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Jeff Bowden
Bowden, producer and director of DIRT, is a former
senior editor and columnist at D Magazine in
Dallas, where he won both regional and national awards
for feature writing. DIRT is his first documentary.
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Phil Chambliss
Chambliss is a self-taught filmmaker from Locust Bayou,
Arkansas. His films have only recently come to the
attention of the wider world, receiving screenings in
Nashville, London, San Francisco, and New York. But, to
be honest, it's all the same to Chambliss. |
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Kevin Clark
Clark is currently directing THE CRISIS MR. FAUBUS MADE,
a film about the 1957 desegregation of Little Rock
Central High School, and is in pre-production on IS YOU
IS...THE LOUIS JORDAN STORY. He is a graduate of the
University of Central Arkansas.
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Kelly Duda
Duda spent 7 years making FACTOR 8: THE ARKANSAS PRISON
BLOOD SCANDAL. Duda was also part of the team for
Fuji Television that produced The
Hepatitis C Epidemic: A 15-Year
Government Cover-up. The program won a George Foster
Peabody Award in 2003 and was
reportedly watched by more than 12 million viewers in
Japan. |
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Matthew
Franklin
Cinematographer Matthew Franklin (A PLACE TO DANCE)
served as Director of Photography on the National
Geographic show, Mission Rescue. He worked on the
documentaries ADDICTED, about heroin addiction in Plano,
TX, and LIFE, an examination of life without parole
sentencing in southern prisons. |
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Tom Hansell
Hansell is a documentary filmmaker and installation
artist based at Appalshop, a media arts center located
in the heart of the Appalachian Coalfields. Hansell has
fifteen years experience working with coalfield
residents to create media about the impacts of energy
policy on their homes, families and communities. |
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Tish Hinojosa
Hinojosa has recorded eleven albums. She's also recorded
with Lucinda Williams, Joan Baez, Dwight Yoakum, and
Kris Kristofferson. Her albums have graced the Top 10
charts in America and internationally. Television
appearances include VH-1, ABC, MTV, Good Morning
America, and Austin City Limits. |
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Keenon
Nikita
Wile living in L.A. Nikita worked as a PA on the hit
television series THE PARKERS. Following his return to
his hometown of Memphis, he created Dogday
Entertainment, an independent production company. He
co-starred in director Craig Brewer's break-out indie
film THE POOR AND HUNGRY. |
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Lenore Shoults
Shoults has worked in cultural preservation of the
Ozarks for almost twenty years. She has been a member of
the Committee of One Hundred for eight years, serving as
Chairman in 2006. She is enrolled in the Heritage
Studies Ph.D. program at Arkansas State University. |
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Doug Talley Quartet
Past performances of the Doug Talley Quartet include the
1995 & 1999 Jazz in June festivals in
Norman, Oklahoma; 1996 and 2000 Deep Deuce Jazz
Festivals in Oklahoma City, the Dallas Museum of
Art, the Elkhart (IN) Jazz Festival, and the Kansas
City Blues and Jazz Festival.
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Laura Varela
Varela is a San Antonio-based media artist, activist and
educator. Her projects are community-based and focus on
issues of social justice and cultural preservation. She
is a recipient of the Humanities Texas Media Arts grant
for her current project AS LONG AS I REMEMBER: AMERICAN
VETERANOS. |
