CREW BIOGRAPHIES

empsey Rice - Producer/Director/Sound Recorder
In 1994 Dempsey Rice graduated with her MA(Econ) in Visual Anthropology from The University of Manchester in England where she completed her short film As Long As They're Muslim. Since December of 1994 she has been working in the documentary film industry in New York City. She began working on Daughter of Suicide in January 1996 and recieved funding from Home Box Office, The Jerome Foundation, The Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund and R.E.M. Daughter of Suicide marks her debut as a documentary feature director.

ena Seidel - Editor
Dena Seidel has been editing documentaries and indie films in New York City for the last 11 years. Most recently, she co-produced, edited and wrote four films with Jim Lipscomb for the Discovery Channel and Turner Broadcasting. She was a producer/editor for the NY Times Science Times series for the Learning Channel. Ms.Seidel has also edited documentaries for National Geographic Explorer, ABC, Front-Line, ESPN, The Outdoor Life Channel and Channel 13's City Arts series. Carrier: Fortress at Sea earned her a New York International Television Award for Best Editing.

im Denault - Director of Photography
Jim Denault has been working as a DP in New York City since 1993. His recent feature credits include Kim Pierce's Boys Don't Cry, Avi Nesher's Taxman, Wonsuk Chin's Too Tired to Die, Michael Almereyda's latest film Trance and his 1996 film Nadja (nominated, 1996 IFP Independent Spirit Award - Best Cinematography), Alexander Rockwell's Louis & Frank, Jill Sprecher's The Clockwatchers, Nick Gomez's illtown and Adrienne Shelly's Sudden Manhattan. Selected short films include Hal Hartley's The Book of Life and Su Friedrich's Hide and Seek.

ndrea Meyer - Associate Producer
Andrea Meyer is a freelance writer and producer who has been working in the film industry in New York since 1995. In 1997, she produced a short narrative film called Box Suite with director David Von Ancken and co-produced and programmed the Avignon/New York Film Festival. Prior to Daughter of Suicide, she associate produced a promotional film profiling thirty recording artists for RCA Records. Andrea has written about film for indieWIRE, the Independent Film and Video Monthly, Time Out New York, and the New York Post. She has a Masters in English from NYU.

 

 

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