Production Team
Production Team
Roberta Grossman – Director, Producer
Sophie Sartain – Writer, Producer
Lisa Thomas – Executive Producer
Josh Kun – Consulting Producer
Dyanna Taylor – Cinematographer
Josh Kun
Josh Kun is an associate professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Popular Music Project at the Norman Lear Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. Kun's research focuses on the arts and politics of cultural connection, with an emphasis on popular music, the cultures of globalization, the US-Mexico border, and Jewish-American musical history. Kun is co-founder of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation. As a critic and journalist, he is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Magazine. His writing has also appeared in Tu Ciudad Los Angeles, Cabinet, LA Weekly, Village Voice, SPIN, Mother Jones and Rolling Stone. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (UC Berkeley, 2005) and co-author of And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We've Loved and Lost (Crown, 2008).
Dyanna Taylor
Dyanna Taylor is an award-winning director and an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer. She was honored as a 1998 recipient of the MUSE Award for “Outstanding Vision and Achievement in Cinematography” from New York Women in Film and Television. Taylor’s credits as a director of photography include, for American Masters: Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea and Winter Dreams: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald received a 2002 Peabody Award); HBO’s 2009 special The Alzheimer Project; Evolution, a NOVA/WBGH co-production; for PBS’ Independent Lens Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh; the HBO special Life After Life; for PBS’ Great Performances Swingin’ With the Duke; High Fidelity, a feature documentary; Porgy and Bess: An American Voice (PBS special), 500 Nations, the eight-part CBS mini-series with Kevin Costner; and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, which won an Academy Award. For the Hallmark channel she was the director of photography for three films: The Reluctant Saint, Patrick and Joan of Arc: Soldier of God, nominated for an Emmy in Cinematography.