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Director/Producer/Writer/Development
Francine Strickwerda is an award-winning director, writer and producer of documentary films and Web sites, and owner of Flock This Way Films. She co-directed and produced the feature film Oil & Water for PBS, as well as Busting Out, a feature documentary about the history and politics of America's obsession with the female breast, which aired on Showtime. Her latest film, Ultimate Citizens, is about an Iranian American grade school counselor and ultra athlete who uses Ultimate Frisbee to help immigrant kids. Francine's work has been funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Independent Television Service (ITVS), and many others. She produced and executive edited national PBS Web sites including Don't Buy It, Videogame Revolution and Exploring Space, and was a senior producer at HealthTalk.com. She's a principal and executive producer at Hullabaloo, a Seattle commercial production company, and she has created videos for clients including the United Nations, Fortune 500 companies and the Seattle Fire Department. Francine began her career as a newspaper reporter, and she has a degree in journalism from Washington State University.
Director/Producer/Writer/Camera
Laurel Spellman Smith is a two-time regional Emmy Award-winning producer of national and local programs for PBS including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and the documentary Faith & Fear: The Children of Krishna. She became an independent producer in 2003 and in addition to Oil & Water she co-directed and produced the women's health documentary Busting Out, which aired on Showtime and the Iraq War documentary The Corporal's Diary, seen on PBS stations, Al Jazeera English and Link TV. She is also a fan of other people’s films and is an annual juror for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Laurel grew up in Los Angeles and Kauai before making a home in Seattle with her husband and cat. She graduated from The Evergreen State College, where she studied film and cultural anthropology, pursuing her interest in the latter by traveling to over 100 countries. When not on the road or in the edit room, she manages a vacation rental house on a remote island in The Bahamas, and she is president of Seattle's Dress for Success, a nonprofit empowering women to achieve economic independence through a network of support, development tools, and professional attire.
Editor and Post Supervisor
Tracy Dethlefs is the owner and creative director of Hullabaloo, a creative communication company in Seattle. Over the past 15 years, he has edited television series for PBS, MTV, and VH-1 and has edited and post produced documentaries that have aired on PBS, BBC, CBC, the History Channel, and numerous other international channels. Tracy was the supervising editor on the PBS documentaries The Secret Files of the Inquisition, Exploring Space: The Quest For Life, and Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen of Cremona. He is currently editing documentary specials for National Geographic and Discovery Science channels. Tracy’s corporate clients include Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks and Nordstrom.
Cinematographer
Diana Wilmar has worked around the world for every major US television network, including ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. She has also worked as a principal photographer with CNN’s Environment Unit. Diana has won five Emmy awards and a Silver Medal from the New York Film Festival for her work in news, documentaries and features. Special assignments have taken her to the Seoul Olympics, the civil war in El Salvador, the earthquake in San Francisco as well as documentaries in Russia, Mexico and Peru. Recent work includes a documentary on global warming for NY Times/Discovery and a series on National Parks for Animal Planet.
Composer
Erik Aho is a Los Angeles-based composer who has written music for The Bachelor (ABC), The Amazing Race (CBS) and The Miracle Workers (ABC). He has orchestrated and produced music forThe Family Guy (Fox) and American Dad (Fox). He composed the original music score for the feature documentary Busting Out, (Showtime) and continues to compose music for independent films, as well as for video games. Aho believes deeply that if every image contains an entire story, it also contains music. One just needs to look in order to hear it.
Diana, Laurel and Francine in Zabalo, Ecuador, 2011
Additional FILM CREDITS
Additional Camera
Laurel Spellman Smith
Roy Wilson
Hugo Lucitante
Francine Strickwerda
Rich Phelps
Jim Billip
Mike Cepek
Manuel Pallares
Sadie Lucitante
Bradley Piper
Original Music
Erik Aho
Animation
Drew Christie
Sound
Francine Strickwerda
Laurel Spellman Smith
Tony Tibbetts
Motion Graphic Design
Anthony Pauzie
Audio Mix
Matt McComb
Colorist
John Davidson
Assistant Editor
Jon Goneau
Carmen Zhu
Post Production Facility
Hullabaloo
Spanish Translator
Chris Marquardt
Mariana Bueno
Cofan Translator
Michael Cepek
Hugo Lucitante
Production Assistant
Aileen Imperial
Carrie Barnes
Dylan Meeker
Jacob Sheppard
Jacob Stuivenga
Jon Goneau
Kari Watson
Mariana Bueno
Raul Quieta
Intern
Jordan Becke
Bonny Chau
Kim Forrest
Taryn Rux
Diane Wah
Additional Editing
Rich Phelps
Consulting Producer
Scott Pearson
Academic Advisor
Michael Cepek
Bookkeeper
Sindy Todo
Accountant
Ann Ott
Legal
Stacey Walters
Insurance
Charles Whelan
“Texaco” written and performed by
William Lucitante
Archival Materials provided by
Diogenes Baldeón
Michael Cepek
Miranda Detore
El Universo, Ecuador
KOMO TV 4 Seattle
Bruce Lucitante
Hugo Lucitante
Sean Mullany
Kevin Mullany
The New York Times
Manuel Pallares
David Poritz
Reuters
The Seattle Times
Janet Strauss
TV Ecuador
The Washington Post
Pablo Yepez
Fiscal Sponsor
Northwest Film Forum
ITVS
Ines Hoffman-Kanna
Cynthia Kane
Cheryl Hirasa
Karim Ahmad
Richard Saiz
Richard O'Connell
Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer
Featuring
Hugo Lucitante
David Poritz
Bolivar Lucitante
Norma Mendua
Miranda Detore
Mike Cepek
Randy Borman
Manuel Pallares
Janet Strauss
Cristobal Bonifaz
Margarita Bonifaz
Sadie Lucitante
Manuel Salinas
Digna Rocha
Carlos Espinoza
Guido Abad
Andres Romero
Christina Aanestad
Christian Seale
Ciana Lucitante
Jhon Wajai
Klever Lucitante
Jhon Lucitante
Elio Lucitante
Bayardo Lucitante
Valerio Mendua
Rufino Criollo
William Lucitante
Bruce Lucitante
Mauricio Mendua
Corine Vriesendorp
Thank You
Amherst Regional High School, MA
Bishop Blanchet High School, Seattle, WA
Brown University, Providence, RI
CD Exchange, San Antonio, TX
The Cofan Survival Fund
The Cofan Tribe of Ecuador and Columbia
Environmental Media Fund
Equitable Origin
Esperanza International
FEINCE, Ecuador
The Field Museum, Chicago
Hostal de La Rabida, Quito
Hotel El Auca, Coca
Hotel Rio Amazonas, Quito
Hotel La Misión, Coca
Hotel Quito
Ivanhoe Energy
The People of La Victoria, Ecuador
Petroamazonas
Sherry Abbott
Antonio Aguinda
Roberto Aguinda
Shelly Appleton
Barbara Baugh
Joshua Bernard
Colin Bernatzky
John Bonifaz
Heidi Breeze-Harris
Dan Brinkmeier
Luanne Brown
Gretchen Burger
Christopher Carlisle
Mama'Ccashe
Lorena Cevallos
Ben Colburn
Emeregildo Criollo
Martin Criollo
Carolynn Delany
Alvaro Del Campo
James Demo
Sandi Dubowski
Maria Espinoza
Anna Fero
Robert Fetter
Ellen Frick
Ann Gaylin
Wally Glenn
James Green
Duncan Haas
Ted and Dalia Hansen
Mary Jane Hansen
Mike & Joan Hanten
Judith Helfand
Jennie Henry
Aileen Imperial
Shana Kelly
Judith Kimerling
Sheighlyn Knightly
Patricia Kunze
Allison and Chris Laurel
Ralph and Dorothea Lintz
Sarah Libertus
Rebecca Lieberman
Beth Ann Vail Locke
Cesar Lucitante
Oswaldo Madrid
Dawn Martin
Greg Mercer
Donald Moncayo
Ed Morgan
Joanne Henry Nielson
Andrew and Cheryl Oakley
Cathy Oldershaw
Daryl Ondatje
Nancy O’Shea
Jose Cevallos Ortega
Adam Pely
Don Delfin Piaguaje
Rachel Poritz
Sidney Poritz
Sadie Ranen
Jay and Jane Reich
Margaret Roncone
Amy Rushing
Adam Salwena
Bertha Segal
Emily Reich Shem-Tov
Chris Sherlock
Melissa and Nathan Smith
Todd Smith
Valerie Sobel-Twain
Ronni Spellman
Leah Spellman
Leonard Strauss
Jay Strickwerda
Tara Strickwerda
Martin Talty
Mark Titus
Sarah Vhay
Shoshana Weiner
Hannah Wells
Robert West
Don Woutat
Rob Woutat
Catherine Zabriske
Special Thanks
Louise Bryson
Stacey Cook
Sirikul Cox
Bob Cumbow
Chris DeBoer
Gary Dethlefs
Keon Dethlefs
Stefan Enriquez
Dina Guttman
Bruce Gray
Jack Hamann
Christa Heller
Marilee Hansen
Lisa Hardmeyer
Dustin Kaspar
Laurence Kingston
Nolan Lehman
Brian Miller
Rod Minott
Jay and Jane Reich
Sonya Senstra
Douglas Spellman
Chris Strickwerda
Marilyn Strickwerda
Rishika Advani Tartaglia
Leah Warshawski
Fred Wolff
Melody Wolff
Audrey Zekonis
Very Special Thanks
Brian Smith
Huge Thanks
Hugo Lucitante
David Poritz
Funding Provided by
ITVS
The MacArthur Foundation
Chicken & Egg
Pacific Pioneer Fund
Seattle 4 Culture
Seattle City Artist Project
Puma
Channel 4 Films/BritDoc
With additional thanks to The Good Pitch and IFP
Oil & Water is a co-production of Stir It Up Productions LLC
and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
Oil & Water was produced by Stir It Up Productions LLC,
which is solely responsible for its content.
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