

	Filmmakers
	People interviewed for the film

Filmmakers

Deborah Koons Garcia – Director, Writer, Producer

Deborah Koons Garcia fell in love with filmmaking when she first picked up a Bolex while a student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1970. She went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her educational series All About Babies, narrated by Jane Alexander, won a Cine Golden Eagle and a Gold Medal from the John Muir Medical Film Festival, among other awards. Her feature film, Poco Loco, "finds its groove in gentle romantic fantasy" according to Variety, and won awards at the Philadelphia, Rivertown and Orlando Film Festivals. She was the instigator and chief Creative Consultant for Grateful Dawg, a documentary about the musical friendship between her husband Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. Grateful Dawg premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and went on to a lively run in film festivals, in theaters and on television. The Future of Food was shown over a dozen times as a work in progress in Mendocino County, California before the March 2004 election and was the primary element in passing Measure H which bans the planting of genetically engineered crops in the county. It is the first time U.S. citizens have voted on this very important issue. All the people who worked on The Future of Food are proud that our efforts have had a real impact in the real world.

Catherine Lynn Butler – Producer

Catherine Butler has over fifteen years experience helping to produce documentary films that seek to tell the stories of people working to make a difference in their part of the world. Many of the "voices" featured on film include those from L.A.’s South Central neighborhoods still grappling with the legacy of the 1992 riots in Rage in the Streets: Why Riots Happen (Discovery Channel); as well as scientists from around the world unraveling the mysteries of both the earth and sky in What's Up in the Universe? (The National Science Foundation); and Seismic Sleuths: Understanding Earthquakes (Discovery/Learning Channels). Other projects featured the voices of kids across America affected by HIV/Aids in the Emmy-nominated The Science of HIV/Aids (Discovery Channel); and in Riskin’It an award-winning documentary about teenagers at risk. She recently produced the feature-length independent documentary The Future of Food which chronicles how the biotech revolution has quietly entered America's food supply, affecting both farmers and consumers alike in one of the largest biological experiments in history. She is also co-producer of the HDTV special Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA Photographers, a portion of which was featured at the Sundance On-line Film Festival in 2002. Her other production credits include the narrative feature films City Slickers and White Sands, as well as the HBO feature documentary Paha Sapa: The Struggle for the Black Hills. She did her graduate work in film at both American University and the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Prior to working in film, she worked in Washington, D.C. for National Public Radio, and in the congressional offices of U.S. Senator John Glenn and Congressman James Courter.

Vivien Hillgrove – Editor
Vivien Hillgrove has more than 32 years of experience as an editor for both narrative feature films and documentaries. She has edited six award-winning documentary films by Lourdes Portillo including La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead, The Devil Never Sleeps, Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena and Senorita Estravianda, which won a special jury prize at Sundance and the 2002 International Documentary Award. Her other documentary credits include Yakoana, First Person Plural (P.O.V.) and Heart of the Sea (Independent Lens). She has also edited a number of narrative feature films including Henry and June (picture editor), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (picture editor and supervising dialogue editor) by Phil Kaufman and Hot Summer Winds (picture editor) for American Playhouse directed by Emiko Omori. She was dialogue editor on One from the Heart by Francis Ford Coppola, The Right Stuff by Phil Kaufman and Never Cry Wolf by Carroll Ballard. She was supervising dialogue editor for Blue Velvet by David Lynch, The Mosquito Coast by Peter Weir and Amadeus by Milos Forman, which won 11 Academy Awards in 1984.

John Chater – Director of Photography
John Chater is a freelance director of photography. Since starting out in the documentary department of the BBC in London 18 years ago, Chater has worked on hundreds of broadcast documentaries and filmed in more than 30 countries. After moving to the U.S. in BBC and UK Channel 4. Many of his films have won numerous television and film festival awards. Among his most recent feature-length documentaries are The Future of Food and the PBS feature documentary Small Ball: A Little League Story. Chater graduated in 1991 from the University of Surrey with a first class BA (honors) in Photography.

Todd Boekelheide - Composer
Todd Boekelheide started working in film in 1974 as a member of the staff at American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola’s production company in San Francisco. In 1976 he left to work as an assistant editor on "Star Wars", and went on to edit picture and sound on "The Black Stallion" 2 years later. This film kindled an interest in film music, so he began music studies at Mills College in Oakland. As he began to develop his film scoring career, he also specialized as a rerecording mixer, and won an Oscar for mixing the music on "Amadeus" in 1984. He has scored several feature films, including "Dim Sum" and "Nina Takes a Lover", and numerous documentaries, notably "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse". In 1999 he won an Emmy for his score for the documentary "Kids of Survival: The Life and Art of Tim Rollins and the KOS". Up-to-date credits information can be found at www.tobomusic.com.

Sara Maamouri - Associate Producer/Assistant Editor/Narrator
Sara Maamouri is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in San Francisco. She was an additional editor on the Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary Drug Wars for "Frontline." She has edited a number of short videos for Yosemite National Institute as well as a feature length film about "Jackpot!" the 24-hour puzzle-solving treasure hunt. Before that, she was assistant editor on the award-winning documentary Promises.
She also co-produced, directed and shot "Some They Win," an award-winning half-hour documentary on Mexican workers at Golden Gate Fields racetrack.
A native of Tunisia, Maamouri moved to the United States to attend Cornell University where she received a Bachelors degree in English and international relations. She then moved further west to receive a Master's in Journalism from UC Berkeley.
Up-to-date credits information can be found at www.saramaamouri.com.

Sara Needham - Associate Producer/Assistant Editor
Sara Needham is a journalist and documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco. Drawn to projects that shed light on complex and often controversial topics, her half-hour award winning documentary film Changing Habits, about a Gregorian friar living and working in San Francisco's predominantly gay Castro District, has screened at film festivals around the world. She has worked on a number of projects at the top-rated KTVU Channel 2 News, including two in-depth projects covering California politics. Among those, she was recently nominated for an Emmy for her work as the content producer on KTVU's Election 2002, a pilot project that integrated on-line and on-air coverage of the 2002 statewide election. In addition, she was an associate producer and traveled to India to field produce two stories for Livelyhood's "Planet Work", a two-hour PBS special about the changing nature of work in the global economy. Most recently, as associate producer, one of her main responsibilities was to manage and research the archive and stock footage that appears in the The Future of Food. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Needham received a Masters in Journalism from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and a Bachelors degree with high honors in anthropology, also from UC Berkeley.

Kyle Kosup - Animator
Kyle Kosup has worked in the educational media field for over ten years. His animations and graphics have been included in interactive museum exhibits at the Maui Ocean Center, the San Francisco Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Treasury Museum.
His work is included in numerous online courses materials and CD-ROM's used by college students across the country.
Kyle received the Golden Bear award from the state of California for his series of humorous short animations - the Remote Control Sheep Collection.

People Interviewed for the Film

Andrew Kimbrell
Executive Director, Center for Food Safety

Dr. Charles M. Benbrook
Former Director, Board on Agriculture,
National Academy of Science
Benbrook Consulting Services

Rodney & Kathy Nelson
Nelson Farm Enterprises, North Dakota

Dr. Fred Kirschenmann
Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Iowa State University

Dr. Ignacio Chapela
Microbial Ecologist
University of California, Berkeley

Dave Henson
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, California

Judith Redmond and Paul Muller
Full Belly Farm, Capay Valley, California

Michael Hansen
Consumers’ Union

Claire Hope Cummings, Director, Food & Farming Forum

Dr. Arpad Puzstai, Ph.D., formerly with the Rowett Research Institute in Scotland

David Quist, Ecosystems Sciences Division, University of California, Berkeley

Canada

Percy & Louise Schmeiser
Farmers, Bruno, Saskatchewan

Terry Zakreski, Attorney
Priel, Stevenson, Hood, Thornton Barristers and Solicitors

Darrin Qualman
National Farmers’ Union, Canada

Marc Loiselle, Organic Farmer
Vitality Enterprises, Saskatchewan, Canada

Saskatchewan Farmer's Market: Deborah Claude; Charles Keiter; Wally Sutzewich; Helga Halfinger; Gail Medernach; Clifford Wolfe; Ramesh David Mahatir

Carlyle Moritz, Farmer, Saskatchewan

Mexico

Dr. Jorge Soberon
Director, CONABIO: Comision Nacional Para el Estudio y Utilizacion de la Biodiversidad

Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra
Director, National Institute of Ecology and
National Commission on Biodiversity

GREENPEACE MEXICO
Héctor Magallón;Raúl Benet; Gostavo Ampugnani

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
David Poland: Mauricio Bellon: Alessandro Pellegrineschi; Enrico Perotti;Jean-Marcel Ribaut; Marilyn Warburton; Shawn N. Sullivan; Kelly Cassaday

INSITUTO ECOLOGíA, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Dr. Elena Álvarez-Buylla ;Dr. Daniel Piñero; Dr. Jorge Soberón; Sol Ortiz Garcia

Senator Daniel Nelio Lopez

Juan Martinez Riz, Oaxacan Farmer

Nahum Sanchez S., Oaxacan Farmer

Olga Torro Maldinado, Oaxacan Farmer

LAB MICOLOGICO UZACHI

Professor Thomas Boone Hallberg, Instituto Technologico de Oaxaca