Eva Darrington
Eva’s personal connection with the history and evolution of Sound Circle and her belief in the healing influence of creative media are two cornerstones of this documentary project. She believes it is time for visual media to truthfully and respectfully portray women relating to their bodies, discovering the wisdom of their bodies, and navigating the world in life affirming ways. The On Bodies project provides a necessary point of access to positive, authentic images for women and girls, informing and empowering them in their relationships with themselves, with other women, and with men.

Eva is a holistic psychotherapist, specializing in addiction and body-centered therapies. Her own recovery from addiction and her daily practice of conscious relationship with food and body inform her life and her work. She is currently a music programmer/producer for KXCI Community Radio in Tucson, has performed as a singer, actor, and Afro-Cuban drummer, and is currently studying film and television production.

Francesca Meza
Bio is not available.

Frank Barrera

Frank Barrera is a NYC-based cinematographer who will shoot just about anything for food. Recent work includes episodes of WNYC's Cool in Your Code; Discovery Channel's B Smith with Style and a music video for the reggae artist Empire Isis. He was also the Director of Photography for Tim McCann's narrative feature Runaway (Tribeca Film Festival 2005).

As director, Frank began production on the documentary None of the Above back in 1998. It is the story of Puerto Rico's epic struggle for self determination. For three years, the production found itself based in Tucson, Arizona, where Frank was living with his wife Sarah. It was here that he became associated with the avante gard talents of Pan Left. Together they worked to develop the structure of this very large story. However, NYC was calling Frank and he answered by returning to his native city back in 2003.

As None of the Above enters its final phase of production Frank will continue to turn to Pan Left for the kind of support that can only come from a bunch of wild-eyed desert filmmakers.

Germar D. Townsend
Germar began his life in media at a very young age. At age seven he was featured in a cable reality series focused on youth—Small Talk. After spending much of his teen years performing and producing, Germar landed at Georgia State University. At GSU, Germar was an interdisciplinary studies major with a concentration in Multi-media Technology and Relations. Those studies included courses in film, recording technology, entertainment business, journalism and public relations. After a few years of working in independent production, Germar completed a Master’s program at the University of Colorado at Denver in Recording Arts. His post-graduate gigs have included teaching digital video, video production at First Beach Productions, Peachtree City UMC and CU Online and audio production for Aldea Spiritual Community, Iliff Park and a professional basketball team. When Germar isn’t in a studio, he’s working with teens as a counselor, coach, mentor or instructor. A term with AmeriCorps*VISTA, as Youth Development Director, sparked his desire to advocate for the youth of Greater Tucson. This passion led to his involvement with Pan Left and the production of his first documentary, AT RISK: in their own words.

Gordon Simmons
Bio is not available.

Heather Lares
A Pan Left member since 2000, Heather Lares has worked on several productions, including Border Crossing/ Cruzando Fonteras (produced with Jeff Imig), Shutting Down the Stacks: San Manuel, Poisoned! The Workers of Brush Wellman, and I Was a Teenage Prostitute (videographer). She says she makes videos because she has to. “ I feel compelled to provide a voice that talks about things that mainstream media doesn’t." Heather is a graduate of the University of Arizona Media Arts program.

Jamie A. Lee


(Producer/Director/Editor) is an award-winning independent filmmaker who runs Visionaries Filmworks, a production company dedicated to social justice media. She is also a Producing Member and former Co-Executive Director of Pan Left Productions, a social justice filmmaking collective in Tucson, Arizona. Lee is the recipient of the 2009 Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant to assist her in post-production on her latest documentary film project, aguamiel: secrets of the agave. aguamiel: secrets of the agave is Lee's fourth documentary feature (http://www.aguamiel-documentary.com). Lee screened clips of this collaborative film project and presented with her co-director at the 2008 Women's World Congress in Madrid, Spain and the 2008 National Communications Association (NCA) Annual Convention in San Diego. Lee's last film, Green Green Water (©2006), about the Cree Nations in northern Manitoba who are organizing to critically re-consider the construction of large-scale hydroelectric dams premiered at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival (Toronto), the American Indian Film Festival (San Francisco), and the Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival (Toronto). The film is currently being considered for distribution through Native American Public Television and will have its U.S. National Cable Broadcast Premiere on Free Speech TV on March 7, 2009. The film project's video blog was a featured podcast in 2005 on Apple iTunes and has been featured in WIRED Magazine for innovative use of Video Blogging for networking and fundraising. (www.greengreenwater.com) Lee's first film, Treading Water: a documentary (©2001) was awarded Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Documentary by an Emerging Filmmaker at the 2002 Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival and has broadcast on PBS affiliates throughout the Midwest. Lee's second film, THIS obedience (©2003), was awarded the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at the 2003 Central Standard Film Festival and is currently being distributed through American Public Television and the National Film Network. Lee is currently teaching documentary film at City High School in downtown Tucson and facilitating Grrrls Literary/Media Activism Workshops through Kore Press. She is also directing the Arizona LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Storytelling Project: Community Histories, a Pan Left-supported project, to lay the groundwork of an Arizona LGBT Archives to be housed and accessible through the University of Arizona's LGBT Studies Institute. If you're interested in this project, email jamie@panleft.org. Public Presentations of my work Family in the Northland (1992) director/editor/director of photography PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: University of Wisconsin in Superior That Red Van (1992) director/editor/director of photography PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: Broadcast on the University of Wisconsin in Superior’s Public Access Channel Coming Out (1993) director/editor/director of photography PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: 1993 University of Minnesota’s National “Coming Out Day” Celebration Treading Water: a documentary (2001) director/editor/director of photography/graphic designer PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: 2002 Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Winnipeg LGBT Film Festival Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) & American Sociological Association (ASA) 2007 Annual Conference in NY, NY Broadcast on Minnesota PBS affiliates Featured and interviewed in an episode of the national PBS LGBT newsmagazine “In The Life” in October 2004. Blind Lust (2002) director/editor/director of photography PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: 2002 Minneapolis 5 x 24 Short Film Festival THIS obedience (2003) producer/director/editor/director of photography www.thisobedience.com PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival WORLD PREMIERE San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival U.S. PREMIERE North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival Central Standard Film Festival Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Reel Affirmations International GLBT Film Festival Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Winnipeg Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival Reeling 2003 Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival PrideFest5, Utah State University’s Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Reel Indentities 2004, New Orleans LGBT Film Festival Witness Our Welcome Conference at University of Pennsylvania Affirmation (Gay and Lesbian Mormons) Conference Together in Faith Conference Gather Us In Conference CELEBRATE! Ecumenical Youth Conference 2003 Voting Member Mailing supported by a grant from the Headwaters Fund For Social Justice in which a VHS copy of the film was mailed to each of the 1,200 ECLA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Voting Members prior to the ELCA Churchwide Assembly. 2003 College & Seminary Outreach Tour supported by a grant from the Larsen Foundation (Hamline University, Luther College, Concordia College, UC-Davis, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at the Pacific School of Religion, Luther Seminary, University of Minnesota – Duluth, Texas Lutheran University, University of South Dakota, Cornell University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Western Michigan University, Oregon State University, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Gustavus Adolphus College) Currently being distributed by American Public Television, National Film Network, Wingspan Ministry, and Lutherans Concerned/North America (LCNA). Green Green Water (2006) producer/co-director/editor www.greengreenwater.com PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: imagineNATIVE Film Festival (Toronto, ON) WORLD PREMIERE American Indian Film Festival (San Francisco, CA) U.S. PREMIERE Planet In Focus International Environmental Film Festival (Toronto, ON) Native Spirit Film & Video Festival (London, UK) Cambridge Film Festival (Cambridge, UK) Environmental Film Festival sponsored by SK Eco-Network (Saskatchewan, SK) IFP/PHX (Independent Feature Project/Phoenix) Cinema Lounge (Phoenix, AZ & Tucson, AZ) National Film Board of Canada’s Citizen Shift “Water” Tour screening in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, Lethbridge, Winnipeg, and Welland Duluth Environmental Film Festival (Duluth, MN) See the Light Energy Festival (Minneapolis, MN) Northern Lights Film Festival (Ely, MN) Bell Museum of Natural History (sponsored by EcoWatch, Fresh Energy, and Amnesty International’s University of Minnesota Chapter) Washington DC Environmental Film Festival (sponsored by NRDC) Manitoba Advanced Screening Tour (sponsored by Interfaith Task Force on Northern Hydro Development, University of Manitoba Aboriginal Students Association and Student Care) City Pages Get Real: Documentary Film Festival 2005 VLOG (video blog/video podcast) launched on Apple iTunes to over 15,000 subscribers for which we were featured in WIRED magazine in a story about creative filmmakers using the web for outreach, networking, and fundraising for social justice documentary films. Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) & American Sociological Association (ASA) 2007 Annual Conference in NY, NY American Sociological Association 2007 Annual Conference in NY, NY 2008 Expo Zaragoza International Water Conference in Zaragoza, Spain Scheduled for broadcast on Free Speech TV in March 2009. Currently in distribution negotiations with Native American Public Television. “aguamiel: secrets of the agave” (in post-production) co-producer/co-director/editor/director of photography www.aguamiel-documentary.com PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: 2008 Women’s Worlds Congress in Madrid, Spain 2008 National Communications Association Annual Convention in San Diego, CA “We Are What We Eat: nourishing gestures” (in post-production) producer/director/editor/director of photography “imagine” (ready for post-production; organizing music rights) producer/director/editor/director of photography

Jason Aragón
J.M. has been involved in production for over eight years in Tucson, Arizona. He graduated from the University of Arizona Media Arts program in 2000 and then went into local studio television, where he became a studio television director. He then moved into independent film and joined the Pan Left in 2004. With the Pan Left collective he has designed and taught workshops in pre-production, production, and editing. In 2006 his documentary PRESENTE was a finalist in the Arizona International Film Festival. In 2008 his short Palestine En Solidaridad was accepted into SXSWclick Fest and the AFI Film Festival. He continues to work with activists and grassroots organizations in Tucson to produce documentaries that deal with the life and culture along the border region.