Untitled Dafen Project
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2008
Logline
Decades after the making of Western style art was declared illegal in china, the suburb of Dafen finds itself a leading producer of reproduced paintings through individual and corporate commissions.
Francisco Bello
Director, Producer
Francisco Bello is an Oscar and three-time Emmy nominee. Bello was the recipient of the Karen Schmeer Award for Excellence in Documentary Editing, NALIP Estela Award, and fellowships from PBS/WGBH and Tribeca All Access.
Tim Sternberg
Director, Producer
Tim Sternberg started working in the editing rooms of Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope studios in San Francisco while still in high school. After moving to New York he worked in positions as diverse as sound effects recordist on Nora Ephron’s “Sleepless in Seattle” and Robert Benton’s “The Human Stain,” re-editing the 1992 ACADEMY AWARD® winning “Mediterraneo” for U.S. release and acting as script consultant for the IFP and American Zoetrope. Most recently he has worked as music editor on Milos Forman’s “Goya’s Ghosts” and the 2007 ACADEMY AWARD® winning documentary “The Taint of Yingzhou District” directed by Ruby Yang. Shot in four days in Kolkata, India, the 2008 ACADEMY AWARD® Nominated Documentary Short, “Salim Baba,” was his first film as a director.