Gumby Dharma

	- GUMBY DHARMA - THE FILMMAKERS - Robina Marchesi - Producer / Director This is Robina's first full-length documentary. She worked on a variety of Bay Area Independent films, including first assistant director for Trinh Minh Ha's Night Passage. She was the Manager for the 2002 and 2003 Sundance Film Festival's House of Docs, and Festival Coordinator for The Mill Valley Film Festival for the past six years. Robina passed away on May 22, 2005. She will live on in our hearts and through this film.
	Timothy L. Hittle - Producer / Director of Animation Tim Hittle is the creator of Jay Clay and Blue, the lead characters of his films Potato Hunter and Canhead. The third Jay Clay film, which will complete the trilogy, is a work in progress. Canhead was nominated for an Academy Award in 1996, for Best Animated Short. Tim's credits include Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach; Pixar's A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and The Incredibles; and with Henry Sellick Monkey Bone and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
	Klara Grunning-Harris - Co-Producer / Director of Photography Emmy Award winning Grunning-Harris is a freelance production, distribution, financing consultant and executive producer for film, TV and media world-wide. Has expertise in international co-production, content and editing for distribution and financing, versioning for different markets and works closely to customize strategies for all aspects of production. Recently Grunning-Harris was the Vice President and International Commissioning Editor, Acquisitions, Co-production & Fiction Executive of KUDOS Family, a start up media co-production and distribution company based in Stavanger, Norway, and branch in Berkeley CA, where she buys and sells films, creates strategies for world wide distribution and outreach. She also co-produces and co-finances independent productions with the intension to guide them into a successful and profitable distribution situation. Prior, she worked as the Coordinating Producer for ITVS International (The Independent Television Service) for just over nine years, to bring international and domestic documentaries, series and dramas to US television broadcast and digital platforms. She was responsible for negotiating co-production and distribution agreements, manage the programs through completion (schedule, budget and editing), reversion and delivery to multiple US broadcasters according to required specifications including legal and technical standards. Klara's background as an independent producer, director and cinematographer for the past 15 years, include these credits among others, Gumby Dharma, Emmy Winning feature documentary directed by Robina Marchesi (Audience Award at SLO Int'l FF, Hot Springs Doc FF, Mill Valley FF, KQED-Public TV, Sundance Channel), What Do You Believe?, feature documentary directed by Sarah Feinbloom (Mill Valley FF, and Public TV). Looking For Buddha, narrative feature by Olin Hyde & Peter Nilsson, several commercials, industrials, web-interactives and music videos for bands like Fingertight (Columbia Records/MTV2) and Machinehead (Roadrunner Records/MTV2 Headbangers Ball). Klara has been invited to judge media funds, partake in film festival panels and juries (BAVC, DocAgora/IDFA and HotDocs, Crossover Nordic/Nordic Panorama, Emmys, SF Asian-American Int'l Film Festival, SF Women's Int'l Film Festival etc.) and to co-chair a local mentorship program for emerging filmmakers in the San Francisco Bay Area (BWIFTM) as well as teach producing and filmmaking at local community support organizations like SF Film Society (formerly FAF's programs), SOTA, community college and guest lecture at various institutions. Klara holds a BFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in Film, TV and media production. Klara is currently co-producing four international feature documentaries: The World Before Her (Canada/India/US), The Pirate Bay (Sweden/US), The Sarnos (Sweden/US), From Within, Without (US) as well as a fiction feature film entitled The Road to Minnesota. Grunning-Harris is also consultant on the following projects; Congo Music Film, Turkey Creek Project, Regarding Susan Sontag and several other US and International projects. Recently Grunning-Harris also joined an impressive list of industry members to become part of the San Francisco Film Society's board of advisors.
	Liza Seybold Patnoe - Editor Liza has worked in Bay Area post-production since 1997 and is thrilled to put her B.A. in Stop-Motion Animation to work on Gumby Dharma. Liza's credits include editing the feature Prospect and and the documentary feature Tribal Style: Becoming a Belly Dancer. She was an additional editor on the feature Pomegranate, and the broadcast documentary Store Wars, When Wal-Mart Comes to Town. Liza has also edited numerous narrative, and documentary shorts including Twilight, which won the Golden Gate Award for Best Narrative Short at the 2005 SF International Film Festival, and screened at the 2005 Telluride, and Toronto Film Festivals. When Liza is not editing, she is the Manager of the Final Cut Studio Editorial Team at Apple, Inc.
	Story Consultant Joseph Clokey Additional Editor Ami Capen Editing Intern Liza Chan Puppet Masters Ross Schuman, Djora Clokey Graphics Design Brian Lehman