Joel Cox
(Editor) has worked with Clint Eastwood for more than 30
years, on films that include "Bird," "Eastwood After
Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall," Tony Bennett: The Music
Never Ends," and co-edited Clint Eastwood's "Piano
Blues." Joel has been editor on movies like “Flags
of Our Fathers,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Mystic River,”
“Blood Work,” “Space Cowboys,” “True Crime,” “Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Absolute Power,” “The
Bridges of Madison County,” “A Perfect World,”
and “Unforgiven,” for which he won an Academy Award for
Best Editor in 1992.
Bruce Ricker
On September 12, 2007, TONY BENNETT: THE MUSIC NEVER
ENDS ran on national television on PBS. This was the fourth
documentary directed and/or produced by Bruce Ricker, creator of
Rhapsody Films. Over the past 20 years Ricker has co-produced
with Clint Eastwood an impressive repertoire of films including
Mystic River, Clint Eastwood’s Piano Blues, The Bridges of
Madison County, Tony Bennett: The Music Never Stops, Clint Eastwood: Out
of the Shadows, and many more.
Joe Hyams,
who has been working with Clint Eastwood since
1971, has shepherded projects of talents such as Stanley
Kubrick, Francois Truffaut, David Puttnam, Barbra
Streisand, Robert Redford and John Wayne,
do Clint
personal and movie publicity world wide.
Judie Hoyt
stared working with Clint Eastwood in 1975,
on The Outlaw Josey Wales, after he arrived at
Warner Brothers from Universal. She has worked
with him for a total of 20 years, with a couple of
retirements in between. During these years she has
worked on the films Letters from Iwo Jima,
Flags of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River,
Bird, Pale Rider ,Sudden Impact, Honkytonk Man and
many more.
Gary D. Roach
(Editor) previously worked with Editor Joel Cox and
Director Clint Eastwood as an Assistant Editor on
“Million Dollar Baby,” “Mystic River,” “Space Cowboys,”
“True Crime” and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and
Evil,” among others. His additional assistant
director credits include “Catwoman,” the miniseries “The
Blues,” “Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years” and
“Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall.”
Gary
Conway has an extraordinary creative background from
the fine arts to the arts of viticulture and winemaking,
it was in television where Gary Conway first became
recognized worldwide, initially starring in the TV
series "Burke's
Law," then
"Land of the Giants,"
the world’s most successful TV series. Besides
starring in series and a multitude of episodic
television shows and TV movies for the three networks,
he starred in many motion pictures. He is also a
prominent screenwriter with such credits as
“Over the Top,”
and the “American
Ninja” series. He currently directed
and starred in the acclaimed film
“Woman’s Story.”
George Wilkins
was the "Composer in Residence " at Walt Disney
Productions for over seven years, making him responsible
for writing, arranging and producing over 36 hours of
music for film, theatre and pavilion attractions at
EPCOT, Disneyworld, Disneyland California, France, Tokyo
and China.
Max Gail is
best known for his television role as Det. Stan "Wojo"
Wojeciehowicz from the sitcom Barney Miller
(1975). He now runs his own production company, Full
Circle, which has done documentaries on such things as
Agent Orange, Native Americans, and nuclear issues.
Ramblin' Jack
Elliott is considered one of the country's legendary
foundations of folk music. Honored at the White House in
1998 with a National Medal of Arts for his contribution
to American Folk Music, he was also awarded a Grammy in
1996 for his "South Coast" recording. As
one of the last true links to the great folk traditions
of this country, with over 40 albums under his belt.
Christopher Felver is a
photographer and filmmaker. His work has been
exhibited internationally, and his works are collected
by numerous libraries and museums, including Stanford
University Special Collections.
He participated in the 53rd Venice
International Film Festival, and screened films in
festivals and museums around the globe, including
presentations at the Library of Congress, he received
the Best Art Documentary Awards at the Cinema Arts
Centre Independent Film Festival, and he was a
Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.
Les Blank
is a prize-winning independent filmmaker, best known for
a series of poetic films that led Time Magazine critic
Jay Cocks to write, "I can't believe that anyone
interested in movies or America... could watch Blank's
work without feeling they'd been granted a casual,
soft-spoken revelation."
Hector Galán
has been
creating documentary films for over thirty years. One of
his most recent credits includes the documentary Los
Lonely Boys Cottonfields and Crossroads. He has also
produced and directed eleven films for the PBS series
FRONTLINE, two films for THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and
many critically acclaimed and award-winning independent
films.
Cass Warner
has the honor of being a third-generation film maker.
Her father, twice Oscar-nominated writer/producer Milton
Sperling worked on the Warner Bros. lot and her
grandfather, Harry Warner, was the President and Founder
of Warner Bros. studios. After studying acting with the
acclaimed Milton Katselas, and learning screenwriting
under the mentorship of her father and Howard Koch of
"Casablanca" fame, her production company, Warner
Sisters, was born. Cass
carries on the original Warner Bros. motto--making films
that "educate, entertain and enlighten."
John Andrew
Parks is a Songwriter's Songwriter, a Poet, and a
Storyteller. Parks’ melodic narratives run from
windblown prairies and old jalopies to shooting stars
across the cosmic canvas. As Kenny Rogers once said on
an NBC Television Special, “John Andrew Parks is one of
the greatest singer/songwriters I’ve heard in 20 years,
and whether or not you like this song you have never
heard anything like it before!”
Susan Morgan Cooper, director/ producer An
Unlikely Weapon. Susan was compelled to make her first
documentary, "Mirjana",about a young girl displaced by
the Balkan War." She was drawn to Eddie Adams, the
photographer in "An Unlikely Weapon", because of his
fascination with displaced and oppressed people. In
2008 Susan is set to direct her first dramatic feature.
Based on a documentary she made a few years ago
"Roadrunners" is the story of a cop from East L.A. who
takes a group ofgang kids and turns them into a
championship roller hockey team.
Ronnie Blakely
may be most widely known now for her performance as
country superstar Barbara Jean in Robert Altman's 1975
film Nashville. She was nominated for an Academy
Award in the category Best Supporting Actress and, along
with Lily Tomlin (who was also nominated in the same
category), is often regarded as offering one of the most
revealing performances in the film.
Richard Bellis
is a film and television composer, a former member of
the USC faculty and a past president of the Society of
Film Composers and Lyricists. Some of his many credits
include the Emmy Award-winning score of Stephen King’s
IT and the book, The Emerging Film Composer.
Chuck Banner
has worked in developing children's programming, working
with the Dallas Symphony on AMAZING MUSIC, a family
concert series (A&E, PBS) and in co-production with
Fireworks Entertainment on REAL KIDS, REAL ADVENTURES
for the Discovery Kids Channel. Chuck's latest
production to air nationally on PBS was AMAZING MUSIC
JAZZ, which he directed, produced and edited.
Jack Tempchin
wrote a number of big Eagles hits like ALREADY GONE
and TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT and has two songs on the new
Long Road Out of Eden Album by the Eagles, on
the charts now. He also has a song SMUGGLERS BLUES sung
by Glenn Frey on the Miami Vice Television
Soundtrack.
Rick Roas will be her playing bass with Jack
Tempchin, and will be here as a musician and a panelist
after the screening of NEIL YOUNG: Heart of
Gold. He has played bass for years with Neil
Young and is in the film. Rick has also played
with the likes of Joe Walsh, CSN&Y, Johnny Rivers and
many more.
Christopher Reyna,
principal, New
Paradigm Productions, is a technical expert who has
extensive experience with the full spectrum of
production, post-production, and exhibition of high
quality moving images since 1971. He has specialized in
the development and implementation of new digital tools
for Giant Screen and ultra high-resolution image
presentations. He pioneered the transition from
photochemical to digital toolsets with an emphasis on
maximizing quality.
James Mathers has been the Director of
Photography on over thirty-five films and MOWs, and has
seen six TV series from inception through their first
season. Recent projects include a pilot for
DreamWorks directed by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Forty
Year Old Virgin), an HD feature for director David
Mickey Evans (The Sandlot, Radio Flyer), and several
features pioneering the use of the 4K RED One camera.
Dave Cole has a wide variety of feature film and
TV credits as an actor and a recent three-year term as
Vice-President of the San Luis Obispo International Film
Festival, Central Coast denizen Dave Cole has broadened
his involvement in the indie film ‘biz to include
assisting filmmakers with the production, marketing,
distribution and film festival strategizing for their
films, promoting The Center for the Study of Film and
History, and working with some other film festivals and
their programming.
Kathy Kelly
has over 25 years experience in all
aspects of media communications. Her work has included
projects for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Turner
Classic Movies, Capitol Records, MGM, Kal Kan, Johnson
& Johnson, Toshiba, Amgen, Gemstar, Hoover, Fitness
Quest, Braun, T-Fal, Conair, Murad, GNC, Motorola and
many other national and international consumer brand
marketers.
Travis Howard
made his first mark as a cast member on the first season
of USA Network's "Nashville Star" in 2003. It was on
that show that he began to write several of the biggest
hits that kicked off the blazing career of current
rising country star, Miranda Lambert.