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Phoebe Ferguson
Director/Producer
A native of New Orleans, Phoebe Ferguson attended Art Center College of Design and spent twenty years as an advertising photographer in New York City before turning to documentary film in 2001. After studying with Marco Williams, George Stoney and Jennifer Fox at NYU, she produced two short films before turning her attention to her hometown. After researching the history of Mardi Gras and New Orleans for two years, she embarked on her project, MEMBER OF THE CLUB, a feature length documentary exploring one of New Orleans’s oldest traditions of presenting young black women into society.
Phoebe was born in New Orleans and lived there until the age of ten. Her family has been in New Orleans since 1865 and has participated religiously in the carnival traditions of the city. She returned to make her debut in 1978 with the club her father belonged to. After twenty-five years in New York City, she has once again made New Orleans her home and is relishing all that that entails.
Marco Williams
Executive Producer
Marco Williams is a filmmaker and a film educator. He is a member of the faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, in their Undergraduate Film and Television Department, where he teaches screenwriting, documentary, fiction and television production.
Marco's directing credits include: I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education (2004), MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream (2003), Two Towns of Jasper (2002), Making Peace; Rebuilding our Communities (1995), The Pursuit of Happiness: With Arianna Huffington (1994), Without A Pass (1992), In Search of Our Fathers (1991), and From Harlem To Harvard (1982).
Marco received a B.A. from Harvard University, in Visual and Environmental Studies. He received a Master of Arts degree from UCLA in Afro-American Studies and a Master of Fine Arts also from UCLA in their Producer’s Program. He is the recipient of the Institute of American Cultures Research Grant (1998 and 1990), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, (1987) and a Creative Artists Program grant (1984).
Tim Watson
Editor
Tim Watson is currently editing Land Of Opportunity, a film on the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina. He is also the co-producer and one of the editors of See What I'm Saying, a film on Henry Butler and a jazz music camp that Butler runs for blind teenagers. He edited Vows of Silence (2008).
Watson co-produced and edited By Invitation Only (2006), which has aired on many PBS stations across the country. He produced and edited A Player To Be Named Later (2005), which aired on many PBS stations and is distributed on DVD by Image Entertainment. He co-produced and edited Desire (2005), which has won several awards at film festivals and was selected by Al Gore for the “Reel Current” documentary award at the Nashville Film Festival. He edited and co-wrote Shalom Y'All (2002), which won awards at many film festivals, aired nationally on the Sundance Channel, and aired on many PBS stations.
Through his New Orleans-based company, Ariel Montage, Inc., Watson has edited several other documentary and fiction projects over the past 13 years. Previously, he was program director for six years at the New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC), a non-profit media arts center. He graduated in 1989 from Loyola University in New Orleans.
Nick Davis
Producer/Co-Director
Nick Davis produced the Emmy Award winning JACK: The Last Kennedy film for CBS, CNBC’s recent MONEY AND POWER: The History of Business, and the upcoming New York At the Movies on A&E. In addition, he wrote and directed the acclaimed independent movie 1999, starring Dan Futterman, Amanda Peet, Matt McGrath, Buck Henry, and Steven Wright. His other documentaries include The Language of Life with Bill Moyers for PBS and Target America for ABC.
He started in film production with Ken Burns’ Florentine Films on Baseball and The West. Davis also wrote (with Brooks Hansen) the novel Boone, published by Simon & Schuster in 1990 which was named one of the notable books of the year by the New York Times.
Abdul Aziz
Producer
Troy Sawyer
Composer
Troy Sawyer is an accomplished jazz trumpeter from New Orleans who has made quite the name for himself through his talent, not only on the Big Easy music scene, but on a national and international level as well. This is his first film score. |
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