DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
Oren Siedler
Oren Siedler has written and directed numerous documentaries and short films, including Suburban Rituals - Rite of the Horned God, a documentary broadcast on Australian television. She wrote and directed Red Sands, Blue Seas, an Australian Film Commission documentary which was broadcast on Discovery and National Geographic. It was also accepted into competition at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam).
Born in New York City, Oren immigrated with her mother and step father to Australia in 1975. She studied film production and screen studies at the University of Technology Sydney where she obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Communications.
When not making films, Oren plays violin in a classical string quartet, and teaches music to private students. She lives in Byron Bay, Australia.
FILMOGRAPHY
2001 Producer/Director - Portrait of a Town (documentary)
1998 Producer/Director - Red Sand Blue Seas (documentary)
1996 Co Director - Ring My Bell (16mm short film - Tropicana Film Festival)
1995 Director - TV Commercial (Clipsal Electrics)
1994 Director/Co-producer - Domestic Bliss (16mm short film)
1993 Producer/Director - Rite of the Horned God (documentary)
1992 Producer/Director - Paganism & the Church (documentary)
PRODUCER
Ed Barreveld
Ed Barreveld is equally at home behind the camera as behind a spreadsheet. A
native of the Netherlands, Barreveld first moved to Canada in 1976. In 1980
he settled in Ottawa, Canada, where he worked for a number of companies and
organizations including a social policy advocacy group.
After a move to Toronto, Barreveld joined the National Film Board of Canada
as administrator for the Ontario Studio of Canada's Oscar-winning documentary
shop.
After a decade spent following the money, Barreveld left the NFB and founded
an independent production company, Fallow Field Productions. As a line producer
he worked on a number of independent documentaries for broadcasters such as
the CBC, BBC, A&E, and TVAsahi and became the consultant of choice for
production companies on matters of budget and financing.
In 2000, Barreveld co-founded Storyline Entertainment Inc., which produced
the feature documentary Aftermath: The Remnants Of War. The multi-award winning
film played at festivals around the world and was nominated for the Donald
Brittain Award for best Social/Political Documentary Program at the 2002
Gemini Awards.
Barreveld's latest Storyline Entertainment project - Shipbreakers, an international
story of greed, survival, Third World labour, geopolitics and an unfolding
environmental disaster on the shores of India, premiered at the Vancouver
International Film Festival. Other 2004 releases for Barreveld include, Bruce & Me,
an Australian/Canadian co-production for Life Network in Canada and ABC in
Australia and A Whale of A Tale (CBC/NFB). Projects for 2005 include The
Recorder, an indepth look at the peace and reconciliation process, Hitler’s
Canadians about Canada’s forgotten Prisoners of War and a sequel to
Christian Bauer’s successful feature documentary Missing Allen; Finding
Allen, a co-production with Germany’s Tangram.
Barreveld has traveled the world on his films, working in such places as
India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Israel, Tunisia, France, Germany, Russia, Bosnia,
Vietnam, Australia, across Canada and the US.
DIRECTOR/ WRITER
Oren Siedler
PRODUCERS
Ed Barreveld (Can)
Oren Siedler (Aus)
EDITOR
Ricardo Acosta
Born in Cuba, where he studied film and worked at the Cuban Film Institute. He
now makes his home in Toronto, where he works as a picture editor. He has been
the editor of several award winning films including Shooting Indians, A
Journey With Jeffrey Thomas directed by Ali Kazimi; Spirits of Havana produced
by the National Film Board and most recently The Take by Naomi Klein
and Avi Lewis.
CAMERA
Oren Siedler
COMPOSER
Ken Myhr
LOCATION SOUND
Oren Siedler
NARRATOR
Oren Siedler
