JTB About

Michael formed NotJustMe, a San Francisco Bay Area film production collective, in 1999 to produce motion picture and television programming focusing on the music arts and music art communities. The group consists of film industry professionals who donate their time to projects that they feel a close connection with and want to see succeed. Members of this production cooperative have done work in the past for PBS, BBC Channel 4, Wired Magazine, National Geographic Explorer, Nova, Lucas Films, and various other documentary and feature film projects.

NotJustMe is currently working on jackin' the Ball: the making of a Sound-Seeker.
Some accomplishments to date include:

Completion of Shooting Treatment
13 hours of interviews and live performances shot in Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco.
Relationships with key musicians are in place.
Wrapping development and eager to move into pre-production for a Fall 2000 shoot.

Musicians who have already contributed interviews and performance include:

Ron Carter
Isotope 217
Steve Turre
Sanctified Shells w/ Pharoah Sanders and John Faddis
Tortoise
John McEntire
Doug Macomb

Broun Fellinis
David Boyce
Tom Ze
Isotope 217
Rob Mazurek
Fred Anderson
Jeff Parker
John Herndon

Her short films have won prizes at the San Francisco Int'l Frameline Film Festival 1998, the Flaggstaff International Film Festival 1998, and her most recent film "Life History of a Star" was an official selection of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. She has collaborated with the Nine to Five Working Group, Nickelodeon, the Just Think Foundation, and the Film Arts Foundation. Her work has been screened in Montreal, Berlin, London, San Francisco, and at the WhitneyMuseum of American Art.

Sean has worked on several documentary specials for NOVA and the National Geographic Society. Such films include "To the Moon", "U-Boat, Lost Patrol" and "The Beast of Loch Ness" and have aired on PBS and abroad in London and Hamburg. Other documentary credits include a feature series for Channel Four in London "The 3000 Mile Garden" and "Libov Pupova" for the Russian LenFilm.

Andrew Gersch has worked on projects as diverse as "Rock & Roll", a ten-part series for PBS and the BBC to "the Making of the Phantom Menace" for Lucas Films. His years of experience have earned him a 1996 George Foster Peabody Award for "The People's Century", a 26-part documentary for PBS and the BBC. Other credits include a 1995 George Peabody Award, a 1995 National Emmy Award,"RUMI: Poet of the Heart", and scores of films for NOVA, The Working Group, Sesame Street, Frontline, and Prime Time Live. His work has spanned both coasts, from WGBH to KQED, in the United States and London.

Christopher Jones is a writer with Wired News in San Francisco, covering the early stages of the online music industry. Over the course of his journalism career, he has written articles on environmental issues, hip-hop artists, drug smugglers, computer hackers, and the rise of the Internet. After stays in London, Chicago, New York and San Francisco over the last decade, Jones recently settled in Oakland, CA, where he is looking for the "there" there.

His photographic style of conscious mise-en-scene focuses on the emotional aspect of the individual and the potential for group dynamics. A graduate of The Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C., his influence of color and tone has been seen in group exhibitions and one-man shows from Georgetown to San Francisco, as well as in his private work. Other professional published credits include work for The Washington City Paper, The Washington Monthly, Common Boundary magazine and Wired Magazine.

He is a writer and filmmaker who freelances as a videographer and editor, specializing in digital video applications for the web. His documentary "Signs of Solomon", about crypto-Jewish communities in the Northeast of Brazil, is currently in production. For advance screening information on the film, or for any old reason, you can reach Jeremy at jsiefer@neteze.com