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Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk
Megan Mylan is a San Francisco based documentary filmmaker. She directed "Batidania: Power in the Beat," about an Afro-Brazilian youth percussion group from Rio de Janeiro fighting drug violence and racism through music. The film won the Best Documentary Award from the Marin Latino Film Festival. She has produced programs for Stanford University and the Lucas Educational Foundation. She was Post Production Supervisor for Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann's "Long Night's Journey Into Day," 2000 Academy Award® nominee and winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. She has worked in a variety of capacities on documentary films including: "Jon Else's Open Outcry" and "Sing Faster; Yesterday's Tomorrows" directed by Barry Levinson for Showtime; "Inside The Tobacco Deal" for PBS Frontline and "Brazil 2000" for the BBC. Before beginning her film work, Megan worked with Ashoka, an international development non-profit in the U.S. and Brazil. She has Masters' degrees in Journalism and Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
Jon Shenk is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a founder of Actual Films in San Francisco. He recently produced, directed, and photographed "The Beginning," a cinema verité documentary about the making of "Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace," which was released on the "Phantom Menace" DVD. His films "Dark Rooms" and "Naked to the World" have aired on PBS and have won many awards. He has field-produced and photographed documentaries for MTV’s "True Life" series about high school football in Texas and about the culture surrounding the drug MDMA (Ecstasy). He produced two documentaries for the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s series "Teaching in the Digital Age." Jon works as a freelance documentary cinematographer for PBS, National Geographic, A&E, Bravo, CBS, NBC, and the BBC. He also worked as assistant editor on "Cadillac Desert," a PBS series by Jon Else about the history of the struggle for water in the American West. He earned his Masters in Documentary Filmmaking from Stanford University in 1995.
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