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"COSMOSPHERE" by Miyuki Kawamura, Japan.
Photograph by Lynton Gardiner.
About the Filmmaker

Director and Producer Vanessa Gould has studied a mix of science, art, film, and design over the past two decades, including architecture and astrophysics at Columbia and music at the New England Conservatory. Between the Folds was a project born of great admiration for the artists and scientists working in paper, and the belief that their remarkable work should be documented. She is also a pianist and painter.

















About the Executive Producer

Sally Rosenthal is a veteran creative force in emerging technologies, and an avid collector of pop-up and movable books. Like Between the Folds, her life and career are a blend of art, math, design, science, music, and learning in unconventional ways. She serves on the board of Quest to Learn school, and is a fan of useful things that cost 99¢ or less.
About the Composer

Gil Talmi is a world-renowned Emmy nominated composer whose music can be heard in a variety of films, documentaries, television programs, TV commercials, Theatre and Dance productions. Gil studied composition at UCLA with Ian Krouse and the late David Raksin and his clients have included HBO, PBS, Bravo, and Paramount. He received a "National News and Documentary Emmy Award" nomination for his work on "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather". Gil's production company, Thoughts in Grey Circles, is based in New York City.
About the Director of Photography

Melissa Donovan is an award-winning cinematographer based in New York City. Most recently, she was a director of photography on the documentary, An Unreasonable Man, a Ralph Nader story due to be released in the winter of 2006. Donovan has shot several national commercials for Kmart, Stoneyfield Farms Yogurt, Herbal Essence, Oxygen Channel, Cartoon Network, as well as operating on spots for Verizon, Panasonic, Mountain Dew and other sponsors.
About the Overseas Cinematographer

Philippe Bellaiche is a French cinematographer educated at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Louis Lumiere. His credits include fiction and documentary films produced by the BBC, Arte, PBS, Israel Channel 2, and Israel Channel 8 and directed by Amos Gitai, Nurith Aviv, Samir, Michel Khleifi, and academy award winner Kevin MacDonald, among others. He teaches film at Tel Aviv University, Camera Obscura, and Sam Spiegel.
About the Associate Producer

Ariel Friedman is a nuclear physician currently residing and working in New York. He hopes his involvement in this documentary project will contribute some beauty to the world.



BOARD OF CREATIVE ADVISORS

This film couldn't have taken form without the ongoing professional support and guidance of the following people:

David Atwood: PBS, WGBH, other television - Senior Producer, Director, and Editor
David Gelber: "60 Minutes", "ABC News" - Executive Producer
Christianna Hannum: Swim Pictures - Documentary Filmmaker
Kenn Rabin: PBS, WGBH, Fulcrum Media, documentary & feature film including "MILK", "GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK", "Daughter from Danang" and "Weather Underground" - Writer and Researcher
Dr. J. Ward Regan, Ph.D.: New York University - Cultural Historian

ABOUT OUR NAME

The name Green Fuse Films is a reference to Dylan Thomas and his 1934 poem "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower".



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