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Welcome New Members - April 2009
One of the IDA’s primary goals is to develop a robust community of documentary filmmakers and supporters. To further this effort, each month we’ll be spotlighting a group of new(ish) members in the Welcome New Members column.
If you’re a new member and would like to be included (or an “old” member who hasn’t been featured yet), please send your bio (250 words max) to associate editor Tamara Krinsky at krinskydoc@ca.rr.com. You must include “Welcome New Members” and your name in the subject line of the e-mail. Bios should focus on your filmmaking background, interests, experiences, education, accomplishments, etc. If you’re a student, tell us about where you’re studying. If you’re a film fan, tell us what you love about documentaries. Please also include the city, state and country in which you currently reside.
WILLIAM ANDERSON (Cincinnati, OH). A man with many hats, William Anderson has written, produced, directed, photographed and edited in film television and video for over three decades. He was the associate producer and production manager on several independent features, including Rod Whitaker’s Stasis. He has worked for a diverse set of clients. Projects include editing John Hannah’s demo reel; shooting stock car races for ABC's Wide World of Sports; location-scouting for films like Logan’s Run; editing PSAs for the Revlon Run/Walk; filming the 1976 Democratic National Convention; and directing industrial films, documentaries and commercials. As a video producer for a national corporation, Anderson produced numerous training videos with budgets ranging from $5,000 to $350,000. A graduate of the University of Texas, where he studied film production, he has continued his education with courses in production management at the UCLA Division of Extension and seminars in the use of Movie Magic programs like Budgeting and Scheduling. His work has been honored in diverse festivals such as The New York Film and Television Festivals and the USA Film Festival (where he was selected as a Best Texas Director), and with awards such as the Ohio State Award, and by organizations such as the American Legion Freedom Council. Working in Cincinnati, Ohio, Anderson is currently in post-production on a documentary about the first mission of the Strategic Air Command in 1946.
JAMES KICKLIGHTER (Statesboro, GA) is a Junior public relations major at Georgia Southern University, where he has served as the Student Government Association's Director of Publicity and Southern Ambassador, and on the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Student Advisory Board, among other things. Four years ago, Kicklighter created his own company, JamesWorks Entertainment, which produces websites, marketing campaigns, children's audiobooks and films. His most recent project, Di Passaggio, which profiles students on a life-changing study abroad trip through Italy, premiered at the Macon Film Festival in February. The documentary will be screening across the country this year at festivals and college campuses. Currently, Kicklighter is directing a short documentary on the Golden Age of Radio for the Broadcast Education Association Festival in Las Vegas, through the National Association of Broadcasters; the film premieres at the festival this April. www.jameskicklighter.com
www.dipassaggio.com
TONY SCHWEIKLE (Naples, FL) has always said, “Without the earlier stuff, the movie stuff would not have been possible.” The “earlier stuff” is his years as a jazz musician, professional snow skier, competition softball player, photojournalist, professional chef, graphic artist, film festival producer, carpenter and numerous other facets that make up what is generally called “Renaissance, “or “Going with the Flow.” During the professional skier/photographer era, Schweikle was hired as the still photographer on a Roger Corman film after the company found out the still photographer hired in Hollywood did not ski as well as expected. He soon started taking jobs as a location scout. One thing led to another, and after being hired by Frank Marshall to work on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Schweikle got into the loop and continued his film work into the early 2000s. In 2002, he and his wife Phyllis started visiting Italy, fell in love with the country, bought a house on the southern coast and now spend eight to nine months a year there. Thinking he was now retired, he started spending more time with his still camera making images of the beautiful Italian coastline. What started out as a study of coastal watchtowers morphed into his new documentary, Barbarossa and the Towers of Italy.
JOHN VIZZUSI (Apopka, FL) produces, writes and directs Behind the Indie Camera, a documentary television series and TV talk show currently running on public television. The award-winning series explores the indigenous independent filmmaker in the State of Florida and currently airs on The VISION Network in Central Florida to a daily audience of a half a million. He is the filmmaker behind the feature documentary From the Fields to Your Table, which explores the citrus industry and the migrant farm workers in the Southeastern United States. The program ran on PBS and is currently in international distribution. In 2006, Vizzusi created "End Torture Now," a National PSA Series for the ACLU and C.A.I.R. Florida, which called attention to the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He is currently touring his new feature documentary film titled ELECTRIC HEART don ellis, (www.donellisfilm.com), the long-awaited story of the times and music of Don Ellis. The film is currently in foreign release from Sleepy Night Records. Vizzusi says, "My ultimate goal continues to be producing, writing and directing mainly nonfiction short and long-subject documentary films that can have a positive effect on society and educate others to contemporary issues and historical topics that have been forgotten in history." Vizzusi's current film is The Radium Girls--Glowing in the Dark, which will be ready for delivery in 2010. This is the forgotten and tragic story of the United States Radium Corporation workers that were poisoned as a result of painting watch dials in the 1920s.
http://radiumgirls.embarqspace.com
SUDARSAN SEN GUPTA (Calcutta/Kolkata, India) is working on a documentary for television about secularism and India. He worked as a government employee in Kolkata but left for personal reasons. He then worked as an assistant director on a television documentary about the Indian National Army of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. It was telecast in 1998 by India's government-controlled Doordarshan, New Delhi.
www.li-vi.com
If you’re a new member and would like to be included (or an “old” member who hasn’t been featured yet), please send your bio (250 words max) to associate editor Tamara Krinsky at krinskydoc@ca.rr.com. You must include “Welcome New Members” and your name in the subject line of the e-mail. Bios should focus on your filmmaking background, interests, experiences, education, accomplishments, etc. If you’re a student, tell us about where you’re studying. If you’re a film fan, tell us what you love about documentaries. Please also include the city, state and country in which you currently reside.
WILLIAM ANDERSON (Cincinnati, OH). A man with many hats, William Anderson has written, produced, directed, photographed and edited in film television and video for over three decades. He was the associate producer and production manager on several independent features, including Rod Whitaker’s Stasis. He has worked for a diverse set of clients. Projects include editing John Hannah’s demo reel; shooting stock car races for ABC's Wide World of Sports; location-scouting for films like Logan’s Run; editing PSAs for the Revlon Run/Walk; filming the 1976 Democratic National Convention; and directing industrial films, documentaries and commercials. As a video producer for a national corporation, Anderson produced numerous training videos with budgets ranging from $5,000 to $350,000. A graduate of the University of Texas, where he studied film production, he has continued his education with courses in production management at the UCLA Division of Extension and seminars in the use of Movie Magic programs like Budgeting and Scheduling. His work has been honored in diverse festivals such as The New York Film and Television Festivals and the USA Film Festival (where he was selected as a Best Texas Director), and with awards such as the Ohio State Award, and by organizations such as the American Legion Freedom Council. Working in Cincinnati, Ohio, Anderson is currently in post-production on a documentary about the first mission of the Strategic Air Command in 1946.
JAMES KICKLIGHTER (Statesboro, GA) is a Junior public relations major at Georgia Southern University, where he has served as the Student Government Association's Director of Publicity and Southern Ambassador, and on the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Student Advisory Board, among other things. Four years ago, Kicklighter created his own company, JamesWorks Entertainment, which produces websites, marketing campaigns, children's audiobooks and films. His most recent project, Di Passaggio, which profiles students on a life-changing study abroad trip through Italy, premiered at the Macon Film Festival in February. The documentary will be screening across the country this year at festivals and college campuses. Currently, Kicklighter is directing a short documentary on the Golden Age of Radio for the Broadcast Education Association Festival in Las Vegas, through the National Association of Broadcasters; the film premieres at the festival this April. www.jameskicklighter.com
www.dipassaggio.com
TONY SCHWEIKLE (Naples, FL) has always said, “Without the earlier stuff, the movie stuff would not have been possible.” The “earlier stuff” is his years as a jazz musician, professional snow skier, competition softball player, photojournalist, professional chef, graphic artist, film festival producer, carpenter and numerous other facets that make up what is generally called “Renaissance, “or “Going with the Flow.” During the professional skier/photographer era, Schweikle was hired as the still photographer on a Roger Corman film after the company found out the still photographer hired in Hollywood did not ski as well as expected. He soon started taking jobs as a location scout. One thing led to another, and after being hired by Frank Marshall to work on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Schweikle got into the loop and continued his film work into the early 2000s. In 2002, he and his wife Phyllis started visiting Italy, fell in love with the country, bought a house on the southern coast and now spend eight to nine months a year there. Thinking he was now retired, he started spending more time with his still camera making images of the beautiful Italian coastline. What started out as a study of coastal watchtowers morphed into his new documentary, Barbarossa and the Towers of Italy.
JOHN VIZZUSI (Apopka, FL) produces, writes and directs Behind the Indie Camera, a documentary television series and TV talk show currently running on public television. The award-winning series explores the indigenous independent filmmaker in the State of Florida and currently airs on The VISION Network in Central Florida to a daily audience of a half a million. He is the filmmaker behind the feature documentary From the Fields to Your Table, which explores the citrus industry and the migrant farm workers in the Southeastern United States. The program ran on PBS and is currently in international distribution. In 2006, Vizzusi created "End Torture Now," a National PSA Series for the ACLU and C.A.I.R. Florida, which called attention to the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He is currently touring his new feature documentary film titled ELECTRIC HEART don ellis, (www.donellisfilm.com), the long-awaited story of the times and music of Don Ellis. The film is currently in foreign release from Sleepy Night Records. Vizzusi says, "My ultimate goal continues to be producing, writing and directing mainly nonfiction short and long-subject documentary films that can have a positive effect on society and educate others to contemporary issues and historical topics that have been forgotten in history." Vizzusi's current film is The Radium Girls--Glowing in the Dark, which will be ready for delivery in 2010. This is the forgotten and tragic story of the United States Radium Corporation workers that were poisoned as a result of painting watch dials in the 1920s.
http://radiumgirls.embarqspace.com
SUDARSAN SEN GUPTA (Calcutta/Kolkata, India) is working on a documentary for television about secularism and India. He worked as a government employee in Kolkata but left for personal reasons. He then worked as an assistant director on a television documentary about the Indian National Army of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. It was telecast in 1998 by India's government-controlled Doordarshan, New Delhi.
www.li-vi.com
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