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Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider
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Marcia Jarmel
Director, Producer, Writer
Marcia's film The Return of Sarah's Daughters has screened at the American Cinematheque, the International Documentary Film Festival, Women in the Director's Chair and festivals around the U.S., Canada and Australia. It won a CINE Golden Eagle, a National Educational Media Network Gold Apple and First Place in the Jewish Video Competition. Her previous film was The F Word: A Short Video About Feminism. She was coeditor and associate producer of the Academy Award nominee FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE (ITVS) and assistant producer of Berkeley in the Sixties and Freedom on My Mind. She is the mother of two boys, Mica and his new brother Jaden.
Ken Schneider
Producer, Editor
Ken has edited numerous PBS documentaries, including Academy Award nominated Regret To Inform, ANCESTORS IN AMERICA, PART 2: CHINESE IN THE FRONTIER WEST (ITVS), THE GOOD WAR AND THOSE WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT IT (ITVS), MAKING PEACE (ITVS) and STORE WARS (ITVS 2001). He was first editor of Frontline's Columbia-DuPont winning School Colors and coedited Jarmel's The Return of Sarah's Daughters. He has taught video production and editing at the City College of San Francisco. He was sound and assistant picture editor for the national Emmy-winning Last Images of War and is Dad to the aforementioned sons, Mica and Jaden.
Christine Burrill
Director of Photography, Seattle
Christine has been shooting documentary films for 20 years for PBS, ITVS, the BBC and others. In addition, she has directed several films which have appeared on PBS including The New Maid, Maricela, A Portrait of Reginald Stewart, Rosa Marta, Dichosa Mujer, and others. She also does large photo collage work, which has shown in places such as New York, Los Angeles, Caracas and Brasilia.
David Sperling
Director of Photography, Philadelphia
David comes from a background in both film and television. He has been director of production for more than a dozen feature films, including the quirky comedy Cool Blue, the noirish thriller The Drifter and cult favorite Street Trash. With regard to television, he is best known for his work on the period American Movie Classics comedy series Remember WENN (for which he won a Cable Ace Award for series cinematography) and for his Emmy-nominated work on the Mathnet series for PBS. Sperling most recently completed principal photography for the independent feature Black-Eyed Susan and is currently filming New York location scenes for the Wasteland television series. In his spare time he is developing a series of computer utility programs for theater and film management.
Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir
Director of Photography, Bronx
Hrafnhildur is a native of Reykjavík, Iceland. Since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989, Hrafnhildur has worked as an editor, director of photography and director in both the U.S. and Iceland. She has directed a number of shorts, including Stafford's Story (1993) and Hostage to Memory (1994) and is currently working on her first feature documentary, Corpus Camera. Other collaborations include Lynn Hershman's Conceiving Ada (1997) and editor for Marc Huestis' Sex Is... (1993), which won Best Film Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. In addition to BORN IN THE U.S.A., her recent work as a cinematographer includes Lebanon: Memory In Ruins by Erica Marcus and SCOUTS HONOR (ITVS, 2000) by Tom Shepard.
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