Porter is currently finishing up post-production on ACCESS, a 20-minute video about the barriers uninsured immigrants face when seeking medical care. The piece was funded by Community Voices and Asian Health Services (Oakland, CA). In the film, viewers meet Fabiola, a 15-year old with asthma, Negash, an elderly man with diabetes and Julia, an 8-year old who suffered an epidural abscess. The piece was shot on Mini-DV and edited on Final Cut Pro.

XXXY, a video co-directed by Porter and classmate Laleh Soomekh, has also received a lot of support over the last year. The 13-minute film about two individuals born intersex has aired on PBS (Philadelphia) and screened at more than 30 international film festivals. In addition, XXXY received an honoree award from the Directors Guild of America, Best Student Documentary at Palm Springs Short Film Festival, a silver jury award at the New York Expo, a honoree award at Making Waves Film Festival and a Student Academy Award. XXXY is distributed by The University of California/Berkeley and is currently being used by the Youth Gender Project, in Berkeley, as an outreach tool in high school classrooms.

Greta Nash began making documentaries as part of her doctoral research into adolescents' attitudes about school and work. Her films produced at Stanford have addressed agricultural land use, popular culture, and children's responses to violence. Greta Nash's documentary interests for the future include further exploration of children's perspectives on work, class, and culture.

Greta is currently working on her thesis film, THE LINDY LIFE, (Digital Video, 20 minutes). The Lindy Hop, the first swing dance, born of a new century, new jazz music, and a new view of America in the 1920s, continues to foster a broad and diverse community of enthusiasts. Archival black and white footage mingled with interviews and glimpses of the extraordinary San Francisco dance scene make this film both historically fascinating and fun to watch. This film was awarded an Enersen production grant.

Jennifer is currently editing her thesis film — VOICES FROM THE UNIT. The thirty-minute piece -- shot on DVcam -- profiles the lives of three teenagers at the Sierra Youth Center-- a Juvenile Detention Program in Santa Rosa, California. The film follows Megan, Sam and Brian over the course of six months as they move toward their release dates. The three teenagers come from different backgrounds, have committed different crimes and are struggling to negotiate different life circumstances. What they have in common is serving time at Sierra -- an experience we come to know through their eyes. VOICES FROM THE UNIT received an Enersen production grant and a UFVA Carole Fielding Student Grant.

Jennifer’s spring quarter film, INSIDE/OUT, recently screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival and Women in the Director’s Chair. INSIDE/OUT has also received several awards including a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Best Student Film Award at the Silver Images Film Festival, and an honorable mention at the Marin County Festival of Short Films.

Isabel Sadurni is currently editing her thesis film, RED GOD, BLACK DEVILS on the story of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as told by three women: novelist and screenwriter, Geling Yan, painter, Hung Liu and historian, Wang Zheng. Told in Rashomon-style, the conflict and contradictions among the subjects’ interpretations of the same events and characters questions the nature of reconstructing history. The film, which incorporates digital video, archival clips and Super-8, was edited on Final Cut Pro. The piece also incorporates a short animated sequence created on Director.

Isabel’s fall film, MI TIERRA, a portrait of the first Latina in America to run her own organic farm in Salinas, CA, screened at the International Voladero Film Festival and the Marin Latino Film Festival. At the Marin festival, Isabel participated as a panelist in the Women in Film conference.

XXXY, a winter video Laleh co-directed with Porter Gale, has seen tremendous success over the past year. It screened at festivals internationally and won many awards, including a Student Academy Award.

Laleh is currently in post-production for her thesis project, DEAR JUDGE, shot entirely on location in Mobile, Alabama. This video explores how two teenage siblings and their 26 year old sister/legal guardian have coped with their mother’s incarceration in a federal prison. When shooting began, Dorothy Gaines had served six years of a twenty-year sentence handed down for a minor drug offense. Unexpectedly, she received a presidential commutation of her sentence before filming was completed; Laleh was fortunate enough to shoot shortly after the family’s reunification.

John and I have been continuing festival outreach with RIDING THE TIGER, which won Best Documentary at the 2000 Savannah Film and Video Festival, was nominated for an IDA/ABC News Video Source Award by the International Documentary Association, and has screened recently at: Mostra Internacional de Cinema, São Paulo, Brazil; Docside Documentary Film Festival, San Antonio; Hawaii International Film Festival; Ojai Film Festival; International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany; Mostra Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany; Mikrokino Fest, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; One World Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic; Munich Documentary Film Festival, Germany; Kerala International Film Festival, India; Palm Beach Film Festival, Florida.

We're starting to plan new projects and just bought Final Cut Pro, though these days we’re busy unpacking, having just moved to San Francisco. Our new address is 309-C Castro Street, San Francisco. Stay in touch!

During this past year, we were fortunate to have Jay Rosenblatt, Elizabeth Thompson (’94), Jeffrey Friedman, and Vivian Kleiman teaching in the graduate program. Jay, Elizabeth, and Vivian each taught a course in the first-year curriculum and Jeffrey taught the M.A. Project course in the winter quarter. The first-year students inaugurated our new Final Cut Pro editing stations for their second-quarter video projects. The results were impressive!! The second-year students are assiduously working on their final projects (7 videos, 1 film) which will be screened for the public on Saturday, June 16. Two films by Stanford alumni are scheduled for the upcoming PBS series P.O.V. TRUE-HEARTED VIXENS by Mylene Moreno ('93) will be broadcast on July 17 and IN THE LIGHT OF REVERENCE by Christopher McLeod and Malinda Maynor ('97) is scheduled for August 14.

It's been a busy teaching year for me but I have managed to work intermittently on my new film project. I'm producing a 16mm documentary (30 or 60 minutes?) that features some of the key characters who appeared in my film LITTLE PEOPLE (1982). The bulk of the shooting was completed last summer (shot by Ferne Pearlstein, '93) so I am now in the process of organizing the outtakes from the earlier film and getting the new material edge-coded (yes, I'm still cutting on film). My goal for the summer is to impose order on chaos and achieve a rough cut by the time school starts. I received a grant from the Research Incentive Fund at Stanford to help support the project.

Henry Breitrose was re-appointed to the Strategic Planning Committee of KQED, San Francisco, where he ponders the future of Public Television. In Spring Term, he co-taught "Broadcasting in America" with Dick Block, who originated the course many years ago in the late and lamented Summer Mass Media Institute.

Henry is planning a "Soprano’s Saturday" for the fall of 2001, during which our students will have the opportunity to meet with series creator David Chase ('71), John Patterson ('72) who directed several episodes, and Allan Rucker, AKA Jeffrey Wernick, who writes HBO's "Official" SOPRANO'S website http://www.jeffreywernick.com.

In July, Henry will be in Europe researching material for a new course in World Media. He plans to meet with alumnae Sara Nathan (’79) who edited the news for Channel 4 and is a member of the U.K. Radio Authority, which is similar in many ways to the FCC, and Daniel Dayan, who edits the journal Communication for the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and teaches at the University of Oslo.

Our adjunct instructor this quarter is Vivian Kleiman. In addition to working with first year students on their spring films, Vivian has been busy with projects of her own.

Upcoming screenings of Vivian’s work includes: May 27th KQED 6pm re-broadcast of FIRST PERSON PLURAL (credit: Executive Producer), a personal documentary about international adoption; June 22, SF International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival premiere of HOPE ALONG THE WIND (credit: Executive Producer) a one-hour portrait of Harry Hay, founder of the first gay rights organization in North America; October, Yerba Buena Center MY BODY’S MY BUSINESS (credit: Producer/Director) as part of the "Fever in the Archives" series. Vivian is also scheduled to sit on a panel for the "Persistent Vision" conference, an international conference of queer independent film artists, producers, programmers and theorists in conjunction with the 2001 SF International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Vivian is currently in production on two projects. PROMISES TO KEEP (credit: Producer/Director) is a one-hour documentary about a school founded by African Americans in Kentucky after the Civil War and now is engulfed in a battle to dismantle school desegregation. FUTURE FLIGHT CENTRAL (credit: Director) a 5-minute promotional documentary for NASA.

I moved to New York this winter and have been working freelance as a cinematographer. I recently finished shooting a vérité series on women doctors, set to air on Lifetime Television this fall. My thesis film, NIGHTLIGHT, received a Directors Citation at the Black Mariah Film Festival and recently was awarded Best Student Film at the Humboldt International Film Festival.

Hope Hall has been living in New York since her graduation and participating in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Studio Program. In order to sustain herself, she has been freelance shooting for just about every kind of documentary, along with some Final Cut Pro editing and tutoring. The open studio/group show/finale of the Whitney Program just ended. At the finale Hope showed an installation, in collaboration with a sound artist, of found super-8 footage which is viewed through the monstrous lens of an ancient video projector. This sounds more confusing than it is.

Her recent past also includes the single best festival experience she's had, receiving the best student film award at the Louisville Film and Video Festival (fried turkey tailgating and all) for her spring film, THIS IS FOR BETSY HALL, and viewing the Sundance Film Festival from the comfortable distance of a cinematographer, an official festival videography position that allowed her to enjoy, access, and comment on the mayhem quite thoroughly. Her future plans include stability, a concept that is foreign and, therefore, exotic to Ms. Hall.

I'm still here in NYC. I'm currently an Assistant Editor on a feature documentary about the history of the Miss America Pageant for the American Experience. SYNCHRO, my spring film, showed at Sundance this year. After my music-rights snafu and consequent sound re-mix, that was very exciting! And I'm finally going to begin production (where did this year go??) on my short abstract documentary on OCD. http://www.softspokenfilms.com

Lauren Popell continues to love her faculty position in Fine Arts and Communication at Foothill College, and was recently named Department Chair for the 2001-2002 academic year. She looks forward to resuming independent production work during the summer months! Meanwhile, her 1998 fall quarter film, FLOWERS AND BONES has been selected as one of five drama/documentary finalists in (97.3) Alice Radio's 2001 3-minute Film Festival.

I've been working hard in New York, editing for The Sundance Channel and A&E but I've managed to squeeze in enough time to make a short fiction digital video that I'm just finishing up on my Final Cut Pro system. The video is called ANNA IS BEING STALKED and was shot by Hope Hall (’00) and lit by Anne Alvergue (’00). We had a great time dipping our toes in the fiction film world and I plan on doing so again.

I have started a New York version of San Francisco's popular Final Cut Pro User's Group where filmmakers and technophiles gather to discuss and show their work as well as trade tips on digital filmmaking. If anyone is interested in attending our monthly meetings, they can feel free to contact me by email. The group has grown from 2 members to well over 40 in the four months that we have been active and several of my classmates have been attending regularly. I have also been teaching Final Cut Pro classes at a new training facility in SoHo.

I've done a variety of film-related jobs since graduating in June from A.P. work to assistant editing. My most recent was a stint as a production coordinator for an indie feature film shot all around the Bay Area. I found it very rewarding and am embarking on my first feature film script as well as researching a few documentary ideas. My thesis film CRICKET OUTTA COMPTON won the first place in the Black Maria Film Festival and has been screening across the country.  It was picked up by Filmmaker's Library and I am currently considering some European distribution deals as well. My website is www.joanneshen.com

Sadia Shepard is living in Brooklyn, New York where she is producing a film for Romanian television and working as a camera-person for Gabriel Films, NY. Her thesis film, EMINENT DOMAIN, recently screened at the San Francisco Int'l Film Festival and the IFP/West Los Angeles Film Festival. EMINENT DOMAIN was the recipient of the Festival Director Award at the Magnolia Independent Film Festival and 3rd Prize at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. She was just awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to go to India next year and make a film about the last Jews of Cochin.

Roger Sorkin graduated in 2000 after producing his thesis film on flag burning and the First Amendment. The 25-minute video, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, screened at the Savannah Film and Video Festival and has shown several times at the Freedom Forum. Attempts are being made to distribute the piece to high school students nationwide.

Roger began work as a freelance producer upon graduation, then worked as a researcher for Bill Moyers' recent PBS special, TRADE SECRETS. He is currently a producer with Maguire Reeder, a production company in Alexandria, VA where he is honing his skills to one day have his own production company.

I've had the pleasure of finding archival footage and photos for a number of Stanford student and alumni films over the past year. I'm looking forward to working on many more of your projects. You can reach me here in the Washington, D.C. 'burbs at (410) 535-6354 or edwardengel@yahoo.com.

For the last 6 months, I have been working with Lion Television on a six-part series for the Learning Channel on the criminal justice system in San Francisco. We have been stalking the Hall of Justice - John Haptas occasionally does sound for us. We have about 1000 hours of footage and I am the assistant editor cutting it all down into short little assemblies. We just did a pilot for CBS with a similar theme but in Las Vegas. We will know shortly if CBS is picking it up for their Fall programming - if they do I might go to Vegas for a while (not sure if I'm excited about that or not). If not, I may be looking for another project to start in June. Independently, I have been helping Mark Becker (’96) out with his current film - tentatively titled ROMANTICO. We just got back from shooting in Mexico last week. I came back exhausted and about 5 pounds heavier, but it was a good trip and I think Mark probably got lots of great footage. Daniel Baer (’96) came with us and did sound so it was a pure Stanford gang invading a small Mexican town. I still haven't recovered my stolen Canon XL1 nor any of the master tapes for the film I was working on. I've pretty much given up on that film and will have to start another some day.

Before going to Stanford, Christopher worked with deaf refugees in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. In June, he returns to Kakuma to follow a group of young Sudanese refugees who are to be resettled in San Jose, CA. The United States has recently granted asylum to nearly 4,000 young men referred to as the "Lost Boys" of Sudan. He and his crew will be shooting in both digital video and 16mm. He will then return to the Dominican Republic where he is the DP for an HD24P production called LOS DUROS. www.goinggoingproductions.com

I've just started a new job as Post-Production Supervisor for the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), which provides subsidized state-of-the-art editing facilities to independent filmmakers. I am responsible for outreach into the independent community, so I'd love to hear from all of you with any ideas, suggestions, etc. about how BAVC can better serve your needs. Feel free to call or stop by anytime: my direct line there is

415-558-2151, email is vanessa@bavc.org.

I've also just finished preliminary shooting for THE HOBBY, a documentary film about Civil War reenacting. The film recently received non-profit fiscal sponsorship, and I will be editing the footage into a fundraising trailer and raising money for the project over the next 6-9 months. I hope to begin full production in the spring of 2002. (For more information about THE HOBBY, visit http://home.earthlink.net/~vwarheit/hobby.html)

And lastly, I'm engaged! To Nik Ingle, originally of London, England, who is currently finishing his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford. We plan to stay in California and marry in May of 2002.

Still working on WAR LETTERS for PBS -- American Experience. The book

upon which our film is based was just released May 15. My thesis film,

RAZING HOPE aired on Bay TV.

Josh and I were married in Hong Kong last November and had a relaxing honeymoon back in the States. We're presently in the process of planning a move from Beijing where we've been for the past 3 years to Sydney in July and are very excited. I don't really have anything lined up work-wise over there, but am hoping to get back in to something more documentary film related.

Which brings me think of you as I leave my position here as a bureau producer at Australian Broadcasting. If you know of anyone who might be interested in living in China and working in news (programs range between 1.5 minutes to half an hour)...this might be an interesting option for them. What ABC Beijing absolutely requires is someone who is fluent in Putonghua (Mandarin), who has a background in TV production, and holds a foreign passport (anything but a Chinese passport) for journalist accreditation purposes.

I recently completed a one-hour historical documentary on the history of oil development in the town of Orcutt, California for their historical committee. It was interesting to learn that Mr. Orcutt was in Stanford's first graduating class and the roommate of Herbert Hoover. I am also producing a documentary for the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on Chumash Indian culture of central California. This documentary reveals the oral history of a woman who recounts six generations of her ancestry. After fleeing a failing dot-com, I just began a full time job as video and graphics producer for Civic Center Television of San Jose, channel 37. I will be producing original programming using some great technology as well as managing their 'CSPAN' type coverage of San Jose city council meetings. You can see a live streaming broadcast of the station by linking from this site:

www.ci.san-jose.ca.us/livecouncil. If anyone has produced a documentary related to the city of San Jose, I may be able to get it aired. Please let me know.

I have recently been appointed Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Ramapo College in New Jersey. The position is full time, tenure track, and offers great benefits including a pension (since Ramapo is a public college I'm now a state employee). BROWN, an online documentary I produced last year profiling a young biracial couple raising their first child, has recently been exhibited at the University of Iowa's Thaw 01 festival, the Lite Show in Boston, and the Museum Against the Forgetting of Humanity in Germany. BROWN is available online at www.digitaldocumentary.org. My current project, AFTER THE NEW ECONOMY, follows a group of people who lost their jobs in the recent dot-com crash. AFTER THE NEW ECONOMY is currently in production.

I'm living in New York City. I recently completed a short documentary about my uncle, UNCLE EUGENE, funded by the PDFA and the Palm Springs Int'l Short Film Festival. It won the Golden Gate Award for short documentary at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival. It also screened at Slamdance and won best documentary at Arizona International Film Festival and the Skyy Vodka Short Film Awards. Also, I've been teaching film and video theory and production at Marymount College in Manhattan. Currently, I am working full-time on a feature length, behind-the-scenes documentary about George W. Bush's 2000 campaign.

We have been compiling a decent sized archive on Beta SP that I wanted to let the Stanford Film Program community know about. We have lots of footage aviation, automobiles, WWI, WWII, Korea, Cold War, Vietnam, and Newsreel from the 20's-60's. We're not real organized (yet), searchable on the internet (yet) or fast (yet) but we are cheap, especially for Stanford folks working on independent films. Info on the archive will be available in June at www.blueplatemedia.com

Yuriko Romer is currently developing a new film about the spiritual life of children. Last year she produced/directed/edited an educational piece about the colorful and unusual liturgy of St. Gregory's Church in San Francisco. Yuriko's son Nikolas, almost three, keeps her very busy when she is not in her basement office of Flying Carp Productions.

Her thesis film, OCCIDENTAL ENCOUNTERS, recently aired again on KQED.

Website: www.flyingcarp.net

My hour-long film, DADDIES, about gay men raising kids, recently got completion funding from ITVS through its DV Initiative.  The film follows several families (including my own) to explore the social, political, & personal implications of this new kind of American family.  I'll be working hard to finish the film up by the end of this year.

Meanwhile, I had the good fortune to attend the Oscars in March with a film I co-produced, LONG NIGHT'S JOURNEY INTO DAY, which was nominated for best feature doc. We didn't win, but the opportunity to be there was incredible in itself.

I am living in Berkeley and (still) working on a documentary about the late civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, with co-producer Bennett Singer. Rustin, an openly gay man, is best remembered as the organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King made his "I have a Dream" speech. The project has been funded primarily by ITVS, with additional support from the NEH and the National Black Programming Consortium. Our web site is www.rustin.org. We hope to finish over the summer. Regards to everyone at the documentary program, including my fellow alumnae/i!

Since completing SECRET PEOPLE two years ago, (which went on to play on national PBS through the Independent Lens series, among other things), I've embarked on yet another long-term film project, DREAMING OF KAWTHOOLEI. This is a film about young Karen (Burmese ethnic minority) girls growing up in the refugee camps along the border between Thailand and Burma. Needless to say, the logistics are tricky, the language barrier daunting and...I love it. We've filmed about 3/4 of the project (a mixture of 16 mm, super-8 shot by the girls themselves, mini-DV by local crews) and are in that ever-interminable process of looking for finishing funds.

Meanwhile, I do plenty of odd jobs to pay the rent, including occasional free-lance editing stuff (not much in the barren landscape that is Houston, Texas, however!), teaching Media Literacy in the public schools to all ages, some work for non-profits, etc. and, I try to make at least a couple of short films per year to keep my feet wet... This year, that film is called ANT FARM TIME CAPSULE, about the zany antics of a 70's art group that did such famous (and infamous) projects as Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas (12 Cadillacs buried in the ground) and Media Burn, in which a souped-up caddie crashed through a wall of TV monitors at the Cow Palace. All good fun.

I will be the Base Camp camera-person and production manager for a HDTV project (high definition video), VISION OF EVEREST. The documentary will cover the story of an expedition which is attempting to summit Mt. Everest this spring. One of the climbers, Erik Weihenmayer, is blind. Erik is an exceptional person with a great sense of humor. He is climbing with 8 of his climbing partners who are all very inspirational and fun people as well. VISION OF EVEREST is sponsored by Allegra, the hay fever medicine, and is being produced for the National Federation of the Blind. I will be working with Michael Brown (director/camera/climber) and Charley Mace (climber/camera) from Serac Films. The film is being produced by Aperture Films, a company of former folks from MacGillvary Freeman, who made the IMAX film Everest.

Howard Shack is a Director of Photography specializing in documentary films and videos. He is based in San Francisco and has shot on location all over the U.S. as well as Scotland, France, Italy, Tokyo, Thailand, Burma and Nepal. His work has been seen on PBS, the BBC, Discovery and The Learning Channel. THE LAST ASCENT, a short film he shot for National Geographic on the life of mountaineer Alex Lowe was nominated for an Emmy Award. He was also the primary cameraman on the documentary SCOUT’S HONOR which recently won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sundance Film Festival. Most recently he spent a month living on top of a volcano in Stromboli, Italy, shooting VOLCANO HUNTERS for National Geographic Television.

In the past year, my ITVS-funded film BLINK aired on POV (summer 2000 season).  It has also been an honoree and award-winner at a number of film festivals, including SXSW, Human Rights Watch, Nashville Independent Film Festival, Bermuda Int'l Film Festival, Taos Talking Pictures, and Hot Springs Doc Fest.  CS Associates is distributing BLINK internationally.  UC Extension picked up domestic academic distribution. They're doing a fine job of getting the word out and submitting BLINK to conferences, such as the American Anthropology Association Annual Conference, APCS Conference on Psychoanalysis and Social Change, Society for Photographic Education, etc.

Last fall I did a 7-week residency at Yaddo, an artist colony in upstate New York, followed by a quarter of teaching Documentary Directing II (winter video project) to the First Years. I am currently in development on a feature doc about women Zen monastics and on a web-based multimedia project exploring the roots of violence.  This summer I will be in residence at MacDowell Colony continuing work on a fiction screenplay.  Then I'll be back at Stanford this fall teaching Directing I to the new First Years.  For more info about BLINK, see my web site: www.thompsonfilms.com

Michael is currently in post-production on GOOD MORNING, MRS. KELLEY! a documentary on the first American teachers in the Philippines in the early 1900s, and the process of introducing a new language to the natives. He recently served as post-production supervisor for SCOUT’S HONOR which screened at Sundance 2001 and will open PBS's POV Series this summer.

I'm still in Singapore at NTU's School of Communication Studies. I teach a basic audio and video course. I'm co-producing a project with Mike Culpepper in Seattle, on gay life in rural America. We've got several Stanford grads working on the project: Liz Spencer (’94) is my DP, Ed Engel (’99) is helping us out with research, and Peter Smith is our grip. Anyone coming out to Southeast Asia is welcome to get in touch with me.

I recently moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. I love it here. I produce and direct videos and television programs with the U.S. Geological Survey. I'm currently producing a 30 minute piece on Desert Tortoise Research. I am finishing a visitor center film for Yellowstone Park along with a short on cool research that has uncovered dramatic hot spring's on the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. I just learned today I'm working with KPIX-5 in San Francisco on a program about the economic impact of natural disasters on the Pacific Rim. A recent past program I produced with KPIX, "Future Quakes" aired twice in the Bay Area. It has received a number of awards including a "Telly" and the highest government communications award from the National Assn. of Government Communicators. I'm also working on a personal film project about a married closet-lesbian Jewish woman shop-aholic who loves to gamble. Amazingly, she is such a gambling fiend she actually brings herself to orgasm just from touching a video poker machine. I've captured this on tape. So far its shapping up to be a fun and provocative show. All my best to the slackers in the MA classes of 90-91.

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Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio have just completed Series/Executive Producing the premiere season of TLC's highly rated CODE BLUE, thirteen one-hour shows on Charity Hospital in New Orleans. (Stanford grad Bob Edwards (’96) was one of the editors on the series.)

DiFeliciantonio and Wagner are currently in development with HBO on two projects and are completing SILENT VOICES, an impressionistic documentary on women filmmakers from cinema's silent era funded by the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation.

I am currently an Executive Producer with Channel 4, Cox Communications in San Diego. I write and produce segments for our news magazine, San Diego Insider, and I am executive producer of Forefront, a series of biographies and interviews with well-known Southern Californians. Also, I direct live shows and sports, including hockey and SDSU and USD basketball. In 2000, I received a regional Emmy for a story on the Vietnam Veterans of San Diego substance abuse treatment center.

I have just returned from four years living in Hanoi, Vietnam. The experience was an incredibly rich one, personally and professionally. With a Sony DCR VX1000 I produced and shot two programs for PBS. PETE PETERSON: ASSIGNMENT HANOI the story of the first American ambassador to Vietnam since the War aired September, 1999; TALES OF TWO CITIES: SAIGON AT WAR, HO CHI MINH CITY TODAY the perspective of six Vietnamese on the war and their lives today will air next April, 2002 on the 27th anniversary of the end of the war.

After completing the Documentary Film & Video Program, I went on to get a Stanford Ph.D. in English (1969) rather than staying in film. Professor Breitrose was on my committee because my M.A. thesis was a screenplay of Beowulf; it won an American Screenwriters' Guild Award, actual money, a fair amount of it, and very useful at the time! After teaching or being a research scholar at Syracuse University, Columbia U, Lancaster U in England, Edinburgh U, Queen's U Belfast in Northern Ireland, the U of Alaska at Fairbanks, the U of Hawaii, and, as a Fulbright Lecturer, the U of Iceland in Reykjavik, I landed back here in California and have been a Professor at UC Davis for twenty years. I still write books and articles on "Beowulf," but also on Chaucer, the Icelandic sagas, and even things not medieval (like Narnia).

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