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the filmmakers

Beth Harrington
Producer/Director/Writer

Beth Harrington is a Boston-born and-bred filmmaker transplanted to the Pacific Northwest who has been producing media work professionally for almost 25 years. She is the producer/director/writer of the award-winning film The Blinking Madonna & Other Miracles. Since moving to the greater Portland area, she freelances with Oregon Public Broadcasting and has recently produced and directed Digital TV: A Cringely Crash Course. She is also the producer and writer of the upcoming special, Aleutians: Cradle of the Storms, on PBS. Working with the Documentary Guild in Boston for WGBH, Beth served as a line producer and associate producer on other PBS shows, among them programs for NOVA, Frontline and The Health Quarterly, in addition to two PBS specials. These shows have been honored with a number of awards, including a Peabody (Dating in the Age of AIDS) and two national Emmy nominations (In the Path of a Killer Volcano and Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back). In a previous lifetime, she herself was a rock & roll singer, a member of the cult band Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers.

Kyle Kibbe
Director of Photography

A New York-based cinematographer, Kyle Kibbe has worked with several Academy Award-winning directors, including Barbara Kopple on Woodstock II, Lourdes Portillo on The Devil Never Sleeps and Columbus on Trial and Christine Choy on Who Killed Vincent Chin? Other PBS specials include The Americas series, Frontline's The Rise and Fall of Carlos Salinas and Bitter Cane. He has done numerous rock videos and music specials, including pieces with Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen.

David Timoner
Editor

David Timoner is a Grammy-nominated long-form music video producer and editor. His company, Interloper Productions, has produced work for such popular groups as Fastball and the Dandy Warhols. His work-in-progress, Dig, a 90-minute rock documentary about the trials and tribulations of two bands vying for fame was funded by MTV and screened during the 2001 Sundance film festival.

Michael Gandsey
Location Sound & Sound Design

A sound recordist, editor and designer with 22 years in the business, Gandsey most recently edited and designed sound elements for the re-make of the feature films Psycho and the Academy Award-winning Good Will Hunting, both directed by Gus Van Sant. He has also served many years as a live sound engineer, mixing shows for everyone from Diana Ross to Little Feat to k.d. lang to Santana to George Strait.

Cathleen O'Connell
Researcher

Cathleen O'Connell has vast production and research experience, having worked at WGBH, Boston for five years, most notably as a senior researcher in the WGBH film and video resource center. Among her many production credits, she was Coordinating Producer on the four-part PBS series, River of Song, a documentary about music along the Mississippi River and associate producer on the WGBH/BBC collaboration Rock & Roll.


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