Cherry Arnold - Writer/Producer/Director/Editor/Camera
Cherry Arnold's company, Big Orange Films LLC, produces documentary, educational and commercial films. Cherry has served as a producer on a number of feature length documentary and narrative films, including the Oxygen Network documentary favorite, Sex:Female, directed by Louis Alvarez and Andy Kolker. Before returning to her hometown of Providence, RI Cherry lived in New York City where she did marketing, business development and project producing for companies such as LaunchCenter 39, Barnes&Noble.com, Sony, FAO Schwarz and the Warner Music Group. At the beginning of the Internet boom, Cherry helped launch and expand the New York WELL, an offshoot of the venerable San Francisco-based online community. Previously, Cherry's company, Cherry Arnold and Associates, produced advertising work for commercial Photographers and Directors in New York City and Philadelphia, PA.

Alicia Sams — Consulting Producer
Alicia Sams' most recent productions include “Press On”, a feature documentary about Robert Randolph and the Family Band, the Sundance Channel’s “Keeping Time: New Music from America's Roots”, “Grateful Dawg” , a documentary feature distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in 2001. For three years Sams served as Vice President of Lobo Grande Pictures, where she produced the award-winning theatrical documentary “Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's.” Sams has produced and directed documentaries and performance programs for PBS, TBS, Bravo, and Channel Four and was the post-production supervisor for Spike Lee's “The Original Kings of Comedy” and Lasse Hallstrom's Chocolat and “The Shipping News.”

Stephen McCarthy — Director of Photography
Stephen McCarthy is a Boston-based Cinematographer who has served as Director of Photography on numerous documentary films and television series for PBS, HBO, BBC-TV and others. These include the 1997 Peabody Award-winning PBS series “Vote for Me!” and MTV's “The Real World – Boston.” Mr. McCarthy's most recent work includes “Ennis' Gift”, a film on dyslexia for the William Ennis Cosby Foundation; “Dr. Solomon's Dilemma” for PBS's FRONTLINE; the 1998 and 2001 seasons of WBGH's “Greater Boston Arts,” and “NOVA's Survivor MD.”

Cob Carlson – Editor
Cob has been editing and producing films for sixteen years. He has worked on feature films, major network television programs, music videos, commercials, and industrials. He produced and directed his own film, "An Irish American Story”, a feature documentary broadcast on PBS in 1998.  He counts among his awards two Cine Gold Eagles, a  Gold at the National Education & Video Festival,  a Silver at the New York Film & Video Festival, and Best Documentary award at The Golden Gate Film Festival. His colorful past includes stints as an ironworker, food co-op manager, non-profit administrator, truck driver and drummer.

Jeff Zimbalist — Editor
Jeff is currently screening his film, "Favela Rising" at film festivals, a feature documentary about one individual’s journey out of the slums of Rio de Janeiro and the story of his work creating the nonviolent culture known as Afro-reggae. Jeff edited “On The Killing Floor” in 2002, contrasting the two faces of a rural New Jersey slaughter house and in 2001 Jeff directed, shot and edited “Buenas Intenciones,” a 40 minute documentary on youth volunteerism in rural Latin America. His independent production company, Our Lunacies Harmonize Productions, has produced educational and promotional films for such clients as Amigos de las Americas International Exchange Program, Fusion Women Dancing, Providence Public Schools, and non-profit service organizations in Central America.

Tom Phillips — Composer
Tom Phillips' credits include well over 200 films for PBS, ABC, CBS, Discovery Channel, TLC, Lifetime, A&E and HBO. He was awarded a national primetime Emmy honor for the PBS film “The Murder of Emmett Till”, which also won the Special Jury Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. He scored “The Pill”, a PBS film which won the Best Historical Documentary Emmy award in 2004. In addition to films, Tom has scored dozens of multimedia shows for planetariums and museums, films for universities (Harvard, Yale, Cornell, BU, University of Chicago...), and music for national and local television advertising campaigns.

Christopher Savage —Post Production Associate Producer
Chris Savage graduated from Brown University in May 2005, where he was honored with the Weston Fine Arts Award for excellence in filmmaking. While a student, Chris wrote, directed, and produced 5 short films and one short documentary. He helped produce segments for the national broadcast of the 2005 Boston Marathon, and worked as a Production Assistant on TV commercial sets for Picture Park, a Boston-based production company. He is currently living in Providence, freelance editing while making his own films.

Advisory Committee

Louis Alvarez — Producer, Center for New American Media, New York, New York

Rudy Cheeks — Journalist, Actor and Musician, Providence, Rhode Island

George Kellner — Professor of History, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island

Ruby Lerner — Executive Director, Creative Capital New York, New York

Jack McDonald — Documentary Producer, Cambridge, Mass.

Maureen F. Moakley — Professor of Political Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island

Darrell West — Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, Providence, RI and developer of Inside Politics.

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