Vicky Funari is a documentary filmmaker, editor, and teacher. She produced, directed and edited the documentaries Maquilápolis [city of factories] (2006) and Paulina (1998); co-directed and edited Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000); and produced, directed, and edited the experimental short skin•es•the•si•a (1994). Her films have screened at many prominent festivals, including Sundance, Locarno, Rotterdam, San Francisco International, and Tribeca. Awards include San Francisco International’s Grand Jury and Audience Awards; broadcasts include PBS, the Sundance Channel, and Televisa. Funari directed the 3-year Maquilápolis binational Community Campaign, working with activist organizations and factory workers to promote public dialogue and social change. Funari is a Guggenheim Fellow and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. She is a Visual Media Scholar at Haverford College, where she teaches filmmaking and has helped build the college’s new Visual Studies program, which launched in 2017. Other work includes editor of Julie Wyman’s documentary Strong! (2012), founder and programmer of the annual Strange Truth film series (2009-2018), producer of the interdisciplinary collaborative documentary Troubled Waters: Tracing Waste in the Delaware River (2014), and director of Haverford’s Tuttle Summer Arts Lab (2016).

Brashear is an emerging documentary filmmaker and editor, exploring place, identity, and the body through personal narrative and fantasy. She has been working on Pool Stories since 2013, in various capacities, including co-editor. In Summer 2016, she was selected as Haverford College’s inaugural Emerging Artist in Residence. She was coordinator for the Pool Stories 2016 Tuttle Summer Arts Lab, supervising the collaborative mediamaking activities of student fellows and community members, to develop the campaign and website. In 2014, she was awarded the Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Fellowship by the Hurford Center, to direct and produce the short documentary film Wake, in collaboration with three other Fellows, about the impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf Coast. She is currently producing and directing the short documentary Squirrel Hill Falls, about an abandoned West Philadelphia park.

Many members of our aquacize class are also key participants on the Pool Stories project team. To meet some of them and hear their stories, please click Pool People and check out videos, stories, and pictures about and by our community members throughout this site. Some of the Pool People are: Sally Allen, Joan Bromley, Lauretta Bushar, Lindsay Carota, Destini Cartwright, Madeline Cartwright, Dottie Colzie, Marlene Elkins Kapolka, Maureen Glassman, Libby Goodman, Freddie Grimes, Shellie Herdan, Anne Holsclaw, Anne Iskrant, Mary Jo King, Rachel Levin, Gail Loeb, Lorraine Lopresto, Mary Lou Lukens, Michael Mason, Jeannine Mermet, Martha Noumoff, Patricia O’Halloran, Lee Ocko, Sara Pilling, Ruth Pulwer, Sheila Quinlan, Anna Reed, Mary Francis Reilly, Samuel Rosen, Gerri Rothman, Lisa Pauciello Rowe, Jeanne Ryan, Ben Schranze, Lenette Schranze, Ella Singer, Carolann Straubinger, Denise West, Sherry Witman, and Mary Ziller.

Vivian Kleiman is a veteran documentary filmmaker known for tackling challenging subjects and filmic approaches. A longtime collaborator with landmark filmmaker Marlon Riggs, her credits include the critically acclaimed Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black Is… Black Ain’t. Along with Riggs, she garnered the George Foster Peabody Award, Organization of American Historians’ Eric Barnouw Award, and International Documentary Association’s Outstanding Achievement Award. Kleiman holds the distinctive record of producer or executive producer of eight co-productions with the Independent Television Service (ITVS). Selected credits: executive producer of Julie Wyman’s Strong!, Deann Borshay Liem’s First Person Plural, and Vicky Funari’s Maquilápolis [city of factories].