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.

Erin Prather Stafford, Executive Producer

Born and raised in Texas, award-winning writer Erin Prather Stafford began having an interest in the media’s portrayal of women while earning her undergraduate degree in communications at St. Edward’s University. She went on to earn an MA in Gender and International Studies from the University of Warwick and is a communications specialist residing in Dallas. Erin is the recipient of a 2006 Barbara Jordan media award by the Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities, a 2009 Award of Excellence by the IABC Dallas chapter and a 2008 CASE District IV Grand/Gold award by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

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.

Melanie Vi Levy, Editor

Melanie Vi Levy holds a master of fine arts in documentary film and video from Stanford University and a bachelor of fine arts from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has collaborated with Ping Chong & Company, the Atlantic Theater Company, the Aperture Foundation and Axis Films and has worked as an associate producer, coordinator and editor for various projects, including projects for the Discovery Channel and the Travel Channel and for theatrical release.

Gabriel Miller, Director of Photography

Gabriel Miller has worked with some of the great documentary directors of our time, including, Academy Award winners Barbara Kopple and Cynthia Wade, Academy Award nominees, Heidi  Ewing and Rachel Grady, as well as Rory Kennedy, Liz Garbus, Judith Helfand, and Dan Gold.  Productions that he has worked on have broadcast on HBO, CBS, ABC, BBC, the Sundance Channel, MTV, Discovery, A and E, and Arte, among others. Recent work includes shooting for MTV’s True Life series and producing a television series about artists, “Verve,” which won a regional NATAS Emmy.  Gabriel is currently developing a new television series about artists, called “Degrees of Inspiration” and this project has received support from 4Culture and the Seattle office of Arts and Culture.

PJ Raval, Additional Director of Photography

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).

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).