Producer/Director: SARAH ENTINE is a first-time documentary film producer and director. Originally diagnosed with dyslexia in 1978, she only fully comprehended her disability at age 29. A graduate from Grinnell College, she earned a Master’s in Social Work and has practiced Insight Meditation (Vipassana) since 1998. An accomplished floral designer, she has worked in both Boston and San Francisco. Currently, Entine is a mindful learning consultant offering workshops, presentations and individual support.

Cinematographer: 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); contributing cinematographer In the Shadow of the Stars, (Academy Award best feature length documentary, 1991); Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age, named “among the best documentaries dealing with AIDS;” and Celebrity in the City, a one-hour PBS documentary about mayor Jerry Brown and his Oakland California renaissance.

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’s Directing Workshop for Women. She completed Bedtime Story, a short film about making choices based on love rather than fear. Yacker’s directing credits also include Can You See Me Flying, a documentary about dancer/choreographer Terry Sendgraff; A Leap Across the Bar Lines, directed for the Women’s Philharmonic (winner of the Bronze Apple, 1993); and Ugly Ducklings, a one-hour documentary about youth suicide and homophobia now in distribution to schools nationwide.

Other films include That’s a Family, which Yacker co-directed and co-produced with Academy Award recipient Debra Chasnoff (Deadly Deception), winner of the Master Cine Golden Eagle in 2000. Yacker was the principal cinematographer for Training Rules, which she co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed together with Dee Mosbacher.

Cinematographer: VICENTE FRANCO A native of Spain, Vicente Franco began his studies at the University of Journalism in Madrid. To avoid the draft during the military dictatorship in Spain, he relocated to the United States in 1975, where he earned his Film Studies bachelor’s degree at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and his Masters Degree at San Francisco State University.

Franco has been shooting and producing award-winning documentary films since the 1980s, most notably the Academy-Award nominated Daughter from Danang, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary in 2002. He was nominated for a national Emmy^® for his cinematography on that film.

As an independent filmmaker, Franco has produced, directed, shot or edited numerous documentaries: Freedom on my Mind (Academy Award Nomination 1994) about the Mississippi Voter Registration drive; The Judge and The General, The Summer of Love, Thirst, The New Americans and Discovering Dominga.

Editor: 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).

Composer: ALEX LU An emerging composer of concert and film music, Alex Lu has composed works for the San Francisco Conservatory Chorus, SFCM New Music Ensemble, China’s Dalian University Orchestra, Pasadena Young Musicians Orchestra, South Bay Children’s Choir, among others. In 2006, Alex began working in film music under Academy and Emmy Award winner, Todd Boekelheide. Alex has contributed original music to numerous documentary films broadcast on PBS, notably Blessed is the Match; Butte, America; Hard Problems; MINE, among others. Alex was music assistant to film composer Marc Streitenfeld for the 2010 Universal Picture Robin Hood. From 2006–2009, he served as Assistant Director and Principal Accompanist of the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus in San Francisco, under former Chanticleer director, Joseph Jennings. Alex received a master of music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and bachelor of music degrees in piano and composition from Biola University. Alex is also an alumnus of the European American Musical Alliance at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Alex currently teaches composition at Biola University.

Music Supervision: TODD BOEKELHEIDE is an Academy and Emmy Award winner who began his film career in 1974 as a staff member at American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola’s production company in San Francisco. In 1976 he left to work as an assistant editor on Star Wars, and he went on to edit picture and sound on The Black Stallion. After completing formal music studies, he continued his film career as a re-recording mixer and composer, winning an Oscar for Best Sound on Amadeus in 1984. He has scored several narrative feature films, including Dim Sum and Nina Takes a Lover, and numerous documentaries, notably Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. In 1999, Boekelheide won an Emmy Award for scoring the documentary Kids of Survival: The Life and Art of Tim Rollins and the KOS.

Writing Consultant: SUSAN STERN is a writer, director and producer. Her most recent film, The Self-Made Man, was nominated for two national Emmy awards. Her first film, Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, is taught in more than 1,000 universities. Stern has been a journalist—specializing in investigative reporting—for more than 20 years. Her articles have been published in the Boston Globe, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Examiner and Oakland Tribune. The Wall Street Journal credited Stern’s exposé of Navy base closures with “saving thousands of local jobs.” Stern has also written and produced news for KPIX TV, San Francisco’s CBS affiliate.

Project Consultant: 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.