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| Bay Window : The Celebrity and the City: Producer Biographies |
Stephen Talbot—Producer and Writer
Writer and Producer Stephen Talbot has made more than 30 documentaries, including nine for Frontline, the acclaimed PBS investigative series. His recent Frontline reports include "The Battle Over School Choice" (2000), "Justice for Sale" (1999) with Bill Moyers, and "Spying on Saddam" (1999). With the Center for Investigative Reporting, Talbot has also produced Frontline investigative biographies of Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh, and won a DuPont Columbia University Award for his documentary on the 1992 presidential race, "The Best Campaign Money Can Buy". From 1980-1989, Talbot was a staff producer and reporter at KQED where he twice won a Peabody Award, one of broadcasting's highest honors, for "The Case of Dashiell Hammett," a biography of the San Francisco mystery writer, and for "Broken Arrow," an investigative report about nuclear weapons accidents. For KQED and PBS, Talbot also wrote and co-produced biographies of writers Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Beryl Markham and Maxine Hong Kingston. In 1998, Talbot wrote and produced the PBS history special, "1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation."
Rachel Raney—Co-Producer
Rachel Raney has worked on both public television documentaries and independent non-fiction films. She worked as a production manager and associate producer for the Center For Investigative Reporting on several Frontline documentaries, including—"The Best Campaign Money Can Buy," a report on the fat-cat donors of the '92 presidential race; "The Heartbeat of America,"a profile of the stumbling General Motors Co. in the mid-90s; and "The Battle Over School Choice," a look at Bush and Gore's recent struggle to become the next "education president." Raney also associate produced "Fair Play," an episode of the four part ITVS-funded series Digital Divide, which explored youth and access to technology. Later she co-produced "Presumed Guilty," a two-hour profile of the San Francisco Public Defender's Office, due to air nationally on PBS in early 2002.
In addition to her work in public television, Raney has developed several independent non-fiction film projects. In 2000 she produced and directed Toll Collector, a series of eight short films about these often maligned transportation workers. She is also currently in post-production on "Welcome to Livermore" (working title), a trip down memory lane with some of Livermore's more eccentric residents, who all seem intent on documenting the town's past.
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