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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
