Noam Osband

                                  Director/Producer/Director of Photography/Editor

An anthropology PhD student and filmmaker, Noam Osband's prior work a short film about an Arkansas cattle auction, Searcy County, that has screened at over fifteen festivals including the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and the Sebastopol Documentary Festival.  He won the Penn Dean’s Award for New Media which allowed him to complete The Radical Jew, an award winning short documentary about Baruch Marzel, one of the leaders of Israel's far right. He is also currently working on a feature-length documentary about Mexican reforestation workers in the southeast United States, a film that will serve as his dissertation for his PhD in anthropology. This will be the first documentary film ever submitted for a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.

                                                            Stanton Wortham

                                                           Executive Producer

Stanton Wortham is the Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.  He is a co-founder of Collaborative Advancements in Multimodal Research Activities (CAMRA), a University of Pennsylvania media pedagogy lab.   He has taught courses on visual anthropology, media ethnography and documentary film.  He has served as executive producer for a number of ongoing film projects in Norristown, PA.  A leader in the field of educational ethnography, he has published in over twenty journals, and has authored or edited over 10 books.

                                                               John Jackson, Jr.

                                                            Associate Producer


 John Jackson Jr. is the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication, Africana Studies, and Anthropology in the Standing Faculty of the Annenberg School for Communication and the Standing Faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences. Before coming to Penn, Jackson taught in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a filmmaker, Jackson has produced a feature-length fiction film, documentaries, and film-shorts that have screened at film festivals internationally.

                                                                  Catherine Rhodes

                                                                Associate Producer
Catherine R. Rhodes is a Visiting Lecturer in the Anthropology Department at the University of New Mexico where she teaches undergraduate and graduate Linguistic Anthropology courses. Catherine conducts ethnographic research in the U.S. and in Mesoamerica. In the U.S., she researches processes of social identification in a (New) Latino Diaspora community in the mid-Atlantic. In the Yucatan, Mexico she studies the relationship between the production of scientific knowledge and models of personhood for Yucatec Maya speakers and the role language plays in these processes. Catherine also teaches an intensive writing workshop for graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania through GSE's CLO program. She has published on processes of social identification, narrative, and scale.

                                                                       Lindsy Sims

                                                                Associate Producer

Lindsy is 2nd year Masters in Education student at the University of Pennsylvania in the Education, Culture, and Society program, currently conducting research on the social construction of intelligence.  Before returning to graduate school, she worked as a teacher in public schools in both Kentucky and Arkansas.









                                                                      Ivan Drufovka
                                          Editorial Consultant and Post-Production Editor

As the owner of Bilingual Media Company, Ivan Drufovka has produced, directed, edited, and led post-production on numerous programs on both cable and public television including The Mexican Revolution on the History Channel, two episodes of the A&E program Biography, the award winning independent documentary entitled Yo Soy Hechicero, and Only a Number, an independent documentary that has screened on PBS’s throughout the country. He has also worked on numerous national direct response commercials.


Additional Crew:

Additional Cinematography
Amitanshu Das 
 Ellen Reynolds
Ajay Raina
Helena Fernández
Aaron Walters
Carlos Martínez
  Brandon Smith 

Additional Editing
Dan Higgins

Research
Patricia E. Coogan
Peter D. Coogan

Archival Photos
The Historical Society of Montgomery County