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Filmmaker & Crew Biographies
Rachel Boynton
Director/Producer
Our Brand is Crisis is Rachel’s first film as a director. Before starting on the project three years ago, she worked as an Associate Producer on several feature length documentaries, including “Well-Founded Fear,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS’s P.O.V., and the PBS series “People Like Us: Social Class in America.”
She also produced for ARD, a German television station. She received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and a Certificate of Political Studies from L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, France. She is based in New York City.
Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography
Tom Hurwitz has been a cinematographer for more than 20 years, shooting feature films, television and several Academy Award-winning documentaries. His documentary Director of Photography credits include: Harlan County U.S.A (1976), Horsemen of Inner Mongolia (1980), In Our Hands (1984), Down and Out in America (1986), American Dream (1990), Wildman Blues (1997), Paul Taylor: Dancemaker (1998), and My Generation (2000).
Christine Burrill
Director of Photography
Christine Burrill has been shooting documentary films for more than 20 years for PBS, the BBC and others. Her Director of Photography credits include David Riva’s Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song, Kirby Dick’s Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate, and Ellen Hovde’s and Muffle Meyer’s Sex and Social Dance. In addition, she collaborated with producer Haskell Wexler on the 1971documentary Brazil: Report on Torture. With Wexler, Bill Yahraus and David Davis she co-founded Focal Point Films, a collective which produced social and political documentary films from 1976 to 1980, on topics ranging from nuclear disarmament to gangs in East L.A., to the Vietnam War. Ms. Burrill has directed several films including The New Maid, Marice, A Portrait of Reginald Stewart, Rosa Marta, and Dichosa Mujer. She also does large photo collage work, which has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Caracas and Brasilia.
Michael Anderson
Director of Photography
Michael Anderson has been working as a director of photography for thirty-three years; he has shot more than eighty projects, and moves fluidly between film and digital video. His award-winning documentary work has been shown on major national television, and in Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain and Germany. His Directory of Photography credits include David Davis’ and John Hanig’s Song of the Canary (1978), Larry Adelman’s The Business of America (1984), David Duggan’s and Eric Stange’s Love in the Cold War (1991), Marlon Riggs’ Color Adjustment (1991) and Elizabeth Thompson’s Blink (2000).
Jennifer L. Robinson
Editor
Jennifer Robinson has worked as a freelance editor in New York for several years. Most recently was an editor on Barbara Kopple’s The Hamptons (2002), a documentary mini-series for ABC. She has also edited numerous shorts, industrial films and music videos.
Marcelo Zarvos
Composer
Brazilian pianist and composer Marcelo Zarvos has written for virtually every medium, from dance to the concert stage, film, television and theater. Recent commissions include the ballet “The Path” for “DanceBrazil,” which received its premiere in 2001 at the Joyce Theater, NYC as well as a new score commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum for their Fall 2001 exhibit on Brazilian Art. Currently Zarvos is composing a new dance score commissioned by Denver based company “Cleo Parker Robinson Dance” as well as a NYSCA commission by the Quintet of the Americas.
Highly active also as a film composer, Zarvos’ work has been praised by Hollywood Variety for his “…affecting score, which neither drowns out nor underplays the steady sentiment.” Among his recent scores are, “The Door in the Floor,” “Tully,” “Kissing Jessica Stein,” and the Academy Award nominated short film “A Soccer Story,” as well as a collaboration with Eumir Deodato on “Bossa Nova.”
As a recording artist Zarvos released three highly acclaimed albums, DUALISM, with saxophonist Peter Epstein, LABYRINTHS, which landed on the CD NOW top 10 list of Jazz Albums in 1998 and most recently MUSIC JOURNAL.