Producer/director
Enrique “Quique” Cruz
aka Claudio Durán Pardo

2600 Tenth St, suite 113
Berkeley, CA 94710
Tel:510-496-6017
quique@quiquecruz.com

Mr. Cruz is a Chilean-born musician/composer and writer who has performed music since the age of fourteen. He plays a variety of Andean flutes. He’s also a guitarist and plays other string instruments such as the Colombian tiple, the Venezuelan cuatro and the Bolivian charango. He has created, participated and consulted in multimedia productions involving theater, dance and visual arts. He’s presently the leader of the Latin American fusion jazz group Quijeremá (www.quijerema.com)

Cruz has combined his musical career with academic pursuits. As a history major at the University of California at Berkeley, he was awarded the President’s Undergraduate Fellowship. He was selected for Phi Beta Kappa and he graduated summa cum laude. He earned a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford University and is presently a Ph.D. candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. He was a Social Science Research Council Fellow in 1999, working on issues of memory, violence and exile. In 2001, he had a fellowship from the Ford Foundation to do research, interviews and write on issues of aesthetics and political violence. In 2002, he was the Oshita Composer Fellow at the Djerassi Foundation.

His forthcoming book, Villa Grimaldi: Archeology of Memory. The work is based on interviews and photographs of six artists— painters, poets, ceramicists, musicians— who survived the main torture center of the military dictatorship in Chile. (LOM Publications Chile)

He moved to Canada in 1976 and there directed an ensemble of five musicians, touring through out Canada. After his arrival in the US in 1979, he was one of the two founders of internationally acclaimed Grupo Raíz, which made three LPs and toured the US, Canada, Europe and Latin America.

He acted as the producer of the Grupo Raíz albums: Un Solo Camino (Raíz,1980), Amaneceres (Monitor,1982), Por America del Centro (Monitor, 1983), and Grupo Raíz Anthology under the Alerce label in Chile (1985).

Besides performing Latin American folk music, Cruz has joined on stage: Jackson Browne, Mimi Fariña, Pete Seeger , Jorge Strunz, and Sting, among others.

This stage collaboration has resulted in his participation on albums with Jackson Browne on Lives in the Balance (Electra Asylum, 1985); Strunz & Farah on Guitarras (Fantasy, 1985); William Ackerman on Conferring with the Moon (Windham Hill Records, 1986); Pete Sears on Watchfire (Redwood, 1988); Kenny Loggins on Leap of Faith (Columbia Records, 1992); Alex de Grassi on The World's Getting Loud (Windham Hill Records, 1993); Tatamonk (Tropo Records, 2000) with Alex de Grassi and Amistades (Wariznake, 2000) with Rafael Manríquez.

His latest recording is the score “Tinta Verde” performed by Quijerema (2004 for the documentary film “Neruda Presente!”. He was awared the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Felloship to compose a 55 minute suite for the documentary film, “Villa Grimaldi: Archeology of Memory.

Producer/director
Marilyn Mulford

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR,
2600 Tenth St, suite 113
Berkeley, CA 94710
tel: (510) 548-2515
e-mail: marilynmulford@yahoo.com

2000 to Present: Producer/Director Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi, a feature length documentary that captures the story of a Chilean exile on a journey of self-discovery while creating a musical suite that explores the consequences of his torture and forced exile.

1991-1994: Producer/director Freedom On Mind, a feature length documentary on the Mississippi Voter Registration Project, 1961-1964, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Nomination for Academy Award in feature documentary category in 1995, Grand Jury Prize for Best documentary Sundance Film Festival, Best of Northern California at National Educational film festival, John O'Connor Award by American Historical Association, Eric Barnow Award by Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Documentary Achievement at International Documentary Association (IDA), aired on the national PBS series "The American Experience" in Jan, 1996, and on French and German television (Arté) in 1997. Educational distribution jointly by Clarity Educational Productions & California newsreel. Foreign distributor Jan Rofekamp at Transitsmedia.

1985-1989: Producer/director Chicano Park, a 58-minute documentary on a Mexican-American community in San Diego, CA. The film won a Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival, Gold award at the Chicago international film festival, CINE Golden Eagle Award, "Best of Northern CA" Award at the National Educational Film Festival, Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Film festival, Merit Award Latin-American Studies Association. The film was aired on National PBS and National Cable“The Learning Channel” series. Educational distributor The Cinema Guild.

1978-1980: Produced/directed a 25-minute Organizing film on Chicano Park for the Chicano Park Steering Committee.

1976: Associate producer/director, Chris & Bernie, a thirty-minute documentary on two single women raising their children together. The film won a red ribbon at the American Film Festival, Mediterranean Award at the Athens Film Festival, and an award at the Oberhausen International Film Festival in Germany. It was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Film Forum, New York, and The Second International Festival of Women's Films. Distributed by New Day Films.

1974: Co-Producer / Co-Director, How 'Bout You, a 28-minute documentary about birth control and sexuality. Screened at the Modern Museum in New York, Moscow Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival in Finland, First InternationalWomen's Film Festival, Whitney Museum, New York. Distributed by New Day Films.

1973 Co-producer / co-director Janie’s Jane. Story of welfare mother living in New Jersey raising her three children alone. Screened at the Modern Museum of Art.

Cinematographer
Vicente Franco

Partial list of credits
Director of Photography/Editor/Co-Producer/Co-Director:

Daughter from Dang, a 60 minute documentary featuring an Amerasian woman’s Search for her Vietnamese mother, and ultimately, herself. Funded by ITVS, Soros & NATA. Won
Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival, & nominated for an academy award in 2003.
Broadcast nationally on PBS series The American Experience.

Director of Photography:

Denese Joy Becker: A Survivor’s Story A story of bicultural identity that sheds light on a genocide against the hemisphere’s largest Indian majority. Funded by ITVS. Released
2002.

The Good War And Those Who Refused To Fight It, Documentary on conscientious objectors during World War II. National PBS screening. Released 2001.

Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez And the Farmworkers’ Struggle Ninety minute documentary on the history of the United Farmworkers Union and its founder Cesar Chavez. Funded by the ITVS and NEH, Released 1996.

Freedom On My Mind A two-hour documentary that tells the story of the Mississippi voter
registration project from 1961 to 1964. Won Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival,
nominated for Academy Award, national PBS broadcast on The American Experience.
Released 1995.

Director of Photography/Editor:

Benedita Da Silva Documentary produced for Global Exchange about the life of Brazil’s
first black woman senator. Released 2001.

Afrocubanismo ’96 A series of 8 master class videos of Cuban musicians and experts on Afro-Cuban culture filmed at the ’96 Festival in Banff, Canada, 1996.

All The Way With The Mentor Program 30-minute video designed to recruit student teachers in early childhood education to study with mentors in the field. Produced for Chabot College, 1995.

Director of Photography /Producer/Director/Editor:

Why Vote/Porqué Votar? Two informational programs (English and Spanish) designed to encourage disenfranchised voters to vote, sponsored by the Peninsula Library District, 1995.

Editor
Michael Chandler

Michael Chandler is an Academy-Award nominated filmmaker, working in non-fiction and fiction film. It has won critical acclaim and numerous awards, including a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival, a Crystal Heart from the Heartland Film Festival, and a Juror’s Choice Award at the Charlotte Film Festival. Bill Moyers said about it: “If we wanted a real dialog about race in America, we’d start with this film.” He wrote and edited the documentary feature Freedom on My Mind, which chronicled the voting rights struggle in Mississippi during the sixties. The film earned an Academy Award Nomination and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Michael has also edited feature films, including Never Cry Wolf, Mishima, and Amadeus, for which he was
nominated for an Academy Award.

EDITOR FEATURE FILMS (partial list)

FREEDOM ON MY MIND (110 min)
Clarity Productions
* Academy Award Nomination, Best Documentary
* Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize

WALDO SALT: A SCREENWRITER'S JOURNEY
(60 min)
American Masters/The Sundance Institute
*Academy Award Nomination, Best Documentary

YOSEMITE: THE FATE OF HEAVEN (60 min)
Sundance Institute/Polaroid Corporation
* Emmy Award
* First Place, American Film Festival

CAN'T IT BE ANYONE ELSE? (60 min)
ABC News Closeup/Korty Films
*Dupont/ Columbia Journalism Award
*Christopher Humanitarian Award
*American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.) Award

HOT GUNS (60 min)
PBS Frontline/Center for Investigative Reporting
*Emmy Award

EMPIRE RECORDS
Director: Allan Moyle

DIGGER
Director: Rob Turner

WIND
Director: Carroll Ballard

AMADEUS
Director: Milos Forman
*Academy Award Nomination: Best Editing
*American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.) Award

MISHIMA
Director: Paul Schrader
NEVER CRY WOLF
Director: Carroll Ballard