Our Team of Production Advisors:

Cinematographer:
Jerry A. Henry
In August 1999 Jerry A. Henry was selected amongst a group of 6 aspiring young filmmakers to serve as a unit director/ videographer on the PBS documentary series "Senior Year." In November 2002, Jerry obtained and MFA from UCLA, and he traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil to shoot the upcoming film "Brazilintime" by renowned photographer B+. This documentary is a visual essay that combines modern hip hop turntabalism, jazz instrumentation and traditional Brazilian percussion together on one stage. He is currently working as a videographer for the Emmy nominated producers of the hit HBO documentary series "Taxicab Confessions" on their current project for Fox.

Supervising Editor:
Maureen Gosling
Has been a documentary filmmaker for more than thirty years and is best known for her twenty-year collaboration with acclaimed independent director Les Blank. Gosling has also been sought after as an editor, working with numerous documentary directors. Her work has often focused on themes of people and their cultural values, music as cultural expression and the changing gender roles of men and women.

Ada O. Shaw
Is an editor and independent filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. After receiving a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, living with gypsies in Seville Spain for many years, and then going on to receive an MFA in film production from the University of Southern California, she founded Tabor Street Productions, editing films for United Nations workshops, the Institute for Popular Education, Aids Services Foundation, Howard Dean's political campaign, and many other non-profit organizations. She has also edited programs for MTV, Telemundo, NBC, Oregon Public Broadcasting, the History Channel, the Oxygen Network and the Independent Film Channel.

Researchers:
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Was born in Oaxaca and received his education in Mexico City and California, receiving his undergraduate degree in Latin American Studies and his doctorate in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research publications and many speaking engagements focus on indigenous Mexicans in the US, and he currently completing a book manuscript, based on his dissertation, entitled Cross-Border Collective Action: Indigenous Mexican Organizing in Oaxacalifornia. He has worked intensively with community-based migrant organizations for more than a decade, and currently serves both as Coordinator of Advisors for the Oaxaca Federation of Indigenous Communities and Organizations of California (FOCOICA) and as Binational Advisor to the Oaxaca Indigenous Binational Front (FIOB)

David Runsten
Associate Director of the NAID Center, UCLA 
Runsten is the senior research associate at the North American Integration and Development (NAID) Center. He has done research on agriculture in all three NAFTA countries, focusing on fruit and vegetable production and the potential for small-scale producers to participate in high-value markets. He has also served as a consultant for a wide array of organizations in the United States and Latin America. He was Director of Research at the California Institute for Rural Studies for six years, where he created the Farm Labor and Rural Poverty Program, which carried out research in association with a variety of community organizations, labor unions, and farm worker service providers, and included several studies of the Mixtec community in California. He also currently supervises research for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), where he is conducting a large survey of the impacts of living wages in Los Angeles, as well as working to create an Equity Impact Analysis tool for local development projects.

FIOB
Binational Indigenous Organization

Native Networks
Indigenous filmmakers

La Jornada
News from Mexico

Proceso
More News from Mexico

Free Design
Graphic Design Firm

Blossoms of Fire
A 16mm feature-length documentary film about the legendary people of Juchitan, Oaxaca, Mexico.

FUPIC
Fundación de Pueblos Indígenas Chatinos

Masiosare
Articulos en "La Jornada"