Crew Bios
ANDY BLACK (PRINCIPAL CINEMATOGRAPHER) is an award-winning cinematographer who has been shooting documentary, short, and feature films for the past fifteen years. His work has been broadcast on AMC, PBS, MTV, BBC, ARD, Channel 4, and Discovery and honored at the Sundance, San Francisco, and Berlin International film festivals. Recent credits include Sicko, The Weather Underground, Scout’s Honor, and Self-Made Man. Andy became “somewhat street fluent” in Marathi in college and understands a bit of Spanish.
VICENTE FRANCO (CINEMATOGRAPHER) has been shooting and producing award-winning documentary films since the 1980s, most notably the Academy-Award nominated Daughter from Danang, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary in 2002. He was nominated for a national Emmy for his cinematography on Daughter for Danang and has recent director of photography credits on The Judge and the General, The Summer of Love, Thirst, The New Americans, and Discovering Dominga. He’s a native Spanish speaker and fluent in English.
DAN KRAUSS (CINEMATOGRAPHER) Dan Krauss is an Academy Award and Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker with directing and cinematography credits on projects for PBS, HBO, and National Geographic, among others. His work has won awards from the Tribeca Film Festival, The International Documentary Association, and the San Francisco International Film Festival. Dan speaks passable French and reads phonetic Hebrew.
NATHANIEL DORSKY (EDITING CONSULTANT) is a world-renowned experimental filmmaker who has served as editing consultant on many documentaries. Of recent note, Ballets Russes, Monumental: David Brower’s Fight for Wild America, Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles, and Regret to Inform. Nick consulted on PatchWorks’ The Return of Sarah’s Daughters and Born in the U.S.A. and speaks “survival French.”
JON JANG (COMPOSER) is an internationally-known composer and jazz musician whose work draws from his experience as an “American, born Chinese.” In addition to composing symphonic works, he has scored theater, dance, and films, recently including, Race is the Place. As a parent at a San Francisco public immersion school, he has intimate knowledge of the stories told in Speaking in Tongues. Music is his first language, English second.
WAYNE WALLACE (COMPOSER) is a world-class trombonist-arranger-composer, who has worked with the likes of Count Basie, Benny Carter, Ray Charles, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Lionel Hampton, Joe Henderson, Lena Horne, Bobby Hutcherson, Tito Puente, Sonny Rollins, Carlos Santana, Sheila E., McCoy Tyner, Stevie Wonder, Pete Escovedo, and John Santos. He cowrote the score for PBS’s Race is the Place with Jon Jang, and speaks “passable” Spanish.
RICHARD BEGGS (SOUND DESIGN & MIX) a sound designer and mixer on more than 60
feature films since 1976, has worked with Francis Coppola, Barry Levinson, Sophia Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron and other major directors. He won an Academy Award for sound for Apocalypse Now and a TEC Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Film Sound. He has received five Golden Reel sound nominations He designed and mixed Avon Kirkland’s Ralph Ellison, which Ken edited, and consulted on Marcia’s experimental short, Collateral Damage. He retains a “smattering” of German from childhood.
LORNA MACMILLAN (ASSOCIATE PRODUCER) has worked in the Bay Area documentary film industry for the last seven years, most recently as an Associate Producer, Production Manager, and Field Producer. She’s had the pleasure of working with Emmy & Oscar-nominated filmmakers and on award-winning films. Lorna is also an anthropological researcher who has been featured on the National Geographic Channel, and writes about travel for her blog, “the roamantics.” She speaks a bit of French & Spanish, and can “be polite” in a few other languages.
