Zuluhoops: a Film about Life and Basketball in Zululand
  
 

 

Z u l u H o o p s . F i l m m a k e r s

 

 
 
Kristin Pichaske ( Director/Producer) is a San Francisco-based documentary film maker who is currently residing in South Africa as Visiting Scholar in the Film and Media dept at the University of Cape Town.   Her work has been honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the National Federation of Press Women and numerous film festivals.   Prior films include: Get in the Know , winner of more than a dozen honors, including a regional Emmy Award; and Guguletu Ballet , winner of a student Emmy Award and the Anti-Defamation League's Dore Schary Award.   Kristin recently contributed to an educational documentary initiative launched by Lucasfilm/Paramount Pictures, scheduled for release in 2006, and continues to work for Lucasfilm as a field producer in Africa.   She holds a BS in journalism from Northwestern University and a Masters in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University.
  
 

John Neely (Co-Producer, Sound Recordist) is a Boston-based independent filmmaker currently teaching and developing a documentary series about South African Writers at the University of the Western Cape near Cape Town. He recently edited the award-winning feature Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckely and his own films have screened on U.S. television and at numerous festivals including Full Frame, the Denver International Film Festival, the San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival, and Bandits-Mages.   He holds an MA in documentary film from Stanford University.

  

 

 

 

Thomas Burns (Director of Photography) is a Los Angeles-based cinematographer whose fiction and documentary credits include The Village , Past Next Week , Train , The Handgun, Somebody Like Us Gotta Keep Fighting for Us and The Ranch . His film Revolutions Per Minute, which he both directed and shot, received a Student Academy Award in 2002. Thomas holds a Master's degree from Stanford University's Graduate Program in Documentary Film and Video, and was nominated for the 2002 American Society of Cinematographers' John Seitz Heritage Award for outstanding work in the field of motion picture photography.

 

 
   
 

Kristin Pichaske - Director/Producer
kp@kppix.com

 

ZuluHoops is made possible by generous grants from the Fleischhacker Foundation,The Institute of International Education (Fulbright), The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The Anti-Defamation League, The California Historical Society, Prosperity Media and Private Donors.

 

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