CAST & CREW

Cast

In Order of Appearance:

Joe Ely
Guy Clark
Willie Nelson
Kris Kristofferson
Donna Spence
Ann Rice
Luke Sharpe
John Ruehl
Bob "Maverick" Myrick
Frank "Chito" Greer
Fran Lohr
Jerry Jeff Walker
Kevin Eggers
Wrecks Bell
David Olney
J.T. Van Zandt
Steve Earle
Susanna and Guy Clark
Peggy Underwood
Leland Waddell
Cindy Van Zandt Lindgram
Katie Belle Van Zandt
Mickey White
John Lomax III
Harold Eggers
Will Van Zandt
Jeanene Van Zandt
Dylan Ferrero
Kinky Friedman
Emmylou Harris
Bob Moore
Steve Shelley
Tim Foljahn
Larry Monroe
Lyle Lovett

Crew Bios

Margaret Brown: Director/Producer
"Be Here to Love Me: A Film about Townes Van Zandt" is Margaret Brown's directorial debut. She produced "Six Miles of Eight Feet," which won a Student Academy Award. She was the cinematographer for "Ice Fishing," which received a special jury prize from Sundance in 2000, and for which she received the Nestor Almendros Award for Cinematography from the NYU GraduateFilm Program. Margaret has also produced a feature-length western about singing cowboys, "Mi Amigo" (2002).

Lee Daniel: Cinematographer
Lee Daniel has shot a number of ground-breaking feature films and documentaries. His narrative work includes Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Suburbia, Before Sunrise, and Before Sunset. He has lensed many documentaries for television and theatrical release, including I Remember Me, The Hunt for Pancho Villa, Print the Legend: The History of the Western, Henry Hampton's America's War On Poverty, and You're Gonna Miss Me: The Roky Erickson Story.

Sam Brumbaugh: Producer
Sam Brumbaugh was a Founding Partner and the original Creative Director of SonicNet. Mr. Brumbaugh was the Talent Executive and a Producer for On Tour, a thirteen-part series on live music for national PBS (presented by KCET) and Canal Plus which featured such artists as Lou Reed, Taj Mahal, Sting, Vic Chesnut, Lauryn Hill, Rickie Lee Jones, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Weir, and Beck, among others. He has toured with the bands Cat Power, Mogwai and Pavement. His first novel Goodbye, Goodness (Open City/Grove Atlantic) will be published in March 2005

Paul Stekler: Executive Producer
Paul Stekler's documentaries include George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire, Vote for Me: Politics in America, Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics, and Eyes on the Prize II. His films have won three Emmys, two George Foster Peabody Awards, three duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards, and the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Stekler, a former political consultant, teaches documentary filmmaking at UT, where he also heads the production program.

Louis Black: Executive Producer
Louis Black received an MFA with a concentration in Film History and Theory from UT in 1980. In 1981, with a group of friends, Black founded the Austin Chronicle of which he is the editor. In 1987, he was a co-founder of South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival. In 1994 film was added. Black is a SXSW Director with direct responsibility for SXSW Film. He was a director at Cinema Texas, a graduate student-run Film Society at UT. A founding board member of the Austin Film Society, he is a past president of that group.

Most recently, Black was part of a small team of people who worked with the City of Austin to convert hangers at the abandoned Mueller Airport to Austin studios, a working film studio.

Jonathan McHugh, Music Supervisor
Jonathan McHugh is well known in the industry for supervising projects such as Austin Powers, Drumline, Rodger Dodger, Dumb and Dumber, Saving Grace, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Rush Hour, Lost in Space, and Trees Lounge.

Karen Skloss: Editor
Karen Skloss is a filmmaker and editor whose most recent editing work, for Atomic Ed & the Black Hole (2001, d. Ellen Spiro), won the Best Documentary Short Film prize at this year's South by Southwest Film Festival, and was recently purchased by HBO. Her short films have shown at Cannes and the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Don Howard: Editor
Don Howard has edited feature films and documentaries for the past 15 years, and has directed and edited his own documentary films for PBS. His credits include Dazed and Confused (1992, d. Richard Linklater) and Cultivating Charlie (1994, d. Alex Georges), and his own films, Letter From Waco (1997) and Nuclear Family (2003). He currently teaches editing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Michael Taylor: Editor
Michael Taylor, the newest member of our production team, edited the 2004 Slamdance Grand Prize winner, Homework, and currently has a film showing in theatres across the country (This So-Called Disaster) starring Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Sam Shepard, and Woody Harrelson.

Amy Shatsky: Associate Producer
Amy Shatsky worked as a producer on Barbara Kopple's Hamptons documentary series for ABC, and as an Associate Producer on Kopple's My Generation, which explores the Woodstock music festivals. Ms. Shatsky recently line-produced a feature-length documentary about Jimmy Hoffa Jr. and the teamsters for HBO. This year she also worked as an accountant for the studio features Stepford Wives and Mona Lisa Smile.