CREDITS
- Production Staff & Consultants
MARCO WILLIAMS CO -PRODUCER
Marco received his B.A. with honors from Harvard University in Visual
and Environmental Studies. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Afro-American
Studies and a Master of Fine Arts, Film Producer’s Program,
both from UCLA.
He is the producer and director of the documentary, “In Search
of Our Fathers,”
which chronicles the seven-year journey he took to meet his father.
The film screened at festivals throughout the U.S. in 1992, including
Sundance, Toronto, the Panorama section of Berlin, and the Margaret
Mead Festival. It was also broadcast on the PBS program, “FRONTLINE.”
Marco was the first African American to be selected for the Discovery
Program of Chanticleer Films. From an original script, “Without
A Pass” premiered in Feb., 1992 on Showtime Cable, and was
nominated for the CABLEACE Awards, as Best Director and Best Theatrical
Special. Marco is also the Director of “From Harlem to Harvard,”
which he made when he was at Harvard. He has since gone on to
work on many projects, most recently The Two Towns of Jasper,
a film for PBS about the Jasper, TX slaying of a young African
American male.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER (South Africa): Kenneth Mdana
Kenneth Mdana studied video documentary production at the Graduate
School of Journalism, UC Berkeley. He also worked for the PBS
news magazine in New York, "South Africa Now," where
he met the Director of “Uncommon Ground.” Kenneth
has also trained at the Swedish Film Institute, and worked as
a sound mixer on two BBC documentaries shot in South Africa, "
Winnie Mandela," and "Remember Mandela." In South
Africa, he has been involved in legal work as a clerk for political
detainees, and owns a production company in Grahamstown. He is
developing a project on Oscar Mphetu, a South African labor leader.
PRODUCTION MANAGER (Los Angeles): Ben Caldwell
Ben Caldwell received his MFA in film and television from UCLA
in June, 1976. From 1981-84, Ben taught film and video at Howard
University.In 1984, Ben returned to South Central Los Angeles
to initiate the Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) project, "KAOS"
Video 3333, a multimedia studeio for video production and experimentation.
He has also worked with the Watts Towers Community Arts Center,
where he started the youth-based "I-Fresh Express,"
a supplementary educational program designed to broaden high school
students' knowledge of film and video.
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Robert Bennett
A graduate of the American Film Institute, Cinematography Fellowship
Program (1988), and Colorado College, (1982), Rob worked as a
news cameraman for seven years in Colorado, before moving to Los
Angeles. His expertise in documentary was developed on many reality-based
television shows, as well as independent productions, including
works for Mexican television. His television credits include Top
Cops, Totally Hidden Video, Missing Reward, and Dinosaurs, for
NHK, Japan. Feature work includes Perfect Bride, Night Club, and
Body Chemistry.
EDITOR: Lucyna Wojciechowski
Before moving to Los Angeles, Lucy worked as an assistant director
in her native Poland, where she attended the famous Lodz Film
School. She has worked as a first and second assistant with Millie
Moore and Charles Bornstein on numerous television and theatrical
releases, including “Under the Gun,” Psycho IV, Ironclads,
and Sometimes They Come Back.”
CONSULTANT (U.S.): Prof. Gerald Horne
Dr. Horne is Chair of the Black Studies department at UC Santa
Barbara. He previously worked as a labor and civil rights lawyer
in New York, and recently was part of a congressional delegation
to South Africa and Namibia, for a conference on the US Constitution.
Dr. Horne's major work, Black and Red, W.E.B. Duboise and Pan
Africanism Looks at South African and US relations across racial
and ideological lines, with comparisons between Black American
history and Black South African history. He is presently running
for California State Senator, for the Peace and Freedom party.
CONSULTANT: (SOUTH AFRICA): Keyan Tomaselli
Professor Tomaselli is the Director of the Center for Culture
and Media Studies, University of Natal, South Africa. He is also
a filmmaker and well-known film theorist internationally. Recently
on a Fulbright grant at the Michigan State University, Prof. Tomaselli
met with the project director, and suggested Grahamstown as an
ideal location for the project. His publications, South Africa
Imaged on Film and Video, and The Cinema of Apartheid (Lakeview
Press), have both been very influential in the making of "NANA,"
specifically his work on community-based media systems and film
for social change.
