Film Crew

Hans Rosenwinkel

Production Advisor

As an independent producer, his most recent projects include producing, shooting, and editing projects for National Geographic, PBS, the Fox Sports Network, and Warren Miller Entertainment.  Hans Rosenwinkel, comes to the beautiful Rocky Mountain region with a deep background in film and television production. With his passion for skiing and the great outdoors, Hans moved from his native Minnesota to Bozeman, Montana to pursue a degree in Media & Theatre Arts at Montana State University. After moving to Salt lake City, Utah his career then escalated, encompassing a wide array of producing experience including: television news, network affiliate promotions, commercial advertising, corporate industrial production, narrative film, and documentary filmmaking.

 

Craig Volk

Story Advisor

Craig received his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama in Playwriting/Screenwriting. His twelve-year professional career in Los Angeles included serving as a writer/producer on six network/cable writing staffs (including the award-winning Northern Exposure series). He also wrote four episodic pilots plus numerous free-lance television and feature scripts.  His playwriting credentials include productions at the Lincoln Center, the Actors Theater of Louisville, Yale Rep, Denver Center and numerous others. His scripts were also selected three times to the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.  Volk previously taught dramatic writing courses at the University of South Dakota, Green Mountain College, UC-Davis and UCLA.

 

Anthropologists

C. Jason Throop Ph.D.

Cultural Advisor

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Jason Throop is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles where he specializes in the fields of medical and psychological anthropology.  Dr. Throop has conducted extensive ethnographic research on human subjectivity, empathy, morality, and suffering in cultural context.  Spending more than 18 months engaged in ethnographic research on the cultural and moral configuration of experiences of pain and suffering in Yap (Waqab), an island located in the Western Pacific Ocean, Dr. Throop has sought to explore how Yapese orientations to suffering can inform a number of ongoing debates in philosophy and social theory broadly defined.  He is the author of the book Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap (2010, University of California Press), and co-editor of Toward an Anthropology of the Will (2010, Stanford University Press) and The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies (Forthcoming, Berghahn Press).

 

Felicia R. Beardsley Ph.D.

Cultural Advisor

Dr. Beardsley has served as a consultant to federal & local governmental agencies in Republic of Palau & Federated States of Micronesia, private organizations doing business in the Western Pacific, & the U.S. Park Service in connection with their support of government archaeology programs in former trust territories. She crafted the first historic preservation & conservation legislation for Pohnpei State, drafted policy guidelines & procedures for Kosrae and Yap state historic preservation offices, prepared nominations to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for important cultural sites in Kosrae & Yap, & is part of a group of conservation scientists developing a preservation plan for the Leluh, Kosrae, in advance of its nomination for listing by the World Heritage Center, UNESCO.  She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of La Verne.

 

Jim Egan Ph.D

Cultural Advisor

Born in Chicago, Illinois, James Egan received a BA in Anthropology and Zoology at Miami University, Oxford Ohio in 1984.  He then enrolled in the Social Relations graduate program in Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine and received the degree of Ph.D. in March of 1998.  James Egan has conducted years of ethnographic fieldwork in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia on the topics of cultural constructions of wealth, commodity pathways, food production, Micronesian household economies, and gender, hierarchy and power.  Ongoing research investigates Micronesian food economies in today’s globalized world.  This research addresses how Yapese and other Micronesians use food to craft viable lives in a world dominated by unreliable wage employment, consumption of imported foodstuffs, media, and other commodities, and economic dependency upon powerful patron states (notably the US).  James Egan currently is post-6 Lecturer of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.  He lives in Costa Mesa, California with his wife and three young children.

 

Scott M. Fitzpatrick Ph.D.

Cultural Advisor

Scott M. Fitzpatrick is associate professor of archaeology at North Carolina State University who specializes in the archaeology of islands and coastal regions. His research interests include colonization strategies, interaction and exchange systems, maritime adaptations, site taphonomy, and historical ecology, particularly in the Pacific and Caribbean. He has authored over fifty scholarly papers, including recent contributions to Coral Reefs, Geoarchaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Field Archaeology, and Latin American Antiquity, and edited “Voyages of Discovery: The Archaeology of Islands” (Praeger, 2004) and co-edited the recently released “Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean” (University Press of Florida, 2010). Fitzpatrick is also founder and co-editor of the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology (Routledge/Taylor and Francis).