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 Jon Else Producer/Director Jon Else is a documentary filmmaker best known for The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (1980), Cadillac Desert : Water and the Transformation Of Nature (1997) and SING FASTER: THE STAGEHANDS' RING CYCLE (ITVS & OPB, 1999). He was series producer and cinematographer for Henry Hampton's Eyes On The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1987). Else produced, directed and photographed Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven (1989) for the Sundance Institute, and "A Job at Ford's" for Hampton's PBS series The Great Depression (1992). He served as cinematographer on hundreds of documentaries, including the BBC/PBS History Of Rock And Roll (1993), Who Are The DeBolts (Academy Award 1976), and several independent feature films, as well as numerous commercials and MTV music videos. Else directs the documentary program at the Center for New Documentary at the Graduate School Of Journalism at U. C. Berkeley. From 1993 to 1999, he was consulting professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford, and serves on the board of the Flaherty International Film Seminars. Else was a MacArthur Fellow from 1988 to 1993, and has won four national Emmys (for writing, producing, directing and cinematography), several Columbia-DuPont and Peabody Awards as well as several Academy Award nominations, the Prix Italia, and the Sundance Special Jury Prize and Sundance Filmmaker's Trophy. Bonni Cohen Producer Bonni Cohen is founder of Actual Films, an independent documentary company based in San Francisco. She is currently producing and directing a film for PBS about the Nobel Prize. Her works include The Human Sexes with Desmond Morris (1996), a six-part, Emmy-nominated series for The Learning Channel/Discovery about gender differences around the world and two episodes of the Emmy award-winning Eyewitness series for PBS. For the BBC she directed and produced "Eye of the Storm" (1997), an intimate, verité portrait of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan that follows his diplomatic efforts from Baghdad to Nigeria to New York. She is also co-producer of They Drew Fire, a documentary film about American artists on the battlefields of World War II. Cohen earned a master's degree in documentary film in 1994 from Stanford University. |
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