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LOUIS ALVAREZ and ANDREW KOLKER, twice winners of both the Peabody Award and the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, have over the past 25 years produced critically praised documentaries on American culture, treating important topics in American life with a unique mixture of humor and poignancy. In addition to People Like Us, Alvarez and Kolker have tackled motherhood (MOMS), politics (Vote for Me and Louisiana Boys — Raised on Politics), accents (American Tongues), sexuality (Sex: female), and the globalization of pop culture (The Japanese Version). Kolker and Alvarez began their careers in New Orleans and now live in New York City. PETER ODABASHIAN (Co-Producer and Editor) is an Emmy award winning editor. He has edited 19 documentaries and has been a sound editor on over 17 feature films from REDS to Carlitošs Way. In 1984, he won a Golden Reel Award for best feature sound editing for the film "Places In The Heart". In 1987, he cut "The Beat Generation", a feature length documentary that was selected for screening at the Berlin Film Festival. From 1988 to 1992 he edited 5 films for producer Irv Drasnin, including a portrait of Father Coughlin, "The Radio Priest", and a poetic history of the great American pastime, "Forever Baseball". He worked with Andy Kolker and Louis Alvarez for the first time in 1996 on the Peabody and Columbia-DuPont winning documentary, "Vote for Me", and won an editing Emmy for his efforts. In 1997, he cut America in the "40's", a non-fiction musical. Just before working on People Like Us, Peter cut Louis and Andy's 1999 film "MOMS". STEPHEN MCCARTHY (Camera) is a Boston-based cinematographer whose work ranges from for "Sesame St." to serving as Director of Photography on documentary films and television series for PBS, HBO, BBC-TV and others. These include the 1997 Peabody Award-winning PBS series "Vote for Me!" and MTV's "The Real World - Boston." Mr. McCarthy's most recent work includes "Ennis' Gift," a film on dyslexia for the William Ennis Cosby Foundation; "Dr. Solomon's Dilemma," for PBS's FRONTLINE; the 1998 and 2001 seasons of WGBH's "Greater Boston Arts," and NOVA's "Survivor MD." GEORGIA MANUKAS (Coordinating Producer) has produced, directed, shot and recorded sound for programs for National Geographic, PBS, The Learning Channel, The Discovery Channel, the Metro Channel and the TV Food Network. Georgia is currently producing two episodes of this season's lineup for the Discovery Health series "Lifeline". She produced three episodes of the PBS documentary series "Going Places", as well as host wraps on land and under water for National Geographic Explorer. She has shot for Discovery's "On the Inside" and The Learning Channel’s "Trauma: Life in the ER". Georgia has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University. LISA W.SHAPIRO (Associate Producer) won a New York Emmy® producing for WNET’s City Arts, the Peabody Award winning documentary-style show on arts and culture. She also produced FIGHT LIKE A GIRL, the one hour women's boxing documentary for A&E’s Inside Story which went on to receive an IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award Nomination for Best Strand Program. She is was one of the founders of Hitchhiker Films, a documentary production house in New York City. Most recently, through Hitchhiker, she executive produced and directed the new 13 episode documentary series for Noggin called ON THE TEAM, which chronicles the highs and lows of a youth baseball team from Brooklyn. RACHEL BOYNTON (Associate Producer) is an independent producer based in New York. Her other credits include Associate Producer of "Well-Founded Fear", a feature documentary about political asylum in America (premiered at theSundance Film Festival 2000 and aired nationally on PBS) and producing for "Legends of Our Time," a German television series on ARD. CHRISTINE CONNER (Associate Producer) |
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