The History Of The Universe As Told By Wonder Woman

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Director

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan has produced and directed a number of short films including: EL CORRIDO DE CECILIA RIOS, a documentary that chronicles the violent death of fifteen-year-old Cecilia Rios. The film won the Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently licensed by the Sundance Channel. Since graduating with an MFA in Film Production from San Francisco State University, Kristy has worked as a filmmaker, an arts educator, and a film and video editor and is currently an assistant professor of art, film and video at Diablo Valley College. She has served on the board of directors of New Day Films and continues to jury each year for a number of Bay Area film festivals. Her first feature-length film, GOING ON 13, was an official selection of Tribeca, Silverdocs, and many other international film festivals. The film received funding from ITVS and was broadcast on public television in fall of 2009. With the team of GOING ON 13, she has raised monies from ITVS, LPB, California Council for Humanities, Chicken and Egg Pictures, The Paul Robeson Fund, The Fledgling Fund and many others. Hot on the heels of GOING ON 13, a longitudinal documentary chronicling female adolescence – a ground up look at the phenomenon of “girl power” in all of its grit, guts and glory, Kristy is the perfect woman to tell the story of Wonder Woman.

Kelcey Edwards, Producer

Kelcey Edwards is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films have screened at many of the top-ranking festivals around the country, including True/False, Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel and SXSW Film Festivals. She has worked as a film arts educator and is a published writer. In 2007 she received the Flatland Film Festival Filmmaker Award. After receiving her MFA in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University, she moved to NYC where she freelances in film production. As an independent film producer, she has a proven fundraising track record and has served on film festival juries and panels. In September 2009, her short documentary GHOST IN THE MATERIAL had a two-week theatrical release at the IFC Theater in NYC. In June 2008 she teamed up with filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan to produce THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE AS TOLD BY WONDER WOMAN.

Carla Gutierrez, Editor

Carla is an award-winning documentary editor whose work has been broadcast on HBO, PBS, The Sundance Channel and Link TV.  She edited the Oscar-nominated HBO documentary, LA CORONA, which won Honorable Mention at the 2008 and Sundance Film Festival and received the IDA Documentary Award for Best Short Film. She edited SHE IS THE MATADOR, which broadcast on Public Television’s POV, premiered at Silverdocs and won Best Documentary Work in Progress at Tribeca All Access.  She was lead editor on Robert Greenwald’s IRAQ FOR SALE: THE WAR PROFITEERS. Her most recent work, SURVIVING HITLER:  A LOVE STORY, won the Inspiration Award at the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Carla has also edited several one-hour PBS documentaries:  RECALLING ORANGE COUNTY, BRAGGING RIGHTS, and the Emmy Award-winning, THE MIGHTY WARRIORS OF COMEDY, and began her career as the second editor on THE FALL OF FUJIMORI, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on POV.  She received a Masters in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University.

PJ Raval, Director of Photography (East Coast)

Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 new faces of independent film 2006, PJ is an award-winning cinematographer whose most recent feature won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. The film, TROUBLE THE WATER, was produced/directed by FARENHEIT 9/11 producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, and Manohla Dargis with The New York Times called the film ‘SUPERB – One of the best American documentaries in recent memory.’ PJ’s work has been showcased at both Sundance and Cannes and earned him awards such as the ASC Charles B. Lang Jr. Heritage Award and the Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography. PJ’s feature cinematography credits include, the 2006 Independent Spirit Award nominated ROOM, the Los Angeles Film Festival Narrative Feature Award winner GRETCHEN, and the recently shot THE 2 BOBS directed by Tim McCanlies (SECOND HAND LIONS, IRON GIANT) and produced by Anne Walker (DAZED AND CONFUSED).

Gabriel Miller, Director of Photography (West Coast)

Gabriel Miller is the founder of Kindred Media. Gabriel is an award-winning cinematographer and has spent many years doing cinematography on productions around the country and the globe.

Gail Silva, Producing Consultant

With 30 years of service to the independent media field, Gail Silva has garnered a reputation as midwife to countless film projects, maverick consultant and curator, and gadfly to the establishment. She currently serves as the President of the Board of California Newsreel, the leading distributor of films on the African American experience, films from Africa and a recent initiative on labor and globalization, and Treasurer of the Board of Shadowlight Productions, a shadow puppet performance group. Advisory Board, San Francisco Cinematheque; World Doc selection committee, Sundance Film Festival, Silverdocs; Panel, 2008 Media Arts Fellowships, Tribeca Film Institute, 2008 NEA Artistic Excellence, Media Arts, 2009 Berkeley Film Foundation; Director & President, Film Arts Foundation 1979-2005; Director’s Award, California Arts Council 2002. Executive Producer, “Prodigal Sons” feature documentary, Kimberly Reed, director, 2008.

George Rush, Legal Team

George M. Rush is an attorney and sales rep specializing in the entertainment industry with emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area film community. Clients include producers, directors, screen-writers and investors in development, production and distribution phases. George recently repped Frazer Bradshaw’s Everything Strange and New (Sundance 2009), Barry Jenkin’s Medicine for Melancholy (SXSW 2008) and Geralyn Pezanoski’s Mine (SXSW 2009).