DEE MOSBACHER, M.D., PH.D.
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., PH.D. is the producer/director several award winning documentaries, including the Academy Award Nominated film Straight from the Heart, All God's Children, and Out for a Change: Addressing Homophobia in Women's Sports. Dr. Mosbacher executive produced De Colores, winner of the 2001 Audience award at Outfest in LA. Current productions include Radical Harmonies and No Secret Any More: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Previous production credits include: Closets are Health Hazards: Gay and Lesbian Physicians Come Out and Lesbian Physicians on Practice, Patients, and Power, a 30-minute film sent by the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association to every medical school in the United States and Canada. Dr. Mosbacher also produced one of the first Women's Music concerts in Washington D.C. Dr. Mosbacher, a consultant in the psychiatric field, is the founder and President of Woman Vision.
BODEN SANDSTROM
*Winner of the American Musicological Society - Philip Brett Award
Boden Sandstrom has been a pioneer in the Women's Music circuit as a sound engineer. In 1975 she founded a company called Woman Sound, the first of its kind, with singer Casse Culver. She has toured with many performers including Cris Williamson and Lily Tomlin, and has regularly done sound for the major Women's Music festivals and Women's Music concerts in the Washington D.C. area. Other clients include the Smithsonian, Sweet Honey in the Rock, American Folklife Festival, Roadwork, and the Kennedy Center. She is a technical producer with an impressive lists of clients including: Gay
Games IV; Stonewall 25th Anniversary; all major national NOW rallies; D.C. Gay Pride Day, and the 1996 Olympic Games. Ms. Sandstrom is a lecturer for the School of Music at University of Maryland where she is also a Ph.D. candidate.
MARGIE ADAM
Margie Adam is a singer/songwriter/activist who has been associated with
Women's Music since she attended the first National Women's Music Festival at Champaign-Urbana, IL in 1974. Her song "We Shall Go Forth!" is archived in the Political History Division of the Smithsonian Institution. Ms. Adam's songwriting/recording credits include "Something About Us" on David Benoit's latest CD compilation, "Songs without Words," "Beautiful Soul," recorded by Dusty Springfield on the posthumously released CD, Beautiful Soul-The ABC-Dunhill Collection, "Best Friend-The Unicorn Song," recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary on their Reunion album, and "Tender Lady," found on Cris Williamson's Changer and the Changed. National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" use music from her solo piano recordings, Soon and Again and Naked Keys. She is a recipient of the National Women's Music Festival's Jane Schliessman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Women's Music. Margie Adam has recently released her eighth recording, Avalon, on Pleiades Records.
JUNE MILLINGTON
June Millington, described as "one of the hottest female guitarists in the industry" by Guitar Player Magazine, has been making music since she was a
child playing ukulele in her native Philippines. June formed a succession
of all girl bands, culminating with her band FANNY, the first all women's rock band to be signed to a major label (Warner Brothers). As David Bowie said of FANNY in Rolling Stone magazine: "They were extraordinary... They are as important as anyone else who's ever been, ever..." (RS, January 2000). By 1975, June had left FANNY and was involved in the burgeoning Women's Music Movement, playing on what would become the definitive work of the genre,
Cris Williamson's "The Changer and the Changed." June continues to record and perform with her own band, Slammin' Babes, and with numerous other musicians. In 2000, she received the Bay Area Career Women's "legend of women's music award".
In 1987 Millington co-founded the Institute for the musical Arts (IMA),
which has grown into an internationally known teaching, performing and
recording facility supporting women in music and music-related business.
June has produced numerous recordings of other artists. In 1996, she was
honored by the Audio Engineering Society with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Throughout her career, June has been documenting women's music on videotape.
Her archival footage and interviews are key components of this film.
LISA GINSBURG
Lisa Ginsburg was selected by the 2001 Power Up Filmmaking grants to direct "Chicken Night" written by Deirdre Strohm and produced by Pam Kuri. Lisa Ginsburg is an L.A.-based writer/director/editor. Her previous shorts are favorites on the international film festival circuit and acclaimed in Art in America. "OVERRIDE" (USA/2000), a sexy rock-narrative, features the passionate groove of San Francisco's indie band, THE HAIL MARYS. Recently, Lisa developed a pilot volunteer program to bring filmmaking skills to at-risk youth. Collaborating with students, filmmakers and a social worker, Lisa directed a powerful PSA "PLAYED OUT" (USA/2001) with critical positive life messages which the students will present to their peers at companion schools. The project was incredibly rewarding and sparked interest and confidence in teenagers facing many hardships. In addition to directing, Lisa has a successful career as a film and television editor and fiction
writer in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
MARLA LEECH
Marla Leech (editor). Musician and filmmaker Marla Leech received her MA in Radio and TV at SFSU in 1993 and, since 1996, has been teaching video
production and editing at City College of San Francisco. Her own
documentaries, "Breakin' the Glass" about women's pro-basketball, "Strings Attached" about women pro guitar players, and "It's a Boy! Journeys from Female to Male" have screened on PBS and at festivals worldwide.
DINA MARIA MUNSCH
Dina Maria Munsch (editor) has worked in the news field since 1987 as a
photographer, producer and editor. She has received two Emmys and six
regional nominations for her work as an editor at KTVU. "Radical
Harmonies" is the third documentary she's been involved with as an
editor. She's also co-produced and edited "It's about Love", a 50 minute conversation with Bay Area lesbians and "Breakin' the Glass", a film about the American Basketball League.
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