Bal-Maiden Films - Fallon, NV: Deadly Oasis

CREDTIS -Crew Bios

Amie Williams, Producer/Director

Amie is an accomplished documentary film producer/director. She is the Executive Director of a non-profit film/video production company, Day, Swing, Grave Productions (DSG) based in Los Angeles, CA, which specializes in film and video for community groups, labor unions and related organizations working in peace, social justice and activist issues. DSG also provides training and resources to beginning filmmakers, and reaches out to marginalized communities that may not have access to sophisticated video tools.

She has produced and directed three other feature-documentaries: One Day Longer, The Story of the Frontier Strike (2000); Stripped and Teased: Tales From Las Vegas Women, (1999); Uncommon Ground (1994), as well as numerous PSA’s, political spots and industrials for labor unions and community groups. Her work has been honored with numerous awards, from the International Documentary Association’s David Wolper Award, the Los Angeles Mayor's Arts Award, SONY/Streisand Scholarship for Emerging Women Filmmakers, Women in Film, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur International Peace Award, and a National Arts Council grant to tour Japan and Singapore to show her films.

She has taught video production at UCLA and UNLV, and co-founded the CineVegas International Film Festival in 1998, bringing world-class cinema for the first time to the Las Vegas Strip. Amie graduated from Yale University (BA, English, 1985) and UCLA film school, (MFA, 1991).

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).

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