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| Bay Window : Children and Asthma: Production Biographies |
Allie Light, Producer, Bay Window "Children and Asthma"
Light, winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the 1994 National Emmy Award for best interview program, writes, directs and produces documentary films with her partner, Irving Saraf. Her credits include: Blind Spot: Murder by Women, Rachel's Daughters: Searching for the causes of breast cancer (HBO), Dialogues With Madwomen, (Emmy Award; Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival); In The Shadow Of The Stars, (Academy Award); Mitsuye and Nellie, Asian American Poets; Visions of Paradise (five films about folk artists) and Shakespeare's Children. She has published a book of poems, The Glittering Cave and edited an anthology of women's writings, Poetry From Violence. Light lectured in film at City College of San Francisco and, for ten years, in the Women Studies Program at San Francisco State University. Allie's story appears in On Women Turning 50, Celebrating Mid-Life Discoveries, by Cathleen Rountree (Harper/Collins, 1993), and an interview with her is included in Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors, by Judith M. Redding & Victoria A. Brownworth (Seal Press, 1997) and in Documentary Filmmakers Speak by Liz Stubbs (Allworth Press, 2002). In 1995 she and Irving Saraf attended the Fourth International Documentary Conference in Melbourne, Australia where, according to The Australian, "Light and Saraf's (film) methods are being studied, copied and built on." Their new film, Children and Asthma is first in a four part series, Small Bodies of Evidence, about children health and the environment, Light is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Irving Saraf, Producer, Bay Window "Children and Asthma"
Saraf, winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, In The Shadow Of The Stars and National Emmy Award for Dialogues With Madwomen, (both with Allie Light), was born in Poland, raised and educated in Israel and has a B.A. in Motion Pictures from UCLA. He works in fiction and documentary film as producer, director and editor with over 150 films to his credit, mostly made for television. He was the filmmaker of Poland, Changing World (Emmy nomination). His directorial work includes Going International (six films about working abroad, producers: Copeland-Griggs) and We Are Driven (Japanese production in the U.S.; Frontline, PBS). Among his editing credits: Battle of Westlands (Dupont-Columbia & Peabody Awards), Las Madres (Oscar nomination) and Three Warriors (United Artists release). With his partner Allie Light, he has also produced and directed Mitsuye and Nellie, Visions of Paradise (five half hour films about contemporary American folk artists), Shakespeare's Children (director), Rachel's Daughters (HBO), Blind Spot: Murder by Women and the recently completed Children and Asthma. An interview with Irving appears in a book Documentary Filmmakers Speak by Liz Stubbs (Allworth Press, 2002). He was founder and former head of the KQED-TV film unit and former manager of Saul Zaentz Production Company. During his tenure with Zaentz, Saraf produced a score of films and was post-production supervisor of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. For many years he taught film production at San Francisco State University. Irving is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Nancy Evans, Producer, Bay Window "Children and Asthma"
Evans is a health science writer/editor and environmental health advocate who co-produced (with Allie Light and Irving Saraf) the 1997 documentary, Rachel's Daughters: Searching for the Causes of Breast Cancer. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991, Nancy has written and spoken extensively on breast cancer issues in the United States, Canada, Belgium and New Zealand. She currently works with The Breast Cancer Fund (TBCF) as health science consultant, and represents TBCF in the Collaborative for Health and the Environment. Her current projects include a series of documentary films on children's environmental health: Small Bodies of Evidence: The Toxic Lives of Children, co-produced with Allie Light and Irving Saraf. Other films in the series will examine childhood cancer, developmental disorders, and obesity.
Sue Ellen McCann, Executive Producer, Bay Window
McCann joined KQED in 1999 and works primarily on current-affairs programming. She has executive-produced KQED's award-winning series Bay Window for the past three seasons and has overseen more than a dozen productions for the series, including "Raising a Ruckus," "GunShots," "No Turning Back" and "The Celebrity and the City." During her tenure, Bay Window has won four local Emmys and one national Emmy.
After working on PBS's Frontline documentaries at the Center for Investigative Reporting, McCann started her own production company, Studio Miramar, in 1991. She has produced a variety of educational and documentary programs that reflect her interest in technology, community, history and cultural affairs. Prior to coming to KQED, McCann produced "Fair Play," part of the Digital Divide series that aired nationwide January 2000 on PBS. McCann has served as executive producer on This Week in Northern California, Digital West and Springboard-Exploring the Digital Age. She currently executive-produces FRONTLINE/World, a national PBS magazine series that focuses on international issues.
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