The Filmmakers
THEO ROOS, Director
A Musician, Philosopher, Teacher, Author and Film Director, Theo Roos has recently published his second book in the "Philosophical Vitamins" series, exploring the works of the world's great philosophers, creating a handbook to a well lived life. Theo has produced and directed numerous films and television specials, most recently "Schiller reloaded" and "Kant reloaded" in which he examines the life and work of these two seminal German thinkers integrating the spoken word with imaginative imagery and soundscape. Theo is also a musician and this particular mix of interests makes him the ideal Director for "Woodstock at 40" a film which will examine the various intersections of music and thought and culture that culminated at Yasgur's farm in the summer of 1969.
CHUCK LEVEY, Director of Photography / Co-Producer
Chuck has shot four films that have been nominated for Academy Awards. One, "Woodstock" won. He has also been nominated for an Emmy in Cinematography nine times and won four times.
Over his 25 year career as a cinematographer Chuck has worked with the famous and the homeless, won the industry's most prestigious awards, and yet has remained focused on the job of trying to get it right - the story, the shot, the moment. As one of America's most valued documentary cinematographers, Chuck brings an informed, creative eye to "Woodstock at 40." His point of view is unique, because not only was he there on the ground with Michael Wadleigh in 1969, capturing some of the most memorable images in that film, he was there when it all began, in the cafes of the West Village listening to the Beats strike the chord that would reverberate through the generation that followed.
RICHARD DOOLEY, Producer
Richard's first film was the acclaimed documentary "Paris is Burning." From there he went on to work with such directors as Oliver Stone, Alan Pakula, Milcho Manchevski and Peter Sellars, among others. Richard lives is Germany but has a home in Bethel, New York, site of the original Woodstock concert, and it was that location that inspired the idea for this film, an essay on his generation, and the generation that preceded it, a look at how the culture that made "Woodstock" possible, might have ended at the moment of it's birth.
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