SOPHIE ROUSMANIERE – Producer/ Editor/ Writer / Director
Sophie Rousmaniere has worked as a filmmaker and freelance journalist in the US, Canada, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Guatemala, Pakistan, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand looking at issues that affect indigenous communities. She has produced, edited and directed over twenty documentaries, short films and music videos. She has recently finished a video project for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, and is involved in projects with the International Center for Foreign Journalism in Washington, DC and ¬Akasha Entertainment in Santa Fe. She has been working on environmental issues on and around the Navajo Nation since early 2007. She is working on Yellow Fever and a documentary about ‘Sacred Space’. Sophie also juries and acts as filmmaker liason for the Santa Fe Metaphysical Film Festival. Sophie’s work is largely social issue based, having worked on topics from child prostitution in Thailand to environmental issues in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. She is a professional editor and an owner of Ironthorn Productions, a digital media company in
Santa Fe.

JAY MINTON – Producer/ Production Sound/ Composition
Jay Minton is a graduate of the University Missouri Kansas City with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology.He went on to train in production sound as an intern for Ironthorn Productions. He has worked on a myriad of film projects, including the original documentaries, Religious Aggression (covering the witch trials), Shiva-Ratri Festival, Smokin Bachi Taiko Drumming, and the mini series: Sacred Space "Searching for the source”. Jay has worked tirelessly on Yellow Fever over the last year.

MARCOS RAMIREZ – Camera Operator / Editor (Yellow Fever)
Marcos Ramirez is a camera operator, editor and independent filmmaker. Recently he has worked as co-editor for the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum's City of Neighborhood's program for their promotional video about their New Orleans project. In addition to editing for television news at KOB TV he has produced numerous documentary films for organizations in both Central America and the United States. Recently Marcos has produced short reports for New Mexico's PBS station, KNME, on topics that range from the state of veterans affairs in New Mexico focusing on the NM Veterans Integration Center to New Mexico health insurance coverage issues. Marcos is a founding and active member of the New Mexico Independent Media Center aka Indymedia. He is also an active board member and organizer for the New Mexico based non-profit organization Available Media Inc. who are currently working on the development of two new FCC licensed community FM radio stations in northern New Mexico.

MAGGIE GEORGE – Lead Researcher (Yellow Fever)
Maggie George is a trained researcher, a fluent speaker of the Navajo language, and is connected to her tribal community. She has served as liaison to tribes and tribal organizations, collaborated with other university departments to improve support for American Indians in her work with schools. At Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS she taught multicultural education, educational psychology, educational technology, selected methods courses, seminars, and introductory courses for pre-service teacher education students from diverse tribal and ethnic backgrounds. Maggie co-chaired an annual conference on American Indian education, and served as Chief Academic Officer of the Navajo Nation’s tribal college, and has worked extensively in other areas of Native American Education and research.

TINA GARNANEZ - Writer / Producer (Yellow Fever)
Tina Garnanez Tina grew up in Farmington and in Oaksprings on the Navajo Nation. She was recruited into the military right out of high school where she spent time as a medic in Iraq Upon her release she started advocating for peace and veterans issues, while speaking out against the war. Her family lives near key uranium mining sites and has been greatly affected by the loss of her grandpa Willis who was a miner in the 50s. Tina has traveled on the Southern Route of the Bring Them Home Now Tour, spoke at a Global Exchange event, an ACLU event, and has been extensively interview on various radio programs throughout the country. She is currently working on book with Brown University, Helle Toft Jensen's Wounded Warrior Film, speaking at high schools in Santa Fe with the Veterans for Peace Full Disclosure project and is currently attending the American Indian Institute of the Arts.

VALENTINA GONZALES – PRODUCER/ GRAPHIC DESIGN (Burn TV)
Valentina Gonzalez has worked with Warehouse 21’s youth program for 10 years helping to develop projects and initiatives to help young artists from Santa Fe have experiences that make a difference. Warehouse 21 encourages youth to use their creative voices and artistic talent to express their perceptions of art and culture. Whether she is teaching silk screening in her Warehouse21 workshop classes, organizing concerts with local bands, designing youth art magazines, she is plugged into the New Mexico youth community in a myriad of ways.

CRISTIANO MENDES - Producer/Advisor (Burn TV)
Cristiano Mendes began his professional experience in Television began in 1985. He worked as a producer of an outdoor sports and journalism program at Bandeirantes TV Station in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1988 he was invited to work at Cultura de Sao Paulo Channel (PBS), where he had an opportunity to create, edit and assist the director of Journalism with entertainment shows such as musicals, documentaries, etc. All of these programs are very successful Brazilian television shows to this day. Following his work with PBS, he worked for Globo TV in New York and has since worked as a Director of several entertainment TV shows for Fundacao Roberto Marinho, Rede TV, Canal Futura, TV.

RANDALL HEAVELLIN - Post Production Sound Supervisorfont>
Randall Heavellin is a professor of Music at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. He received a BA in Music from Berklee College of Music, in addition to a degree in business management. He has been working with us on the development of creative soundtracks for the film since we began shooting in 2008.

DANIELLE BLOCH – Production Intern
Danielle Bloch is an aspiring TV reporter. She is currently also working at KOB-TV as an in-studio camera and teleprompter opt for over 2 years. She is working as an assistant editor, researcher PA and Transcriber with Ironthorn.

AMY SHEHI – Post Production Intern
Amy Shehi graduated from the University of Kansas with a BA in English and a MA in Film Studies. She worked in the publishing field as a multimedia producer creating electronic educational materials including videos. She was a board member for KDHX, a community radio and media station in St. Louis, Missouri, in addition to volunteering on various media projects. Shortly after relocating to New Mexico, she started an internship with Ironthorn productions and worked on the "Smokin' Bachi Taiko Drumming" media short.