Catherine Gund, the founder of Aubin Pictures, is an Emmy Award-nominated producer, director, writer and organizer. Her media work — which focuses on arts and culture, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, and other social justice issues — has screened around the world in festivals and theaters, on PBS, Discoverys Planet Green and the Sundance Channel, at community-based organizations, universities, and museums. As a filmmaker who has worked in all aspects of production for 20 years, her interest is in telling stories and finding the details that educate and inspire.
Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Long Beach, CA, Tanya Selvaratnam is a producer, writer, actor, and activist. In addition to WHATS ON YOUR PLATE?, current productions include an original short film series for the Sundance Channel; MADE HERE, an online documentary series about performing artists on work and life in New York City, for HERE (www.madehereproject.org); and Jay Scheibs Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems performance trilogy (www.jayscheib.com). She has also been the Artist and Press Liaison for the Rubell Family Collection since 2008. Past productions include Chiara Clemente’s OUR CITY DREAMS (Hamptons and Locarno Film Festivals; Film Forum premiere on February 4, 2009; Sundance Channel, spring 2009), Jed Weintrobs ON_LINE (Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals; theatrical/cable television release) and THE F WORD (Tribeca Film Festival; IFC broadcast), and Gabri Christas DOMINO (Black Filmmakers Foundation Lab). As a theater artist, Tanya has performed around the world in shows by The Wooster Group, The Builders Association and Jay Scheib; been a fellow at Yaddo and Blue Mountain Center; and been a guest actor at New Dramatists, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Voice & Vision Theater, and the Institute on Arts and Civic Dialogue. As an activist, Tanya has worked with the Ms. Foundation, United Nations, World Health Organization, Third Wave Foundation, Groundswell Community Mural Project, and Artists for Tsunami Relief.
Sadie Rain Hope-Gund loves to read, travel and eat ice cream. She is in the 7th grade at a New York City public school and lives in Soho with her three little brothers, Kofi, Rio and Tenzin. She is a vegetarian and has genetically-linked high cholesterol which she controls through diet. Her favorite sports are fencing and figure skating.
Safiyah Kai Russell Riddle is a very active New Yorker, mainly because she loves every sport, but soccer is by far her favorite. Safiyah has been a vegetarian "since the womb" (as she puts it) along with all of the other people in her family: mom, dad, older sister Aida, and younger brother Sankofa. Safiyah attends public school in New York City and is in the 7th grade. She loves to read, write, draw, and hang out with friends.
Nell Marantz has an M.S. Ed from Bank Street College of Education. She taught for 5 years in New York City, working with children from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of abilities and special needs. She brings her knowledge of education and development to her work at Aubin Pictures, as she strives to make documentaries accessible and educational to a wide audience.
Heather Greene is a producer specializing in Television, Live Events, and both Documentary and Feature Film. She recently co-produced a documentary feature "Of All The Things" that premiered at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival and won Audience Awards from Sarasota, Nantucket, and Palm Beach International Film Festivals. It is also in competition at the AFI Fest 2008. Her first narrative feature as a co-producer was "The Favor," which was released in 2007. Heather is a Senior Associate Producer for "How's Your News?", a new television series about a group of adult news correspondents with mental and physical disabilities. She has also produced Vice Magazine's "Guide to Travel" featuring unique profiles of many countries including Bulgaria, Lebanon and Brazil. She has worked extensively on events for contemporary art gallery Deitch Projects and the Tribeca Film Festival. In addition to her film pursuits, Heather and her husband run Mama's Food Shop, a restaurant in New York's East Village. She lives in New York City.
Emily Hubley has made short animated films for thirty years and provided animation to television, fictional and documentary films for over a decade. She recently completed her first feature film THE TOE TACTIC (2008), which has screened several film festivals including South by Southwest, New Directors/New Films and the San Francisco International Film Festival. She is a 2004 Annenberg Film Fellow, named by the Sundance Institute, and attended their 2002 Screenwriters' and 2003 Filmmakers' Labs. Ms. Hubley created artwork and animation for John Cameron Mitchell's HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001). With Jeremiah Dickey, she provided inserts for documentaries including THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE (2006) and EVERYTHING'S COOL (2007). Emily also worked at The Hubley Studio, Inc. on Faith Hubley's films from 1977 to 2001. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Jeremiah Dickey has been creating fine animation for television and film since 1997, working both independently & in cahoots with several NYC studios, including Moxie Firecracker Films, Bill Plympton Studio, Stretch Films, Transistor Studios, and others. Since 2001 he has frequently collaborated with filmmaker/animator Emily Hubley, creating animation for many documentaries and films, most recently including Ms. Hubley's debut feature The Toe Tactic (2008), on which he also served as Associate Producer. Jeremiah lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and dog.
Adam Crystal was born and raised in Northern California. He began music school at age 12, and after graduating from Interlochen Center for the Arts he earned degrees in violin and music business from Syracuse University and studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Prague, CZ. Adam has lived and worked in New York City as a musician and composer since 1998. Some of his more recent projects include extensive work and touring with the band Fischerspooner (Capitol Records). In addition Adam actively scores music for both television, film, advertising, dance, and video art.
Miklos Buk was a DP on feature films such as John Harkrider's Mitchellville (2nd Camera, 35mm, 2003), Tony Spiridakis' Noise (2nd. Camera, 16mm, 2004), and George Pinter's The Dump (35mm/DV, 1998), also Pearl Gluck's The Divan. Before moving to New York he'd been the DP on several shorts including Ambulance (16mm, Film Academy of Budapest, 1996), which won awards at the Bologna Short Film Festival and Milan Film Festival. Since 2000 Miklos has been living and working in New York. He has been involved in several projects with Michel Gondry, Brian Mertes, Joan Stein, Don Coppola and Jon Schumacher. He was trained at the Academy of Theater and Motion Picture Arts in Budapest, Hungary, 1995 - 2000, and was selected to be part of the Kodak Master Class of Worldwide DP Students in 1997 in Budapest. [website]
George Motz is an award-winning freelance Director of Photography based in New York City. Over the past 15 years he has worked on numerous television commercials, films, music videos, documentaries, and promos. Notable clients include: Subway, NJ Lottery, AMC, the Biography Channel, VH1, MTV, Oxygen, ESPN, The History Channel, A&E, Spike TV, PBS, ABC Family, Airtel, FischerSpooner, LCD Soundsystem, the Florida Marlins, and the New York Yankees. In 1999, Motz shot "Sleepwalk", a feature distributed by IFC's Next Wave Films that was nominated for best picture at the SXSW film festival. In 2000, Motz received a New York Emmy Award for a spot lensed for Thirteen WNET. That same year, he shot a spot for a BBDO art director that received top honors in its category at the AICP Museum of Modern Art show. In 2001 and 2002, respectively, two spots that Motz shot were nominated for New York Emmys in the cinematography category. And in 2003 he was the proud recipient of an International Broadcast Design Award as well as a Mobius and a Telly Award. In 2006 Motz took home two New York Emmys for a 21 spot station ID campaign for Thirteen WNET.
Jill is a graduate of Wesleyan University where she majored in Film Studies. Following graduation she undertook a solo trek through Southeast Asia to practice verite camera operation while realizing a childhood dream. Jill moved to NYC in 1996. There she learned aspects of independent narrative production as a camera assistant with producers Dolly Hall and Dan Partland, directors Adrienne Shelley and R.J. Cutler, and under cinematographer Tami Reiker. Jill returned to shooting for five seasons of The Learning Channel’s Trauma: Life in the E.R. and Maternity Ward. Through her connection to Lower East Side artist, Penny Arcade, Jill recorded performances of Bad Reputation, a magical night with Church of Betty at the Orensanz Center and Quentin Crisp’s last taped interview. Additionally, Jill has served as a video production instructor with DYKE TV and with Arcade’s Lower East Side Biography Project.
John Foster has split his career between narrative features and non-fiction films. His fiction work includes SUNDAY (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival; Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Cinematography), TULLY (four Independent Spirit Awards), and KEANE (Telluride, Toronto, New York, and Cannes Film Festivals; Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Cinematography).
Jarett Livingston is a production sound mixer in his hometown of New York City. After leaving Wall Street several years back he decided to pursue his interest in the audio world. He has worked on a variety of films, commercials, promos, industrials, and corporate videos. Clients include: HBO, AMC, PBS, ESPN, The History Channel, Women's Entertainment, and MTV.
Full Film Credit List
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CATHERINE GUND
Producers
CATHERINE GUND
TANYA SELVARATNAM
Co-Producers
SADIE RAIN HOPE-GUND
SAFIYAH KAI RIDDLE
Associate Producers
NELL MARANTZ
HEATHER GREENE
Editor
NANCY C. KENNEDY
Animation
HUBBUB INC.
EMILY HUBLEY
JEREMIAH DICKEY
Music
ADAM CRYSTAL
Official Movie Website: www.whatsonyourplateproject.org
FEATURING
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Sadie Hope-Gund
Safiyah Kai Riddle
Catherine Gund
Alan Halko
Robert Saken, M.D.
Tony Riddle
Rachel Russell
Sankofa Riddle
Matt Carpenter
Anna Lappé
Idris Goodwin
Chef Jorge Collazo
Eric Goldstein
Judith Foster
Rowena Jeffrey
Jackie Vargas
Amy Miceli
Kevin Miceli
Richard Ball
Kofi Hope-Gund
Tenzin Gund-Morrow
Rio Hope-Gund
Crisostomo Angel
Ana Angel
Henry Angel
Lizbeth Angel
Jennifer Angel
Maria Angel
Roger Schulte
Maureen Cooke
Nhumi Threadgill
Lower East Side Girls Club
Andrew Rundle, Ph.D
DAVID SPIERER, Ed.D
Marshall Hagins, Ph.D
John Wright
Caleb Wright
Elijah Wright
Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer
Maritza Wellington Owens
David Hardy
Martin Rodriguez
Lisa Hudgins, M.D.
Kevin Walter
Sasha Schulman
Antonio Rodriguez
Bryant Terry
Latham Thomas
Elizabeth J. E. Johnson
Ludie R. Minaya
Clio Stearns
Advisory Council
Kate Adamick
Dan Barber
Ann Cooper
John s. Johnson
Van Jones
Jonathan Kevles
Anna Lappé
Katrina T. Monzón
Raj Patel, Ph.D.
Michael Pollan
Rob Saken, M.D.
Anna Deavere Smith
Bryant Terry
Alice Waters
Aaron Woolf
CREW
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Camera |
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Miklos Buk Jill Cowburn John Foster George Motz |
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Additional Camera |
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Chiara Clemente Catherine Gund Robert Matzen Andy Montoya Robert O’Reilly Greg Sax Jonathan Shick Basia Winograd |
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Sound Mixer Additional Sound |
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Jarett Livingston Rick Aylesworth Kevin Corrigan Anna Hovhanessian Matt Israel Dave Pruger John Semper Dane Thompson |
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Assistant Editor Additional Editing |
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Russ Greene Martin Levenstein |
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Creative Consultant for Chicken and Egg Pictures |
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Judith Helfand |
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Still Photography |
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Catherine Gund |
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Pre-Production Coordinator |
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Angelina Sapienza |
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Additional Line Producer |
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Nick Goldfarb |
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Graphic Effects |
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Peter Haas |
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Translation |
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Vanessa Balvin Lissette Delgado-Cruzata Marta Florez Vincent Grady |
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Subtitles |
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Carolina Correa |
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Transcription |
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Angelina Sapienza Vanessa Balvin Giovanni Oliveros |
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Special Office Assistant |
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Celeste Good |
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Office Interns |
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Melissa Arnold Shiuan Butler Elisabetta DiPasquale Katherine Espinal Macy Jones Katie Lazarowicz Alicia Maldonado Leslie M. VanSchaik Hilary Wartinger |
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What's On Your Plate? Web Design |
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FUTUREFARMERS |
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Aubin Pictures Web Design |
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David Silverman |
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Additional Graphic Design |
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Nathan Kilcer |
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Offline Editing Facility |
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Aubin Pictures, Inc |
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Post-Production Sound Services |
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C5 |
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Supervising Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer Sound Editor |
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Nicholas Renbeck Chad Birmingham Dustin DuPilka |
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Online Facility |
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Frame:Runner NYC |
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Senior Online Editor/Colorist |
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Evan Anthony |
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Online Supervisor |
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Keith Shapiro |
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Online Coordinator |
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Sheila Lynch |
CELEBRATE WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE
Written and Performed by NONA HENDRYX
Produced by Nona Hendryx
Courtesy of Eat Your Heart out Music (BMI)
FUNDED IN PART BY:
Rise Up Foundation
Distribution Advisory Services
CINETIC MEDIA
AUBIN PICTURES, LLC is the author of this film/motion picture for the purpose of copyright and other laws.
© Copyright 2009 AUBIN PICTURES All rights reserved
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