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Credits

Amie Williams, Producer/Director

Amie has been a labor activist/independent filmmaker for the past fifteen years. Past documentary films have garnered international screenings and awards, from the Motion Picture Academy, American Film Institute and the International Documentary Association, among others. Past works include: Uncommon Ground: From Los Angeles to South Africa (1994) about youth and apartheid; Stripped and Teased: Tales from Las Vegas Women,(2001) ; broadcast on PBS and theatrically distributed; One Day Longer: The Story of the Frontier Strike , (2003); commissioned by HEREIU, and Eye of the Storm, The Story of the Lockout for the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union, ILWU (2005). Recently, Amie was awarded an ITVS/Lincs grant for the film Fallon , NV , about a childhood leukemia cluster in a rural Nevada town and Naval Air Base, which was broadcast on PBS in 2004. Amie has field produced numerous segments for such clients as BBC, Discovery Channel, Sweden Channel-1, Pro-Sieben, (Germany), Canal-Plus (France), the Learning Channel, and HBO/Cinemax. Amie also co-founded the CineVegas International Film Festival in 1998, bringing world cinema for the first time to the Las Vegas Strip. She served as Artistic Director for three years before Trevor Groth of Sundance took over. She is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. 1985) and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (M.F.A., 1991). Amie is also a proud member of I.A.T.S.E. local 720 as a camera operator.

Maureen Gosling, Editor

Maureen Gosling has been a documentary filmmaker for more than twenty-nine years and is best known for her twenty-year collaboration with acclaimed independent director, Les Blank. Gosling has also been sought after as an editor, working with such directors as Ashley James, Tom Weidlinger, Shakti Butler, Amie Williams and Pam Rorke Levy. Her work has often focused on themes of people and their cultural values, music as cultural expression and the changing gender roles of men and women. Her films have been seen in countless film festivals around the world, on national public and cable television, on television in Europe, Australia and Asia, and have been distributed widely to educational institutions. Gosling’s most recent work, Blossoms of Fire, a 16mm feature documentary, represents her debut as a Producer/Director. The film is a celebratory tribute to the Isthmus Zapotec people of southern Oaxaca, Mexico. Blossoms of Fire has garnered rave reviews, charming audiences from San Diego to Marseille. The film won the coveted Coral Award for Best Documentary by a Non-Latino Director about Latin America at the Havana International Film Festival.

Stephen Thomas Cavit, Composer

Stephen's first feature film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. He's contributed music to the films Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl for director Miguel Arteta. Other recent work includes Shadow Life with actress/director Julia Sweeny (SNL), Pike Place Market - Soul of a City for PBS and Blue Vinyl for HBO (a selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival). Stephen has also contributed to the MTV shows, The Real World and Road Rules.

In addition, Stephen was awarded one of six fellowships to the 2000 Sundance Composers Lab where he studied with composers such as Carter Burwell (Fargo), George S. Clinton (Austin Powers 1&2) and Christopher Young (The Shipping News).