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Executive Producer / Series Creator
Larry Adelman is president and co-director of California Newsreel,
the country's oldest non-profit documentary production and distribution
center. He oversees Newsreel's productions and has helped develop
dozens of Newsreel releases. Adelman served as writing and editorial
consultant for nine programs including Marlon Riggs' Black
Is…Black Ain't and Color Adjustment. The PBS broadcasts
of his own films (Controlling Interest; The Business of America;
Collision Course; The Road to Brown) were praised for spotlighting
the big questions by Bill Moyers, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
Robert Reich and John Hope Franklin, among others.
Producer, Episode One: The Difference Between Us
Christine Herbes-Sommers has an unusually diverse production background,
having made documentaries and dramatic films and managed extended
science and history series. For eight years she's been senior
producer and project director of WGBH's educational programming.
She recently produced A Biography of America, a 26-part
survey course, and she was producer/writer of the 8-part Annenberg
series on genetics, The Secret of Life. Her earlier national
broadcast credits include the Dupont- and Emmy-winning Joan
Robinson: One Woman's Story (1980); the pilot for In Search
of Love with Leo Buscaglia (1985); Lights Breaking
(1985) about the ethics of genetic engineering; and biographies
of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and philosopher Bishop George
Berkeley (Emmy nomination).
Producer, Episode Two: The Story We Tell
Tracy Heather Strain is a producer, director and writer of documentaries
and educational videos, including two films for Blackside's Peabody
Award-winning series, I'll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American
Arts. Her other production credits include The Great Depression,
America's War on Poverty, and Discover: The World of Science
as well as Adrift, an independent film she produced with
Tom Curran. Strain is currently developing Sweet Dreams: The
Donut Movie, an exploration of the American Dream.
Producer, Episode Three: The House We Live In
Llewellyn M. Smith served as Story Editor for PBS' American Experience
from 1987 to 1995, where he played a key role in origination,
development and acquisition of more than 70 programs. From 1995
to 1997, he was Project Director for the Peabody and Emmy award-winning
series Africans in America and producer of the final episode,
"Judgment Day." Mr. Smith also contributed to Eyes
On The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1985), and produced
From Jumpstreet, A Story Of Black Music (1980), and Jazz:
An American Classic (1979). Currently, Smith is producing
a PBS series on Reconstruction.
Series Narrator
CCH Pounder is a veteran performer with numerous film, television
and theater credits to her name. She currently stars as Detective
Claudette Wyms in FX's acclaimed series The Shield. Other
television appearances include Emmy-nominated roles in ER
and The X-Files, and memorable performances in The West
Wing, The Practice, LA Law, and HBO's Disappearing Acts
and Boycott. Her television and cable film credits include
Go Tell It On The Mountain (her breakthrough role, opposite
Paul Winfield and Ossie Davis) and Booker for PBS. Pounder
has also appeared in almost 20 feature films, and she received
a Grammy Award nomination for her spoken word album Grow Old
With Me: The Best Is Yet to Come.
Series Composer
For the past 15 years, Argentinean composer Claudio Ragazzi has
been writing award-winning music for film and television and performing
with some of today's most respected musicians, including Yo-Yo
Ma, Gary Burton, and Joe Lovano. His musical range and knowledge
enable him to score films in almost any musical genre - from Latin
and world music to urban, pop, jazz and classical - without losing
his unique style. His television composing credits include numerous
documentary and feature productions for Discovery Channel, National
Geographic, Telemundo and PBS' Nova and American Experience, and
his feature film scores include Next Stop Wonderland and
The Blue Diner. He has also scored for ballet and theater.
Series Co-Producer
Jean Cheng has worked as an associate producer on several public
television documentaries including Loni Ding's three-part series,
Ancestors in the Americas, and most recently, Born in
the U.S.A., an ITVS-funded production about childbirth. She
also coordinated broadcast outreach for the Academy Award-nominated
and Peabody-winning Regret to Inform (including creation
of the broadcast Web site and online memorial Letters from the
Heart) and for the Academy Award-winning Maya Lin: A Strong
Clear Vision. Cheng is an award-winning filmmaker in her own
right, whose works have screened in the U.S. and Asia.
Field Producer
Natatcha Estebanez co-wrote The Blue Diner, an acclaimed
feature-length drama. She recently produced and directed 12 short
films for PBS's Favorite Poem Project, four films for The Discovery
Channel, and an episode of Breakthrough, the six-part PBS
series profiling multicultural scientists. Estebanez was Series
Producer for WGBH's La Plaza where she produced and directed
over 35 documentaries, cultural programs and music specials for
local and national broadcast, including En Clave! with
host Ruben Blades and Paco de Lucia: Soul of Flamenco.
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