Key Personnel
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Marianne Teleki |
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Jennifer Maytorena Taylor |
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Deann Borshay Liem |
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Shirley Thompson |
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Sebastian Moreno |
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Pablo Insunza |
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Andrew Black |
Marianne Teleki - Director/Producer
Marianne Teleki was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, Mexico and Brazil. SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, Marianne's directorial debut, received the Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival, FIDOCS, in Santiago, Chile and Best Documentary at the Berkeley Film Festival.» read moreIn addition, Marianne received the award for Best Bay Area Filmmaker at the International Latino Film Festival in San Francisco. Special Circumstances received funding from Latino Public Broadcasting in 2004 and 2005, from the Pacific Pioneer Fund, the Katahdin Foundation and Fleishhacker Foundation among others. Marianne has worked as a field producer for Television Nacional de Chile and is a member of National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), Bay Area Women in Film and Television (BAWIFT), Film Arts (FAF) and the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC). She resides in Berkeley, California US.
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor – Co-Producer/Co-Director
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's award-winning documentaries and short films have been shown in theaters, on television, and in film festivals and museums around the world.» read moreShe is a recipient of the James D. Phelan Art Award for her body of work, which explores the connection between the personal and the socio-political. Jennifer recently produced and directed Ramadan Primetime, a documentary examining Middle Eastern television culture for the national satellite channel Link TV. She also in production with The New Muslim Cool, a feature documentary exploring deep faith, indigenous American Muslim culture, and its connections to hip-hop.
Deann Borshay Liem - Co-Producer
Deann Borshay Liem has over twenty years experience working in development, production and distribution of educational and public television programming.» read moreShe was producer, director and writer of the Emmy Award-nominated documentary, First Person Plural (Sundance, 2000), and executive producer of the film, Kelly Loves Tony (PBS, 1998), and the Emmy Award-winning documentary AKA Don Bonus (PBS, 1996). In her former position as executive director of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association, she supervised the development, distribution and broadcast of new films for public television, worked with Congress to support minority representation in public media, and developed innovative distribution and exhibition programs. In addition to overseeing the Katahdin Foundation, Liem is a recipient of a Rockefeller Film/Video Fellowship for her documentary project, Precious Objects of Desire, which is currently in development.
Shirley Thompson – Editor/Writer/Co-Producer
Shirley Thompson is an Emmy award-winning editor, producer and long-form edit-doctor based in Dallas, Texas.» read moreShe edits thought-provoking, social-issue documentaries for television, including LOUIE, LOUIE, TANGLED ROOTS, SURFING FOR LIFE and IT'S ELEMENTARY. The documentaries she has edited have been awarded Emmy awards, Best of Festival Awards, Cine Golden Eagles, and the DuPont Columbia Award for Journalism, and they have screened at film festivals worldwide. She also writes and produces on-air promotions for PBS' Independent Lens.
Sebastian Moreno – Cameraman (Chile)
Sebastian Moreno received degrees in Audiovisual Communication and Anthropology at the Instituto Profesional Arcos in Chile and the Universidad Academia de Chile, respectively.» read moreHis father is a photographer by profession and is a great influence in his life. Mr. Moreno had the privilege of working as a cameraman with Chile’s most well-known filmmaker, Patricio Guzman, on his feature documentary, THE PINOCHET CASE, Cannes Film Festival-official selection 2001 and San Francisco International Film Festival-official selection 2002. Mr. Moreno has worked as a cameraman on documentary films for television as well as for independent filmmakers in Chile since 1993.
Pablo Insunza – Cameraman (Chile)
Pablo Insunza has traveled around Chile for many years as director of photography for Chilean National Television’s (TNC) prized television program Tierra Adentro.» read moreIn 2000, he founded the production company Puntociego Comunicaciones, produced the documentary Matta, Un Siglo de Mente as well as directed 25 television reports for Tierra Adentro. Between 2001 and 2005, he directed documentary reports for the programs Crónicas and El Mirador for Chilean National Television (T.N.C.) and 48 Horas for Megavisión. In 2004, he directed his first feature-length film, Malditos, la Historia de los Fiskales Ad Hok, which garnered him much success with both the public as well as critics. Between May of 2005 and May of 2006, he served as president of the Chilean Association of Documentarians (ADOC).
Andrew Black – Cameraman (US)
Andrew Black is a director of photography whose work has included documentary and feature films.» read moreMr. Black's work has been for broadcast (PBS, BBC, TLC, Channel 4, Sundance Channel, Discovery Channel and others) as well as for theatrical and home distribution. He works extensively internationally. His recent work includes The Weather Underground by Sam Green, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Feature category, gained theatrical distribution and showed nationally on PBS. He also shot for numerous days on Fahrenheit 911, Michael Moore’s most recent film that won the Palme D’or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
