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Richard Gordon has been involved with numerous projects in China as director of photography or producer. His credits include work for National Geographic, the National Film Board of Canada, NOVA, the independent feature documentary Distant Harmony: Pavarotti in China, and the PBS series China in Revolution. For his previous work, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986 and a Rockefeller Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship in 1988.

Carma Hinton was born in China to American parents and was raised and educated there until 1971; Chinese is her first language and culture. She is a scholar as well as a filmmaker. She received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976, and a Ph.D. in art history from Harvard University. She is a Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University, and has also taught courses in Chinese language, history, and culture at Swarthmore, Middlebury, Wellesley, and Northeastern. For her work in film, she was awarded a Rockefeller Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship in 1988.