Sara Dosa (producer, editor) Sara has worked in the San Francisco independent and documentary film world for the past two years. Most recently, she has worked at internationally acclaimed documentary film company, Actual Films, on projects such as The Rape of Europa (dir: Bonni Cohen, Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham; 2006), Wonders Are Many (dir: Jon Else, 2007), and Undercover Hoover (dir: Bonni Cohen, 2006), as well as Bright Child Films on Beautiful Son (dir: Don and Julianne King, 2007). She has also freelanced as a producer, researcher and editor on a number of other Bay Area based film projects. Sara graduated from Wesleyan University with High Honors in socio-cultural anthropology and is currently attending the London School of Economics, pursuing a joint masters degree in anthropology and economic development studies. She intends to apply her background in critical social sciences to her film projects. Milla Dias Araújo (producer) Milla is an English teacher who has lived in the city of Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil, for most of her life. She received a degree in Portuguese and English Literature at Faculdades Integradas Presistente Castelo Branco in Colatina, Espíritu Santo, where she also taught courses such as Language Acquisition. For three years, she was contracted by the conservation organization Instituto Terra as a translator and guide for groups of American students working on documentary projects. As an English teacher for the state, Milla has a vast social network in the region—made up of fellow teachers, parents, students, friends, relatives, and neighbors— through which she keeps track of the people going to the United States illegally, those who help them, and the families they leave behind. Eliot Gray Fisher (director, original music) Eliot is a filmmaker and composer. His scores for student films and his own thesis documentary short, Last of the Wangunks, about a Connecticut man suing to recover land of a tribe of which he claimed ancestry, earned him the Leavell Memorial Prize in Film at Wesleyan University. Power on the River, a documentary about the impacts of a hydroelectric dam on communities along a river in rural Brazil, which he Co- Produced, Directed, and Edited with Anna Kongs, as well as composing its original music, was an official selection of the 29th Big Muddy Film Festival. He has produced video of Yaqui ceremonies for Dr. David Delgado Shorter’s interactive ethnographic website. Eliot is coordinator of the Documentary Studies Certificate Program at the College of Santa Fe, where he is also advising students on the creation of a web-based documentary, Santa Fe Lucky 7. Zoë Dwyer (writer) Zoë is an award-winning documentary poet whose work has appeared in art installations; anthologies such as Women Becoming Poems; and publications and periodicals including Runes, Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Curbside Review, Central Avenue Poetry Magazine and Manzanita Quarterly. She is a professional editor and founder of Peg-Leg Press, teacher of creative writing in the Documentary Studies Certificate Program at the College of Santa Fe, art director for Not Drowning, Waving, a literary and art magazine, and is a primary facilitator/performer with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project. Zoë has published two chapbooks, The Buried Flower (2002) and Shedding Lions (2007); and is currently at work on two books: a collection of poetry, Poultice for a Wooden Leg, and Cinzas e Sementes: Ashes and Seeds, an illustrated documentary prose poem about death and regeneration in Brazil. Katherine Lee (background artist) Katherine is a painter. In 2006, she explored the landscape of Minas Gerais, Brazil. During her stay there, she compiled a photo database of her surrounding from which she sourced natural and architectural elements from which to paint and "remix" reality. The Brazilian "Exterior" paintings (dark, moody, and enigmatic) are spaces where time floats like a memory and meaning is just as ambiguous. Katherine's process of choice includes oil and spray paint on paper. Her work has been selected for inclusion in several juried exhibitions and has earned numerous awards. She has been a featured artist in Smithsonian Magazine, The Santa Fe Reporter and New Mexico's THE Magazine, and has received her BFA in painting from the College of Santa Fe. Kevin Ang (chief animator) Kevin is an animator, illustrator, writer, and photographer who has worked in film, television, and video games. He produced visual effects for Actual Films’ documentary, The Rape of Europa, chronicling the Nazi pillage of great works of art and monuments throughout Europe during WWII. He also created motion graphics for the CW television network and served as an animator on Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, a sobering rotoscoped feature based on Philip K. Dick’s novel of the same name. His illustration work has been used in products for Leapfrog Toys. Daniel Ferreira (original music) Daniel is a singer, songwriter, and environmental technician from Ipanema, Minas Gerais. He attended the Federal Agrotechnical School in Colatina, Espíritu Santo, and the post-technical school for sustainable agriculture, the Instituto Terra in Aimorés, where he continued cultivating his first love, composing and performing the popular music of his region of Brazil. Daniel writes songs and works in the tree nursery at Instituto Terra.