Key Personnel

Yasmin Mawaz-Khan

producer/director

A producer of short documentary and experimental films, music and promotional videos. She has shot and edited news programs for Link TV and Pacific News Service. Global Pulse (Link TV), corpo organico (Apature Film Festival), Homeless Youth (New America Media), Ping Identity (Nokia/Panastream), Macbook Pro (Apple), Happy Trees (Bokulich). She has also created and installed interactive video art and sculptures in galleries and festivals across the world. She is inspired by the process of creation, collaborating with people and seeing a project from concept to completion. Her influences include her diverse background, the community she lives in and her passion for exploring new concepts and methods of representation and interactivity.

Christopher Knox

co-producer

Christopher got his start working behind the camera as an associate producer at KCSM and went on to CBS, where he worked as a shooter/editor, working on short format web videos. He then worked on a variety of projects including feature films such as “Melvin Smarty”, “First World Problems” and “Rango”, commercials for Comcast and XBox, television shows such as “Man vs Fish” and “Jersey Shore”, as well as directing and producing the web serial “Adventures with Seth”. Recently Christopher was the co-ordinating producer and first assistant director for the TV shows “I Faked My Own Death” and “I (Almost) Got Away With It” produced by Indigo Films for the Discovery Channel and Investigation Discovery.

Anna-Lena Isaksson

editor

A video editor that has edited for The Great Outdoors With Tom Stienstra at KPIX, Taste For Adventure at Fine Living Network, and Sarah and No Name After Dark at the CW Television Network. Anna-Lena also edits global news and cultural programs forLinkTV. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University's Broadcasting program.

Phil Spitler

motion graphics/titles

Beginning his graphics career at the age of 17 in northern England, Phil moved from forming and managing his own motion graphics company in northern England to becoming one of the key players in ad agencies in San Francisco today. He has been working primarily with the Bonfire agency since 2007 as their Associate Creative Director and is involved in almost all the company projects.

Kush Arora

sound engineer

Kush Arora has been sculpting sound in San Francisco and beyond for the past decade. Active in SF, he is a member of the Surya Dub Crew which has been at the center for dread bass,dubstep, and electronica winning best club night in SF two years in a row. Opening for the likes of BassNectar , Thievery Corporation, The Bug, and Flying Lotus all in the past 9 months has kept him busy on the road. He’s remixed Balkan Beat Box, Zion I, and many more. His work has caught attention of Pitchfork magazine, BBC 1’s Mary Anne Hobbes calling his Brooklyn To SF CD “a beautiful piece of work”, and great support fromXLR8R, LA Weekly, SFGuardian, The CMJ, and Mix Magazine.

Jason Chinn

website, supportive partner :)

Starting out his career in traditional print media in 1989, Jason became a master of technical production and computer graphics. At Macromedia, Jason was part of the Dreamweaver 1.0 product development team. It was there, in 1996, that his world opened up to the possibilities of the web. Since then, Jason has created and utilized cutting-edge technology for the design and implementation of many websites in order to provide his clients with the highest quality work as well as satisfying his quest for learning.