Weather Underground

Airing on KQED TV9: April 27, 2004 at 10pm
as part of the Independent Lens series

Filmmaker Biographies

Sam Green recieved a Masters degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley where he studied documentary with the acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. His first documentary film The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and screened at festivals worldwide. It won the Grand Prize at the USA Film Festival in Dallas and won Best Documentary awards at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals. His recent short film Pie Fight '69 screened at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and won First Prize at the Black Maria Film Festival. Mr. Green lives in San Francisco and teaches at the University of San Francisco. He is currently an artist in residence at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Bill Siegel has worked in documentary film production for 10 years. he conducted research for the acclaimed film Muhammad Ali: the Whole Story and Hoop Dreams. He recently worked on Spyglass Films' upcoming documentary The Supreme Court and Blackside Films' documentary The Great Depression. Mr. Siegel currently lives in Chicago and works as an educational trainer for the Great Books Foundation.