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Katie Laris (Co-Producer) Katie Laris's work as a producer/co-writer
includes 26 programs for the award-winning prime-time Animal Planet
series Wildlife Emergency. Produced in collaboration with the
National Wildlife Federation, the series was featured at the Jackson
Wildlife Film Festival in 1999. Other producing and writing credits
include the documentary series Beating the Odds for Discovery
Health Channel and Women Who Won Gold for ESPN. Documentaries
she produced and co-wrote for public television include When A
Child Pretends, hosted by Joanne Woodward, Women in the Global
Marketplace, hosted by Helene Lerner and From Pictures to Words,
hosted by Dawn Upshaw. For the National Audubon Society, she produced
and co-wrote the nationally syndicated environmental news service
The Audubon Report and also produced and co-wrote, How to Make
a Difference, a home video series for environmental activists.
Katie is currently a faculty member of the Santa Barbara City
College Theater Arts Department.
Tony Ruggieri (Co-Producer) is a producer with
more than 14 years professional experience working in television
and films. His work includes the Emmy Award-winning feature-length
documentary Impressions in Time: A Story of Santa Barbara, for
which he served as director and co-producer. He is the producer
of the long-running news-magazine series Inside Santa Barbara.
He has also produced a public service announcement campaign on
disaster preparedness for the American Red Cross and Federal Emergency
Management Agency. For A&E Network's documentary on the exploration
of underwater caves, Under the Falls, he served as editor, and
as cameraperson/editor he helped create the nature films Watersheds
to Seashores and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: A National
Treasure. Most recently he produced the feature-length documentary
Sarah's Way, which chronicles one community's response to AIDS.
Tony has won many awards from local, state and national organizations
for his work and has managed the City of Santa Barbara's Video
Production division for over a decade. Contact Tony at:
tony@anacapaproductions.com
Jon Zuber (Co-Producer) Jon Zuber is an award-winning
writer and producer with more than 20 years of experience in film
and theatre. His work includes the internationally distributed
documentary Recycle That Trash! which won a prestigious
CINE "Golden Eagle" award, as well as the "Best
of Show" award at the Birmingham International Film Festival.
Jon also wrote and directed the feature film, Nick Furst:
SBI that premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film
Festival. In 2001, Jon received an Emmy award for his writing
credits on Impressions in Time, co-produced with Tony
Ruggieri and Chris Bell. Other documentary work includes the award
winning Sarah's Way, an in-depth look at the changing
face of HIV and AIDS, and What's for Lunch?, a documentary
dealing with cafeteria food for elementary school children, released
in 2004. Jon also recently wrote, directed and performed in the
theatrical production Spectacular, Spectacular, his fourth
live show produced for Kiss the Sky Productions. Contact:
Jon at: jon@anacapaproductions.com
Jennifer LeMay (Associate Producer) is the owner
of J. LeMay Studios, a creative services firm that provides design
and outreach strategies to visionary businesses, agencies and
nonprofit organizations. Jennifer managed high profile environmental
programs for the County of Santa Barbara for several years, and
has served on the board of directors for nonprofit organizations
such as The Sustainability Project, and SCAPE (Southern California
Artists Painting for the Environment). A founding member of SCAPE,
she also exhibits and sells her artwork through shows that benefit
environmental organizations. Contact Jennifer at
jen@jlemay.com
Confirmed Project Advisors (for more information,
visit Program Advisors)
Robert Glenn Ketchum - Photographer
David Orr - Chair of Environmental Studies Department at Oberlin
College
Robert M. Ferris - Executive Director, Community Environmental
Council
Martha A. Marks, Ph.D. - President Republicans for Environmental
Protection
Paul Tebo – Principal, The Tebo Group
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