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Christopher M. Cook, Producer/Director/Writer Cook's career spans twenty-five years in television and print news and includes two Emmys for documentary programs and a share of a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism, as well as other awards. His documentary work has appeared on regional public television, commercial television stations, and A&E's History Channel. Cook also works as a field producer for ABC and NBC network programs such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Nightline, and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. In 1999, he researched, wrote, produced, and directed four documentary programs for Michigan Public Television's one-hour Michigan at Risk series. One of them, Dying for a Drink (May 1999), examined the dangers and social ramifications of teen binge drinking. In May 2000, it was awarded an Emmy, Cook's second. Cook received his first Emmy for a one-hour documentary about the early history of television, much of which was created in Detroit. Cook wrote and co-produced the show for WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) for its fiftieth anniversary. He was the associate producer of the series Wheels of Survival which appeared on the History Channel in June 1997. He has also produced behind-the-scenes segments for NBA Entertainment, and in the last two years he has done over forty news and feature segments for EXTRA, the TV magazine. His corporate and industrial video clients have included the UAW, Wayne State University, the Coalition of Detroit Teachers Unions, the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, General Systems Consulting, GQ Magazine, and others. Before turning to film and news production, Cook was a reporter and held various editing positions at newspapers across the country. Most recently he was at the Detroit Free Press, which he left in 1995. Cook also worked at the San Diego Union, the Kansas City Times, and Newsday in New York, where he was part of a team which won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on heroin traffic. He is president of Metrocom International Inc. and can be reached at Metrocom@Compuserve.Com or (734) 327-1910.  |
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Katherine Weider, Co-Producer After three years as a staff producer for Detroit Public Television, Katherine Weider became a freelance producer on a variety of projects. She began her career as a segment producer for DPTV's weekly show Backstage Pass and quickly moved on to become Show Producer, winning an Emmy award for her work in 1999. She went on to develop and produce smART TV (Southeast Michigan ART Television), an educational series bringing arts and culture programming to middle-school students in Southeast Michigan. Most recently, she was Writer/Producer for Mahler's Beethoven, a nationally broadcast program about Mahler's reorchestration of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Weider earned her B.A. from McGill University in Montreal in 1992 and completed her Masters in Telecommunication Arts and Film at the University of Michigan in 1996. She then taught in the Film/Video Program for a year before moving on to work at Detroit Public Television. She can be reached at Katherine_Weider@hotmail.com. |
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Mark Berg, Director of Photography Berg is a highly experienced camera operator who has worked on news and long-form programs for twelve years, including stints at four television stations in the Midwest. His work has appeared on ABC News and NBC News programs such as 20/20, World News Tonight, Good Morning America, Dateline, The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, and on CNN, A&E, Fox Sports, and other broadcast and cable outlets. He also shoots for the National Hockey League, Ford Motor Company, and others. He has been nominated for Emmy awards four times and won top honors from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters in 1987 and 1990. Berg is the president and co-owner of Great Lakes Television Productions in South Lyon, Michigan, where he makes his home. He can be reached at (248) 486-3040. |
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Gordy Marcotte, Sound Technician Marcotte earned his B.A. in communications from Western Michigan University in 1988, and has worked as a sound technician for the last twelve years. He began his career with Filmcraft Video, a producer of corporate and network video, and also worked for ENG Detroit before striking out on his own in 1992. As a freelance sound technician, he has worked on news stories for each of the major broadcast television networks, including stories for Dateline, 20/20, and 60 Minutes. His other clients have included Fox, PBS, CNN, NBA Entertainment, and NHL Productions, GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Volkswagen. Marcotte lives and works in the Detroit area and can be reached at 248-380-1502 or (via pager) at (248) 407-5163. He can be contacted via e-mail at marcotte@wwnet.com. |
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Kimberly Harry, Associate Producer/Writer Harry is a producer who assisted in the research, development, production, and writing of The Sprawling of America. She lives in her native Detroit. Prior to her freelance career, Harry was the managing editor of Ford Motor Company's Ford Communication Network daily news report. For seven years she was a writer and producer at WKBD-TV (Channel 50) in Detroit, and a writer at WJBK-TV (Channel 2) in Detroit. She holds a B.A. in broadcasting from Howard University in Washington, and an M.A. in speech communications from Wayne State University in Detroit. Harry can be reached at (313) 259-2944. |
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Chrisstina Hamilton, Associate Producer Hamilton recently crossed into the world of television production from a directing background in film and theatre, and a long line of project management for various arts organizations. In addition to various production functions, she oversaw website content development for The Sprawling of America. Hamilton is the Managing Assistant Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival. She holds a degree from Indiana University and last year she designed and coordinated the Young Filmmakers Project, which allowed 100 teens in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area to produce their own 16mm films and showcase them at the festival. Hamilton is a longtime devotee of the documentary genre, and has produced a number of her own documentary shorts. She can be reached at Metrocom International at (734) 327-1910. |
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Samantha Sugar, Production Assistant Samantha Sugar is a junior at the University of Michigan, where she is studying English and film. She is a graduate of Taft High School in her hometown of Woodland Hills, California and a former intern at the William Morris Agency in Los Angeles. |
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