Satsuki Ina,
Ph.D. - Producer/Project Director
Dr. Ina is a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder
of the Family Study Center, a community agency dedicated to providing
community counseling services and post-graduate clinical training
for marriage, family and child therapists. In her practice she
specializes in cross-cultural counseling, interracial marriages,
transracial adoptions and diversity training for agencies and
corporations. Dr. Ina is a Professor Emeritus in the Department
of Counselor Education, School of Education, California State
University, Sacramento. There she taught advanced theories and
clinical practice courses in Marriage, Family, Child Counseling
and Multicultural Counseling.
Kim Ina -
Associate Producer/ Outreach and Workshop Coordinator
Ms.
Ina has worked as a freelance producer/photographer/editor in
the education video industry for the past 5 years. She has produced
several in-house training videos while working at Stir Fry Productions
for Lee Mun Wah, producer of the Color of Fear and the Color
of Fear II. She has also produced several music videos for Upward
Bound in Napa, California, a summer program for teens who may
be the first in their families to go to college. Working as the
only yonsei, or fourth generation Japanese American, on the Children
of the Camps Documentary and Educational Project, Ms. Ina has
said that her involvement in the project has changed her life
and given her a newfound sense of pride about who she is. She
honors what her community and family had to endure to allow her
to stand where she stands today. Ms. Ina is also the founder
and executive director of the Sports for the World's Children
Foundation, a nonprofit that distributes used and new sports
equipment and school supplies to communities and schools with
limited resources. Ms. Ina is currently working with Emery Clay
to produce a documentary about Sports for the World's Children's
endeavors in Latin America.
Audrey Kasho-Wells
- Creative/Administrative Producer
Ms.
Kasho-Wells has worked in the education, industrial and commercial
video and film industry since 1991. Owner and operator of her
own company, Diva Media, Ms. Kasho-Wells has produced several
public service announcements for the state of California’s
Department of Adult Education including a 90 minute public education
video developed for the State of California's Department of Food
& Agriculture. She also works as producer and art director
for the award-winning production company, Spectrum Film Productions,
recognized nationally for their excellence in the broadcast commercial
market. Wells also worked as Associate Producer on the independent
full-length feature film, Devil Takes A Holiday.
Stephen Holsapple
- Director/Editor
Stephen Holsapple is an Northern California Emmy-award winning
filmmaker, artist and musician whose career in these related
fields has spanned over 25 years. He has worked extensively in
the Sacramento area since the early 80s, working independently
as a director, producer, editor and actor. His award-winning
credits include Big City Gambler, winner of 6 Northern
California Regional Emmys, Sorghum, winner of a Houston
International Film Festival Gold Award, and La Scala di Vito
(a Leon Corcos Film), winner of best comedy short at both
the Chicago and Atlanta Film Festivals. He also won a Telly Award
for his montage opening of ENVISION 18 (1993), one of
the world’s largest graphic conferences. Over the last five
years he has directed, filmed and/or edited numerous projects
for international clients like Magnavox.
Emery Clay
III - Director of Photography
Mr. Clay is a freelance director of photography/producer/editor
who's been working in film and video production for the past
19 years. During this time, he has been nominated twenty-two
times and received three Northern California Regional Emmys for
his work on projects in the United States and abroad. Driven
by the pursuit of social justice and the quality of light, Clay
has made a career of choosing projects that challenge us to think,
question and feel. A partial list of his credits include: In
America, a nationally syndicated weekly news magazine, The
Discovery Channel's Wildguide, NextStep, NBC's
Nightly News and Dateline, ABC's Discovery News
and Prime Time Live, The Sci-Fi Channel's The New Edge,
KABC's Vietnam documentary- A Soldier Returns, KCRA's
Documentaries- Afghanistan Journal 1985, AIDS- A Conspiracy
of Silence, Return to the War Next Door and Return
to Vietnam; and Discover Interdependence- a documentary
for the World Interdependence Fund, an organization dedicated
to the advancement of the rights of disabled people. Most recently,
Clay has dedicated a great deal of his time to helping non-profit
groups to find a "video-voice." Some of these include:
The Sacred Life Association (Native-American rights), Fisher
House (critical care support), Camp Sunshine (summer camp for
kids with HIV) and Gender Equity in Education.
