THE PRODUCTION TEAM

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

Paul Mariano Paul Mariano was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the oldest high school in the country, Boston Latin School. After completing his studies at Hastings College of the Law, he practiced as a criminal defense attorney for 27 years. Upon retirement from the Contra Costa County Public Defenders Office, he co-founded Gravitas Docufilms. His directorial debut, Also Ran, won the award for Best Political Documentary at the 2006 Atlanta Docufest. His film, Faces of Genocide began the International Citizens’ Tribunal on Sudan, held in New York City on November 13, 2006. The film also showed at the Sarajevo Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars in June 2007.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

Kurt Norton (co-founder of Gravitas Docufilms) has written, directed and produced numerous narrative shorts, including The Long Weekend and 17 Reasons Why, which have screened at film festivals across the country.

PRODUCER

Christine O’Malley was born in Manhattan and raised outside of Chicago. In 2004 Christine served as Associate Producer on the Academy Award nominated documentary film Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room. Wordplay, the first feature length film she has produced through her production company O'Malley Creadon Productions, was a breakout hit at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and went on to become the second-highest grossing documentary of 2006. I.O.U.S.A., O'Malley’s second documentary, premiered at Sundance in 2008 along with a successful theatrical run and broadcast on PBS.

EDITOR

Doug Blush has edited numerous award-winning films, including the recent SXSW festival hit, Some Assembly Required, and the theatrically released documentaries , Wordplay, I.O.U.S.A. and Outrage. His work can be seen in, Freakonomics, due in theaters this summer. He has worked on a range of documentaries, as an editor, cameraman and director, and runs MadPix, a production and postproduction company, in Los Angeles.

MUSIC DESIGNER/COMPOSER

Peter Golub recently co-composed, with James Newton Howard, the music for The Great Debaters, directed by Denzel Washington and starring Washington and Forest Whitaker. He scored Frozen River, directed by Courtney Hunt, and winner of Jury Award for Best Film at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. He composed music for the documentaries Wordplay and I.O.U.S.A., both shown at the Sundance Film Festival.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Brian Oakes founded Brian Oakes Design in New York. Brian designed the titling and motion graphics for the critically acclaimed documentary, Wordplay. He followed up with designing the graphics for the PBS program, The Botany of Desire; Comedy Central’s Important Things with Demetri Martin and Patrick Creadon’s theatrically released documentary, I.O.U.S.A..

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Frazer Bradshaw has shot hundred of film projects including features, commercials, documentaries and music videos. His work has screened at Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and New York film festivals. His recent directorial debut, Everything Strange and New, has been hailed by critics, winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival and the CineVision Award at the Munich Film Festival. He shot a portion of and appears in (along with his daughter Hattie) in Focus Feature's current release, Babies.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Barbara Grandvoinet Born and raised in Paris, Barbara now lives in San Francisco as a producer and director. Her film Pas De Deux won Best of Festival at the Berkeley Film Festival in 2005 and Children of the Trains (in post-production) is gaining attention worldwide. She produces, writes and edits segments frequently broadcast on national television as well as documentaries and films.Her past work with the PBS/American Masters series includes: Julliard, F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams, Robert Capa: In Love & War and Clint Eastwood.