Todd Sarner, Content Advisor
Todd has known Mark Bingham since middle school when the two of them explored their budding interest in becoming filmmakers. Fortunately for the world, this passion for film led them to record hundreds of hours of their adventures together from childhood up to the month before Mark died.

Scott Gracheff, Director / Producer
Scott Gracheff is an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker with over 18 years experience in Film/TV production. Most recently, Scott was a PBS staff producer-director in the San Francisco Bay Area and developed, produced and directed numerous documentary and non-fiction projects for both local and national PBS audiences over a 10-year period. In 2007 Scott produced and directed 2 documentaries that aired along with the Ken Burn’s PBS series The War. Soldados explores the experience of Latino WWII soldiers of while Nisei Soldiers tells the story of the war through the eyes of Japanese-American soldiers. Soldados went on to earn a 2008 Emmy Award Nomination for Best Historical/Cultural Program.  In 2006 he directed Dave Tatsuno, Movies and Memories, a documentary that tells the inspiring life story of a man who smuggled his 8mm film camera into the Japanese internment camp at Topaz, Utah and documented his family’s 3 year experience behind barbed wire.  This film won a 2006 San Francisco Peninsula Press Club documentary award. In 2003 Scott directed, Return To The Valley, a documentary that explores the Japanese-American experience after WWII, which won a 2004 Emmy Award for Best Community Program. He also produced and directed 8 seasons of video i, the SF Bay Area’s long running independent film and video series specializing in presenting diverse artists and subject matter. Having recently left the world of PBS, Scott continues to look for stories that fall under the radar of mainstream media with the goal to create quality original content that educates, entertains and inspires.

Chris Million, Director of Photography / Associate Producer
Chris Million has been a film and television Director of Photography for over 20 years and has received many awards for his work, including a 2004 Emmy for the PBS historical documentary Return to the Valley. He also shot and/or produced over 150 segments for the Emmy-winning PBS educational show Real Science!, in locations from Alaska to the Everglades. Chris was the Director of Photography and Director for several years of the long-running PBS interview show Malone, working with everyone from film critic Roger Ebert to President Jimmy Carter. He also shot and produced segments for the ground-breaking PBS technology news show, Silicon Valley Report, and has contributed to many other national public television projects. His commercial network credits include numerous feature segments and shows for Fox Sports, A&E, ABC, TNT, MTV and other networks. Chris is the Director of Photography on the forthcoming feature documentary It Came From Kuchar, slated for release in 2009 and is the director of the documentary series Jack London: 20th Century Man, coming to PBS in 2010. Chris’s work has been presented with the Emmy, CINE Golden Eagle, and Telly Awards, as well as numerous educational media awards. Chris holds a BS in Film and Television from Syracuse University.

Holly Million, Producer
Holly is a producer and consultant with nearly two decades’ experience in fundraising and corporate sponsorship. In addition to securing funding for A Story of Healing, which won the 1997 Academy Award for best short-subject documentary, Holly has raised money for such cutting-edge films as Blind Spot: Murder by Women, a film by Oscar-winning filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf that premiered on HBO in 2000, Everyday Heroes, a film by Oscar-nominated director Rick Goldsmith that aired on PBS, and It Came From Kuchar, a documentary film about underground filmmaker George Kuchar for national cable broadcast. Holly produced, wrote, and directed Changing Room, a dramatic film focused on women and body-image that had its television debut on PBS in October 2005. Holly has an MA in education from Stanford University and a BA in English from Harvard University.