Jay Cavallaro, Video Technician
An independent filmmaker and photographer, Cavallaro often investigates the crossing of cultural boundaries in politics, art and the humanities. He has created programming for the BBC, The History Channel, PBS, Lifetime Television, and Worldlink TV. He edited and co-produced Ethiopia: The Face of Hunger, a documentary on the famine and aids crisis in Ethiopia. He was cinematographer and co-producer for the BBC’s Christy Wark Talks to Donna Tartt. He is currently producing a documentary on renowned Cuban pianist/composer and Latin Grammy Winner, Omar Sosa. Cavallaro will travel this spring and summer 2008 to Princeton University, Dartmouth University, San Francisco, Barcelona, Paris and Sardinia for ongoing production on the film. Other current projects include The Global Family, which profiles the stories of transcultural adoptive families, looking at both the personal and political impact of this movement in America. Drysophila Man studies the work of American physicist and molecular biologist Seymour Benzer whose groundbreaking work with the fruit fly, (dysophila) became the genetic basis of animal behavior. Cavallaro will also be filming in Ireland this spring, as one of the directors of photography for the Love, Loss and Forgiveness project, a collaboration with T. Michael Murphy, leader of the early hospice movement and international teacher on issues of healing, creativity and peace. He joins the Visual Arts program at Bennington as video technician in the spring of 2008.
Websites:
www.cavallarofilms.com
www.jaycavallaro.com
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