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Brooke Maroldi
Brooke grew up in a movie-crazed household where her family could have lengthy conversations entirely made up of dialogue from films. Her Dad, Joe, always seemed to have a super 8 camera in his hand and inspired Brooke to become a filmmaker. Her Mom’s love of opera probably led to Brooke’s parallel career as a storyteller.
Brooke has been making documentaries since 1990. Her award-winning work has appeared in festivals all over the world and on The Learning Channel, Discovery Channel and PBS. In 2000, “Death of a Corner Drugstore,” was nominated for the prestigious International Documentary Association award for best short documentary. Since 2004, she’s been a series writer for the syndicated PBS series “Tracks Ahead.”
She has written several short narrative films and is currently making her first feature film as the writer/director/editor of “Marquette & Juliet.”
| Brooke's Alternate Universe Dream Jobs: v Chef at “Menfi,” a Five Star Sicilian restaurant in Northern California where I only work 2 days a week. Spend the rest of my time overseeing my vineyards and writing novellas. Downside: due to rave reviews of both the restaurant and my novels, the demand for television appearances is overwhelming. I consider going into hiding. v Head of the newly created Department of Art & Culture. I have a huge staff because 93% of the Defense Department budget was transferred here and therefore I only have to work 2 days a week. That time is spent giving out money to non-profits, community arts organizations and individual artists. Downside: I get occasional hand cramps from signing all those checks. v Spy for San Marino, the world’s tiniest country, nestled in the hills of northeastern Italy. |
Greg Ryan
Greg was one of seven children in the rambunctious Ryan household where a sense of humor was de rigueur. His fascination with technology started at a very young age and was fostered by his parents when his mom decided that her sewing room was less important than his workshop area (thanks Mom!) in their overflowing house. Greg fondly recalls trips into Manhattan with his grandfather, where they would walk up and down Canal Street on the lower east side to find interesting electronic parts and curious devices. One of Greg’s earliest mentors was a neighbor who inspired him with the love of electronics as well as the curiosity of a cat.
These experiences led Greg to study electrical engineering at Clarkson College which brought him to Seattle, New Jersey and finally, Milwaukee (whew!). He spent the first part of his career designing digital devices for Singer Kearfott and a couple of dental electronics company (TMJ, anyone?). He graduated to software engineering where he played for hours in Pascal, Clipper and PHP/MySQL. He was in the middle of the BBS revolution, joined in the fun in the early days of the Internet and now programs in PHP, manages real estate and is a practicing realtor.