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• Director: Dawn Logsdon | bio

  Dawn Logsdon is making her feature-length directing debut with Faubourg Tremé. A nationally-acclaimed editor in the Bay Area for many years, Dawn returned to her hometown in 1999, determined to weld together her experience in documentary filmmaking with a quest for understanding New Orleans, its people, and its culture. Dawn previously edited the 2004 Academy Award®-nominated documentary film, The Weather Underground, directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel and the Sundance Award-winning documentary Paragraph 175, directed by two-time Academy Award® winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. She was also the editor of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning program The Castro: Hidden Neighborhoods of San Francisco, which interweaves the many strands of that community's history, culture and politics. Dawn has directed and produced several short documentaries including Tomboy. She is a Soros Open Society Institute Media Fellow and has also been awarded fellowships from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, and was a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence. Dawn hold a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley.

• Writer: Lolis Eric Elie | bio

  Lolis Eric Elie is a national award-winning metro columnist and accomplished author. For the past five years, he has chronicled the heartbeat of New Orleans' neighborhoods thrice weekly for New Orleans' major daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune. A recognized expert on New Orleans food and culture, Lolis is the author of Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country, a book about the culture of barbecue. He recently produced a television documentary based on that book and has several other culinary documentaries in development. He is currently writing Of Bondage & Memory, a book on the enduring legacy of the slave trade on two continents. He is editor of Cornbread Nation 2: The Best of Southern Food Writing for University of North Carolina Press. As a producer for the Smithsonian Institute's Jazz Oral History Project, Lolis conducted interviews with many of New Orleans' elder jazz musicians. Lolis is a current Soros Katrina Media Fellow awarded by the Open Society Institute. He has master's degrees from the Columbia School of Journalism in New York and a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia. He and his father live in the Tremé and have become key figures in the area's cultural renaissance.

• Executive Producer: Wynton Marsalis | bio

  Wynton Marsalis is a world-renowned jazz recording artist and Pulitzer prize-winning composer. A New Orleans native and jazz history expert, he is currently Artistic Director of Jazz at the Lincoln Center in New York.

• Producer: Lucie Faulknor | bio

  Lucie Faulknor has over 20 years experience in arts administration. She has also worked with Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman and feature/experimental film director Lynn Hershman-Leeson. Lucie produced Ireland's first Women in Film and Video Film Festival in Dublin and developed and produced Artists Up-Close a series of lectures in San Francisco featuring Sydney Pollack, Laurie Anderson, Bobby McFerrin, Wayne Shorter and many others. She was also the producer of several one-woman shows by Irish actor/writer Kate Perry in San Francisco and throughout Ireland. She has managed fundraising campaigns for a number of theater companies, including Marin Theater Company’s season featuring the world premiere of Tennessee Williams' Spring Storm and 5th Province Theatre Company. Lucie has been the publicity director for the Dublin (Ireland) Fringe Theatre Festival, San Francisco’s Working Women Theater Festival, the Irish Arts Foundation, national recording artists 4 Non Blondes and various other independent musicians, artists, actors and filmmakers.

• Composer: Derrick Hodge | bio

  Derrick Hodge is currently the bass player and a composer with Terrence Blanchard's jazz band. He composed the score for the documentary Who the F@#k is Jackson Pollack and tracks for Spike Lee's Inside Man. He attended Berkelee College of Music and received a bachelor's degree in Music (emphasis on jazz and composition) from Temple University. Hodge has performed and/or recorded with Donald Byrd, Kanye West, Will Smith, Jill Scott, Bootsy Barnes, Q-Tip, Terell Stafford, Mos Def and many others.

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