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| Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories: Counting Sheep: Biographies |
Frank Green, producer, director and camera
A veteran television journalist and documentary filmmaker, Frank Green honed honed his skill in telling stories to a national audience as a producer for NBC News. Frank’s environmental documentaries have won many national and international awards, and have been shown on PBS, the Discovery Channel, Outdoor Life Network and on many international television outlets. His film El Dorado won the "Best Film on Mountain Environment" at the Banff Film Festival in 1997.
Frank is a fifth-generation Californian who grew up backpacking in the Sierra Nevada and the West. He spent ten years as a journalist in Southeast and East Asia at the end of the Vietnam War, including several years as NBC News bureau chief in Seoul, the first American broadcast journalist stationed there. Frank graduated from Stanford University and has lectured in Broadcast Journalism and International Reporting at the University of Texas and San Francisco State University.
Frank got the inspiration for Counting Sheep from a newspaper article about endangered wildlife of the Sierra Nevada. He didn't know there were wild bighorn sheep in the eastern Sierra, but when he heard that they were one of the most endangered mammals in North America, and that they had never before been filmed, it was "like waving a red flag in front of a bull." Three pair of boots, fifteen expeditions, $70,000 in grants and twelve years later, Counting Sheep was released.
Paul Rauber, writer
Paul Rauber is a senior editor at Sierra, the national magazine of the Sierra Club. He is an award-winning writer on topics ranging from outdoor adventure to food to national politics.
Gina Leibrecht, editor
Filmmaker Gina Leibrecht edited Counting Sheep, and has been collaborating with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Les Blank, on several projects. They include White Feathers, Black Bones, a film about an eccentric American tea importer who travels to remote regions in China in search of tea, which she is co-producing and editing. She recently edited Native Glory under Blank's direction, a film about the whimsical art collector, Rene di Rosa. She is also working with Blank on a film about the life of Richard Leacock, the co-founder of direct cinema.
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