About The Filmmakers
Marin Tockman
Marin Tockman is a Brooklyn, NY based filmmaker who combines her production and post-production skills with her passion and commitment to social and humanitarian subject matters. In December 2007, she completed production on a short film she is producing with director Elyse Montague about a trans-gendered youth growing up in Coastal Maine. She also has worked with Al Roker Entertainment as an Associate Producer for an NBC special on Type 2 Diabetes, and as an Associate Producer on an upcoming Darfur documentary with Academy Award nominated filmmaker Edet Belzberg (Children Underground). Marin was the Production Coordinator on several projects with Emmy Award winning filmmaker Ric Burns including the historical biographies of Andy Warhol and Eugene O’Neill. Marin continues to work in the field with both corporate and NGO agencies on media based initiatives including education, HIV awareness, GLBTQ Rights, children’s cancer survival, and genocide refugee therapy.
Anelisa Garfunkel
Anelisa is a Boston-based independent filmmaker who grew up in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Her experience as a filmmaker began in the Federated States of Micronesia. As the in-house filmmaker for Micronesian Seminar (MicSem), a local non-profit, she wrote, produced, directed, and edited over fifteen educational films about the pressing socio-economic issues of the region. The films have been broadcast throughout Micronesia and the South Pacific.
After several years at MicSem she returned to New England and has continued to write, produce, and direct films both as a freelance and independent filmmaker. In the past year, Anelisa finished her first dramatic short film, St Milly. The film, written, produced and directed by Anelisa, is the story of Milagros Cohen, desperate to fit in and earn her place in Heaven, she sets out to perform one glorious, heaven-worthy miracle.
Prior to St. Milly, Anelisa completed work on a personal documentary film, One Hundred Steps. This film is about her father’s struggle after a debilitating injury left him a quadriplegic. The film is both a social commentary on healthcare and disability, and the personal story of her family’s pain, despair, and ultimately hope after this life-altering accident. Her father’s accident was preceded, ironically, by over thirty years as an advocate, scholar, and champion of the Disability Rights Movement. It was his life’s work and he passed it on to his children with passion and purpose. One Hundred Steps is the union of the lessons of Anelisa’s childhood and the work and passion of her adulthood.