LISA FORBES TRIPP, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Elise (Lisa) Tripp is a graduate of Harvard University and received her MA and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, focusing on American foreign policy.  She was an international relations counselor for UN affairs at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. for fifteen years, specializing in Africa, including development and recovery practices and policies within the UN system in countries recovering from war.  

She taught history for 19 years at the high school and college levels in Washington, DC, Massachusetts and Maryland.  

Her first volume of oral history on war was Surviving Iraq: Soldiers’ Stories (2008) with narratives by thirty veterans.  Her second book was American Veterans on War: Personal Stories from WW II to Afghanistan (2011).  

Born in the Boston area, Tripp now lives in Belmont, MA. She has trained in ESL and has lived and taught in Hong Kong , Kyoto, and Tanzania.  She speaks fluent French.   

eric stange, director/PRODUCER

Eric Stange is an award-winning independent documentary film producer, director and writer who specializes in current affairs as well as cultural and social history. Recent public television credits include THE WALL and AFTER THE WALL – a two-part series about modern Germany; THE MAN WHO MADE WASHINGTON WORK – a profile of Republican icon James A. Baker III, and MURDER AT HARVARD that explores the process of historical inquiry through a compelling murder story (for PBS American Experience). He has been a research fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He is a visiting fellow with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

FRANZISKA BLOME, PRODUCER

Franziska Blome is an Emmy and DuPont-Columbia Award-winning filmmaker and researcher. Currently, she is producing and editing an independent feature documentary about the Elaine Race Massacre and editing another one about the criminal justice system in New Orleans. In the past, Franziska performed the roles of coordinating producer, co-producer, and director of research on many highly acclaimed PBS documentaries, including THE WALL AND AFTER THE WALL, about the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and UNNATURAL CAUSES, about health disparities in the United States. She received her B.A. from the University of Stirling, Scotland and her M.A. from Emerson College, Boston.

BILL ANDERSON, editor

Bill Anderson has been credited in well over one hundred theatrical and broadcast film productions. As a film editor he has worked for more than thirty years on dramatic and documentary features, rising through the ranks of the New York Feature Film world in the 1970’s, serving apprenticeships with Dede Allen (BONNIE AND CLYDE), Alan Heim (ALL THAT JAZZ), Steve Rotter (THE RIGHT STUFF), and other masters of the craft. In Boston since the 1980’s, he has worked on the PBS series NOVA, Frontline/World, American Playhouse, and American Experience, as well as dozens of independent productions, including several with Eric and Franziska. He spent one season as Supervising Editor and Associate Producer of the Fox Television dramatic series AGAINST THE LAW.

He has received several Emmy nominations for Best Documentary Editing and was honored by his peers with the American Cinema Editors ACE Eddy for his work on Al Pacino’s LOOKING FOR RICHARD. As a writer, producer, and director, he has been credited on many documentary specials for the Turner Broadcasting System, National Geographic, and PBS. He attended the film department at UCLA and has taught film editing at Emerson College for the last twelve years.

Adam Pachter, Consulting Producer 

Adam Pachter is a screenwriter and affiliated faculty member at Emerson College. Adam has had projects in development with Amazon Studios, Creative Artists Agency, and a number of Hollywood producers. Adam is also the editor of the FENWAY FICTION series of baseball anthologies, has taught American Literature and Creative Writing at Cambridge College, and has written educational content for the WGBH series American Experience.