The Tiger Next Door, a documentary film about white tigers in captivity in the US
Credits
The Tiger Next Door is an independent documentary film production of Rolling River Films produced in association with Animal Planet. Made possible, in part, by grants from the New York State Council of the Arts and The Culture and Animals Foundation.
BIOS
Camilla Calamandrei, Director & Producer
Award winning documentary filmmaker and interactive producer Calamandrei began her journey into the world of American captive bred tigers in 2003—when a long time tiger owner in the New York area (the “tiger lady” Joan Byron Marasek) was forced to surrender 24 tigers, found to be living in unsafe, inhumane conditions. Following those tigers to their new home in Texas led the filmmaker to a myriad of other captive bred tiger stories around the country. Camilla has previously produced and directed two other independent documentaries about uniquely American stories that were broadcast on PBS and abroad. The historical documentary “Prisoners in Paradise” was voted Best of Festival at the Rhode Island Film Festival in 2001, and the short subject documentary about Ballroom dancing “At Arm’s Length” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1990. In addition to making documentary films, Camilla has worked as live action director/producer for The Jim Henson Company, and as a producer of interactive media for Scholastic and LEGO.
Bernadine Colish, Editor
A talented documentary film editor with a great sense of story and poetry, Bernadine Colish is known for crafting films that take audiences seemlessly on complicated, subtle and deeply human journeys. Her recent film “Herb and Dorothy” (director/producer Migumi Sasaki) won the Audience Award at Silverdocs, 2008. The Ellen Spiro/ Phil Donahue documentary that Bernadine edited “BODY OF WAR,” was runner up for the prestigious Audience Award at Toronto Film Fest 2007.
Tamara Goldsworthy, Cinematographer
A passionate animal lover, and talented cinematographer—has built her career shooting independent documentaries, including projects for HBO, the BBC, NBC, ABC, Discovery Channel, MSNBC, Burma Border Projects and various independent producers. Her credits include Big Mama, which won the 2000 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject, “Shut Up and Sing” (2007) and “The Calling” (2008). Goldsworthy got her start in shooting documentaries with the acclaimed veríte cinematographer Joan Churchill.
Dana Kupper, Cinematographer
Dana Kupper was co-winner of the ‘Excellence in Cinematography’ award for the documentary “Stevie” at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. And, was the primary cinematographer on “5 Girls” for Kartemquin Films, which aired on POV (PBS).
FULL CREDIT LIST
Director • Producer
Camilla Calamandrei
Editor
Bernadine Colish
Camera
Tamara Goldsworthy & Dana Kupper
Location Sound
George Yuri Raicin, Misho Stawnychy, Diane Zander,
Mark Mandler, Andrew Garrison, John Murphy
Original Music
Joel Goodman
Additional Camera
Eddie Marritz, Deborah Lewis, Marie-Joelle Rizk
Creative Advisor
Michelle Ferrari
Consulting Producers
Louise Rosen, Lisa Leeman
Research
Dawn Brown, Judith Calamandrei, Donny Rowles
Business Advisor
Title Design
Amit Sethi
For Animal Planet
Marc Etkind, V.P. Development
Erin Wanner, Executive Producer
Betsy LeDonne, Dir. Prod. Management
Vaibhav Bhatt, Assoc. Producer
Splash Studios, New York
Barbara Parks, Sound Editor
Peter Levin, Rerecording Mixer
Framerunner, New York
Keith Shapiro, Online Producer
Jon Fordham, Editor and Colorist
Archival Footage courtesy of:
Indiana Department of Natural Resources
Riverside County District Attorney’s Office
IFAW, International Fund for Animal Welfare
KAAL-TV Channel 6
KGBT 4
KGO-TV
WFLA-TV Channel 8
CNN ImageSource
FOX 59 Indianapolis
Lorri Endicott
Nola Gilles
Eddie Henderson
Brian Czarnik
Transcription
Margaret Davis, Bonnie Hagenbuch
Web Design
Eric Reckling
Web Site Construction
Jason Chin
Poster Design
Fiscal Sponsor
Funding
This film was made possible in part from contributions from:
Culture & Animals Foundation
and with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
For more info please contact: TheTigerNextDoor@gmail.com
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A documentary film about captive wild animals, people who keep tigers as pets, backyard tiger breeders, white tigers, the exotic pet trade, a black market for tiger bone, pelts and meat, tiger conservation, tiger attacks, people mauled by tigers, bears, cougars and chimps, Siegfried and Roy. Also concerning, human-animal relationships, animal law, and animal hoarding in the United States. Filmed on location in Indiana, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, California, and Wisconsin. Director, Producer Camilla Calamandrei, Rolling River Films.
