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FILMMAKER BIOSIan Cheney, Director Ian Cheney grew up in Milton, MA and attended Milton Academy, where his parents teach photography and physical education. Ian graduated from Yale College in 2002 and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2003, and spent three years creating KING CORN with colleagues Curt Ellis and Aaron Woolf. Ian has also created the short film TWO BUCKETS and the feature documentary THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE. An avid Red Sox fan and amateur astrophotographer, Ian currently resides in South Boston, MA. Anne de Mare, Director/Producer Anne de Mare is an award-winning playwright, producer and director from New York City, where her original plays have been presented at The Ontological Theater, SoHo Rep, The Flea Theatre, The New York International Fringe Festival, and The Ohio Theatre (among others). Her pieces have also been produced in Chicago and most recently in London at The Jerwood Space. The Village Voice has hailed Anne’s work as “ingenious” not to mention “fast-paced, wacky and savage,” while TheatreWeek described her as “a considerable creative force.” Kristen Kelly, Director/Producer Kirsten Kelly is a graduate of the masters program at The Juilliard School where she was awarded the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Directing. She has directed theatre extensively in New York, Chicago, and Washington, DC where she was recently nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best Direction. She is also the Artistic Director of the Oceana Summer Youth Theatre where she directs Shakespeare with rural students. She was raised on an asparagus farm in Oceana County and is a proud former member of the pre-teen asparagus dance troupe, the “Oceana Stalkers.” Adam Wolfensohn, Producer For the past six years, Adam has been neck deep in climate change as a media producer, consultant, grant-maker and investor. From 2002 to 2003, he managed Conservation International's program to make the 2003 Pearl Jam and Warped Tours climate neutral with avoided deforestation offsets. Since 2003, he has been producing "Everything's Cool" as well as directing clean energy investments for Wolfensohn & Co. Before his left turn into the environmental world in 2000, he wrote and produced award-winning music for numerous film, theater and television productions at tomandandy and his own studio, Red Ramona. He is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Trustee of the Alaska Conservation Foundation and President of Bang on a Can. Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ross Gelbspan is a retired editor and reporter with The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. At the Globe he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. In 1998, he published "The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-Up, The Prescription" (Perseus Books). The book received a good deal of attention when President Clinton told the press he was reading it. That year, Gelbspan and Dr. Paul Epstein convened a group of energy company presidents, economists and energy policy experts to refine a set of three interactive "macro-level" policy strategies to address the climate crisis. Those ideas formed the core of Gelbspan's latest book, "Boiling Point," which was published in 2004. The book received the lead review in the New York TimesSunday Book Review, which was written by former Vice President Al Gore. It was also honored as one of the best science books of 2004 by Discover Magazine. The "strategy solutions" spelled out in "Boiling Point" have been endorsed by a number of developing country NGOs. They were the subject of a briefing to the management of Shell/EGYPT in Cairo. They were the subject of a short presentation at the World Bank at the invitation of the director of a G-8 Task Force on Renewable Energy. They have been endorsed by, among others, a former British Ambassador to the UN and the Environmental Commissioner of the European Union. Gelbspan's website, www.heatisonline.org, was cited as one of the best climate change websites by the Pacific Institute. Gelbspan, a 31-year journalist, received his B.A. from Kenyon College and studied international relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is married to Anne Gelbspan, a non-profit developer of affordable housing and has two grown daughters. He lives in Brookline, MA. Beth Daley, Boston Globe Beth Daley has covered environment for The Boston Globe since 2001. A graduate of Northeastern University, she interned at the Globe and then worked for two years at the Newburyport Daily News before going overseas for a year to travel and teach English in Sri Lanka and Thailand. At the Globe, Daley has also covered urban education in Boston and the country, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, anthrax scares, and the war in Afghanistan. She is currently spending the year writing about climate change in New England. Madeleine Hall-Arber, MIT The Center for Marine Social Sciences (CMSS) explores the human, social, and political aspects of marine-related issues. This work helps identify solutions to complex issues and contributes to policy development. In particular, CMSS has focused on the fishing industry and the communities that it supports. The center has also provided critical assessments of proposed management plans for regional management authorities. In addition, CMSS is concerned with coastal zone issues in which the human context can greatly influence the acceptance of management policies. Madeleine Hall-Arber, MIT Sea Grant College Program’s marine anthropologist, has nearly 25 years of experience working with fishermen in New England. Madeleine recently completed profiles of eleven subregions in New England with details of 38 fishing communities, and is currently working on two collaborative projects to help fishermen and fishing communities take the next step in assuring an on-going collection of socio-economic information. In the past, Madeleine assessed the socio-economic impacts of the Magnuson Act on fishing communities, and collected oral histories of fishermen to identify essential fish habitat and record highlights about their fishing experiences. Madeleine has also written extensively for the fishermen’s trade newspaper Commercial Fisheries News. Yo La Tengo Yo La Tengo’s quest for musical release is inextricably tied to a sense of community. It's suffused with the hope borne of realizing that if music can transcend the fractious or mundane realities of life, then we can and must rise above the troubles that divide us. They embody these ideas in dealings with fellow musicians, and have worked with an incredibly diverse range of artists, from Jad Fair to Ray Davies. Their week of Hanukkah shows at Maxwell's has become an annual Hoboken tradition and raised tens of thousands for local charities, as scores of guests take the stage, stepping into a community forged around the gentle yet sturdy triumvirate (Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew) that is Yo La Tengo. Similarly, the band's Swing State Tour in fall 2004 encapsulated much of what the band is about, involving tons of friends, a wild array of songs, a radically-different three-hour set each night, and political motivation with little to no actual politics at the shows except by implication. Clearly, Yo La Tengo act like no other band either. Since their last record, Summer Sun, they've also scored four films ("Junebug," "Game 6," "Old Joy," and the forthcoming "Shortbus") and turned what could have been an inspired one-off - their score to the experimental underwater films of Jean Painleve - into a well-received CD release and frequent repeat performance. They recorded the Simpsons theme for one episode, and played on the recent Gilmore Girls finale. Anderson Cooper loves 'em. As a trio, Yo La Tengo are a complex engine, but they're a completely natural one, tearing through the underbrush like a fully focused prehistoric creature. As much as spontaneity is built into the construction of their sonic world, everything is considered. From whispered ballads to punkish verve, from intricate arrangements to the heady allure of happenstance, Yo La Tengo - as their name suggests -have it all. They manage the near impossible of satisfying both their quest for the loving embrace of their unshakable musical character, and the tirelessness that has kept them from repeating themselves.
Fabien Cousteau Fabien Cousteau, a third-generation ocean explorer and filmmaker, shares his famous father’s and grandfather’s love of deep sea adventure. Growing up, Fabien accompanied his father, Jean-Michel, and grandfather, Jacques, on expeditions and crewed his grandfather’s ships Calypso and Alcyone. Fabien’s filmmaking credits include a special for National Geographic Channel titled Attacks of the Mystery Shark, a CBS special titles Mind of a Demon (about great white sharks), the PBS series: Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures, and America’s Underwater Treasures. |