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BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY is Tracy’s directorial debut. The film won the best documentary feature award at the 2003 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival and was honored with the President’s Award for Excellence in Documentary Film from Vietnam Veterans of America. Tracy started her career at DreamWorks, SKG, where she rose through the ranks from an assistant to a writer/producer on story-based CD-ROMs. Her DreamWorks credits include Dilbert’s Desktop Games, Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland starring Jeff Goldblum and Isabella Rossellini and The Neverhood. More recently, she has worked as a freelance writer and producer developing scripts and stories including Miss Whoopass, an original animated series and Dancing Between Courses, a one-act play.
Tracy is currently writing a book and developing both narrative and documentary projects through her new production company, Dinky Pictures, named after her father. She is also the founder and president of Orphans of War Foundation, a non-profit organization, whose ongoing purpose is to increase awareness and understanding of the impact of the Vietnam War on those who lost a parent there. Tragos holds a BA in English from Northwestern University and an MFA with honors in Cinema/Television from the University of Southern California.
Chris divides his time between narrative film, documentaries and teaching. He is executive director for the Humanitas Prize, an annual writer's award that celebrates films and television shows that not only entertain, but also enrich the viewing public. His most recent feature film, Straight Right premiered at the 2000 Los Angeles International Film Festival and aired on the Sundance Channel. In 1998, Chris was honored with an Academy Award for the Best Live Action Short Film, Visas and Virtue. He has taught at the American Film Institute and Loyola-Marymount University. He was co-producer on the feature film Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, starring Moira Kelly and Martin Sheen. Chris serves is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and holds graduate degrees from the American Film Institute and the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California.
Randy is executive producer, Cultural Affairs at KCPT. After joining the station in 1984 as producer/reporter for Kansas City Illustrated, he produced and hosted the arts magazine show KCPT Marquee. Since 1995, he's traveled the back roads of America in a minivan with Michael Murphy and Don the Camera Guy on Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations, winner of ten regional Emmys.
Michael has worked at KCPT for 23 years as an award-winning producer, director and editor. His credits include ten Regional Emmy Awards; six PBS Awards; three Heart of America Press Club Awards; and two NETA Awards (National Educational Telecommunications Association), including “Best of Show” in the documentary category. Productions include: Water & Fire: A Story of the Ozarks; This Place Called Home; and Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations. He is currently at work on a children’s interactive literacy project titled Bark Park Place, designed to demonstrate the benefits of digital television within an educational application.
Chris executive produced Night Bites (a one-hour special for WE), Willie's World (a half-hour reality pilot for E! Entertainment), Mall or Nothing (a
half-hour game show pilot for the Style Network) and What's Your 20? (a
reality series on COX Cable). Chris started his career in entertainment as a management associate at Sony Pictures Entertainment. He then went on to head up marketing at Paramount Digital Entertainment. Chris has a Bachelors degree from Duke University and a Masters degree from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is also happily married to Tracy Tragos and her producing partner in Dinky Pictures.
Kat has worked as an art director at several advertising agencies including Young & Rubicam in New York City, where she contributed to the creative strategy of brand accounts Jell-O, Adidas, Colgate, Kentucky Fried Chicken, New York Telephone, People Magazine, the Jamaica Tourist Board and the United Negro College Fund. Kat holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Washington University and is a graduate of the Miami Ad School, where she won several awards for her filming and photography work, including third prize at the Kurz & Schon International Film Competition. Kat volunteered her skills, time, and energy to this project because she wanted to get back to the root of her interest in art and film, away from commercialism and toward more humanitarian goals.
She is also Tracy Droz Tragos' sister-in-law.
Jenna is a writer, director and editor who originally hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. After receiving her BA in art history from Princeton University, she moved to Los Angeles to attend USC, receiving an MFA in film production in 1999. Her work as a film director includes the short films Insomnia and Late Harvest, which screened at several film festivals in 1999 and 2000, respectively. She made her theatrical directing debut with Collision Theory at Theatre of Note in Hollywood. Her work as a writer took her to Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, CA where she was an artist in residence during the summer of 2000, researching a script based on the life of southwestern landscape photographer Laura Gilpin. Recent editing work includes projects for Essential Entertainment, including their television documentary series Go Jane Doe. Jenna is currently editing another documentary, Charlie's Lake, as well as writing and developing several projects as a founding member of Short Stack Pictures.
Siren Music Productions was created in 2001 by three Los Angeles-based composers: Christina Agamanolis, Mariana Bernoski, and Willow Williamson. Siren draws from a background of classical, folk, rock, experimental and electronic music to create their own sound and collaboration with visual imagery, narrative and design. All three women have Master’s degrees from California Institute of the Arts, and undergraduate degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory and Mills College respectively. Individually, the artists have achieved acclaim on compilation albums, performed at international music festivals, worked in multimedia presentations and written scores for dance and film productions around the world. Credits include: Dahmer: The Mind is a Place of its Own, nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, This Girl’s Life and cues for television shows such as Extra! and Celebrity Justice.
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