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Filmmaker Info
Producer, Writer: Chyng Feng Sun
Director, Co-Producer: Miguel Picker
Editor, Camera, Graphics, Music, Audio: Miguel Picker
An ArtMedia Production
Educational Distribution by the Media Education Foundation
Filmmaker's Bios
CHYNG SUN | Director, Producer & Writer
Dr. Chyng Sun is a filmmaker and a Clinical Associate Professor of Media Studies at McGhee Liberal Arts, School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University. Her research interests include media literacy; race, gender and sexuality in media; and audience research/media effects. With Miguel Picker, Sun produced the documentaries
The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships and
Beyond Good and Evil: Media, Children and Violent Times (both distributed by the Media Education Foundation).
MIGUEL PICKER | Producer, Director & Editor
Miguel Picker worked at WGBH-TV in Boston for over 15 years as an editor. His editing credits include
La Plaza,
Greater Boston Arts, and a 52-part national series titled
Destinos. He also has produced and directed programs for WGBH, including
Como Hacemos,
Duo, and
The Early Music Workshop. He has produced and directed numerous independent projects as well, such as
Francisco Mendez - The Portrayal of a Cuban Painter and
A Day in Martha's Vineyard. Picker is also a musician and composer, and has worked with a wide range of art institutions and public foundations, including PBS, the Boston Ballet and the New England Conservatory. Picker moved to New York City in the summer of 2004, and his recent projects include editing and music composition/production for the award-winning documentary
The Borinqueneers (2007), and co-directing and editing
Ulises' Odyssey (2009), a documentary on Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile in 1970's and its aftermath.
Film Festivals
Black Point Film Festival | Lake Geneva, WI | April 2002
East Lansing Film Festival | East Lansing, MI | March 2002
The Milky Way | Jamaica Plain, MA | October 2001
Zeitgeist Gallery | Cambridge, MA | June 2001
Visualized: Messages in Motion Film Festival | Denver, CO | November 2001
