THE FILMMAKERS

Lucy Ostrander
Producer/Director

Lucy Ostrander, an award–winning documentary filmmaker began to receive accolades for her work with her Masters' thesis from Stanford University, WITNESS TO REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF ANNA LOUISE STRONG. In producing the film, she became the first American student to work with the China Film Co–Production Corporation. The film received a national PBS broadcast, and won a Student Academy Award, the Nissan Focus Award and a CINE Golden Eagle.

Her film EAST OF OCCIDENTAL, (Producer) on the history of Seattle's International District also received a national PBS broadcast. CHOICES, (Co–Producer/Co–Editor) an hour–long contemporary drama aimed at preventing youth entrance into prostitution, was awarded four regional Emmys and was broadcast prime-time on Seattle's CBS affiliate. HOME FROM THE EASTERN SEA (Co–Producer/Co–Director), on the history of Asian-Americans in Washington State, won a Silver Apple at the National Educational Film Festival. FINDING THEA, (Co-producer/Co-director) a documentary on Thea Foss, a 19th century Norwegian immigrant premiered on opening night at the Port Townsend Film Festival and won Best Local Documentary at the Tacoma Film Festival. It was broadcast regionally on PBS and on NRK in Norway.

Don Sellers
Videographer/Editor

Don Sellers has been a cinematographer/videographer and editor on documentary films for over 25 years. After receiving a Masters Degree in Film and Broadcasting from Stanford University, Don worked as a cinematographer and editor on numerous programs produced for the PBS series Frontline and Discover. For Frontline, Don photographed around the world covering topics as diverse as the changes in China since the death of Mao, meetings between Afrikaners and the ANC in West Africa, horse racing in upstate New York, papal masses at the Vatican, Hollywood agents, and earthquakes in California. In addition to his work for PBS, Don spent six weeks riding with the graveyard shift of Miami homicide shooting a series for ABC. He has taught film writing and production as a guest lecturer at Stanford University.

Stourwater Pictures

Within the last several years, Stourwater Pictures completed a trio of documentaries for IslandWood, an environmental learning center on Bainbridge Island. The films, PORT BLAKELY: MEMORIES OF A MILL TOWN, THE RED PINES and ISLAND ROOTS depict the cultural history of the Native and immigrant communities on Bainbridge Island and their relationship to the land. The three films received local PBS broadcasts.

Our film FUMIKO HAYASHIDA: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE SYMBOL was broadcast on PBS throughout the Pacific Northwest in 2010, and screened at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the D.C. Asian American Film Festival, the Port Townsend Film Festival, the Tacoma Film Festival, and the Gig Harbor Film Festival.

Stourwater just finished a feature-length documentary titled THE REVOLUTIONARY, a biographical film of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who became a member of the Chinese Communist Party and spent 34 years in the PRC. You can see a short trailer by clicking here.

Our films are available from the following links:

WITNESS TO REVOLUTION
EAST OF OCCIDENTAL
HOME FROM THE EASTERN SEA
PORT BLAKELY, THE RED PINES, AND ISLAND ROOTS
FINDING THEA
FUMIKO HAYASHIDA: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE SYMBOL