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Key Personnel
• Amanda M. Mazzanti, Director/Producer • Denise Zmekhol, Consulting Producer • Ray Telles, Consulting Producer • Gina Mooers, Associate Producer • Charlotte "ROX" Ulrich, Associate Producer • Heather 'Lupe' Finnecy, Director of Photography • John Dahl Honorè , Audio Post-Production • Mario Garza-Gonzalez, Field Sound Engineer
Amanda M. Mazzanti, Director/ProducerAmanda Mazzanti (Digitalady) is a social interest documentary filmmaker who has received a B.A. in Multimedia Communications and a post-graduate certificate from Berkeley Digital Film Institute (BDFI) in Directing/Producing. Amanda directed and edited the documentary Mind, Body, & Music (60min), which was screened at CSUS in 2006. In that same year Amanda directed and edited the short format documentary Living with Wolfram Syndrome (22min) that was released for web broadcast. In November of 2007 Mazzanti founded Digitalady llc, and has found a niche producing creative content for Independent and Non-Profit Organizations across the nation. Some of her clients include: SHE Institute, which educates women and girls about how to be safer, healthier, and economically independent; Mission Create, which creates educational opportunities for underprivileged individuals worldwide; Powerful Women International; Turner Broadcasting; and NAMI Contra Costa. *Amanda is an active member of the International Documentary Association (IDA), Media Rights Organization, Powerful Women International, eWomens Network, and Bay Area Women in Film and Media (BAWIFM). Denise Zmekhol, Consulting Producer
Working on social issue documentaries as well as in commercial arenas, Zmekhol combines a public affairs sensibility with a commercial director's visual acumen. A Sao Paulo native, Zmekhol studied social communication and journalism in Brazil, and completed her studies in film at San Francisco State University. Zmekhol has assisted on a number of documentaries filmed in the Amazon, such as Voices of the Amazon, and has recently completed her film project Children of the Amazon, an ITVS co-production about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the hope for its future. Zmekhol co-produced and co-directed Digital Journey, an Emmy award winning public television series exploring emerging technologies in their social, environmental and cultural contexts. In addition to her film work, she photographs extensively, producing the photo exhibition Children of the Amazon, and shooting the last photographs of the renowned rubber tapper and environmental activist Chico Mendes before his assassination. Ray Telles, Consulting Producer
Raymond Telles (Paradigm Productions), Producer, Director and Writer. Telles is a veteran producer of many award-winning programs including the biography of Cesar Chavez, The Fight in the Fields; In Search of Law and Order; Children of the Night for Frontline; Continent on the Move, the pilot program for Americas, and Race is the Place. Recently, he has produced Inside the Body Trade and Border Wars for National Geographic Explorer. Telles has produced and directed programs for PBS, ABC, NBC, Discovery, National Geographic and Univision. He has won numerous awards including three Emmy Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Gold Baton, two PBS Programming Awards for News and Current Affairs, The Ohio State Award, an ALMA Award, a NATAS Community Service Award, top honors in the San Francisco, American Film and Video Association, Chicago and New York Film Festivals, 2 Cine Golden Eagles, as well as numerous other awards for his work in film and broadcast journalism. Gina Mooers, Associate Producer
Gina Mooers received a Bachelor’s Degree in Latin American Studies from Washington, DC’s Trinity College in 1996. Mooers has over 15 years of experience in and around the entertainment business. She managed the editing training center of Henninger Media Services in Arlington, VA for three years and served on the Board of Washington, DC’s Reel Affirmations film festival. She was also an actor for over ten years and worked on TV shows like, The Wire and The District, and was a principle in the independent film, Hamilton. Director John Waters listed Hamilton as one of his top ten films for 2006. Mooers moved to California in early 2003 and enrolled in the Berkeley Digital Film Institute’s (BDFI) graduate-level Directing/Producing program in May 2007. She has written, directed and produced several short films. Charlotte "ROX" Ulrich, Associate Producer
Bio coming soon.
Heather 'Lupe' Finnecy, Director of PhotographyHeather Finnecy (Heather Finnecy Photography) has a Bachelors Degree in Photography from California Polytechnic University, where she worked as a photojournalist for The Tribune, received the Kodak Professional Photography Scholarship and graduated with Magna Cum Laude. She currently lives in Sandpoint, Idaho where she works as freelance photographer.
John Dahl Honorè & Master Fade Audio Post-Production
John Dahl Honorè and his music and audio production company MASTER FADE located in Berkeley, CA, have exceeded client expectations since 2004. He combines music composition and scoring to picture, capturing the emotion and excitement necessary to communicate story in a powerful and visceral way. John is a creative and consummate professional offering services from music composition and licensing, to audio/video production and post-production, to mixing, mastering, and sound design. He has worked on film, video, gaming, and music projects with such as esteemed giants as: Google, YouTube, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Starbucks - Hear Music, Hewlett Packard and others as well as non-profit organizations, musicians and independent filmmakers. For a full biography and examples of John's work visit: www.reverbnation.com/masterfade
Mario Garza-Gonzalez, Field Sound Engineer Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Mario Garza-Gonzalez, studied Percussion, Audio Production-Engineering and Digital Video at McNally Smith College of Music and Arts. In 2007, he premiered “Shapes and Shadows” for Percussion with the In Step Dance Company of California and has performed with The Jack Brass Band, The Honeydogs, The Vestals and Willy Weisly. In 2004, he served as Executive Producer and Sound Designer on the films Asymmetry, Stew Night and Free People. He also assisted in production and audio engineering for the 2001 Jazz Fest in Monterrey, Mexico.