ABOUT FIREPROOF PRODUCTIONS

Fireproof Productions is a collaboration of three Bay Area filmmakers: Christine Murray, Liz Pike, and Sharon Rutter, who have come together to create "Demon of the Derby: The Ann Calvello Story." We have been working on the film since June of 1998, when we first met Ann at a Roller Derby match in San Francisco. The film is now in post-production, and we expect to have a finished cut by October 2000.

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SHARON MARIE RUTTER (Director, Editor) has been working in Bay Area film and video for the past seven years. In 1993, she wrote, directed and edited a documentary "Wilson Albert: My Favorite Man Behind Bars" a profile of a legendary San Francisco bartender. She also directed and edited "Strike "94" about the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper strike, which aired at the 1994 Labor Film Festival. As an editor, her projects include "Forever Wild," a six-episode documentary series on the National Park System for the Disney Channel, "The Art of Selling Hollywood" an hour long documentary on the marketing of Hollywood films for American Movie Classics; "Yan Can Cook: The Best of Asia," an emmy-award winning PBS cooking series of 52 episodes, "Ultimate Antarctica" a nature documentary for Full Circle Productions, and "Veiled Memories" a chronicle of a San Francisco Commission installation for Walker Productions.
CHRISTINE MURRAY (Co-Producer) has 11 years experience as an independent film and theater producer. She currently serves as the Resident Producer of the award-winning Antenna Theater, an experimental company that mixes new technologies and electronic media with the ancient forms of puppet and mask theater. Prior to her tenure at Antenna, she served as the Development Director for Film Arts Foundation of San Francisco. She is also a founding member of shift a Bay Area collective of theater and film artists focusing on site-specific work. In 1996 she founded Philomel productions, and has produced and directed such 16mm film projects as Epiphany, Equations, and the Super-8 film Suck & Blow. She also produced and directed a series of in-store promotional videos for corporate client CP Shades.
ELIZABETH PIKE (Co-Producer) has been instrumental in several multi-media and video productions in the Bay Area. At Veritage Productions, she and Sharon Rutter collaborated efforts on three documentaries: "The Art of Selling Hollywood," "Ultimate Antarctica," and "Veiled Memories." In the multi-media realm, she designed an interactive CD-ROM script for IBM Corporation, and served as Associate Producer for "Secret Paths in the Forest," a CD-ROM adventure game for Purple Moon Media.

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