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Consulting Editor, was a consultant on Ganz's first film Unlocking the Heart of Adoption. Hillgrove has 40 years of experience. She has specialized in dialogue editing, working as dialogue editor on The Right Stuff, Never Cry Wolf, and One from the Heart, and as dialogue supervisor on Amadeus, The Mosquito Coast, and Blue Velvet. As picture editor, she cut Emiko Omori’s Hot Summer Winds and Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Henry and June. The documentaries she has edited include: The Forest through the Trees, Yakoana, The Indigenous People’s Earth Summit, Heart of the Sea, and First Person Plural and Precious Objects of Desire with Deanne Borshay-Liem, as well as documentaries by Lourdes Portillo, including The Devil Never Sleeps and Senorita Extraviada, Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.VIVIEN HILLGROVE,
MICHELE TURNURE-SALLEO, Film Advisor, has produced and directed projects for film and television for more than 15 years around the world, including in Sydney, Berlin, Vancouver, and Marseille. She was Associate Producer of Regret to Inform, an Oscar-Nominated documentary about the effect of the Vietnam War on war widows. Her work includes Double Vision, an hour-length documentary about an innovative French opera company, feature narratives, short documentaries and narratives, artist profiles, PSA’s and aboriginal dance videos. During her two-years as In-House Producer at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, Turnure-Salleo produced documentary series for national broadcast, which included more than twenty half-hour episodes. She is co-producing Free China Junk a feature documentary by Robin Greenberg. Turnure-Salleo is Director, Filmmaker Services, San Francisco Film Society.
PAULA DOUGLAS, Composer, she began piano lessons at a young age and started playing French horn in the school band, eventually receiving a scholarship to the Lamont School of Music affiliated with the University of Denver. She has a BA in Music Performance with a minor in Composition. She moved to Florida and became the bass player with Peter Treiber and the Niche. Douglas is a member of The International Song Writers Guild and was appointed Vice President in 1996. She joined the Big Fat Studios in Tampa, working as a studio musician, and writing and performing with various artists. Music took her to San Francisco in 2000, where she started scoring for student and independent films. She has material pending with various music supervisors for consideration in upcoming film and television projects. Douglas is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
FRANCES NKARA, Additional Camera, experimental documentary filmmaker of the 27 minute film Downpour Resurfacing which traces Robert Hall’s rekindling sense of self and strength, despite the childhood sexual and physical abuses that he recounts. Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival 2003; No Violence Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2003; and Best Experimental Film, New Jersey Film Festival 2003. National broadcast, Independent Lens.
SONG CHEN, Additional Camera, Associate Producer on the ITVS funded China Blues. Following a pair of denim jeans from birth to sale, China Blues links the power of the U.S. consumer market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and two teenaged female factory workers. Filmed both in the factory and in the workers’ faraway village, this documentary provides a rare, human glimpse at China’s rapid transformation into a free market society. National broadcast, Independent Lens.
Funded in part by: Pacific Pioneer Fund, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund, Open Meadows Foundation, Inc., Penny Harvest Roundtable and Individual Donors.
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