Pam Strayer

Pam has created dozens of videos (for PBS, Apple and others) and pioneered new video platforms. Now she helps other people learn how to make their own videos. She is the author of the book Create Your Own Digital Movies.

Teaching Experience

-Guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, UT Austin, France Telecom's MBA program and thinktank Theseus
-Taught classes at BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition)
-Guest lecturer, Apple Store (SF) during MacWorld

Career Highlights

Directed video for the first video on a computer...

From Alice to Ocean was the first Quicktime 1.0 creative project, the first interactive documentary and the first CD-ROM with video. Made in 1992, it was widely acclaimed as the first example of interactive publishing and was praised by the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg as "the most beautiful thing" he had seen on a computer.

Professional Experience

Documentary filmmaker
-Apprenticed for five years to master documentary director Bill Jersey of Quest Productions
-Produced national documentary programs for PBS and Turner Broadcasting
PBS programmer
-Wrote the national proposal for the independent documentary series now called P.O.V.
Computer/video pioneer
-Video director and creative consultant on the first Quicktime 1.0 creative project
-Produced first interactive television channel on health (for Time Warner)
-Wrote and produced first Shockwave animated project on the Internet (for Intel and the Smithsonian)
Film, video, writing for clients
-Corporate clients include Apple, Intel, IBM, Wells Fargo, Symantec, more 
-Creative clients include United Nations Sec. Gen. Bhoutros Bhoutros Ghali, Jerry Garcia, and the Dalai Lama

Awards

-CPB: PBS Women's Management Training Grant
-AFI (American Film Institute): Fellowship in New Media
-ARTEC/PALLABS (Performing Arts Labs): Fellowship, MultiMedia Labs 3 (England)

Mark Eveslage

Mark Eveslage is an award-winning videographer and cinematographer who shoots videos around the world for Nickelodeon, Discovery, PBS, ABC, ESPN, Animal Planet, TLC, CNN, Fox, NBC, National Geographic and other broadcast clients. Two of his recent works won Emmy Awards.

Career Highlights

Director of photography
-Traveled to more than 50 countries around the globe
including Australia, Chile, Congo, Costa Rica, Easter Island, France, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Tahiti, Taiwan, Tonga and more
-International clients include BBC, FT1 (France), NHK and Nippon (Japan)
Environmental and adventure photographer
-Documented earthquakes, mudslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, wildfires, mining, logging, wildlife, and environmental subjects
-Certified diver, licensed pilot, sailor, mountain biker and avid backpacker
Selected credits
-Never Again (Nick News with Linda Ellerbee), Navajo Boy (Sundance Film Festival), Sahara Marathon (National Geographic Explorer), Saving the Ganges (Turner Environmental), Making of "Lewis and Clark" (IMAX, National Geographic)