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Crew:
Cynthia Newport (USA) - Director and Producer
Cynthia Newport is currently developing several documentary projects, including Monuments: Writing History in Stone and Rob Kapilow's American Journey . For a year and a half, Newport served as Chief Producer of DC Citypiece: Monuments at the Millennium , a multi-disciplinary arts collaboration involving The Kennedy Center, National Symphony Orchestra, National Public Radio, Kreeger Museum and a dozen community-based organizations. Prior to founding illume in 1999, Newport was an executive of Washington-based Thompson Publishing Group which she also co-founded. Newport is a trustee and former President of the Levine School of Music and also serves on the board of the Schubert Club and National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts.
Boris Iván Crespo (Cuba) - Director
Rising Cuban Director Boris Iván Crespo received advanced degrees from the National Theatre School, the Havana Film School and the International Cinema and Television School. His post-graduate work has included courses taught by film scholars including Juan Madrid, Walter Bernstein, Sandy Lieberman, Octavio Cortazar, and Senel Paz. To date, Crespo has completed more than 15 film- and theatre-related projects including two music video clips, three documentaries and two fiction films for television. Among his distinguished documentaries featured in the Havana Film Festival are: El Principe Popular (1998); Una historia para ser contada (1999) and La pupila insomne (1999).
Barbara Kopple (USA) - Director
Barbara Kopple, a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker, recently completed a four hour mini-series for ABC, The Hamptons . American Standoff , a non-fiction film about the Teamsters Union and their President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., which Kopple produced for HBO, was accepted to the Sundance Film Festival 2002. A Conversation with Gregory Peck , a film portrait of the career and family life of actor Gregory Peck, premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. She directed the season finale of HBO's critically lauded prison drama, OZ , as well as Friends for Life , a special for the Disney Channel that inspires compassion for children with the AIDS virus. Wild Man Blues , Kopple's film about the European tour of Woody Allen and his New Orleans-style jazz band, was selected by the National Board of Review and the Broadcast Critic's Association as the Best Documentary of 1998. Kopple recently completed My Generation , a non-fiction feature film that examines the Woodstock legacy and Generation X.
Deborah Dickson (USA) - Supervising Editor
Deborah Dickson is a three time Academy Award nominee whose current film, Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House premiered in Berlin in 2003 and went on to win Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival and Best Short Documentary at Nashville. Prior to this, Dickson's acclaimed film, Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller , which she produced, directed and edited, was nominated for an Academy Award and shown at major film festivals, including Sundance and Berlin, before being broadcast on PBS. Her project, Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton , co-directed with Susan Froemke and Albert Maysles, premiered at Sundance in 2001 and was nominated for an Academy Award this past year. Dickson's The Education of Gore Vidal was made for the PBS American Masters series.
Richard Hankin (USA) - Editor
Richard Hankin most recently edited and was a contributing producer for the documentary Capturing the Friedmans , which won the Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Hankin's other editing credits include New York , a 7-part Emmy-nominated documentary series for PBS, and Ken Burns' The West (PBS, 1996). He has also served as editor and co-writer on a number of other documentaries for HBO, ABC and PBS. Hankin holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University, and a BA in English from UC Berkeley.
Chucho Valdés (Cuba) - Original music
A pianist and composer - as well as a bandleader and music professor, and president of the Havana Jazz Festival - Chucho Valdés is Cuba's most renowned jazz musician and equally at home and fluent in a classical realm. While he has become increasingly revered in America - with American albums released since 1993 and U.S. tours since 1997 - he remains true to his Cuban heritage and training. More than just a musician, Valdés is a musical scholar, having studied both American and Cuban jazz and classical music. He also has composed for dance, working with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (BNC) and its Founder and Artistic Director, Alicia Alonso.
Tom Hurwitz (USA) - Director of Photography
Tom Hurwitz's film credits include: Academy Award-nominated Dance Maker , Sundance Festival Award winner for cinematography; Wild Man Blues ; and Academy Award winner, Down and Out in America . Hurwitz also worked on: Turandot , a PBS non-fiction film about the production of the Puccini opera in Florence, as staged by Chinese film director Zhang Yimou; and My Generation . Hurwitz has also worked recently on Who's Dancing Now , a film for PBS's Dance in America series on the development of the students of dance educator Jacques D'Amboise.
Don Lenzer (USA) - Director of Photography
Don Lenzer's credits include: the recent Warner Brothers release, Into the Arms of Strangers ; The Source , a film about the Beat Generation directed by Chuck Workman; Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment , a film about the partnership between songwriter John Wallowitch and dancer Bertram Ross, directed by Richard Morris; Academy Award winner, The Long Way Home ; Academy Award nominee, Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse ; Academy Award winner, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision ; and He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' , a film directed by Emile Ardolino about dancer/teacher Jacques D'Amboise.
Roberto Chile (Cuba) - Director of Photography
Roberto Chile is one of the top documentary directors of photography in Cuba. Chile has recently made a well-received series of documentaries about Cuba's leading painters. His other work includes Lennon in Havana , a documentary about the passion of John Lennon's fans in Havana, and Elian, telling the story of Elian Gonzalez' return to Cuba.
Steve Bennett (USA) - Managing Producer
Steve Bennett has been producing and managing documentaries for over ten years, including National Geographic's The Shape of Life , PBS' In Search of Law and Order , the feature Sumo East and West , and many others for PBS, TBS, Discovery Channel, and others.
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