THE FILMMAKERS
Alison McMahan: Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
www.AlisonMcMahan.com
www.HomunculusProds.com
alisonmcmahan@aol.com
Alison McMahan, Ph.D., is a documentary filmmaker and president of HOMUNCULUS PRODUCTIONS LLC (www.Homunculusprods.com), a company that produces training films, industrials and documentaries. Recent films include the training film LIVING WITH LANDMINES (2005), and an industrial and a PSA for Pensamento Digital, an NGO in Brazil that provides computers and internet access to poor communities. Her latest documentary is BARE HANDS AND WOODEN LIMBS (2007), see www.FutureofCambodia.com. She is currently in production on a feature length documentary, THE EIGHT FACES OF JANE: THE LIFE AND WORK OF JANE CHAMBERS, see www.8FacesofJane.com.
From 2001-2003 she held a Mellon Fellowship in Visual Culture at Vassar College where she built a virtual reality environment with a biofeedback interface for CAVEs (computer automated virtual environments). From 1997 to 2001 she was an associate professor, teaching film history and theory and new media at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of the award-winning book ALICE GUY BLACHÉ, LOST CINEMATIC VISIONARY (Continuum 2002) and THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON: ANIMATING LIVE ACTION IN HOLLYWOOD (Continuum 2005).
Mathieu Roberts: Cinematographer
matrob@optonline.net
Mathieu Roberts is a cinematographer, shooting documentaries, feature films and commercials for the last 15 years. A small sample of documentaries highlights pertaining to this project include BARBARA KOPPLE'S AMERICAN DREAM (1991), winner of the Academy Award for best feature length documentary. The film follows the lives of individual families as it examines the conflict between the Hormel meat packing plant and local P-9, the striking meatpacker's union.
Mathieu has also worked with Barbara Kopple on the following films... FALLEN CHAMP..., THE UNTOLD STORY OF MIKE TYSON (1992) for the NBC Movie of the Week, 100 YEARS, THE UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, and THE MORRELL WORKERS STORY, the later which Mathieu directed and co-produced with Barbara.
Other relevant projects include TIME MAGAZINE IN LATIN AMERICA. A corporate "documentary" that follows the production of an issue of TIME, beginning with the Time editors sponsoring a conference to discuss the political and economic future with political thinkers and politicians of Latin America in Colombia, South America to the writing, graphic layout and editorial meetings in New York City. Winner of Gold Telly Award.
Kathryn Barnier: Editor
kathryn@cloud9.net
Kathryn Barnier has worked in film and television production for over twenty years, as editor, co-producer and writer. The recently completed documentary, "Banished," directed by Marco Williams and edited by Kathryn Barnier, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival and will screen at the Full Frame Festival in April. It is scheduled to run for two weeks at the Film Forum, New York City, in the fall of 2007.
She served as Supervising Editor on the 2-hour PBS special, "The Mystery of Love," which aired in December. She directed and edited the entertainment show, "Broadway Legends" for Trio Digital Cable and co-produced "The Gun Deadlock" with director Lee Grant for Lifetime Cable.
Some of her major credits as an editor include: specials for Bill Moyers Journal; Series Editor of the ten-hour PBS program, "The American President"; The Cronkite Quarterly with Walter Cronkite; biographical profiles on Gene Hackman, George Lucas, Mary Todd Lincoln and P.T. Barnum for Bravo, American Masters and The Discovery Channel; numerous social issue, political, historical and medical documentaries for PBS, History Channel, Lifetime Cable, Channel Four,England, CBS News and Time/Life Inc.
For her documentary work, she has won numerous awards, including an Emmy nomination, several Cine Golden Eagles, the Gold and Bronze Apples from the National Educational Festival, Gold Medals from Festival of the Americas and the San Francisco Film Festival, the Silver Hugo from Chicago International Film Festival, a Chris Plaque from Columbus International Film Festival, Best of Category in the American Film & Video Festival and a Wilber Award for religious programming.
Two non-fiction projects, "The Search for Solutions" and "All About Looking" (with artist Jim Dine) have been released theatrically in New York City.
Bronwen Jones: Composer
 www.bronwenjones.com
bronwen@bronwenjones.com
Bronwen composes and orchestrates music for film and television. She has composed the scores for many documentary films that have been screened on PBS, including "Sisters Of Selma" and "Roots In The Sand" by Jayasri Hart, "Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But The Mountains" by Kevin McKiernan and "Pictures From The Old Country" by Susan Marcinkus. Other films currently in distribution are "Art Colonies In America", "Con Brio", "The Amazing Normal Story", "The Stonecutter", and "Ophelia Learns To Swim". Her orchestration credits include "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" (Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film), "Perfume", "Blood and Chocolate", "Anamorph", "The Princess and the Warrior", "Iron-Jawed Angels", "The Cave", "Swimming Upstream", "One Hour Photo" and the theme for the TV show "Without a Trace". Bronwen has also written music for PSAs for The Centers For Disease Control, and industrials for the Educational Television Network in Los Angeles. Born in Australia, Bronwen received a classical conservatory education and was principal clarinetist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the State Opera Orchestra of South Australia before becoming a full time composer.
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