Producers

Donna Schatz
Donna Schatz, from Richmond, Virginia, got her start as a TV camerawoman. For Oregon PBS and ABC, she filmed Mt. St. Helens and the high desert of eastern Oregon, and as a freelancer in Jerusalem, conflicts in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. She also filmed in Budapest and in Bosnia during the war. After leaving the news business, Donna filmed Holocaust testimonies in Florida and North Carolina for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah.

99 GEIGER ROAD is Donna's newest documentary. Donna's first documentary, THE SOUTHERN JEWISH STORE, shot in Winston-Salem, NC, has screened at the Indie Memphis Soul of Southern Film Festival and the James River Film Festival, on CUNY-TV, WCVE-TV and regularly on The Documentary Channel. Donna's next film, BALANCING ACTS, has aired nationally on PBS and played at the Asian-American Showcase in Chicago and the 92nd St. Y Makor in New York. (Watch an excerpt of BALANCING ACTS below.)

 

Scott Witthaus
Scott Witthaus is the owner of 1708 Editorial, a boutique editorial company with offices in Richmond and Gwynn's Island, Virginia. With 25 years of experience, Scott has participated in all areas of film and video production and post production. Scott is also a faculty member at the VCU Ad Center, a graduate school for advertising majors, also in Richmond.