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| Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories: "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria" Filmmaker Biographies |
Victor Silverman, Co-Writer/Director/Producer, is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Often quoted in the press for his expertise on politics and history, he is the author of many books and articles: California, (Interlink Publishing, forthcoming); Los Angeles Times Front Page, (Tribune Media, 2003); "The Failures of Jewish Americanization," in Jewish Locations (Rowan & Littlefield, 2001); and Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor (University of Illinois, 1999). He currently consults with the international labor movement on sustainable development policy at the United Nations. Victor is a former public service and dramatic program producer and writer for KPFA-FM Radio, Berkeley, and he adapted and directed a stage version of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." He is also the scriptwriter of Out of the Shadow, a feature film on the life of immigrant writer Rose Cohen, currently in development with Northwest Passage Productions.
Susan Stryker, Co-Writer/Director/Producer, recently returned to the United States after holding a Visiting Scholar appointment in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney. She served as Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco between 1999 and 2004. Susan earned a Ph.D. in United States History at UC Berkeley, and later held a postdoctoral fellowship in Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. A popular public speaker and prolific writer, she is author of The Transgender Studies Reader, (Routledge, forthcoming); Queer Pulp (Chronicle, 2001); the transgender studies special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke, 1998); Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, (Chronicle, 1996); and numerous articles. She was featured in Monika Treut's film Gendernauts, (1999) and was scenarist and scriptwriter for Brandon, Shu Lea Cheang's on-line multimedia installation examining gender, embodiment, violence, and media at the SoHo Guggenheim, (1998-1999).
Jack Walsh, Producer, is an Emmy-award winning independent filmmaker and public television producer. His credits include: And Then One Night: The Making of Dead Man Walking, a behind-the-scenes documentary on the San Francisco Opera's production, that also examines the debate about capital punishment (PBS January 2002); Independent View, a 17-part series about independent film (PBS, Fall 2001); and Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay, which chronicles the life of this pioneering gay rights activist and the founding of America's first successful gay rights organization, the Mattachine Society, in 1950 (PBS June 2003). Most recently, Jack executive-produced Girl Trouble, a film that follows three teenage girls for four years as they navigate San Francisco's juvenile justice system. Girl Trouble won the Golden Gate Award for Bay Area Documentary at the 2004 San Francisco International Film Festival and will have its PBS premiere in the 2005-06 season of Independent Lens.
Laurie Schmidt, Editor, is an award-winning editor of public television documentaries and series whose credits include Girl Trouble, an award-winning film about young women in the juvenile justice system; Independent View, the national PBS series about independent filmmaking; KQED's signature arts program, Spark!; and Easy Money, a Frontline documentary about gambling addiction. Recently, Laurie also worked as consulting editor on The Real Dirt on Farmer John, an ITVS-funded film about the creation of a community-supported organic farm. Her commercial television editing credits include The Frank Sinatra Special (CBS), for which she received an Emmy nomination, and Outlaws and Lawmen, a four–part documentary series for the Discovery Channel.
Sophie Constantinou, Director of Photography, works on both nonfiction and commercial projects. Her cinematography credits include Divided Loyalties, about her family roots in Cyprus; No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, about the pioneering lesbian activists; Comrade Yankee, about American expatriates living in Cuba; and Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay, which chronicles the life of this pioneering gay rights activist. She has also worked as Director of Photography for music videos, commercials, and PSAs for clients including The Cherry Poppin' Daddies, American Red Cross, sfgate.com, Miller Beer, and the San Francisco Giants.
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