Film Credits
This is a list of all the crew members working on the documentary to date, each one listed only once in the area most appropriate to what they have been doing, which most likely will change as we progress. Some crew members have included information and an image of themselves. (For an alphabetical listing of crew members, click here.)
Executive Producer
Tim Finn
EXPRO-01
Producer / Director
Tee Bosustow
Biography
One of the sons of Steve Bosustow, Tee is an award winning documentary filmmaker, working in all areas of filmmaking in, Paris, London, Hong Kong, and Burbank. Tee studied Motion Picture production at UCLA, and later taught Broadcast Journalism Production at USC.
Art Director
G. Allen Black
Lead Character Design
Fenway Wei Fan
Biography
Fenway Fan received her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her unique humor, whimsical and colorful artistic style can be found everywhere in her pieces: character designs for UPA film “The Boing Heard Round The World”, merchandise design for Disney Theme Parks, daily illustrations, and in her award wining film “Handi & V”. Fenway
is currently living in Orlando, FL and freelancing on fun projects.
The characters Fenway has designed so far are: John Hubley, Bill Melendez, Paul Julian, Joe Siracusa, Ted Geisel (Dr.Seuss), Bob Kurtz, Dave Hilberman, Pete Burness, Alan Zaslove, Bill Hurtz, and Grim Natwick. She’s also designed the Street people, dogs, a cat, and the delivery truck, for the Gerald Hop scene.
LCD-01
Story
Mike Kazaleh
Biography
Adam Abraham
STORY-01
Chris Zolner
Biography
Chris is an educator by training, and teaches third grade at the San Bernadino City Unified School District. He writes children’s books in his spare time, as well as a monthly column, Diary of a Madman, for Foster Focus Magazine. His children’s books, The Secret of the Shadow: The Real Truth Behind Groundhog Day, and his foster care themed novel, Jenna, will be published by
Splashing Cow Books.
STORY-02
Story Editing
Destiny McCune
SE-01
Cinzia Bottini
Biography
Cinzia has transcribed the interviews of Hana Cannon, Mike Kazaleh, Giannalberto Bendazzi, Fred Crippen, Stephen Bosustow, Bill Melendez, and Alan Zaslove.
SE-02
Terry Wilson
Biography
Terry has been the doc’s photographer for most all our events, and has also transcribed Bob Dranko, Tony Benedict, Tom Sito, and Joe Siracusa.
SE-03
Rachel Yelinek
Biography
Rachel has created background character designs, as well as transcribing the interviews of Serge Bomberg, Jerry Beck, and J-C Dessaint.
SE-04
Julie Greiner
SE-05
Alyssa Wejebe
SE-06
Lee Crowe
SE-07
Tunisia Mambala
Biography
Tunisia is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston, majoring in the Fine Arts, with a specialty in digital media, and experience working on video production animation. Tunisia has transcribed John Canemaker, but will be transitioning to animation production.
SE-08
Bob Richardson
Biography
Bob is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts (Chouinard), with a degree in animation and film production and vast experience in the entertainment industry. After working on many highly acclaimed theatrical cartoons (“Pink Panther,” “Ant and the Aardvark”), TV Specials (“The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat,” “My Mom’s Having a Baby”), as well as TV series (“Planet of the Apes,” “Dungeons & Dragons”),
Bob received four consecutive Emmys and other awards Producing and Directing “Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies” with his talented creative partner, Hank Saroyan. Shortly thereafter, Bob set-up the Marvel Films Animation Studio, Producing/Directing sixty-five half-hour episodes of Fox’s top-rated “Spider-Man” series. He Produced and Directed the CGI TV series: “Max Steel” and in 2004, won his fifth Emmy directing the TV series: “Tutenstein.”
Bob made use of this varied experience, including working on features ranging from Disney’s “Jungle Book” to Bakshi’s “Heavy Traffic,” to complete two action-packed super-hero movies for Marvel and Lionsgate (2006): Ultimate Avengers I and II, as the Producer and Supervising Director. Ultimate Avengers I was awarded one of The Cinema Audio Society’s most prestigious awards: Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing (2006). Ultimate Avengers II won the Entertainment Merchants Association’s 2007 “best non-children’s direct-to-DVD” award. Both Avengers I and II were nominated for Golden Reel Awards. Bob has recently completed work on the animated FOX sitcom: “King of the Hill.”
In addition, Bob is fine-tuning his original screenplay, “Metal-Morphosis,” a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, future-world saga with three sequels already in the planning stages and a number of other projects that he’s been creating during his career, including a recent PSA that was produced to help encourage Film Incentives in North Carolina.
SE-09
Rosie Albright
Biography
Rosie transcribed Jimmy Murakami and assisted with the CTN Booth.
SE-10
Jimmy Cenci
SE-11
Amy Johnson
SE-12
Christina Lee
SE-13
Katia Grifois
SE-14
Production Associates
Gwendolyn Arreola
PA-01
Kevin Cannarile
Biography
Animation Director
PA-02
Linda Lee
Biography
Perhaps Linda deserves a special credit as Prop Designer, since she designed more cars than anything else.
PA-03
Silvina Cornillón
PA-04
Sébatien Dobadie
PA-05
Giannalberto Bendazzi
PA-05
Isabelle Siegrist
PA-07
Elana Pomaras
PA-08
Amy Goodrich
PA-09
Jinkai Qian
PA-10
Character Designers
Fernando Ferreira Garróz
Biography
Fernando designed our “joyful kid” logo, which is at the top of this page, next to the title of the documentary.
Joanna Davidovich
Rachael Saunders
Fabian Corona
Brett Underhill
Silvia Longhi
Production Designers
Gloria Arteaga
Joe Sikoryak
Biography
Joe created our very first logo and was seen by thousands before changing the title of the documentary.
Matt Jones
Gladys Contreras
Jordan C. Bickelmann
Fernando Ferreira Garróz
Biography
Fernando designed our “joyful kid” logo, which is at the top of this page, next to the title of the documentary.
Animation
Nick Sikoryak
ANIM-10
Story Artists / Layout
Andrea Rosales
Sydney Parris
Music
Frank Macchia
ANIM-10
Camera
Sylvie Bosustow
CAM-20
Charles Davis
CAM-30
Jamie Ekkens
CAM-40
Rob O’Keefe
CAM-50
Sound
Ken Gale
SOUND -20
Ed Stevens
SOUND-10
Post
G. Melissa Graziano
POST-10
Stephanie Smith
POST-20
Tony Best
POST-30
Marketing
Zabrina McIntyre
Biography
Zabrina has begun research for the Documentary Companion book, on which she will be the Co-Author.
(Drawing is by Jordan Koch.)
MAR-10
Woodbury University Production Students
Edric Tham
WOODBURY-10
Anna Sher
WOODBURY-20
Samantha Brandt
WOODBURY-30
Zare Oganesyan
Biography
Created Incidental Character Design and Test Animation at Woodbury’s UPA Documentary Production class
WOODBURY-40
Production Babies
Joy Qian
BABY-10
Baby Talia
BABY-20
Baby Roux
BABY-30