THE FILM MAKERS
EVA WUNDERMANProducer, Director, Writer
Eva Wunderman has produced and directed highly innovative, award-winning documentaries since the early 1990's. Her films have been broadcast around the world and for many years she directed the Gemini Award winning television series Weird Homes.
She was the first to document one of the most important archaeological discoveries in her film THE MAYA POMPEII, a Maya excavation site at Joya de Ceren in El Salvador.
Other documentaries include THE LEGACY OF TRUK LAGOON, which was filmed on location in the South Pacific and features the American carrier-based attack in 1944 on the island of Truk, known as Japan's Rock of Gibraltar.
1992 completed directing for film - Vancouver Filmschool
In 1997, she went to Western Samoa to executive produce and co-direct PARADISE BENT, a one-hour documentary about the Fa'afafine culture.
In 1999, Eva was co-producer and director of THE WRATH OF THE DRAGON -a short film about heroin addiction that was featured at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival.
Eva collaborated as an associate producer and writer/director with producer Mike Collier of Yaletown Entertainment, to develop WEIRD HOMES - a series of half-hour shows for television, a show that became the top rated Canadian program on the Life Network. Eva continued to direct the show for its five consecutive seasons and two series WEIRD WHEELS and WEIRD WEDDINGS followed based on its success.
The film Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear, a highly intimate view of kids involved with crystal meth, earned her a Gracie Allen Individual Achievement Award in New York in 2006. Two additional productions about the dangers of crystal meth followed- NOT A GAME aimed at the elementary school level, and SCATHED for high schools. Both are currently part of the drug education curriculum in B.C. schools.
During filming ONCE WERE ENEMIES she reunited former enemies 60 years after their battle on the island of Peleliu in Micronesia. And she reasently produced and directed CANYON WAR—a first in a series of untold stories in Canadian History.
See more at: http://www.wundermanfilm.com
Director of Photography
He has worked with everyone from Billy Crystal to Dr. David Suzuki on productions as varied as The Sacred Balance and Supermodels in the Rainforest. Robert Fresco is an award-winning veteran cameraman with production credits as Director of Photography for over three hundred film and television productions. His credits include:
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Fresco's experience includes comedic and action adventure productions as diverse as the CTV epic series "The Campbells" and as haunting and the second series of "The Twilight Zone" (shot for Alliance Atlantis). In 1997 he was DOP for Sleeping Giant Productions for the VISION TV series "An Understanding of Death and Dying."
Fresco has a combined career history that spans active production in virtually all aspects of film and video. Production film experience ranges from 70mm wide screen theatrical films to 16mm documentaries and music videos. Video expertise includes broadcast high definition video, as well as standard professional Betacam and small production formats such as DV and DVCAM. He is the winner of a 2001 GEMINI for "Beauty Shop Bandit", an episode of the CTV and Discovery television series "Exhibit A", initiated in DVCAM, Sony's proprietary small production format. He was DOP for Canyon War: The Untold Story, in 2008-09. Skinny's Grille is delighted to have someone of Fresco's experience and talent as part of the team
Executive Producer
Award-winning producer Patti Poskitt has extensive experience in all aspects of production. A graduate of Capilano College's rigorous Media Program, she has worked her way through the ranks in production coordination, management and all forms of producer titles. Stints in daytime television have provided Patti with strong connections to countless resources. She has numerous credits in children's television including puppetry and CGI animations , drama, games show and magazine and documentary programming, She is the president of Second Son Productions Inc. and under this banner she now devotes her expertise to collaboratively developing and financing television products as an executive producer.
See more at: http://www.secondson.tv/patti.htm
