MEET OUR TEAM
MAUREEN GOSLING Director/Editor
NINA MENÉNDEZ Executive Producer
JED RIFFE Producer
Gosling has been a documentary filmmaker for 50 years. She has worked as director, producer, editor, sound recordist and distributor. Producer/Director credits include the feature doc THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC! (premiered SXSW), with Chris Simon, on the legacy of American roots music record producer, Chris Strachwitz; and the feature doc BLOSSOMS OF FIRE, on the Isthmus Zapotecs of Oaxaca, Mexico (HBO Latino). Gosling edited PLEISTOCENE PARK (VICE); THE LONG SHADOW (PBS); A NEW COLOR (PBS) and many other docs. She is best known for her 20-year collaboration (as co-filmmaker, editor, sound recordist) with the late Les Blank on more than 20 films, including BURDEN OF DREAMS (BAFTA for Best Documentary 1982). For the last 20 years, she has worked with Producer Jed Riffe on nine films, including CALIFORNIA’S “LOST” TRIBES, of the PBS series CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. Gosling is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences.
JED RIFFE Producer
NINA MENÉNDEZ Executive Producer
JED RIFFE Producer
Riffe is a film, TV and digital producer with 45 years of expertise in creating award-winning motion picture, TV and interactive programming for national and international broadcast, limited theatrical exhibition, streaming and VOD. Riffe produced the four-part, independently produced, nationally-broadcast PBS series CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN DREAM and the award-winning interactive program PUBLIC BROADCASTING IN PUBLIC PLACES. He is a member of FWD-Doc, a Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellow/Alumni and a Gerbode Fellow for Excellence in Non-Profit Management.
NINA MENÉNDEZ Executive Producer
NINA MENÉNDEZ Executive Producer
NINA MENÉNDEZ Executive Producer
Menéndez, PhD. is the Artistic Director of the Bay Area Flamenco Festival with a life-long passion for world music and dance, particularly from Cuba and Andalusia. She also produced the film, TROPICOLA. Daughter of Barbara Dane, she is currently spearheading the BARBARA DANE LEGACY PROJECT, which includes establishing Dane’s multimedia collection, digitizing, and cataloging over 150 unreleased audio tapes, releasing a box set of Dane’s recordings on the Smithsonian label, recently publishing Dane’s memoir, THIS BELL STILL RINGS: MY LIFE OF DEFIANCE AND SONG (Heyday Books), and now this film.
DANNY GLOVER Executive Producer
VICTORIA DMITRIEVA Associate Producer
VICTORIA DMITRIEVA Associate Producer
In addition to being one of the most acclaimed actors of our time, with a career spanning 35 years and including film classics like PLACES IN THE HEART, THE COLOR PURPLE, the LETHAL WEAPON series and the acclaimed TO SLEEP WITH ANGER, Glover has executive produced numerous projects for film, television and theatre. Among these are GOOD FENCES, FREEDOM SONG, GET ON THE BUS, BUFFALO SOLDIERS, and MOOLADÉ.
VICTORIA DMITRIEVA Associate Producer
VICTORIA DMITRIEVA Associate Producer
VICTORIA DMITRIEVA Associate Producer
Originally from Russia, Victoria Dmitrieva worked on a number of documentaries in the US and Russia. She received a Master’s in short-form video from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She is currently working on her short documentary on women in chess.
ASHLEY JAMES Cinematographer
SIANEY MONTES DE OCA Graphics & Animation
SIANEY MONTES DE OCA Graphics & Animation
James has been a Cinematographer on dozens of docs. He was Director/ Cinematographer of BOMBA: DANCING THE DRUM, AND STILL WE DANCE, and AMERICAN TREASURE, all broadcast on PBS. He was Producer and Director of Photography of the new film, SANTOS: SKIN TO SKIN. James is Co-founder, with Kathryn Golden, of Searchlight Films. His docs have earned five CINE Golden Eagles, two Telly awards, and three Pegasus awards for excellence in television programming He was past governor at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northern California chapter.
SIANEY MONTES DE OCA Graphics & Animation
SIANEY MONTES DE OCA Graphics & Animation
SIANEY MONTES DE OCA Graphics & Animation
Montes de Oca, originally from Mexico City and currently based in L.A, specializes in broadcast and film communication design. She has managed projects from conceptual development to production for organizations such as R/GA, Brand New School, Imaginary Forces, Taylor James, Edisen, mOcean and The Wall Street Journal. She was the Title Designer and Animator for the documentary film COLETTE, an Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Short Subject directed by Anthony Giacchino.
