Stripped and Teased

Jodie Evans—Producer

Jodie has been a political activist for the last twenty years. She ran Jerry Brown's national campaign for Presidency in 1982, where she produced the first political "infomercial," broadcast on national television. She serves on the Hollywood Women's Political Committee, raising funds for women's issues and female candidates. She has also been involved with programming and production of the Telluride Film Festival, when she was married to Max Palevsky. More recently, she is assistant producing Michelangelo Antonioni's latest film in Los Angeles. She was born and raised in Las Vegas.

Amie Williams—Director

Amie has an M.F.A. from U.C.L.A. film school. Her first feature documentary, developed from her thesis film, Uncommon Ground, was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the A.F.I. Independent Film and Videomaker's Award. The film follows five multiethnic Los Angeles youth on a trip to South Africa, and compares riot-torn L.A. to apartheid. Uncommon Ground won many awards, including the International Documentary Association's David Wolper Award, Best Documentary at the Rivertown Fest, Emerging Vision in the Atlanta Film Festival, Chirs Award, JOEY award, and many international screenings. She moved to Las Vegas during the course of making her latest film, Stripped and Teased, and has been producing political spots, public service announcements and labor union films throughout the West. She teaches Film and Women's Studies part-time at U.N.L.V. , And is the first recipient of the Barbra Streisand-SONY award for emerging female filmmakers.

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Robert Bennett—Cinematographer

Rob is a graduate of A.F.I., and is best known in the documentary world for his last film, "HYPE!" directed by Doug Prey, a Sundance O97 film on the Seattle Rock scene. He has also shot several independent feature films, including "The Gardner," with Malcolm McDowell and Ike Turner, directed by James Hickox. He has numerous music video credits, and has also shot for two Sundance Filmmaker's Workshops, with Mia Goldman and Tamara Jenkens, whose feature film is now in production.

Maureen Gosling—Editor

Maureen began working in film with Les Blank, over twenty years ago. Together, they have made over twenty documentaries, including Burden of Dreams, (about Werner Herzog shooting Fitzcarraldo in the Peruvian Amazon), which won the British Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1983. Gosling was editor for KQED'S "The Hidden Cities of San Francisco," which won an EMMY in 1994. She is presently producing, directing and editing " ³Blossoms of Fire," about the progressive society of the Zapotecs of Southern Oaxaca, Mexico.

Mike Davis—Creative/Writing Consultant

Author of the award-winning City of Quartz, Mike is the authority on urban history and development of Los Angeles, as well as other cities in the "New West." Recently a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, he has chronicled everything from labor disputes to gang negotiations to land disputes and geological history in such publications as The Nation, the New Left Review, Grand Street, Outside Magazine and the Sierra. More recently he is editing a book on Las Vegas, and was the first person to publish a national story on the Culinary Union.

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