry and sensitivity. She has produced, directed and photographed several
award-winning documentaries, including "Divided Loyalties " an intensely
personal, feature-length exploration of the conflict in Cyprus (Golden Gate Award,
1999); "Between the Lines" about women and self-injury (Golden Gate
Award, 1998); and "Impact Zone" (Best Experimental Film, NY Underground
Film Festival, 1997.) Specializing in alluring, formally dramatic lighting
design as well as improvised observational camerawork, Sophia has been shooting
high-profile documentary films for over a decade. Her cinematography credits
include HBO’s "Unchained Memories, PBS’ Presumed Guilty, and
KQED’S Emmy Award winning "Home Front."
www.citizenfilm.org
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Peter Coyote: Narrator
Paul Godwin: Music Composition
