The Creative Team

Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Composer and Editor

Luis Carlos Davis is an award wining film director/producer born and raised in the border towns of Ambos Nogales, also known as the twin sisters of Nogales, Sonora and Arizona. His life is a product of two countries, two cultures, and two languages which have provided him access and ease of communication with a variety of key players along the Arizona-Mexican border.

Luis Carlos is currently directing and producing two documentaries, one in Mexico and the other one in Arizona. He is also writing a screenplay with the title of “El Hoyo” and co-writing a screenplay with the working title of “Living Gods/Broken Idols.”

Associate Producer

Jennifer L. Jenkins, Ph.D. teaches courses in U.S. and Mexican film history, theory, and aesthetics at the University of Arizona. Committed to film preservation and cultural heritage, Dr. Jenkins is working to develop an archive of amateur and locally-made films about the Arizona-Sonora borderlands.

Associate Producer

Ilan Ziv has been a pioneer in the United States developing a new kind of television documentary in which ordinary people working in collaboration with professionals are producing personal records of their lives. Ilan Ziv produced and co produced “Video Diaries” with the BBC, ARD, Israeli Television, IKON (Dutch TV), PBS (US) and Channel 4 in the UK.

Co-Editor

Tony Gallego has over 12 years of media production experience ranging from independent film to broadcast television. Tony has worked in pre-production and production but most of his experience is in post-production, mainly editing and sound design. He is co-owner of Sierra Moon Productions LLC in Tucson, Arizona and also works in the Media Services Department for University of Arizona.

3D Animation, Motion Graphics, and Website

Andrew McCabe has a Master's degree in Media Arts from the University of Arizona and works full-time for the Office of Student Computing Resources (OSCR) at the U of A. He is the evening supervisor of OSCR's multimedia labs, assisting students, faculty, and staff with multimedia projects and teaching workshops in multimedia software.

Music

Gary Mackender is an accomplished songwriter, accordionist and drummer residing in Tucson, Arizona. His band, the Carnivaleros, (carnivaleros.com) just released their third CD of which one of the cuts, "Alejandro", is woven into the documentary. Mackender is also a visual artist (olpuebloboy.com) who is employed by the University of Arizona as a virtual reality photographer.

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