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 Ross Spears has
been making documentary films for more than twenty-five years and is considered
one of the most accomplished documentary filmmakers now working in the United
States. He has won such prestigious awards as a Lyndhurst Prize, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, the Tennessee Governor's Awards in both the Arts and Humanities,
and an Academy Award Nomination for Best Feature Documentary. William Sloan
of the Museum of Modern Art wrote that "Spears has made a lasting and
significant contribution to American film. All of his works possess a rare
vigor and discipline that is unique." The
films of Ross Spears deal
primarily with the history and culture of his native region, the American
South.
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 As
a producer, writer, interviewer and editor, Jamie
Ross has played an integral
part in the James Agee Film Project for over twenty-five years. Her talent
for sparking new ideas and her ability to raise funds to pursue them have been
invaluable assets to our films. Jamie Ross began her work with the JAFP in
1981 when she edited the fifty-five minute version of AGEE, an academy award
nominated feature biography of the writer James Agee.
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 Kenton Coe composed the film scores for Universal's "Birds in Peru," written
and directed by Romain Gary for his wife Jean Seberg, and for five full-length
documentary films by director Ross Spears: "Agee," "The
Electric Valley," "Long Shadows," "To Render a Life," and "Tell
About the South." "Agee" received an Academy Award
nomination for best documentary and has had numerous international showings
including a Kennedy Center premiere attended by President Carter. "The
Electric Valley" has been shown nationally on PBS.
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