Alexandra Lacey, Director/Writer/Co-Producer
Alexandra Lacey is the daughter of an American father and a British mother, Jean Bish, who grew up as a fourth-generation colonial in Fiji. She has worked as an independent filmmaker for the last 20 years. Her work emphasizes memory, the profound role of place in the human experience, and the power of oral history to connect the personal with the political, weaving individual stories together to create a more complex understanding of history. Her films have screened and been recognized at numerous festivals across the country. Currently, she is a producer and video coordinator at the San Francisco Anti-Eviction Mapping Project where she produces and coordinates oral history videos documenting the tenant experience and anti-displacement activism in the Bay Area. She received her BA in Film Production at UC Santa Cruz and her MFA in Film Production from San Francisco State University.
Kathleen Dargis, Editor/Co-Producer
Kathleen Dargis has been working as an editor for over 20 years. She has worked on a wide variety of projects with commercial and independent producers, focusing on documentaries, non-profit profiles, and educational content with mission-driven themes and character-driven portraits. She has worked with the San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival as their Shorts Program Manager and Media Producer. In addition, she has worked on projects for the History Channel, Citizen Film, ShadowLight Productions, Persuasion Pictures, Junoon Pictures, The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, as well as a series of projects for Stanford University. She has co-produced and edited independent documentary shorts which have screened at numerous international film festivals, and she works with independent documentary filmmakers developing and crafting compelling creative stories.
S. Smith Patrick, Cinematographer
S. Smith Patrick is a San Francisco-based cinematographer, documentary filmmaker and photographer. Her documentary film and photography work focuses on human rights and social issues. Her film, The Children of Idbaa, about a Palestinian children’s dance troupe from a West Bank refugee-camp, has won numerous awards and screened at both national and international festivals. She is currently in post-production on a feature length documentary about Cambodian street children, The Booksellers of Siem Reap, and a follow up to The Children of Ibdaa, Greetings From Palestine. Along with her own documentaries, she has most recently shot two documentaries for independent producers; War Within, which chronicles five Vietnam Veterans as they return to Vietnam for the first time since the war and Singing the Milky Way, which is about elder Aboriginal artists in Australia passing down their culture and heritage through their painting. She has also shot many educational and industrial videos and taught photography in Palestine.
Anton Herbert, Sound Recorder, Mixer, and Editor
Anton Herbert has worked in the film industry as a sound recorder, sound mixer, sound editor, and editor for 27 years.
Dan Cantrell, Composer
Dan Cantrell is an Emmy winning composer, accordionist, pianist, and saw player known for his soundtrack work on Cartoon Network’s Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack series and his innovative and energetic approach to documentary film and television scoring. Recent collaborators include: Tom Waits, Joanna Newsom, Beats Antique, the San Francisco Symphony, members of the Klezmatics, Brave Old World, and Fishbone.
Waqa Vuidreketi, Original Film Art
Waqa Vuidreketi is an indigenous Fijian artist who explores the use of found materials and raw materials to reinterpret Fijian concepts into his work including indigenous identity and the organic relationship between Pacific people and their land. He is particularly keen to explore themes such as the collision between modern and traditional values systems, perceptions of indigenous identity by young urban Fijians and addressing modern-day challenges using traditional methods of discourse, problem solving, and knowledge. He continues to push the boundaries of his art as an expression of indigenous identity in a constantly changing world.