Wheedle's Groove: Uncovering Seattle's Soul-Funk Past
 
 
  • 11/15/05 Wheedle's Groove was awarded the Washington Humanities Documentary Grant for $20,000!
  • 12/17/07 New round of key interviews underway.
  • 11/30/07 Film Editing is underway thanks to Michelle.
  • 1/01/08 Adam will be conducting interviews with Robbie Hill
  • 3/15/08 Trip to New Orleans planned with Pat Wright.
  • 9/19/08 New Wheedle's Groove album will be released.
 
 
 

Jennifer Maas Director/Producer

Jennifer Maas is a Seattle-based documentary filmmaker who works as a freelance film and video editor in Seattle. She started Evil Bunny Films in 2002 and moves between film work, high-profile corporate work, and the non-profit org consulting world where she has very successfully created a niche for fundraising pieces that use cinematic and documentary sensibilities to convey a message. Jenniferís documentary about a park to commemorate Cesar Chavez in Seattleís diverse South Park neighborhood was well-received at the 2002 Cause and Effect Film Festival in Edmonton, Alberta. Other recent work includes a beautiful piece commissioned by the Seattle Public Library to mark the opening of the lauded Central Library and directed by Thom Harp. Her most recent work was as assistant editor on Police Beat, which was accepted for dramatic competition at Sundance in 2004.

Michelle Witten Production Coordinator/Editor

Super cool lady. Is kicking ass on Wheedles Groove!

Ben Kasulke Director of Photography

Ben Kasulke is an award winning Director and Director of Photography with over seven years of professional experience. Ben graduated from the northfield-mount hermon school and received his BS in Cinema Production from Ithaca College following additional study at the Filmová a Televizní Fakulta Akadmie Muzickych Umní in Prague. Ben believes in creating films collaboratively with like minded individuals in an effort to create work that is greater than the sum of it's parts. As a director of photography he hopes to articulate himself through a variety of film and digital mediums in the features, documentaries, short films, music video, news features, and live performances he is fortunate enough to help create. Ben's professional experience includes employment as a film archivist with The Image Treasury, programmer with London's Raindance Film Festival, and staff projectionist with Olympia Film Society. While employed as the staff cinematographer for the Seattle based Film Company, he was fortunate enough to work with award winning filmmakers Guy Maddin and Lynn Shelton. In 2006, he received two awards for his Cinematography on Shelton's "We Go Way Back" from the Slamdance and Torun Film Festivals. Ben was also honored to work with director Linas Phillips on his award winning documentary "Walking To Werner" in 2006. THe Seattle Stranger shortlisted Kasulke for it's Genius Award in Film in 2007.

Rob Devor Executive Producer

Robinson Devor's second feature film, "Police Beat recently completed its premier at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in Dramatic Competition. The critics called the film "dreamily poetic" (Manhola Dargis, NY Times), "Sundance at its best" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times), "visually stunning" (Todd McCarthy, Variety), and "the most original film in the competition" (Dennis Lim, Village Voice). A unique rethinking of the crime film genre, the film tells the story of a Senegalese bike cop who must deal with even days of crime and delusion in Seattle while his girlfriend is out of town with another man, Named one of Variety's "10 Directors To Watch" in 2000, Robinson Devor made his feature film directorial debut with "The Woman Chaser", which was named one of the "Ten Best Films of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The only US film selected to play at The New York Film Festival, Sundance, and South by Southwest in the same year, "The Woman Chaser" received critical high marks throughout its 2000 US theatrical run ("Wicked and Brilliant", The New Yorker; "This year's 'Rushmore'", The NY Post). When it was released on video, MovieMaker magazine called it a "masterpiece" and named it the "Video Release of 2000". The film received its broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel and the Showtime Network. A 2002 Fellow at the Sundance Institute, Devor collaborated with African-born journalist Charles Mudede (arts editor/columnist "The Stranger", Seattle) on the feature script, "Super Power", the story of an African child soldier attempting to recapture his childhood after a civil war. The script was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab last summer and is being produced by Andrew Hurwitz, executive producer of "The Anniversary Party". Before writing and directing "The Woman Chaser", Devor directed the acclaimed documentary, "Angelyne", about the eponymous LA billboard queen. It aired several times on PBS, and was called "a knockout" by the Village Voice. Though just thirty minutes long and shot in 16 mm., the film has been a top seller and rental at Virgin, 20/20, Tower Video and other major video chains over the past few years. Robinson is currently living in L.A. and Seattle and is in preproduction for his forthcoming film The Minotaur.

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