TIFFANY SHLAIN, DIRECTOR, CO-WRITER, EDITOR
Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. A celebrated thinker and catalyst, Tiffany is known for her ability to illuminate complex ideas in culture, science, technology and life through her unique films, dynamic talks, and innovative projects. She’s delivered the keynote commencement address at UCBerkeley and her films and work have received 50 awards and distinctions. Her last four films premiered at Sundance, including her 2011 acclaimed feature documentary, Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology, which The New York Times hailed as “Examining Everything From the Big Bang to Twitter,” and the US State Department just selected as one of the films to screen at embassies around the world in their 2012 American Film Showcase. She is currently working on a new film series which is paving the way for a new kind of collaborative filmmaking she calls CLOUD FILMMAKING. The series, titled “Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change,” will include twenty short 4-minute films about important aspects of life. The first film, A Declaration of Interdependence, with music by Moby, has been translated into 65 languages and she is currently creating free customized versions of the film for any nonprofit. The next film in the series that Tiffany and her film studio are in production on is Brain Power, which explores the best way to nurture young children’s brains as well as the global brain we are creating via the Internet.
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CARLTON EVANS, PRODUCER, CO-WRITER
Carlton was the associate producer and director of outreach for The Tribe, an award-winning short about the history of the Jewish people and the Barbie doll, and an official selection at over 100 festivals including Sundance and Tribeca. He is also the co-founder and director of the Disposable Film Festival, which celebrates achievements in new media filmmaking. Carlton has taught film theory, art history, and architecture at Stanford, San Francisco State University, and SF Art Institute, and lectures worldwide about film and new media. Carlton holds a PhD in Art History and Film Theory from Stanford University.
KEN GOLDBERG, CO-WRITER
Ken Goldberg is an inventor working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media. At UC Berkeley, Ken teaches and supervises research in Robotics, Automation, and New Media. Ken was awarded dual degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (1984) and MS and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (1990). He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1995 where he is craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media. He is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, with secondary appointments in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and the School of Information. Ken also has an appointment in the UC San Francisco Medical School’s Department of Radiation Oncology. Ken has published over 150 peer-reviewed technical papers on algorithms for robotics, automation, and social information filtering; his inventions have been awarded eight US Patents. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), Co-Founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media, Co-Founder and CTO of Hybrid Wisdom Labs, Co-Founder of the Moxie Institute, and Founding Director of UC Berkeley’s Art, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series. Ken was awarded the Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995 by President Clinton, the National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1994, the Joseph Engelberger Robotics Award in 2000, and elected IEEE Fellow in 2005.
SAWYER STEELE, CO-WRITER, PRODUCTION MANAGER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Sawyer Steele is a writer and filmmaker. He has been with The Moxie Institute since its inception and is now producing and writing the short film series Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change with Director Tiffany Shlain. During production of Connected, Sawyer was a co-writer, associate editor, and production manager. Born and raised in New England, Sawyer graduated from Colby College in Maine.
STEFAN NADELMAN, ANIMATION DIRECTOR
Stefan Nadelman won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize in 2003 for his short film, Terminal Bar. Among a variety of personal, collaborative, and commercial work, he has directed and animated shorts with Robert Smigel for Saturday Night Live’s “TV Funhouse,” a music video for Menomena’s “Evil Bee,” and the viral mini-epic short film about war called Food Fight.
GUNNARD DOBOZE, COMPOSER
Gunnard Doboze scored the 2009 Oscar-nominated Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner and the 2004 Official Sundance Selection September Tapes.
DALAN MCNABOLA, EDITOR
Dalan McNabola, born, raised and educated in San Francisco, is a filmmaker and editor. He just finished editing, with Tiffany Shlain, her newest feature film, “Connected: An Autoblogography about Life, Death & Technology” connectedthefilm.com, which premiered in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2011 U.S. Documentary Competition. From 2006 to 2008, Dalan worked as a Producer/Editor at Al Gore’s Emmy Award winning Current TV, where he created daily content doing short animations, motion graphics and video editing. Prior to that, Dalan worked closely with Tiffany as an associate editor on The Tribe (2006) which has been shown at over a 100 festivals including, Sundance, Tribeca, and Rotterdam. He loves what he does and knows just how lucky this makes him.
PETER COYOTE, NARRATOR
Peter Coyote is an Emmy Award-winning film, stage, and television actor and voiceover artist who has appeared in over 100 films, and narrated over 165 documentaries.
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IMPACT PARTNERS
The supporters of this project include Impact Partners headed by Dan Cogan and Geralyn Dreyfous, the executive producer of the 2004 Oscar-winning documentary, Born Into Brothels. Impact Partners is a film fund for investors and philanthropists who seek to promote social change through film. Since its inception less than three years ago, Impact Partners has been involved in the financing of over 25 films, including: The Cove, which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; Freeheld, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film; The Garden, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2009.
THE MOXIE INSTITUTE
The Moxie Institute has made a name for itself creating and distributing socially minded films in exciting new ways. Engaging people in the powerful social, political, and cultural issues that are shaping the 21st century requires effective use of the emerging technologies that are changing the way that information is exchanged and absorbed, and that communities are established. Coupling traditional media like films, books and live events with the new technologies to connect people around issues and ideas is a powerful way to disseminate and debate important questions of our day. The Moxie Institute develops these types of projects as well as provides information for others on how to harness the power of the Internet to maximize their efforts.
The founders have over a decade of experience with films, the Internet, live events, symposia, and a variety of new media projects that deliver powerful and resonant experiences in support of social awareness and change. We believe that to initiate and sustain dialogue on important issues, the creativity and quality of the message must be matched by the creativity and quality of its distribution. Their last project, The Tribe, was singled out by The Sundance Institute, The New York Times, and Variety as an example of innovative distribution using the Internet and engaging audiences with live events, and was the first documentary to reach #1 on iTunes. Their projects include: The Tribe which explores American Jewish Identity, Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness, which explores reproductive rights in America, Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, which explores the importance of unplugging occasionally from technology and Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology explores interdependence in the 21st century. The Moxie Institute also participates in conferences and symposiums about new forms of media and distribution. The last two events they co-hosted included one at Columbia University in NYC and one at UCBerkeley in the Bay Area.
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THE DISTRIBUTION TEAM
PALADIN FILM, NATIONAL DISTRIBUTOR Currently on screens for Paladin is Tom Shadyac’s I AM, which is about to enter its fifth month of release in US theaters, and which crossed the million dollar box-office mark three weeks ago. Committed to the innovative distribution of documentary features, Urman and his team, who have been together since he co-founded THINKFilm in 2001. In seven years, THINKFilm garnered seven “Best Documentary” Oscar nominated films including two winners, Taxi to the Dark Side and Born Into Brothels. Next up for the company is Jill Andresevic’s prize-winning documentary, LOVE ETC, a romantic omnibus that opens in New York on July 1st. http://www.paladin-film.com/
RO*CO FILMS, INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTOR
Ro*co is honored to represent a collection of documentaries that inspire and entertain. They recognize that documentary films can connected us to human experiences well beyond the boundaries of our own. The films they choose transport us to new places and persuade us that they possess the power to do the same for audiences around the world. Founded by Annie Roney in 2000, ro*co films remains committed to finding audiences aroudnt he world for the best documentaries of our day. With eight Oscar-nominated and or/winning documentary films under our watch, as well as a slate of award-winning film festival documentaries, ro*co has earned the trust and respect of both the filmmaking community and the people who give their films a platform. http://www.rocofilms.com/
