Jim Wolpaw
Producer and Co-Director
A Brown University graduate, Jim Wolpaw has worked in independent film for 30 years.
His films include the Academy Award-nominated documentary Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date; Cobra Snake for a Necktie, a portrait of Bo Diddley which aired on Showtime; the feature comedy Complex World, and Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson.
He has freelanced as a writer, film editor, post-production supervisor, and creative consultant on numerous documentary projects, and teaches film production at the University of Rhode Island.
His films have won awards at more than a dozen film festivals worldwide and his honors include a Cine Golden Eagle.
Steve Gentile
Producer and Co-Director
Since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987, Steve Gentile has had an extraordinarily diverse film career. His animated films The Ant Who Loved a Girl and The Soldier have won awards at more than 30 film festivals, including London, Hong Kong, and Zagreb.
As an editor, he has six feature credits, including the cult comedy Complex World. He was also the post-production coordinator on Miramax’s Next Stop Wonderland.
As a screenwriter, Gentile has scripted three one-hour teleplays for Roger Corman’s Sci-Fi Channel series Black Scorpion. He has freelanced in a variety of technical capacities on numerous documentary and industrial projects, and has taught film production and animation at Emerson College, Boston Film/Video Foundation, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Boston University.
His honors include a Regional Student Academy Award nomination, a Cine Golden Eagle and a NEA/Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation fellowship.
Elizabeth Delude-Dix
Co-Producer
Elizabeth Delude-Dix is an independent filmmaker who has produced and directed documentaries: Traces of the Trade (Co-Producer/ Executive Producer) opened at Sundance, POV season premier and received an Emmy nomination; Stories from Stone and No Simple Truth (Director), two short films screened on RI PBS. She produced Tell Another Mother, an independent radio project of first-person presidential campaign spots. She is the recipient of the Rhode Island Leadership Award for her role in founding the state's first public radio station, WRNI and is a past Vice-President of the Foundation for Ocean State Public Radio. As an International Observer with IPEC, an independent human rights organization, she photographed contentious parades in Northern Ireland. Ms. Delude-Dix taught as an Adjunct Professor of Cultural and Historic Preservation in an undergraduate program she helped develop at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. She is currently on the board of the Flaherty International Film Seminar, is a past Board Chair and Grants Chair of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and has served as a board member and advisor to a number of arts and advocacy organizations.
Mark Cutler
Original Score
Providence, RI singer/songwriter Mark Cutler leads a variety of roots-rock bands, combining powerful lyrics with memorable melodies and driving rhythm.
