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The Gardner Group started in Rocky Hill, New Jersey in 1990 and was
incorporated in 1997 as a not for profit organization. The company
facilitates the production of documentaries for educational television,
schools, colleges and libraries. The Gardner Group receives foundation
grants, individual contributions, corporate donations and government funding
for the production of socially responsible and educational documentaries.
The Gardner Group has a special interest in films about hidden history.
JANET GARDNER
Producer/director Janet Gardner is an award-winning
documentary producer known especially for her work on Southeast
Asia. Her new work, Precious Cargo: Vietnamese Adoptees Come
of Age, will be broadcast on PBS in Fall 2001.
Dancing Through Death: The Monkey, Magic and Madness of Cambodia
is a poignant hour-long documentary on the devastating effect
of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge reign on Cambodian dancers and their
centuries-old tradition of story telling.
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Ms.
Gardner's previous documentary, A World Beneath the War was broadcast on the Public Broadcasting System
in 1998 and was licensed for broadcast by
Discovery Channel Asia, Discovery Channel International and
French cable channel Planete. It was nominated for a National Emmy and
won the Deadline Club Award for best television feature reporting
from the Society of Professional Journalists. It was honored with a Silver Apple from the National
Educational Media Network.
Vietnam: Land of the Ascending Dragon, won a Cine Golden Eagle, the Lowell Thomas Award
from the Society of American Travel Writers and the Bronze Apple
from the National Educational Film & Video Festival in 1989. Produced for International Video Network, the film
continues to be broadcast internationally.
Ms. Gardner's other documentary credits include The United
Nations: It's More Than You Think, an overview of the UN
and its agencies, and The Runaway Series, which includes "Children
of the Night" and "Starting Over," both of which won several
awards.
Ms. Gardner's interest in Southeast Asia began thirteen years
ago, when she covered post-war Vietnam and the Agent Orange
issue for The New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine,
and other publications.
She is a veteran of NBC News' The Today Show, WNBC's
NewsCenter 4, WRC's News4Washington, Conde Naste Publications,
and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Other publications she has contributed to include
The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Philadelphia
Inquirer, Philadelphia Magazine, and The Nation.
Ms. Gardner was a Casey Fellow for a program on children and
violence, at The Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families
at the University of Maryland. She has taught journalism at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
PHAM QUOC THAI
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Born in Vietnam, Pham Thai came to the U.S. in 1971 to attend
SUNY-Buffalo. He joined The Gardner Group as an assistant producer
in 1992 for the production of Vietnam: Land of the Ascending
Dragon (International Video Network). As an associate producer,
he collaborated with The Gardner Group on A World Beneath
The War, a PBS documentary about the secret tunnels of Vietnam,
broadcast on 18 PBS stations. The program won a Silver Apple
at the National Educational Film & Video Festival and broadcast
worldwide by Discovery International in 1998. A World Beneath
The War is distributed by NAATA and Filmakers Library, Inc.
He is currently co-producing a history of the babylift entitled
Precious Cargo, which is supported by Independent Television
Service.
He is fluent in Vietnamese, English, and French, and translates
for courts. Pham Thai has also presented slide lectures on the
history of Vietnam at the American Museum of Natural History
in New York.
NICOLE DOMENICI
As editor and post-production supervisor of Precious
Cargo, Nicole Domenici's editing style is driven by her
understanding of music, influenced in part by her formal training
in classical music and jazz. From 1992-95, she was responsible
for editing, overseeing graphics, and packaging as Coordinating
Producer at National Geographic Television.
Her credits include National Geographic Explorer, the
two-hour magazine show, and editing short segments for National
Geographic Moments. As editor for The Gardner Group on
A World Beneath the War, she integrated traditional Vietnamese
music into an original musical score and was responsible for
graphics and titles. Other assignments include
editing for The Learning Channel's Science Times and
Paramedics series. As senior editor and producer at Engel
Brothers Media, she edited and produced for the PBS series, Going Places.
LEN MCCLURE
Under challenging circumstances, Len McClure covered
the Vietnam trip and recorded intimate moments of the adoptees'
Vietnam experience for Precious Cargo as director of
photography and associate producer.
Mr McClure, a former National Geographic award-winning cameraman
and producer, has shot for ABC's 20/20, CNN, and many network
magazine shows. As head of the Cinema Department at the Hong
Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, he collaborated with Jessey
Tsang Tsu as sound mixer for Precious Cargo. Mr. McClure
also traveled with The Gardner Group for Children of the
Night, Starting Over, and A World Beneath the War
(See Len in photo above)
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