A Land Between Rivers

Production Team

Directed by Kevin White
Produced by Michele Dennis and Kevin White
Written by Stephen Most and Kevin White
Narrated by Rita Moreno
Editor - Gina Leibrecht
Director of Photography – Eli Adler
Composer – Tom Disher
Associate Producer – Marnie Berringer

Biographies

Kevin White, Producer/Director – Full Frame Productions . A television producer since 1980, Kevin White’s work includes Not All Parents Are Straight, which was shown at the San Francisco Film Festival, Film Arts Foundation Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and aired nationally on PBS, winning top awards from the National Educational Film Festival, the San Francisco Film Festival, and the American Film Festival. He co-produced and directed Partnerships for Change, a series on education and the workforce for California Public Television. He was co-director/cameraman for We Bring a Quilt, narrated by Robert Wagner, which aired on PBS and Bravo and was nominated for a national ACE Award. He was Co-Producer for The Women Next Door, which was in the Berlin Film Festival and aired nationally on the PBS documentary series POV, receiving many awards. His documentary on the history of the stagecoach, Delivering the American West, has toured in many museums, and aired on the History Channel. His documentary From the Ground Up on managing the Salmon River Basin in California was broadcast nationally on PBS and received a CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Telly Award. His film, Restoring Balance, narrated by John Cleese, premiered on select PBS stations in summer of 2004 and has participated in many film festivals, including Hazel Wolf and the Wild and Scenic Film Festivals. His documentary Returning Home was broadcast on the national PBS series “Natural Heroes” in Summer of 2006. It also received a Special Merit Award from the International Wildlife Film Festival, and participated in several film festivals. In 1984, he started Full Frame Productions, a film and video production company; and in 1988 he and filmmaker Michal Aviad created Filmmakers Collaborative, a nonprofit organization to produce educational media addressing social and environmental issues.

Stephen Most – Writer is a playwright and documentary storyteller. Films he has written include Oil On Ice, an hour-long documentary about the controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; The Greatest Good, a two-hour HDTV history of the U. S. Forest Service; four programs in Oregon Public Broadcasting's Bridging World History series; The Bridge So Far: A Suspense Story, a comedy news documentary; and '06: THE BIG ONE, a 3-D documentary thriller about the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Wonders of Nature, which Stephen Most wrote for the Great Wonders of the World series, won an Emmy for best special non-fiction program. Promises, on which he worked as Consulting Writer and Researcher, won Emmys for best documentary and outstanding background analysis and research. Berkeley in the Sixties, which he co-wrote, received an Academy Award nomination. He was Consulting Writer for Mothers of the Plaza and Freedom on my Mind as well as Promises, all of which also received Academy Award nominations. Most is currently writing and producing a documentary film about the crisis concerning water and wild fish in the Klamath Basin. His book River of Renewal, Myth and History in the Klamath Basin will be co-published in September, 2006 by the University of Washington Press and the Oregon Historical Society Press.

Gina Leibrecht - Editor has been working in film since she received her B.A. in Telecommunications and Film from the University of Oregon in 1989. In 1998 she began collaborating with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Les Blank, on several projects, including The Tea Film (working title) which she is co-producing, co-directing and editing. She also edited “Native Glory” under Blank’s direction, a film about the whimsical art collector, Rene di Rosa; and The Maestro Rides Again, for Blank’s DVD “The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists.” Gina also produced and directed an 11-minute piece on Rene di Rosa for San Francisco’s KQED Channel 9. She edited Frank Green’s Counting Sheep, about the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, which aired on KQED’s Truly California series and which won a Northern California Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2006; Gina edited Karina Epperlein’s Phoenix Dance, about a dancer who returns to the stage after losing a leg to cancer, which won San Francisco International Film Festival’s Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Short in 2006. In 2004 she directed and edited the short documentary Little Brothers, which aired on San Francisco’s KRON TV. She also edited Fawn Yacker’s Ugly Ducklings; David L. Brown’s Of Wind and Waves: The Life of Woody Brown; and Larry Reed’s DVD series Explorations of the Shadow World.

Eli Adler – Director of Photography has been shooting film and video professionally since 1980. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film and Television from Montana State University in Bozeman where he graduated summa cum laude. He has photographed numerous local and national award-winning programs for broadcast, theatrical film release, corporate and educational markets including two National Emmys for his cinematography. Eli has filmed many documentaries including an Emmy Winner; Great Wonders of the World, Papua New Guinea, the Birth of a Nation, Yosemite: Gift of Creation and Iran, Soul of a Nation. His broadcast work includes shows for the Food Network, an HBO promo for Bette Midler, and various shows for VH1 and MTV.

Michele Dennis – Producer has been working as a video and film producer and post-production supervisor for over 20 years. Her credits include feature film, documentary, corporate and broadcast programs. Recent documentary work includes a film produced and directed by Gary Weimberg & Catherine Ryan, The Heiress, The Countess, The Doctor: A 100 Year Love Affair with a Chateau, which recently premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and is currently on a national festival circuit, with a projected broadcast later this year. She also collaborated on Oil on Ice a 60 minute documentary on the conflict surrounding oil drilling at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Broadcast projects include Loyalty & Betrayal: A History of The Mob by Nick Pelliggi & Bill Couterie for Fox TV, as well as many national TV spots and corporate marketing pieces.