Jed Riffe Films + Electronic Media

Jed Riffe

Jed Riffe is an award-winning independent filmmaker, broadcast journalist and digital media producer. Jed is Creative Director for Jed Riffe Films + Electronic Media. Over the last 20 years, Riffe has created highly acclaimed documentary specials, series, dramatic films and interactive projects for national and international broadcast, theatrical release and installation in public spaces including PBS, ARTE, NHK-TV (Japan), cable, international broadcast, museums, public spaces and the web.

Emrah Oral

M. Emrah Oral is an internationally acclaimed application-specific software designer with expertise in large scale wireless broadband communications, video production, interactive programming and hardware development.

Kat Covell

Katherine Covell is a co-producer and writer for Jed Riffe Films LLC. She has worked in numerous production capacities for both documentary and dramatic feature films. Kat was associate producer for the television documentary Who Owns the Past ? (2001), featured last November on the PBS series "Independent Lens."

Vicente Franco

Cinematographer Vicente Franco, a native of Madrid, Spain, began his studies at the University of Journalism in Madrid. He's been doing Film and Television work since 1982. Most recently Franco was nominated for a 2003 Academy Award for Co-directing and shooting the feature documentary, Daughter from Danang. Franco's long-running collaboration with Jed Riffe includes cinematographer credits on the films Waiting to Inhale and Convention.

Maureen Gosling

Editor Maureen Gosling has been a documentary filmmaker for more than thirty years and is best known for her twenty-year collaboration with acclaimed independent director, Les Blank.  Gosling's most recent work, Blossoms of Fire, a 16mm feature documentary, represents her debut as a Producer/Director. She is best known for editing Burden of Dreams, which won a 1983 British Academy Award.