Michelle is an independent filmmaker with a doctorate in sociology from Indiana University. She worked with the award-winning New York documentary production company, Claypoint Productions, on The Creative Spark, one of a 4-part series on dreaming for the Discover Channel and other films. In New York City and later in San Francisco, she produced and hosted a popular half-hour cable series, On the Edge, exploring the mind, body, spirit connection. Since 1984, she has been studying with a Sufi master from Baghdad, and for ten years served as his media director. She currently teaches seminars on death and end-of-life at John F. Kennedy University and leads a weekly partner-loss support group for the local chapter of Hospice.
Trained at the Famous Photographer School, Robert has produced both still and motion pictures. He has directed multi-camera live and live-to-tape programs for broadcast, disc, tape, and webcast. He has worked on projects for Airstream Pictures, Commonwealth Club, Computer History Museum, Contrast Productions, Cornerstone Productions, Directors Guild of America, Fox Pictures' X-Men 3, National Television Academy Santa Fe Productions' They Came to America (PBS), and Summertime Films' Her Best Move.
Elaine was online editor and instructor for Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco for fifteen years. In 1985, she started her own company, Invision Production. Her credits include: Ballet Afsaneh's performance DVD; Edison's 100th Birthday for the Smithsonian Institute; In the Mind's Eye for an installation at NY MOMA and other museums; KQED's (PBS station) weekly magazine Womentime and Company and an award winning short, Let's Face It.
An accomplished singer and songwriter as well as sound composer for film, Elise has a talent for collaboration. Her first album, Tabith Plays Billich is a collection of original piano pieces celebrating the paintings of Australian artist Charles Billich. No Ordinary Day, a song from her second album, Back to Innocence, was used in the Hollywood film, Americanizing Shelly. She has composed original music for Metal by Adryenn Ashley, My Mother Said by Jessica Sisson, Une Amercaine a Paris, by Megan Goedewaage, and Bella Bella by Liz Sher.