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Crew

• Production Company: Spin Film | bio

  www.SpinFilm.org

• Co-Director: Patti Duncan | bio

  Patti Duncan, Ph.D., is an Asian Pacific American writer, scholar, and activist. She is currently associate professor of women’s studies at Portland State University, where she specializes in Asian/Asian American studies, and intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation. She is the author of Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (University of Iowa Press, 2004), and numerous articles, essays, and reviews. She has served as a judge for the Asian American Writers Workshop national book awards, and is a member of several local, national, and international social justice organizations. Her current research focuses on independent Asian/Asian American media, environmental justice, anti-Asian violence, militarized prostitution in Asia, and acid violence as a gendered form of violence. Dr. Duncan is also a member of APA Compass, a public affairs radio collective on KBOO 90.7 FM, where she produces programming relevant to Asian Pacific American communities. In addition to being interviewed regularly by independent media, she served as associate producer on the film Bombhunters. Finding Face is the first film in which she has taken on the full role of co-director/producer.

• Picture Editor: Patrick Weishampel | bio

  Patrick Weishampel is the director of Blank Eye Studios. He is a Portland-based video and motion graphics editor who has worked in film and television since 2003. He earned a BFA in photography and philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 2003, and has worked as an art director, editor, and multimedia designer. He has designed motion graphics and edited more than ten films. He is currently the multimedia designer at Portland Center Stage.

• Composer: William Campbell | bio

  William Campbell composes music for film, theater, radio, dance, orchestras and the concert stage. As a pianist, he has performed in multiple music groups including the acclaimed Sonoran Consort. Over the last decade he has collaborated on four separate scoring projects with producer/director Skye Fitzgerald, including the documentary Bombhunters, and currently, Finding Face. Recent commissions include the score for the dance-drama Coyolxauhqui ReMembers with the Latina Dance Project. Awards include the 1995 Highsmith Award in Composition and the 2006 Penfield Commission Composition Award. He is an Assistant Professor of Music at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, teaching music theory and composition, and maintaining the computer music lab. He serves as a board member of the Iowa Composers Forum, and is also a member of ASCAP, CCLI, CMS and the American Composers Forum.

• Co-Director: Skye Fitzgerald | bio

  After finishing up an MFA at the University of Oregon, Skye Fitzgerald directed 2nd Unit on the feature Ricochet River starring Kate Hudson and quickly decided to head into the world of non-fiction film. He has produced or shot nonfiction projects focused on developing nation and human rights issues in 20+ countries. In 2001, Skye co-produced the award-winning feature film Monsoon Wife - the first full-length feature to be shot completely on location in Cambodia since 1965. Other unique projects as a producer or cameraman include the documentary Return to Everest for Eddie Bauer, Dateline on Mt. Rainer for Dateline NBC, Frogpond (pilot) in the Philippines, Epilogue of War documenting landmine and UXO victims in Vietnam, a segment for CNN’s show Mainsail on the Antarctic island of South Georgia as well as segments for the History Channel’s Gangland series and the Weather Channel. In 2004/2005, Fitzgerald was named a Fulbright Scholar to shoot the documentary Bombhunters in Cambodia. The film was subsequently supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, the United States Institute of Peace, the US Department of State and the Paul Robeson Fund. He recently released Finding Face, and will soon release Peace Commandos, a film about peace-building in the Congo. Leveraging a social business model focused on issue impact over commercial visibility, Fitzgerald utilizes his production company Spin Film as the catalyst and production platform for films that address burgeoning social issues throughout the world.

Bonus Features

• Theatrical Trailers
• DVD-ROM PC Weblink/ Website
• Interactive Menus
• Scene Selections
• Director Commentary

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