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Melinda Binks, Producer/Cinematographer/Editor
Melinda has worked for a range of international research organizations and non-profits, such as The Academy for Educational Development , Land O’ Lakes (sponsored by USAID) in Palestine, The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation in Rwanda and Vista 360 in Jackson, WY.
She was the assistant to world-renowned wildlife photographer and filmmaker Tom Mangelsen . While working for Tom, Melinda had the great opportunity to photograph and film in Rwanda, Tanzania, the Seychelles and Madagascar.
After realizing her passion for storytelling through film, she attended The Maine Media Workshops to learn about documentary film under the tutelage of Michael Rabiger, who wrote "the bible" on documentary filmmaking (Directing the Documentary).
Her most recent projects have taken her to Central America, Africa and Australia.
When not working on a project or traveling, she can be found in Jackson Hole, Wyoming enjoying the snow and rock.
Rebecca Huntington, Producer/Scriptwriter/Print & Radio Journalist
Rebecca Huntington has written about everything from the environment to education
to the arts for newspapers across the Northwest for more than a decade. She
covered environmental and public lands issues in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
for the Jackson Hole News & Guide for five years. She has won state and
national awards for investigative and explanatory series on competing demands
for Snake River water and contentious management of Jackson Hole's famous
elk herd. She also traveled to China with a Wyoming delegation to tour the
developing nation's coalmines, which could pollute the air we breathe.
Born
in Billings, Mont., Huntington studied journalism at the University of Montana
and now works as a freelance writer and regular contributor to regional magazines, Wyoming
Public Radio and environmental video news sites from her home in Jackson
Hole.
Kristen Daly, Urban Producer, East Coast Second Camera
Kristen Daly recently finished a doctorate in Communications at the Columbia Journalism School. Her dissertation focuses on the changes brought about in cinema by the introduction of computer and digital technologies. She has worked at WITNESS, the human rights video advocacy non-profit and as an assistant to the head of production at HDNet Films. She has helped out on documentaries for Angry Young Ranch production company. She was associate producer on Bad Boys of Summer, a documentary about the San Quentin Prison baseball team, and assisted on Change Up, a documentary about two young pitchers from the Dominican Republic. Kristen recently co-directed and edited a short documentary in the Mississippi Delta with Barefoot Workshops.
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