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Produced by
Dallas Brennan Katy Chevigny Peter Nashel Kirsten Johnson Carol Dysinger |
Cast
Anthony Amsterdam |
Genre
Documentary |
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Filmmaker Notes
 Katy Chevigny [Co-Director/Producer] is the Founder and President of Big Mouth Productions and Arts Engine, Inc. in New York. She is also a co-founder of Mediarights. She produced the award-winning documentaries Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Nuyorican Dream, Brother Born Again, and Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America. Chevigny directed and produced Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today, a feature length documentary about traditional Chinese medicine in China and the United States. In addition, she has produced and directed over a dozen short-format documentary and advocacy videos (including projects for the American Bar Association, ACORN, the Fortune Society for Ex-Offenders, and the Vera Institute for Justice) on subjects ranging from public housing in Chicago to juvenile justice policies. In 1996, she directed a one-hour documentary, Hoops on Fire, about an amateur basketball league, and in 1997 she wrote and directed two 16 mm fiction shorts, Flying and Third Wheel. Chevigny graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Eastern Studies.
Kirsten Johnson [Co-Director/Cinematographer]has worked as both a director and cinematographer on numerous projects for television and theatrical release. She directed Innocent Until Proven Guilty, a feature-length documentary about the juvenile justice system in Washington D.C., which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1999 (broadcast on HBO). She has also directed three fiction shorts, including Bintou in Paris, the story of a Malian immigrant family living in Paris that faces the question of female genital mutilation (broadcast throughout Africa on TV5 and SABC and winner of the French Human Rights Award in 1997). Johnson has filmed for Big Mouth Productions (Brother Born Again and Journey to the West); Raoul Peck ( Whose Profit? ); and Barbara Kopple ( American Standoff and My Generation ), as well as Derrida , Peadbody Award-Winner The Two Towns of Jasper , and the Academy-Award® nominated Asylum . She filmed extensively for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, shooting over 200 interviews in Paris and New York. Johnson shoots often for broadcast television, including ARTE, BBC, VH1, ABC, HBO, and PBS’ Frontline and Wide Angle. Johnson is an honors graduate of Brown University and was the first American trained in cinematography at the French National Film School (FEMIS). Related Films
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