PRODUCTION PERSONNEL

POLA RAPAPORT          Producer / Director / Editor

307 Spring Street,  New York, NY 10013
Phone:        212-620-0029
E_Mail:       heldrap@att.net

Pola Rapaport grew up in New York City. "Blind Light", produced by her in 1998, has been shown at Mill Valley, Amsterdam Documentary, South by Southwest and the Göteborg Film Festival, among others. Represented by Jane Balfour Films, it has so far been sold to Finnish television. As reviewed in the Austin Chronicle: "Beautifully shot and artfully composed... a haunting, lyrical, hypnotic work whose light is both reflective and absorbing".

"Broken Meat", Rapaport's iconoclastic feature portrait of beat poet Alan Granville, has been described as "Hip and adventurous... stark and seductive... a fascinating enigma, explored with great humor and insight" (Baltimore Film Forum). It has been broadcast domestically and internationally, on ZDF 3SAT in Germany and SBS in Australia. Her other films include "Tooth and Mask", "Joanna's Jobs", "0,1,1,2,3,5, or The Walls Have the Floor".

Her work has been screened at festivals and museums including Sundance, Edinburgh, Seattle and MoMA, and prizes have been awarded at many, including the Amsterdam, Leningrad and Oberhausen Film Festivals. She has received grants for her films twice from both the New York State Council on the Arts and the Jerome Foundation, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She works in New York as a producer for television.

As a film and sound editor, she has worked for Maysles Films, Columbia Artists, National Geographic and others on documentaries that have been shown both on broadcast and cable television as well as in theatrical release, and have been nominated for Academy Awards. She received an Emmy Award nomination for sound editing in 1994.

WOLFGANG HELD          Director of Photography

307 Spring Street,  New York, NY 10013
Phone:         +(1) 212-620-0029
E_Mail:       WolfHeld@ATT.NET

Wofgang Held, a native from Germany, lives in New York City. The dramatic feature "Criminal", on which he served as co-writer, producer as well as DP, was distributed theatrically in Europe.

Held's credits as a documentary cinematographer include "Wigstock: The Movie"; HBO's "Taxicab Confessions"; and "Broken Meat" directed by Pola Rapaport. He also collaborated with Rapaport on "Blind Light".

Held's feature films as DP include "Ripe", Mo Ogrodnik's acclaimed debut, which opened theatrically in May 1997; "Gomez", which premiered at Stamdance '99; and "The Tic Code", staring Gregory Hines and Polly Draper (Hamptons Festival Audience Award) which will premiere theatrically later this year. He has recently completed shooting Gary Winick's "Sam the Man" with Annabella Sciorra and Fisher Stevens.

MICHAEL PRIMMER         Sound Recorder

248 6th Avenue, Apt. #3,  Brooklyn, NY 11215
Phone:         +(1) 917-776-5387
E_Mail:       VitchP@AOL.COM

Michael Primmer has been the location sound mixer and boom operator on numerous documentaries as well as feature films. Titles include features "Two Plus One", "Three Seasons", "Buffalo 66" and "Fever".