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Co-Director and Editor of Song of the Dunes, William Haugse A.C.E. is well known as a motion picture editor of features and documentaries. Among other awards, he's been nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy, and has collaborated with many directors including Orson Welles and John Cassavetes. In the past three years, four documentary features he edited have been screened at the prestigious Slamdance Film Festival. In 2009, the documentary feature, “No Impact Man” he edited debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. William taught as an adjunct Professor at USC Graduate Film School for
five years.
Paula Fouce, President of Paradise Filmworks, directed and produced Song of the Dunes. She also directed, wrote, and produced Origins of Yoga. Paula, at age 19, went to Nepal to study and became fascinated with the Far East. Escorting tours groups, Paula trekked through Pakistan, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, Sri Lanka, and China, and lived in India and Nepal. While researching Shiva, a photographic book on the Yogis of India, published by White Orchid Press in 1996, she lived and traveled with the yogis throughout the Himalayas. She also directed, produced and wrote Naked in Ashes, screened theatrically throughout the US, and Not in God's Name, on religious tolerance featuring the
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Christopher Guilford Tufty is an Emmy award-winning Director of Photography working in the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, California. He has shot ten feature-length movies as DP, The latest of which is "Jimmy Zip". He lives with his wife of eight years, children’s book illustrator and TV commercial producer, Margot Janet Ott Tufty in a 1911 Craftsman style house in the Mount Washington area of Los Angeles, California. Tufty has been operating a camera ever since first volunteering to be the cameraman for film school projects at Ithaca College in New York. His first full time A camera television job was “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” with Michael Gershman as DP. He currently is working on “The Closer” with
David Harp.
Lisa Leeman produces, directs, writes and edits documentary films. She has served as a judge at the Sundance Film Festival, the president of the International Documentary Association, and on the boards of the IDA and the National Coalition of Independent Public Broadcasting Producers. She writes articles specializing in the ethics of documentary filmmaking. Her work has been seen on PBS, HBO, Discovery, ARTE, and in theaters and festivals worldwide. Awards include the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival for her directorial debut, Metamorphosis: Man into Woman (POV, 1990); an Emmy nomination for her short Fender Philosophers; the once-in-a-lifetime American Film Institute’s Independent Filmmaker Grant; a Western States Media Arts Fellowship; and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pacific Mountain Network, and California Arts Council. |
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