Credits…
CINEMATOGRAPHY (GUATEMALA, SPAIN)
Göran Gester
PRODUCER (GUATEMALA)
Lisa Abend
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Leah Aki Wood
ORIGINAL SCORE COMPOSED BY
Emile Bokaer
Nate Mendelsohn
Peter V. Swendsen
EDITING BY
Drew Dickler
Micha Hilliard
Geoff Pingree
Yari Wolinsky
ANIMATION & DRAWING
Ian Kelly
Leah Aki Wood
ASSEMBLY EDITING BY
Emile Bokaer
Göran Gester
John Kane
SOUND RECORDING (GUATEMALA)
Jack McDonald
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS (GUATEMALA)
Emile Bokaer
Joel Witmer
DRIVERS (GUATEMALA)
Leonel Barrios
Norma Maldonado
ADDITIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (UTAH)
Jeshua DeHorta
ADDITIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (OHIO)
Jake Hochendoner
ADDITIONAL SOUND RECORDING (UTAH)
Emile Bokaer
Joel Witmer
DRIVER (UTAH)
Toby Pingree
Geoff Pingree
PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, WRITER
Geoff Pingree is a writer, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and Professor of Cinema Studies and English at Oberlin College. He earned both master’s and doctoral degrees in English and American Literature and Film Studies at the University of Chicago and, before coming to Oberlin, worked in public television in Washington, DC, where he also directed Catholic University’s Program in Media Studies and George Washington University’s Institute for Documentary Filmmaking.
His film work has received an Emmy Award and been broadcast on venues including PBS and Discovery. His photography received National Geographic’s 2008 World in Focus Grand Prize and has been published widely in magazines and newspapers including National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune. He co-edited New Media, 1740-1914 (MIT), a collection of scholarly essays, has authored scholarly articles on documentary and Spanish cinema, has written about media, culture, and politics for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Wired, the Nation, the Economist, the American Prospect, Ms. Magazine, Cineaste, and National Geographic Traveler, among others, and has worked as a correspondent in Spain for both TIME and for the Christian Science Monitor.
With filmmaker and frequent collaborator Rian Brown he created BLUE DESERT ~ Towards Antarctica, a multi-channel video installation shot during a three-week expedition to Antarctica. With grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Initiative, he and Brown recently finished and released The Foreigner’s Home, a feature-length documentary on the intellectual and artistic vision of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison that premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and has screened across the U.S. and in Europe at venues including the Miami Film Festival, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the British Film Institute, the Uffizi Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Hammer Museum. He just completed The Return of Elder Pingree, a feature-length autobiographical documentary he shot in Guatemala that is a memoir of his experience as a Mormon missionary in that country and of what followed when he left the faith.
He co-founded and directs StoryLens (storylens.org), a non-profit organization that produces short independent documentary films about pressing social issues in order to promote education, encourage public dialogue, and facilitate political change. With Brown, he founded the Apollo Outreach Initiative, a media education and community outreach program housed in Oberlin’s historic Apollo Theatre.
Luke Greene
Co-FOUNDER
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Emily Cho
Co-FOUNDER
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