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ABOUT THE FILM MAKERS
Producer / Director
Carole Hart is an award-winning television and film producer/writer. She began her career in television working with her partner and husband, Bruce Hart, as one of the original writers of Sesame Street, for which she won her first Emmy. She also produced, with Marlo Thomas, Free to Be ... You and Me, the now classic children’s album, best-selling book and Peabody Award-winning television special. She and Bruce created and produced Hot Hero Sandwich, an innovative Emmy-winning NBC series for adolescents. Her credits also include a number of movies and docudramas made for television: Sooner or Later, a movie musical that generated a top ten song and a Platinum soundtrack album: Leap of Faith, a groundbreaking docudrama about a woman who brought her cancer into remission through alternative means; and again teamed with Marlo Thomas, a multi-award winning mixed-media documentary for Lifetime Television, Our Heroes, Ourselves.
Director
Bruce Hart is an award-winning producer, director, screenwriter, and writer of songs, including the title songs for Sesame Street, Free To Be...You and Me, and Bang the Drum Slowly. With his wife and partner, Carole Hart, he has created groundbreaking and culture-shaping multimedia productions, including the Psychology Today film series, Sesame Street, Free To Be...You and Me, and the Emmy-winning NBC series, Hot Hero Sandwich. He directed and wrote the book and lyrics for Sooner or Later, an original musical and NBC-TV Movie of the Week that introduced the hit song, You Take My Breath Away. His teleplay for Leap of Faith, a CBS Movie of the Week, starring Sam Neill and Anne Archer, received a nomination for best long-form drama from the Writers Guild of America.
(Bruce Hart passed away on February 21, 2006. For the Next 7 Generations: The Grandmothers Speak is dedicated to him, with the blessings of the Grandmothers)
Director of Photography
Slawomir Grunberg has been a contributing director of photography and editor for the PBS series: Frontline, American Masters, NOVA, AIDS Quarterly and Health Quarterly. He has also shot for ABC, NBC, HBO, Lifetime and Discovery networks. In 2000 Slawomir won the Emmy Award for School Prayer: A Community at War. Other credits includes Legacy, which received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary feature in 2001 and Sister Rose's Passion which won Best Documentary Short - Tribeca Film Festival and an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary short in 2005.
Director of Photography
Geoffrey O’Connor is filmmaker and writer whose 1993 film At The Edge of Conquest was nominated for an Academy Award. He works regularly for the BBC shooting, producing and directing documentaries about subcultures in America and he has collaborated extensively with Michael Moore as both producer and cameraman. His 1997 nonfiction book Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Director of Photography
Douglas Crawford is a Peabody and Emmy award winning Director of Photography, especially known for his work on the PBS film, Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People, which had been recognized nationally and internationally for its significant contribution to the history of the American West, and the six hour TBS series The Native Americans. As a freelance cinematographer since 1996 his list of clients ranges from --Animal Planet, ABC, and A&E to the White House, WETA, Washington D.C. and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.
Additional Camera
Shelley Cook is a gifted camera woman and an internationally exhibited interdisciplinary artist, producing films, performances and installation artworks. She sees documentary film making as cultural activism. Cook is presently developing a series of bilingual documentaries regarding performance art and political activism in Latin America. Her past works have been funded by the National Endowments for the Arts the National Institute of Fine Arts, INBA, in Mexico, the National Fund for the Arts and The California Arts Council.
Creative Consultant
Jyoti (Jeneane Prevatt, Ph.D.) is internationally known as a spiritual and psychological consultant working with spiritual emergence as it manifests through the individual and community. Her extensive study of indigenous healing and spiritual practices combined with her training in Jungian and psychological insights provide a balanced approach to integrating one’s life. Her consistent focus is to actively affirm our role as conscious creators of sustainable communities through personal and social reform. She resides in Sonora, California, and lectures across the United States, Europe, South America and Africa. She is the Spiritual Director of the Center for Sacred Studies, copyright holder of For the Next Seven Generations: The Grandmothers Speak.
Creative Consultant
Ann Rosencranz, M.A. is a counselor, minister, and translator, having traveled nationally and internationally as a liaison to make alliances between indigenous and non-indigenous cultures. She is co-founder and Program Director for Morningstar Foundation (a program of the Center for Sacred Studies), which offers spiritual and emotional care for people facing the end of life. Ann resides at an intentional spiritual community in California with her husband, her son, and her extended family.
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