Lucia Small (Co-Producer, Co-Director,
Editor) has been an independent filmmaker for nearly 15
years. In 2002, Small premiered My Father, The Genius,
her feature documentary directorial debut, which garnered
several top film festival awards, including Grand Jury
Prizes for the Best Documentary and Best Editing at the
Slamdance Film Festival. My Father, The Genius was
broadcast internationally and in 2003 was featured as part
of the Sundance Channel’s newly launched DOCday series.
Small has a list of credits as producer of several nationally
televised programs and award-winning documentaries. Producing
credits include: Beth Harrington’s The Blinking
Madonna and Other Miracles (1996, ITVS); Laurel Chiten’s The
Jew in the Lotus (1998, ITVS); The Mississippi:
River of Song (1999), a 4-part PBS series; American
Wake (2003), distributed by Horizon Entertainment and
Netflix; and the historical documentary Damrell’s
Fire (2005), broadcast nationally by American Public
Television. She has also worked as a freelancer for Scoutvision,
Discovery Channel, USA Cable, C-Span, Media One, John Hancock,
and on numerous fiction films.
Lucia Small joined forces with Ed Pincus in 2005 to form
Pincus & Small Films, LLC. Rooted in the tradition of
observational film (direct cinema, cinema vérité),
they seek to create provocative, critical, humorous, and
innovative films on important social and environmental issues.
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Ed Pincus (Co-Producer, Co-Director,
DP) began filmmaking in 1964, developing a direct cinema
approach to social and political problems and events. He
has producer, director and DP credits on eight of his films
and has been cinematographer on over twelve additional
films. His films include:
Black Natchez (1967), a one-hour documentary
that follows the aftermath of a car bombing in
a Southern town during the Civil Rights Movement; Panola (1965,
1969), a portrait of a wino, alleged police informant,
and follower of Malcolm X in Mississippi in 1965; One
Step Away (1967), an intimate hour-long
portrait of a hippie commune in California during
the Summer of Love commissioned by public broadcasting;
and the seminal Diaries: 1971-1976 (1981),
about the filmmaker’s marriage, family
and friends, during an era when the Women’s
Movement wrought havoc and redefined personal
relations.
Ed Pincus’ filmmaking has been on the technical cutting
edge of documentary—e.g., the early use of color in
natural light situations and the development of single-person
filming techniques. He started the Film Section at MIT where
he taught for ten years and influenced a generation of documentary
filmmakers. Recipient of numerous National Endowment for
the Arts awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, author of “Guide
to Filmmaking” and co-author of “Filmmaker’s
Handbook,” he also has had stints as visiting filmmaker
at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Harvard University.
For the past twenty years, Pincus has been living and running
a farm in Vermont. Recently, he decided to return to filmmaking.
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