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| Meet the Production Team |
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Ginny Martin, Co-Producer/Director, Photographer Martin is an award-winning producer, director, videographer and editor. In 1999, she co-produced KERA's "Ready for Life," a one-hour special focusing on six Texas families and their struggle to provide an emotionally healthy foundation for their children. In 2000, she directed photography for KERA's documentary, "Finding Our Voice: The Dallas Gay & Lesbian Community." In 1999, Martin earned a national Emmy as co-producer, director and editor of KERA's four-part series for PBS, "The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)." Among Martin's numerous national credits are "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," "Wildflowers with Helen Hayes" and "Spirits of the Canyon: Ancient Art Along the Pecos River." Other PBS credits include director credits for "Great Performances" and "American Playhouse" specials as well as "Facing Evil with Bill Moyers." Martin's television work has earned a wide range of awards, including multiple national and regional Emmy awards, a Gold Medal in the New York Festivals, a National Educational Film & Video Festival Award and the 1992 Women in Film/Dallas Achievement Award. Rob Tranchin, Co-Producer/Director, Writer Tranchin is a senior producer, writer and director of documentaries and outreach specials for KERA. His national productions for PBS include "Wildcatter" (for "The American Experience"), "Who Cares about Kids?" with poet and author Maya Angelou, "For a Deaf Son," and "Peacemaker." Most recently, Tranchin co-produced KERA's one-hour special, "Ready for Life." Tranchin also wrote and co-produced KERA's national Emmy Award-winning four-part PBS series "The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)." Awards for his work include a national and regional Emmy awards; Gold and Silver Awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Gold and Silver Apple Awards from the National Educational Television Association; the John R. Haney Award from the Southern Educational Communications Association; an Iris Award from the National Association of Television Program Executives; Griot and Maat Awards from the National Association of Black Journalists; and numerous awards from film and video festivals nationally. Joe Bellotti, Co-Producer Bellotti is a 20-year veteran of the film, television and video industry, with producer credits on several national public television productions, including KERA's "Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Music of Bernstein, Barber and Beethoven." For 14 years, Bellotti produced and managed projects for HBO, CBS, NBC, Universal Television, Sony/Tri-star and Viacom. He is a member of the Director's Guild of America. Rick Thompson, Executive Producer Thompson is an award-winning producer with 20 years of production experience. Most recently, Thompson was executive producer of KERA's one-hour special, "Ready for Life," and KERA's documentary, "Finding Our Voice: The Dallas Gay & Lesbian Community." His national public television credits also include KERA's cooking series, "New Tastes From Texas With Chef Stephan Pyles," (executive producer), and KERA's "Child Safety: It's No Accident" (executive producer). Thompson's award-winning documentary credits include "The Way to Wright's House," a historical look at the career of former House Speaker Jim Wright and the political legends who inspired him to follow in the footsteps of mentor and fellow Texan Sam Rayburn; "The Sirens Never Stopped," a chilling recounting of the initial life-saving measures in the first, critical hours after the destructive Mexico City earthquakes; and "Oklahoma Shame," an in-depth, investigative series that uncovered abuses at state-run juvenile facilities. Thompson has also received a Headliners Award and seven Best Newscast honors presented by the Associated Press, United Press International, and the Dallas Press Club. Sylvia Komatsu, Executive in Charge As Senior Vice President, Television Production for KERA, Komatsu is responsible for all KERA local and national television productions. She has extensive credits as producer, writer, executive producer and program executive for public television programs. She conceived and developed the national Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)," a four-hour bi-national series that premiered on PBS and in Mexico in 1998. Other national PBS production credits as executive in charge include: "Peacemaker," a documentary featuring the making of a television drama by a group of young people from West Dallas, one of the poorest areas of the country, in response to the violence in their community; "Water," an examination of people's precarious reliance on the world's fragile water resources; "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," a candid portrayal of love, loss and courage that looked at the impact of AIDS on Dallas' internationally renowned Turtle Creek Chorale; and "For A Deaf Son," a first-person account by producer Rob Tranchin tracing his family's journey through a maze of life-changing decisions that must be made when a deaf child is born to hearing parents. Komatsu's television work has earned numerous awards from a wide range of presenters including the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (two national Emmy Awards), the American Film and Video Festival, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Educational Media Network, the International Film and Television Festival of New York, the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, the National Association of Television Program Executives, Women in Communications, the Environmental Media Association and the National Educational Telecommunications Association. .
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