Cornelia Ravenal has written for theatre, film and print, beginning with the long-running musical OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN, for which she wrote book, music and lyrics, with productions in New York and regional theaters through the '80s. In the '90s she freelanced as a journalist-photographer for magazines and newspapers in India and North America, with close to sixty pieces published on health, business, art, film and South Asian culture. As a writer-producer of videos and multimedia events for non-profit and corporate clients in the US and in Europe, she guided over forty productions from inception through editing. Her first independent film, FIVE FEELINGS ABOUT FOOD, co-directed and co-produced with Mikael Södersten, has been in a dozen festivals and has won several “Best” awards. Most recently, she wrote and produced two shorts, WHITE MAN'S BLUES and THE OTHER WOMAN (www.TheOtherWoman2007.com). Both are now on the festival circuit. She is also a photographer and artist; her first solo gallery show opened in Sweden in 2007. OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN is slated for a revival in 2008.

Mikael Södersten has directed films for Swedish National Television and collaborated on numerous fiction and documentary projects. His first film, FISSURA, a narrative short, was broadcast in Europe and used as a teaching tool in Scandinavian hospitals. His second film, PASS, starred Michael Nyqvist, Sweden’s leading actor. In the early '90s, he headed the National Swedish Independent Film Festival (Filmens Dag) and taught filmmaking and story structure in corporations and at the Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts. During that time he also worked in Denmark, Greenland and his native Sweden as a producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and sound editor. In the mid-'90s he ran the production division of a multimedia company in Stockholm. He returned to filmmaking with FIVE FEELINGS ABOUT FOOD and two other shorts, WHITE MAN'S BLUES and THE OTHER WOMAN, all with his wife and filmmaking partner, Cornelia Ravenal. He recently consulted on and conducted on-camera interviews for THE PRIZE OF THE POLE, a Danish-Swedish co-production now in international distribution. As Senior Development Consultant to the Swedish Film Institute, he works with directors and producers across Europe.

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