PRODUCTION TEAM

Raymond Telles, Executive Producer
Raymond Telles' twenty-five-year career in film and television includes the production of documentaries and news magazine segments. He has produced and directed for Public Television, Turning Point and Nightline-ABC, Dateline-NBC. Among the more than 30 documentaries Telles has produced and directed are: Continent on the Move for the PBS series Americas; The Fight in the Fields, a feature documentary on Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers' movement which was in documentary competition at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and aired on PBS. MFA-Film, UCLA. Member of WGA and NATAS. Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley.

Holly Million, Director and Producer
As a director, Holly created Changing Room, a dramatic film focused on women and body-image that had its television debut on PBS in 2005. In addition to helping secure funding for the documentary film A Story of Healing, which won a 1997 Academy Award, Holly has raised money for such cutting-edge films as It Came From Kuchar, a documentary about underground filmmaker George Kuchar directed by Jennifer Kroot, Blind Spot: Murder by Women, a film by Oscar-winning filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf that premiered on HBO in 2000, as well as Everyday Heroes, a film by Oscar-nominated director Rick Goldsmith that aired on PBS. Holly has an MA in education from Stanford University and a BA in English from Harvard University. A seasoned international traveler who has been to Nepal, China, Thailand, and South Korea, Holly met her husband, A Permanent Mark DP Chris Million, on a trip to Mongolia in 1996.

Christina Lim, Associate Producer
Christina Lim has been in television production for twelve years. She has had PBS experience working in a wide variety of programs including children’s science and newsmagazine series, and cultural and historical documentaries. Ms. Lim was awarded a 2004 Emmy award for outstanding community program with the documentary, Return to the Valley, the Japanese-American experience after World War II. Ms. Lim has a BA and MS in education from Cal State East Bay, and a BS in Industrial Technology from San Jose State University.

Scott Gracheff, Associate Producer
Scott Gracheff is an Emmy-Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has worked in PBS for over 16 years. Most recently, Scott produced the documentary, Soldados, which tells the story of Latino WWII veterans and their struggle on the battlefield as well as their struggle for civil rights back home. This program was nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award for best Cultural/Historical program. In 2004 Scott directed Return to the Valley, a documentary that explores the Japanese-American experience after WWII, which won a 2004 Emmy Award for Best Community Program. In 2006, he directed Dave Tatsuno, Movies and Memories, a documentary that tells the inspiring life story of a man who smuggled his 8mm film camera into the Japanese internment camp at Topaz. This program won a 2006 Peninsula Press Club award for Best Documentary.

Herb Ferrette, Editor
Herb Ferrette is an Emmy-Award-winning editor with over twenty years of experience working in film, video and multimedia formats for the broadcast, corporate, and educational fields. His credits include Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb (PBS, 1996), Green Means (KQED, 1993), and Global Dumping Ground (PBS/Frontline, 1990). He edited The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Movement (Nominee, National Emmy (Editing), 1998; Sundance Competition Finalist, 1997), which premiered on PBS and continues to screen at festivals worldwide. Ferrette is the founder of First Generation, a video/audio post-production facility in San Francisco.

Chris Million, Director of Photography
Chris has worked for over 20 years in the film, television, and video-production field, traveling the world and achieving many awards for his work. He won a 2004 Emmy for his work on Return to the Valley, a historical documentary produced for PBS station KTEH. Chris has shot and/or produced over 150 segments for the Emmy-winning PBS educational show Real Science! in locations from Alaska to the Everglades. He was also Director of Photography and Director on many episodes of the long-running PBS interview show Malone, working with everyone from film critic Roger Ebert to former President Jimmy Carter. Chris’s work has been presented with the Emmy, CINE Golden Eagle, and Telly Award, as well as numerous educational awards like the NEMH Gold Apple and NETA Award of Merit. Chris holds a BS in Film and Television from Syracuse University.

ADVISORS AND CONSULTANTS

Dr. Edward Tick, Veterans and Vietnam Field Consultant
Dr. Tick received his master’s in psychology from Goddard College, Vermont and his doctorate in communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. He has been in private psychotherapy practice since 1975 and began focusing on veteran’s issues in 1979. His pioneering work with Post traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or, in his words, ‘loss of the soul’ is the basis for his recent book War and the Soul. He continues his healing work with veterans and other trauma survivors with innovative yet time-honored methods. Ed has extensively studied both classical Greek and Native American traditions and successfully integrates their methods into modern clinical work. Dr. Tick, a widely published writer, is the also the author of The Golden Tortoise: Journeys in Vietnam, Sacred Mountain: Encounters of the Vietnam Beast, and The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine.

Dr. Hien Duc Do, Vietnamese-American Community and Vietnam Consultant
Dr. Hien Duc Do is a professor of sociology at San Jose State University. Dr. Do received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Sociology. His primary research interests are Vietnamese Americans, race relations, the development of Asian-American Communities, and the impact of religion on immigration. He is the author of The Vietnamese Americans (Greenwood Press, 1999), an associate producer of Vietnam: At the Crossroads (PBS, 1994) a documentary film on Vietnam, numerous articles, and is currently working on a manuscript with colleagues at the University of San Francisco on the impact of religion on immigration. He is the past President of the Association of Asian American Studies (2000-2002).

Gus D’Angelo, Animation Advisor
Gus D’Angelo is a professional illustrator and animator. His illustrations have appeared in a variety or publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington City Paper, and Esquire. His animated films have won awards at film festivals and screened internationally. Toon Magazine has called Gus “the online equivalent to the late gonzo animator Tex Avery!” Most recently Gus created an animated segment for the feature film Land of the Blind starring Ralph Feinnes and Donald Sutherland. Land of the Blind has screened in several top film festivals including Tribeca, and is now in limited theatrical release internationally through Bauer Martinez.