Contributors
Julie Winokur | Ed Kashi | Kristin Reimer |
Carol DeVoe | Michael Curry | Elissa Mummolo | Marshall Leaman
Julie Winokur: Writer, Director, and Producer
Julie Winokur is a writer and documentary film producer whose work uses the visual power of film to catalyze positive social change. Her work has appeared on PBS and the National Geographic Magazine website, as
well as in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and MSNBC.com, among others. Her passion for social advocacy has produced multi-year projects including the one-hour film Aging
in America: The Years Ahead, and its companion book and traveling exhibition, as well as the on-going five-year project Denied: The Crisis of AmericaÕs Uninsured. WinokurÕs dynamic approach to documentary filmmaking
drove her to turn the camera on herself in the short film The Sandwich Generation, in which Winokur and her husband, photojournalist Ed Kashi, chronicled their personal challenges caring for their two children and WinokurÕs
aging father. The film has been featured on MSNBC.com, AARP.org, MediaStorm, Good Morning America, The New York Times website, in National Geographic Magazine, and has been solicited by various organizations for community
outreach and education on caregiving. In 2008, Winokur completed Fast Lane to the Future, a short film documenting IndiaÕs new national expressway and its impact on the population. Curse of the Black Gold, also produced
in 2008, is a short-form multimedia video exposing the enormous costs and devastating impact of oil exploitation in the Niger Delta. Curse of the Black Gold won First Place Multimedia at the 2008 New York Photo Festival
Awards and has been featured at The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, and The Open Society Institute, as well as on various websites including CNN, NPR, Slate, and The Atlantic Monthly.
Ed Kashi: Photographer
Ed Kashi is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye
and an intimate relationship to his subjects are the signatures of his work. KashiÕs complex imagery has been recognized for its compelling rendering of the human condition. KashiÕs images have been published and
exhibited worldwide, in such publications as National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, and The London Independent Magazine. His innovative approach to photography and filmmaking produced the Iraqi Kurdistan
Flipbook, which used stills in a stop-motion format. Also, an eight-year personal project completed in 2003, Aging in America: The Years Ahead, created a traveling exhibition, an award-winning documentary film, a
website and a book. Along with numerous awards, including honors from Pictures of the Year International, World Press Foundation, Communication Arts and American Photography, KashiÕs editorial assignments and personal projects have
generated five books. In 2008, he published Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, (powerHouse) and his latest book is Three (powerHouse) published in 2009.
Kristin Reimer: Studio Manager
Since January 2005, Kristin Reimer's responsibilities as studio manager for Ed Kashi Photography have included editing, general office coordination, publication submissions, and curatorial and archival work. She
is also the founder of Photomuse, a fine art / documentary style wedding and portrait photography company. Kristin is an award-winning member of both the international
organization The Wedding Photojournalists Association (WPJA) and its Artistic Guild (AGWPJA), and she has been recognized with an International Photography Award (IPA). After receiving a degree in photography from
Pratt Institute, Kristin worked for 8 years as studio manager for Magnum photographer, Elliott Erwitt, where she was involved in production, casting, and gallery coordination.
Carol DeVoe: Associate Producer
Carol DeVoe worked as an assistant director / researcher for CNN’s Freeman Reports, and she supervised the content and production of dozens of theatrical and broadcast trailers for Vestron Pictures and Tony Silver
films. Over an eight-year span, Carol produced hundreds of commercials for Ogilvy & Mather in New York City before applying her skills to help fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa. As media director for the Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Foundation, she helped organize the Zambia National Forum for Children. While working in South Africa and Zambia, Carol shot footage that culminated in the documentary film Nkosi: A Voice of Africa’s AIDS
Orphans. This co-production with Globalvision premiered on PBS in 2002, and has been utilized by the United Nations and other educational institutions. In 2002, Carol launched Rosadele Productions to produce Lynching
of an American Dream: The Life of Anthony P. Crawford.
Michael Curry: Digital Assistant
Michael Curry received a degree in Digital Arts from The College of New Jersey in 2005. Upon graduating, Michael began working within the Chelsea Art Community at the Andrea Rosen Gallery as an assistant archivist and art
handler. Michael now works as Ed Kashi Photography's digital assistant. His responsibilities include digital management of all photographs, photo / graphics coordination, photo calibration, printing, and assisting with
all exhibition preparations and publication submissions. Michael splits his time between the studio and his own pursuits of documentary film making, portraiture, and music photography.
Elissa Mummolo: Production Assistant
Elissa Mummolo received a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University in 2007. During her college career, Elissa honed her production and research skills through various internships at Newton Cable Communciations
Access Center and New England Cable News (both located in Newton, MA). Upon graduating, she followed her passion for social-issue documentary production and began working at Public Policy Productions as an intern and later
as a Production Assistant; at PPP she was involved with both the research and post-production of Critical Conditional, a film about America's uninsured. Now, at Talking Eyes Media, Elissa continues to follow her
passion by working on various social-advocacy films and multimedia projects.
Marshall Leaman: Production Assistant
Marshall Leaman graduated from Ohio University with degrees in Video Production and History in 2008. Upon graduating he moved East and joined the Talking Eyes Media family, first as an intern, then as a production assistant.
Within the studio his responsibilities range from post-production management to project research, while in the field he focuses on running camera. Away from the studio Marshall works on various independent productions of narrative,
documentary, and short form films and videos.
