Jed Riffe

Jed Riffe is an award-winning independent filmmaker, broadcast journalist and digital media producer. Jed is the senior producer for Jed Riffe Films, LLC. Over the last 25 years, Riffe has produced numerous highly acclaimed documentary and dramatic films and interactive projects for PBS, NHK-TV (Japan), cable, international broadcast and the web.

Kat Covell

Katherine Covell is a co-producer and writer for Jed Riffe Films LLC. She has worked in numerous production capacities for both documentary and dramatic feature films. Kat was associate producer for the television documentary Who Owns the Past ? (2001), featured last November on the PBS series "Independent Lens."

Vicente Franco

Cinematographer Vicente Franco, a native of Madrid, Spain, began his studies at the University of Journalism in Madrid. He's been doing Film and Television work since 1982. Most recently Franco was nominated for a 2003 Academy Award for Co-directing and shooting the feature documentary, Daughter from Danang. Franco's long-running collaboration with Jed Riffe includes cinematographer credits on the films Waiting to Inhale and Convention.

Maureen Gosling

Editor Maureen Gosling has been a documentary filmmaker for more than thirty years and is best known for her twenty-year collaboration with acclaimed independent director, Les Blank.  Gosling's most recent work, Blossoms of Fire, a 16mm feature documentary, represents her debut as a Producer/Director. She is best known for editing Burden of Dreams, which won a 1983 British Academy Award.

Emrah Oral

Emrah Oral is a media communications specialist who has been working in the field since 1993. His areas of specialization include digital compression technologies in new media broadcasting, application-specific software interface design, large scale wireless broadband communications and video production. Emrah is the post-production supervisor for Jed Riffe Films and the technical and creative director for the Berkeley Images archives.


 

Garrett Braren

Garrett Braren is the Associate Producer of Waiting to Inhale. Braren is also currently producing the documentaries Pearl of Siberia and Haymarket in association with Jed Riffe Films, LLC. He is a Project Coordinator and Researcher on the PBS series in development Beyond the Dream: California and the Rediscovery of America. Braren also runs his own film & video production company, One Iris Media, in San Francisco.