Executive Producers
Steve Michelson
Jack Kohler
Director
Carlos Bolado
Producers
Jack Kohler
Steve Michelson
Stephen Most
Narrator
Jack Kohler
Writer
Stephen Most
Associate Producers
Sara Mott
Gabriela Quiros
Camera
Carlos Bolado
Gerrid Joy
Jack Kohler
Steve Michelson
George Speez
Editors
Rhonda Collins
Jack Kohler
Online Editor
Dan Newitt
Art Director
Rebecca Holland
Sound
Matty Nematollahi
Bri Robinson
Steve Most & Jack Kohler receiving
award at AIFF
award at AIFF
Jack Kohler
Characters In the Film
Jack Kohler
Timm Williams
Merkie Oliver
Lavina Bowers
Raymond Mattz
Susan Bowers Masten
Cecil Andrus
Richard McCovey
Jimmy Jackson
Stuart Lauden
Julian Lang
Lyle Marshall
Kim Rushton
Ron Reed
Brenda Olson
Chance Gowan
Leaf Hillman
Ike Hillman
John Anderson
Bob Anderson
Larry Dunsmoor
Dino Herrera
Mike Thompson
Dick Cheney
Gale Norton
Craig Barbie
Craig Tucker
Tammy Quigley
Dan Bacher
Timm Williams
Merkie Oliver
Lavina Bowers
Raymond Mattz
Susan Bowers Masten
Cecil Andrus
Richard McCovey
Jimmy Jackson
Stuart Lauden
Julian Lang
Lyle Marshall
Kim Rushton
Ron Reed
Brenda Olson
Chance Gowan
Leaf Hillman
Ike Hillman
John Anderson
Bob Anderson
Larry Dunsmoor
Dino Herrera
Mike Thompson
Dick Cheney
Gale Norton
Craig Barbie
Craig Tucker
Tammy Quigley
Dan Bacher
Carlos Bolado, Director
Carlos Bolado is an internationally respected director and editor. He directed and edited the feature film Solo Dios Sabe, a Sundance Film Festival selection; he edited Like Water For Chocolate; he co-directed and edited Promises, which won film festival awards around the world and an Academy Award nomination; and he wrote, directed and edited Bajo California, a Sundance Film Festival selection which won the Best Film Award at several international film festivals and seven Ariels, the Mexican Oscar. Bolado received a MacArthur/Rockefeller fellowship in 2001 and a Mexican National Artist subsidy in 2003. His work for television includes directing "Lonely Planet, Mexico City" for the Discovery Channel.
Jack Kohler, On-Camera Narrator / Producer
A student of engineering at Stanford, Kohler is an actor and filmmaker. He has played TECUMSEH, CRAZY HORSE, and CAPTAIN JACK in outdoor theatrical productions, and Kohler played the lead role, a Yurok gillnetter, in Stephen Most's play WATERSHED. He has also acted in numerous films and television programs. Kohler edited KARUK CREATION STORY drawing from River of Renewal footage, that was broadcast on PBS stations in November, 2002. He is associate producer of a television documentary program on Indian gaming, CALIFORNIA'S LOST TRIBES. Kohler currently works for the Auburn Rancheria training Indian youth in video production, and each summer he works with American Indian youth in making short features for the American Indian Film Festival.
Steve Michelson, Executive Producer
A producer with more than thirty years' experience in the production and distribution of documentary films and videos, Michelson in recent years has become a leader in DVD publishing. Oil On Ice, a documentary that Michelson executive-produced and Stephen Most wrote, is the model for the distribution of River of Renewal. It has been broadcast on PBS stations nationwide and is being distributed as a web-linked DVD by Bullfrog Films and Warner Home Video.
Stephen Most, Writer/Producer
Most is a playwright and documentary storyteller. Many of his plays and documentary films have historical subjects. Among the documentaries that Most has written or on which he worked as consulting writer are four Academy Award nominees and two Emmy Award-winners. He also wrote the texts, audio voices, and video scripts for the permanent exhibit of the Washington State History Museum. His book River of Renewal, Myth and History in the Klamath Basin was co-published by the Oregon Historical Society Press and the University of Washington Press in September, 2006.
Rhonda Collins, Editor
Among her more recent credits as an editor are ¡Salud!, a 90-min documentary about Cuba's International Health Program, Sound of the Soul, documenting the Fez World Sacred Music Festival, and Oil on Ice, an hour-long program that examines the potential impact of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Other editing credits include: Brother Outsider: the Life of Bayard Rustin, Searching for Asian America, InsideOut, a local independent production about bulimia, OUT: the Making of a Revolutionary, which won the audience award at the Paris Lesbian Film Festival in 2001 and we don't live under NORMAL CONDITIONS.
Carlos Bolado is an internationally respected director and editor. He directed and edited the feature film Solo Dios Sabe, a Sundance Film Festival selection; he edited Like Water For Chocolate; he co-directed and edited Promises, which won film festival awards around the world and an Academy Award nomination; and he wrote, directed and edited Bajo California, a Sundance Film Festival selection which won the Best Film Award at several international film festivals and seven Ariels, the Mexican Oscar. Bolado received a MacArthur/Rockefeller fellowship in 2001 and a Mexican National Artist subsidy in 2003. His work for television includes directing "Lonely Planet, Mexico City" for the Discovery Channel.
Jack Kohler, On-Camera Narrator / Producer
A student of engineering at Stanford, Kohler is an actor and filmmaker. He has played TECUMSEH, CRAZY HORSE, and CAPTAIN JACK in outdoor theatrical productions, and Kohler played the lead role, a Yurok gillnetter, in Stephen Most's play WATERSHED. He has also acted in numerous films and television programs. Kohler edited KARUK CREATION STORY drawing from River of Renewal footage, that was broadcast on PBS stations in November, 2002. He is associate producer of a television documentary program on Indian gaming, CALIFORNIA'S LOST TRIBES. Kohler currently works for the Auburn Rancheria training Indian youth in video production, and each summer he works with American Indian youth in making short features for the American Indian Film Festival.
Steve Michelson, Executive Producer
A producer with more than thirty years' experience in the production and distribution of documentary films and videos, Michelson in recent years has become a leader in DVD publishing. Oil On Ice, a documentary that Michelson executive-produced and Stephen Most wrote, is the model for the distribution of River of Renewal. It has been broadcast on PBS stations nationwide and is being distributed as a web-linked DVD by Bullfrog Films and Warner Home Video.
Stephen Most, Writer/Producer
Most is a playwright and documentary storyteller. Many of his plays and documentary films have historical subjects. Among the documentaries that Most has written or on which he worked as consulting writer are four Academy Award nominees and two Emmy Award-winners. He also wrote the texts, audio voices, and video scripts for the permanent exhibit of the Washington State History Museum. His book River of Renewal, Myth and History in the Klamath Basin was co-published by the Oregon Historical Society Press and the University of Washington Press in September, 2006.
Rhonda Collins, Editor
Among her more recent credits as an editor are ¡Salud!, a 90-min documentary about Cuba's International Health Program, Sound of the Soul, documenting the Fez World Sacred Music Festival, and Oil on Ice, an hour-long program that examines the potential impact of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Other editing credits include: Brother Outsider: the Life of Bayard Rustin, Searching for Asian America, InsideOut, a local independent production about bulimia, OUT: the Making of a Revolutionary, which won the audience award at the Paris Lesbian Film Festival in 2001 and we don't live under NORMAL CONDITIONS.
