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Filmmakers
JRI engages accomplished and talented filmmakers who are committed to making a difference with their films. Click on the name to see biographical information about the filmmakers.
James Redford: Executive Producer of The Kindness of Strangers, From One To Another and Flow.
Maro Chermayeff: Director, Producer, Editor of The Kindness of Strangers and From One to Another.
Christine Le Goff: Producer of The Kindness of Strangers and From One To Another.
Bob Richman: Director of Photography The Kindness of Strangers and From One To Another.
Dave Kebo: Director of Flow.
Rich Raddon: Producer of Flow.
Director, Producer and Editor of The Kindness of Strangers and From One to Another.
Maro is an Emmy nominated producer and director and author whose numerous and diverse film and television programs have been highly acclaimed and won many awards. Born in New York City, she was educated at The Dalton School, Phillips Academy, Andover, and The University of Colorado, Boulder. She holds a BA in both History and Film. Ms. Chermayeff presently lives in NYC and was a professor of editing and filmmaking at New York University's Graduate School of Film and Television for four years. She is a member of The Directors Guild of America (DGA), New York Women in Film, The International Documentary Association, and Motion Picture Editors Union (IATSE)
Maro recently produced and directed Frontier House for PBS Thirteen/WNET and Channel 4 UK -, this six hour series, one of the highest rated programs ever to air on PBS, is a doc/reality series in which three modern families homestead the American West, circa 1883. The series premiered nationally in April/May, 2002 and was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Doc/Reality Series, and is winner of the Cine Golden Eagle Prize for every episode in the series. Maro most recently produced and directed a feature special for A&E Television Network - Role Reversal. The program, which premiered in March 2003, is a doc/reality exploration of gender roles and sexual identity. Maro was producer, director, and writer of the 2-hr-feature documentary for PBS/WNET- Juilliard, for the Emmy award winning series, American Masters. The film is a profile of the famed performing arts conservatory - its history and present vibrancy as told through the voices of fifty of its renowned graduates in drama, dance and music. The film premiered on PBS in the January 2003 to outstanding national reviews. In addition, Maro is also the author of the companion book Juilliard, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. and available in bookstores around the globe. She was producer, director and editor of the feature length documentary The Kindness of Strangers, an intimate journey into the lives of families struggling to survive within the complex world of organ donation and transplantation. Produced with James Redford, the film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 1998, and premiered on HBO in October 1999. The award winning film screened in numerous festivals including: Sundance 1999, Boston Film Festival, St. Louis Film Festival, Marseilles France/Vue Sur Le Doc, Santa Barbara Int'l Film Festival, Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Independiente, and The Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema. The film was also the winner of the prestigious Crystal Heart award and cash prize at The Heartland Film Festival, the Silver Plaque at INTERCOM, and best of festival at Chicago, and best documentary at Hope & Dreams Film festival.
In 1997 she produced/directed and edited the one hour film Nashville, Crossing the Line for the Emmy award winning series Life in the ER for TLC (The Learning Channel). Maro is also veteran editor with numerous credits including the Peabody and Emmy Award winning The Choice '96 a political analysis of the Presidential campaigns of Clinton and Dole for the WGBH series FRONTLINE. She co-produced, co-directed and was supervising editor of The Galaxy Classroom, a series of four half-hour documentaries on public elementary school education. She edited the 1996 Academy Award-nominee Jim Dine: A self-portrait on the Walls, which was at numerous festivals, won many awards and was released theatrically in 1997 to critical acclaim.
Maro is post-Producer/director and editor for the Charlie Rose Specials, - a series of one-hour Specials airing on WNET/PBS. She has also produced and edited several seasons of WNET/PBS's Emmy award-winning City Arts series, including the Emmy Award nominee (for best arts special) Juilliard: Taking the Vow and as editor, the Emmy Award winning segments Asian Contemporary Art, Martha @Mother, and The Reading Room: The New York Public Library as well as many others including a portrait of playwright Christopher Durang, Carmen: with Placido Domingo, Maya Lin: Pure Landscape, and Jackson Pollock at MoMA, and the full-length City Arts Special, Working Actors.
Maro served as Editor and Associate Producer for the award winning film Bali: Beyond the Postcard. Additional editing credits include the three-hour series Barnum for the Discovery Channel, Secrets Underground, for the WGBH series Discovering Women; The fiction film Family Remains, by Tamara Jenkins, winner of Best Short Film at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, The Women Outside, for POV, and the award-winning documentaries Korea: Homes Apart, No Accident, Stephanie, Debut and Jim Dine: Childhood Stories. She has also edited many trailers, TV spots, and campaigns for feature films while staff at The Kanew Company and R/Greenberg Associates and edited Larry Fessenden’s feature film No Telling.
Producer of The Kindness of Strangers and From One to Another.
Christine Le Goff most recently Executive Produced Murder on a Sunday Morning which won the Academy Award ® for Best Feature Documentary in 2002.
She produced Melvin Van Peebles' Classified X for ARTE and Channel 4 which premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, and produced Joseph Kosma, and Georges Delerue in the acclaimed international series Music for the Movies. In the same series, she associate produced the Academy Award-nominee Bernard Herrmann, Toru Takemitsu, and The Hollywood Sound, which premiered on Great Performances. She also line produced Steven Dwoskin's Pain for ARTE, Jens Meurer's Off The Pigs for Arte and BBC, Robert Kramer's Route 1, USA for ARTE and Channel 4, Noel Burch's The Last Communists for ARTE and Sheila McLaughlin's feature film She Must Be Seeing Things. She production managed Martin Smith's Who is Running This War? for Frontline, and Lizzie Borden's award-winning feature film Working Girls. Her other credits include Yvonne Rainer's Murder and murder and Privilege, Monika Treut's My Father is Coming, and Jan Oxenberg's Thank You and Goodnight. Her editing credits include Yvonne Rainer's The Man Who Envied Women and Alexandre Rockwell's Hero. She is presently producing a five-part series on postwar history, American Dreams and Nightmares,, featuring novelist Norman Mailer for France 2 Television.
Director of Photography for The Kindness of Strangers and From One to Another.
Bob Richman has been director of photography on numerous award winning documentary films including prime time Emmy nominee, Paradise Lost for HBO, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 1996, and was released theatrically that same year. His most recent work includes Where it's at: Rolling Stone Sate of the Union,, Dealer Among Dealers, for Channel 4 and POV; A Tickle in the Heart a documentary feature, and Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself a PBS/BBC co-production which aired in 1997. He has done extensive work with The Maysles including Umbrellas,, Avoiding the Surgeons Knife, and Baroque Duet . Other major credits include The Begging Game, A Place for Madness and The Vanishing Father, for Frontline., Barbara Koppel's Generations, about Woodstock '94, the Emmy award-winning Abortion: Desperate Choices. , Out of Solidarity, Outrageous Taxi Stories, and Nothin but the righteous shall sing the blues.
Director, Flow.
"Living..." David’s first short film which he wrote
and directed, premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and was
the winner of that year’s GAP New Filmmaker’s Award. Following
this, he directed "I’m Not The Guy," a music video
for artist Dan Bern (Sony/WORK Records). David recently finished
his latest work, "Flow," a twenty minute narrative film
which he wrote and directed for the James Redford Institute.
Producer of Flow.
Mr. Raddon joined the Los Angeles Film Festival as its Festival Director in 2000. Since that time, the Festival has grown from a 5 day event with an attendance of 22,000 people to a nationally recognized 10 event with an audience of over 35,000 visitors. Before Mr. Raddon worked at the Los Angeles Film Festival he worked as an independent producer, his credits include: A Slipping Down Life, starring Guy Pearce, Lily Taylor, and Bruno Kirby, which premiered in competition at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and was purchased by Lions Gate Releasing; Shooting Lily, which garnered the grand prize at the 1997 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin Texas; …And God Spoke, which was release theatrically by Live Entertainment. Other producing credits include the 1995 foreign film, The Woman in the Moon, starring Maria De Madieros, Brooke Smith, and Portia De Rossi; music videos for the Sony work Group; as well as numerous short films. Currently, Mr. Raddon is developing a feature film at Disney based on the true story of Charley Faust and the 1911 New York Giants. Mr. Raddon began his career as an assistant to writer/director/producer John Hughes in Chicago.
