Our Team

The research and support for Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft documentary project is part of the work the Fox Point Cape Verdean Project (FPVCP), a community based research initiative comprised of volunteers from the former Fox Point Cape Verdean community. Since 2007 the FPCVP has worked to preserve, document and create a sustainable legacy of the history, culture and traditions of the Fox Point Cape Verdean community.

Our core Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft production crew.

Principal photography for Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft and the other two documentary in the Fox Point Cape Verdean documentary trilogy are shot by award-winning cinematographer Boyd Estus. www.heliotropestudios.com/

Acclaimed photographer/filmmaker Liane Brandon shot the formal portraits that feature members of Local 1329 longshoremen, their families and descendants interviewed for “Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft .” The portraits were photographed at the same time in a studio set up at the back of the Cape Verdean Progressive Center in East Providence where we were shooting the interviews. www.lianebrandon.com

The goal of both the documentary and photo exhibit is to create a sustainable legacy about the Cape Verdean community in Fox Point and their contributions to the history and patrimony of the State of Rhode Island. Masters of the Craft: Gallery of Memory is a stand-alone museum quality traveling photography exhibition .

KEN NIBLOCK

EXECUTIVE/SUPVERVISING ONLINE POST-PRODUCTION
Production Manager for Disney ABC Television Group’s Communication . He oversees communication’s production and post production for several intel groups.

RACHEL EISENGART

EXECUTIVE/SUPVERISING LEAD EDITOR
Rachel is the Senior Broadband Editor for A+E Networks Digital Media. Her credits include narrative and documentary feature work, advertising and PSA projects, and a multitude of digital shorts. She recently locked picture on CAPTURE, a feature film from the Executive Producer of THE WALKING DEAD.

OMAR J. CRUZ RUBIO

EDITOR & GRAPHIC/WEB DESIGNER
Omar is a freelance editor, motion graphics artist and web developer

SHAUN FARLEY

EXECUTIVE/SUPVERISING POST-PRODUCTION SOUND DESIGNER
Audio Engineer: sound design and mixing, re-mixing

SUSI WALSH

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY, FISCAL AGENT FOR SPIA PRODUCTIONS SINCE l986
Center for Independent Documentary was founded in 1981 to collaborate with independent producers to create films and videos on issues of contemporary social and cultural concern. These programs have been broadcast nationally and locally on public and cable television, won numerous awards, and are in distribution to educational markets worldwide.

BOYD ESTUS, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY- PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY

WORKING THE BOATS: MASTERS OF THE CRAFT
ATLANTIC PORTALS
“SOME KIND OF FUNNY PORTO RICAN?:” A Cape Verdean American Story(2006)
SPIRIT OF CAPE VERDE(l986)
Boyd Estus is a motion picture Director of Photography and Producer/Director whose credits include the Academy Award winning The Flight of the Gossamer Condor and the Academy Award nominee Eight Minutes to Midnight as well as many Emmy winning television productions. He is noted for his elegant work in 35mm, Super-16mm and 16mm film, and in high definition, standard, and digital video. He has shot and/or directed a wide range of material from feature films to cinema verité documentaries on locations around the world. heliotropestudios.com

FRANCIS COAKLEY, Sound Recordist

WORKING THE BOATS: MASTERS OF THE CRAFT
ATLANTIC PORTALS
LIANE BRANDON: PHOTOGRAPHER
MASTERS OF THE CRAFT: GALLERY OF MEMORY

LIAN BRANDON

Liane Brandon is an award winning independent filmmaker, a photographer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was one of the first independent women filmmakers to emerge from Massachusetts in the early 70’s. During that time, she was also a member of Bread and Roses, one of the first women’s liberation groups in Boston. She is a co-founder of New Day Films, the cooperative that has pioneered in the distribution of independent social issue films.

Her classic films include Anything You Want To Be, Betty Tells Her Story, Once Upon A Choice, and How To Prevent A Nuclear War. These films have won numerous awards and have been featured on Home Box Office, The Learning Channel, USA Cable and Cinemax. www.lianebrandon.com

SHAUN CLARKE, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY , 2nd UNIT

WORKING THE BOATS: MASTERS OF THE CRAFT
Shaun Clarke is a filmmaker based in Boston, MA. He graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, with a B.F.A. in Film & Television production, and received an M.F.A. in Media Art fromEmerson College in May 2012. He also studied cinematography at the internationally acclaimed FAMU school in Prague, Czech Republic.