Friendly Captivity
Seven diverse Dallas women, strangers, brought together by a journey through southern India. Their objective is to observe, meet and hear the stories of women and children living very differently from themselves - the Dalits the "Untouchables" of India.
Face-to-face, smile-to-smile, hand-to-hand ………would anything be different in just two weeks, would anything of consequence happen by listening to "hear"?
Sue Sullins, Director-Producer, Co-Editor
Sue Sullins is a first time filmmaker with no experience in filmmaking. The vision for the film and the question posed were an irresistible force in driving it to completion.
The beauty and impact of the project emanates from the combined spirits of the all those involved in it from conception to completion and the amalgamation of their considerable gifts and talents by a power beyond any one person.
Re-Wire Productions, LLC was founded by Sue Sullins in 2007 for the purpose of producing documentary films.
Sue is a founding partner of Sullins & Associates, which operated McDonald's restaurants in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area from 1979 through 2008. During that time she served in multiple national leadership roles on behalf of McDonald's franchisees in the United States. These roles included 5 years as Vice Chair and Chief Operating Officer of the National Leadership Council and 2 years as Chair of the Operators National Advertising Fund, which purchases media on behalf of the U.S. franchisee and company owned restaurants.
Sue is a graduate of North Texas University with a B.A. in Speech and Drama and holds an M.S. degree in Speech and Language Pathology from Texas Christian University.
Rick Gershon, Director of Photography
Rick Gershon is a Multimedia Photojournalist & Filmmaker who has been passionate about telling the story of the poor and the oppressed. Through the power of visual story telling, Rick hopes to make a significant change in the plight of the less fortunate.
CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
Getty Images, Staff Multimedia Photojournalist, 2007-Present- Webby Award, People's Choice for Individual Documentary Episode
- National Emmy nomination for New Approaches to Documentary Storytelling
- Multiple National Press Photographers Association Awards
- Numerous Pictures of the Year (POYi)Awards
- Webby Award, Individual Documentary Episode
- Named among Top 25 Up and Coming Photographers in America by the Center for documentary Studies at Duke University 2006
- Member of staff awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Morning News' coverage of Hurricane Katrina 2006
- Received two Regional Emmys for documentary video work
- B.A. Photojournalism, University of North Texas, 2004
Bret Curry, Co-Editor
Bret Curry was the first to join the crew of the film as camera person for all scenes shot in the United States during the months leading up to and then following the India trip.
He experienced his first overseas assignment as second camera during the India portion of the trip shooting under extremely challenging conditions.
Bret has been editing film since he was in middle school, he has apprenticed as a camera under Rick Gershon and he has an artist's eye. This along with his knowledge of every moment of the 150 plus hours of film we had captured pre, during and post India made him the perfect editor to help capture the vision and ethos of the experience in the 53 minutes of completed film.
Bret Curry is co-founder of Glasswave Media a media production company focusing on high-quality visual content for web-based marketing campaigns, documentary and narrative film production and short form content via it's own Broadcasting network.
Bret is also co-founder of glasswave.tv an Internet broadcasting network that is an extension of Glasswave Media. Programming includes profiles and interviews with artists, designers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers and linchpins from many different worlds.
Bret Curry is a graduate of the University of Texas Arlington.
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