PRODUCTION TEAM
An organist who studied at the Conservatory of Music - University
of the Pacific, Mr. Ferrer, a Northern California native, is an
independent producer and editor based in San Francisco. His many
projects have included marketing, promotional and corporate videos
for The Gap, Old Navy, Coldwell Banker, GT Global Financial Services,
Octel Communications, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Kane & Finkle,
The Corsi Agency, Landor Associates, ConAgra and PeopleSoft, Microsoft.
Mr. Ferrer has also edited several television shows airing on
PBS (Today's First Edition, Rising Star Chefs, Cowboy Country), A&E (Open Book) and C/NET (C/NET Central, The Web).
In the fall of 1997, he line-produced and edited the initial 13
episodes of Open Book, a news magazine featuring authors from
the New York Times' Best-Sellers List. In addition to creating
the format for the show, interviewing Pulitzer prize-winning authors
and designing the over-all look, he composed the opening and closing
music themes. The series can be seen in its third season on A&E
Television. Mr. Ferrer has just completed editing 13 episodes
of Cowboy Country, a series planned for distribution on PBS.
Mr. Ferrer's community service projects include educational videos
and PSAs for various non- profit and social service organizations
including Green City, San Mateo County AIDS Program and the Human
Rights Campaign.
DAVID KENNARD --Consulting Producer
Has executive produced, produced, directed and written television
series and special programs for more than 30 years.
His award-winning documentary series and programs include: The
Promise of Play American Public Television 1999, Africa's Children
PBS 1999, Amelia Earhart's Last Voyage PBS & The National Air
& Space Museum 1997, Our Fragile Fortress PBS & KETH 1995, The
Heart of Healing Turner Broadcasting & Time Life Video 1994, Dangerous
Years The Discovery Channel 1992, Things to Come Channel 4 (U.K.)
1991, Little by Little Channel Four (U.K.) 1990, Minidragons NHK/Japan
1989, We The People (with Peter Jennings) PBS 1987, The West of
the Imagination The Discovery Channel 1986, The Heart of the Dragon
(with McNeil/Lehrer) PBS 1984, The Hero's Journey PBS 1982, The
Communications Revolution (with Arthur C. Clarke) PBS 1980, Cosmos
(with Carl Sagan) PBS & BBC 1980, Connections (with James Burke)
PBS & BBC 1979.
Mr. Kennard also produced Pulling Out All The Stops PBS & The American Guild of Organists 1996. A Centennial music
special featuring pipe organs in concerts, theaters and churches.
His work has won the National Emmy, International Emmy, Dupont
Columbia, American Historical Association, National Education
Film Festival, International Science Film Festival, Houston Worldfest,
Alexander Hamilton, Cine Golden Eagle, BAFTA and Peabody Awards
Mr. Kennard is co-founder and President of InCA (Independent Communications
Associates Inc.) a worldwide non-fiction production company with
a fifteen-year record of documentary excellence.
Mr. Kennard holds an MBA from Indiana University, an MA and BA
in Modern Languages from Oxford, and a DAP from the Sorbonne,
University of Paris.
BRIAN BENSON - Production Consultant
A Producer, Production Manager and Assistant Director for independent
feature films and documentaries has just completed his 12th feature
film Bartleby base on a Herman Melville short story. Mr. Benson also recently
production managed a documentary directed by Elizabeth Thompson
entitled Blink, about a reformed white supremist.
Other films he has worked on which have screened internationally
in film festivals include: Wildflowers, Around the Fire, Mascara,
The Idea of Sex (Nothing Sacred), This Space Between Us and Groove,
which recently screened at the 2000 Sundance film festival.
Mr. Benson has been supportive of independent films festivals
and Assistant Directed the last two Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
trailer s and the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival
trailer with Mayor Willie Brown and Sean Penn.
Mr. Benson has a degree in film production from San Francisco
State University and has lectured at UCLA and San Francisco City
College.
RICK GREENWELL - Director of Photography
Has been a Director of Photography in the San Francisco Bay Area
for nearly 20 years. His projects range from local, national and
cable television to numerous corporate video and documentary projects.
Mr. Greenwell has directed photography for: ABC: Good Morning America/News, Bay Area Backroads, C-Net, CNN Special Reports, The Discovery Channel, ESPN, The Fox News Channel, German TV
Network (ARD-1), Harpo Productions, The History Channel, KGO TV:
Creative Services, KING WORLD, The McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, MTV, NBC: Dateline/Today Show/News/Sports/Daytime, NCAA, New Years Live, Oakland A's, Paramount, Ski World, The Sports Channel, TNT, Wheel of Fortune and Ziff-Davis Television.
He has also shot video for AVID Technologies, The California Bar
Association, Citibank, The Democratic Party, Gallo, General Motors,
Heavenly Ski Resort, IBM, The Informix Corporation, Intel, Kaiser
Permanente, Mervyns, Microsoft, The National Park Service, Pacific
Data Images, PeopleSoft, Silicon Graphics, Sony, The State of
California, Sun Microsystems, Sutter Home Wines, Target, Vantive
Corporation and Warren Miller Films.
His awards include: 12 Emmys and Nominations for Producing, Camera,
and Lighting. R.T.N.D.A. Best Film/Tape (Regional), S.F.B.A.P.P.A
(Regional) 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, NY Film Festival Honorable
Mention (National), PROMAX (Silver): Television Large Market (National).
MONROE CUMMINGS - Sound Mixer
Is a sound mixer and boom operator based in San Francisco. He
has mixed sound for numerous feature and short films as well as
television commercials and documentaries. Feature films include
Groove shown at the SunDance Film Festival, City of Bars, Nessun Dorma - No One Sleeps and Cutting Horse. Documentaries include Pressed For Time, Drug Court Project, Change Is Hard: Welfare To Work Program, The Financial Market, and Drawing On The Local
VIC FERRER --Producer/Writer/Editor