NILE SOUTHERN, Director/Writer/Producer
Nile Southern is a writer and filmmaker from New York City living in Boulder, Colorado. While still in high school, he studied double-system Super-8 documentary film production with Ricky Leacock, and took classes with Shirley Clarke at UCLA. In New York City, he developed the Exploding Limo filmshow—multi-projector installations in New York dance clubs such as the Pyramid, Danceteria, Cat Club and 8BC, where he also worked as a stage manager. Trained as a film archivist at UCLA, he worked with Jonas Mekas at Anthology Film Archives, and Pennebaker Associates in New York, and was an assistan editor to legendary ‘conceptual designer’ and editor Pablo Ferro. Nile’s film and video work has appeared on stage (La Mama, Steppenwolf Theatre, Theatre for the New City), television (MTV, Nickelodeon, Ovation, Saturday Night Live) and as part of Mark Amerika’s Whitney Biennial installation Grammatron. Nile co-edited NOW DIG THIS; The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern 1950-1995 (with Josh Alan Friedman), Grove/Atlantic (2000), and his book The CANDY Men; The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel, Candy (Arcade, 2004), won ‘Book of the Year’ for Creative Non‐Fiction in Colorado. Nile is the co-editor of the books Yours In Haste and Adoration; Selected Letters by Terry Southern, and Chicago, 1968; The Whole World is Watching, and a new Terry Southern anthology, The HIPSTERS and Other Tastes.
DIANE MARKROW, Producer
Diane Markrow is an independent documentary filmmaker. In addition to Dad Strangelove, she is producing a film about poets Alice Notley and Eileen Myles, now in post-production. Prior documentary credits include: Producer on Beautifully Scary about 21st century American composers; Producer, Bay of All Saints, a portrait of life in the water slums of Salvador, Brazil (SXSW Feature Documentary Audience Award); Executive Producer, RICKY on LEACOCK, tracing his 70 year career and pioneering role in observational filmmaking (Telluride premiere); Producer on No Bigger Than A Minute, a personal rumination about filmmaker Steven Delano’s life as a dwarf (POV); Producer on Bukowski: Born Into This about the writer Charles Bukowski (Sundance premiere, Magnolia Pictures release). She served as Production Executive on The Source, about the influence of Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs on American politics and culture (Sundance premiere, American Masters broadcast). Prior to going independent, she was Director of Programming and Production at PBS affiliate KBDI -TV in Denver. There her credits include: Executive Producer of Tierra O Muerte, a DuPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award recipient; Executive Producer of Stories of Elyria, an Emmy-winning episode of the BBC/PBS co-produced States of Mind series; Executive-in-Charge of Production for The 90s, a national PBS series featuring pieces from independent filmmakers from around the world; Executive-in-Charge of Production for Everything Has A Spirit, also broadcast nationally on PBS and screened in the Native American film program at Sundance, and Executive Producer of Fueling the Future, a 4-part national PBS series on energy use and American values. Diane served as a documentary programmer for the Denver Film Festival for 12 years.
Steven Soderbergh, Executive Producer
Steven Soderbergh, well known for feature films such as MAGIC MIKE, BLACK BAG, OCEANS 11, TRAFFIC and SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE, also directed the documentary AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE about monologist Spalding Gray, and JOHN LENNON: THE LAST INTERVIEW. He served as Producer or Executive Producer on various other documentaries, including: MEMORIES OF LOVE RETURNED, IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?, ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED, HIS WAY about film producer Jerry Weintraub, THE KING on the life of Elvis Presley, and CITIZENFOUR, Oscar recipient for Best Documentary Feature, 2015.