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Read Me Differently's Credits and Crew Members include:
Producer/Director: Sarah Entine
After earning her Master’s degree in Social Work from Simmons College in Boston, Sarah Entine settled in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Prior to completing her professional education, Ms. Entine obtained a training certificate in mediation and conflict resolution.
Though identified with a learning disability in 1978, she was unaware of how her learning difference influenced her life outside of
the classroom. But in 2001, after re-connecting with her elementary school tutor, she discovered how her dyslexia impacted her
relationship with her mother and grandmother. Since then, Ms. Entine has become passionate about the subject of learning disabilities
and how they can complicate relationships. While making this film, Ms. Entine has attended numerous conferences on learning disabilities
and has done extensive research on the topic. She has also taken courses in documentary filmmaking from the Film Arts Foundation and Bay
Area Video Coalition.
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Director of Photography: Fawn Yacker
Fawn Yacker is a Producer/Director and a Director of Photography for film and video.
Her cinematography credits include “Deadly Deception” (Academy Award best short documentary, 1991);
“In The Shadow Of The Stars,” contributing cinematographer (Academy Award best feature length documentary, 1991);
“Chuck Solomon: Coming Of Age”…among the best documentaries dealing with AIDS.” Kevin Thomas LA Times;
“Confessions Of A Pretty Lady,” a one hour documentary about actress/performer Sandra Bernhard produced
for the BBC’s Arena program.
Ms. Yacker’s directorial debut in the dramatic narrative form, was as one of the twelve participants
in the ninth cycle of the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women. She completed, “Bedtime
Story”; a thirty minute film about making choices based on love rather than fear. Ms. Yacker’s directing
credits also include “Can You See Me Flying,” a documentary about dancer/choreographer Terry Sendgraff,
screened on PBS as well as the Learning Channel’s Independent Series, (winner of the 1991 Bronze Apple
at the American Educational Film and Video Festival.) “A Leap Across the Bar Lines” directed for the Women’s
Philharmonic (winner of the Bronze Apple, 1993). She has also directed award winning dramatic and comedic
programs for corporate education and training.
“That’s A Family,” co-directed and co-produced with Academy Award recipient Debra Chasnoff (“Deadly Deception”),
was honored with a screening at the White House and awarded the 2000 Master Cine Golden Eagle. Ms. Yacker was
also the director of photography on this educational/documentary film which is part one of a three part series
on diversity for elementary school distribution and television broadcast.
Ms. Yacker is presently developing, “American Kids,” a half hour dramatic series for children aged eight to thirteen.
“American Kids” uses “structured reality,” or “composed documentary,” to authentically portray a broad range of
cultural and socio economic lifestyles while developing character and laying the groundwork for compassion.
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Editor: Jennifer Chinlund
Jennifer Chinlund has edited many PBS productions in her 20-year career. Some of her recent credits include:
Self-Made Man (POV 2005); Discovering Dominga (POV 2003); Secrets of Silicon Valley (Independent Lens 2002);
Coming to Light: Edward Curtis and the North American Indian (ITVS and American Masters); Baby It's You
(POV 1998) and the Emmy Award-winning, Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (POV 1995).
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Project Consultant: Lori Hope
Lori Hope has produced more than twenty social and environmental documentaries for television. Her most recent
work was produced in association with KQED, and was featured on the Oprah show. Ms. Hope’s honors include
a CINE Golden Eagle, a National Society of Professional Journalist/Sigma Delta Chi Ward, and two regional Emmy Awards.
Currently, Ms. Hope is managing Editor at Bay Area Business Woman News. Her first book, Help Me Live: 20 Things People
with Cancer Want You to Know, was published in 2005.
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Music: Deb Talan
Deb Talan was classically trained in clarinet and piano and
began writing music when she was only ten years old. By the time she graduated from high school,
she had written numerous pop songs and composed a score for a local production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Her senior year in college, Ms. Talan picked up a guitar and has been toting it around ever since.
Ms. Talan moved to Boston, from Portland, OR in the spring of 1998 and came out with her debut solo cd "Something Burning" the
following spring. Word spread quickly, and she began packing shows around Boston at venues such as Club Passim and the Somerville
Theater. In 2001, "Something Burning" was awarded the "Homegrown CD Award" by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Shortly thereafter, Ms. Talan
released her first live CD, "Sincerely," garnered her 3rd Boston Music Award nomination, and began touring on a wider scale. Ms. Talan’s
music has been featured on TV ("Felicity," and "Dawson’s Creek") and in movies (2002’s "Lovely and Amazing"), while Ms. Talan has been
winning accolades and awards, such as the Grand Prizes at both the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival.
She now tours nationally.
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