Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

Crew Bios:

Patricia Flynn (Producer) is an award-winning journalist with over twenty years experience in public broadcasting. She is currently an independent producer based in San Francisco. Most recently she was senior producer of the weekly, New California Media (NCM-TV), a program highlighting the news and views of ethnic Californians, and carried on public stations in California and Washington state. She was a staff producer for the national PBS program, Religion and Ethics News Weekly, where she directed, wrote and produced feature segments for the show (produced by New York's WNET). Prior to that she was Senior Associate Producer for a CPB-funded documentary series that aired on PBS, In Search of Law and Order, working primarily as a field producer and writer. She was also a regular contributing producer to Video News International (a magazine show produced by New York Times television), where she produced, wrote and shot feature pieces.

Ms. Flynn began her career in public broadcasting with National Public Radio, where she was a producer, reporter and foreign editor. At NPR she also served as special projects editor on a number of award-winning documentary series. She was series editor for Radio Expeditions, produced by NPR and National Geographic, and coordinating editor for Vanishing Homelands, a series of richly produced documentaries that chronicled the impact of development on native peoples and the environment in Latin America. She was also the host and producer of NPR's Latin American News Service. At KQED-FM, she hosted the local broadcast of Morning Edition.

Mary Jo McConahay (Co-Producer) is a veteran reporter for Pacific News Service. Her stories from Latin America have appeared regularly in major U.S. newspapers since the 1980's. Her full length magazine stories from the U.S. and abroad have appeared in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Ms., the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Progressive, Image, Parenting, California Lawyer, Sierra Magazine and others. Ms. McConahay frequently appears on radio and television as a commentator. She has been honored for her reporting by the World Affairs Council and the Media Alliance of Northern California, and she is a recipient of the Hibakusha Peace Fellowship in Japan.

Vicente Franco (Director of Photography) has served as Director of Photography on over 20 documentaries and video productions. He contributed to several nationally broadcast PBS programs including The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle and the series In Search of Law and Order. Mr. Franco has been recognized with the prestigious Peabody award for coverage of the Mexican earthquake in 1985, along with other awards for his outstanding cinematography. His most recent film Daughter from Danang, on which he served as director and cinematographer, has been selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2002.

Jennifer Chinlund (Editor) has been editing documentary films in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty-five years. Her work includes three films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival: Contrary Warriors, Baby It's You, and Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians. She also edited the Academy Award Nominee, Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter, and numerous other award-winning films, among them Ishi, the Last Yahi (Best of Festival, National Educational Film and Video Festival), Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom (Gold Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival), and Hearts and Hands (Best of Category, San Francisco Film Festival; Cine Golden Eagle).

Jane Greenberg (Associate Producer) is an independent documentary filmmaker working on socio-political documentaries in a wide range capacities. Her roles have included: producer, director, associate producer, fund raiser, writer, sound person, camera person, outreach coordinator and post production supervisor. Ms. Greenberg has worked on a number programs for Public TelevisionÑrecently she served as a producer for Fenceline: A Company Town Divided and as associate producer for the Emmy Award winning School Prayer: A Community at War. Her work has received recognition at film festivals and garnered numerous awards.