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Documentary Team

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	*Ken Lawrence* Director of Programming HoustonPBS Ken is the Executive in Charge of Production for HoustonPBS on the Trouvadore documentary project. A graduate of The University of Texas from the School of Radio-TV-Film, he has been in public television for over twenty years. He has worked at KLRN/KLRU, Austin/San Antonio, WNIT, South Bend, Indiana, WPTD/WPTO Dayton/Oxford, Ohio and has been Director of Programming at KUHT in Houston since 1993. Ken is a two-term member of the Board of the Public Television Programmer's Association (1997-present) and serves on the Executive Committee. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Houston's School of Communications since 1995.

	*Richard Coberly* Producer/Director Windward Media Richard is an award winning photographer and veteran of more than 30 years in the visual communications field, and he is equally at home behind a still camera, TV camera, or in the directors chair. A native of Texas, he is a founding partner in Windward Media. Recent broadcast projects include Sailing Blind, In Search of La Salle, and the EMMY Award winning Wit, Grit, and Robot Games for HoustonPBS. His production experience also includes music videos, video camping guides, and a sailing series for the Travel Channel.

	*Veronica Veerkamp* Producer/Writer Windward Media Veronica is lead researcher, writer, and producer for Windward Media. Born and raised in Kansas, she is an experienced sailor and aviator. Her filmmaking interests encompass science, history, and stories of personal achievement. Previous film projects include the award winning In Search of La Salle, Sailing Blind, and the Emmy winning Wit, Grit, and Robot Games produced for HoustonPBS.

	*Eric Stange* Consulting Director Spy Pond Productions Eric is an award-winning independent documentary film producer, director and writer who specializes in history and science subjects. His work has been broadcast on PBS, The Discovery Channel, and the BBC. Before becoming a filmmaker he wrote about art and culture for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly, The Independent (London), and other publications. Eric is the Executive Producer and Director of Spy Pond Productions, and is consulting director for historical re-enactments for the Trouvadore story.

	*Fujio Watanabe* Editor/Videographer HoustonPBS Fujio is Videographer/Editor for the Trouvadore documentary. His quest to tell stories has taken him across the world from the first-world metropolis of Taipei, Taiwan to the haunting killing fields of Wounded Knee, to the launching of the International Space Station at Cape Canaveral. Fujio is part of a team of storytellers that has received countless Emmys, Gracies and other awards. In addition to doing “socially redeeming video”, he has worked on music videos and independent feature films.

	Collaborators

	*David Bowen* TCI Culture & Arts Commission David lectures, performs and coordinates much of the cultural activity that takes place nationally and internationally. He was born in the TCI, and grew up in Bambarra and in Middle Caicos. He is an acclaimed choreographer and performer, having traveled widely and performed in the USA, Europe and Japan. David is a Trustee of the TC National Museum and is President of the Turks and Caicos Islands Friends of the Arts Foundation. He is the chief TCI culture consultant and heritage spokesman for the Trouvadore documentary project.

	*Jorge Giovannetti* University of Puerto Rico Jorge is the project's Spanish language research coordinator and advisor. He is currently conducting archival research in Cuba, Trouvadore's origin and intended destination. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), he completed his PhD at London Metropolitan University on black British subjects in Cuba during the early 20th century. His research interests include Caribbean race, ethnicity and identity; migration; and music. He is book review editor of Caribbean Studies, and on the international advisory board of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

	*David Hebb* Institute of Historical Research David has conducted extensive research in British archives on 19th-century shipwrecks in the Caicos Islands, in particular about the Trouvadore incident. He has twenty years of experience researching shipwrecks, and is currently focusing on English East India Company vessels. His main field of interest is European maritime and economic history, 1500-1800.