Crew
The Long Rescue could not happen without the hardworking crew and volunteers and who have lent their talent to the project.
Jennifer Huang Director/Producer Currently directing and producing The Long Rescue documentary film about girls rebuilding their lives after sex trafficking, Jennifer has always felt driven to stand with people fighting discrimination, poverty, oppression and injustice. For almost two decades, her work in documentary and television production has brought her to unexpected roles in disparate places: Scrubbing in for a kidney transplant at the Mayo Clinic (Anonymous Content); writing questions for Colin Powell about African American soldiers in WWI (Harlem's Hellfighters, Lucasfilm); booking an interview with Hugh Jackman in the middle of Sydney Harbor (Get the Edge, Lieberman Productions); and being questioned in a shipping container in Papua New Guinea (Standing on Sacred Ground, Sacred Land Film Project). Jennifer has worked as a writer, co-producer and associate producer for PBS, Anonymous Content, the Travel Channel, HGTV, TNT and AZN TV. She was a 2013 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow and developed the augmented reality project, Finding Sacred Ground, in the BAVC Producers Institute in 2010. As a cofounder of Hyphen, an Asian American news and culture magazine, Jennifer edited the investigative and film departments. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Social Welfare and Ethnography through Cinema. |
Jethro Patalinghug
Creative Producer/Editor
Jethro's first feature documentary film, 50 Years of Fabulous, premiered as the opening film
at QDocs Film Festival in Portland. He was a fellow for the National Media Maker 2016
Program at Bay Area Video Coalition for his film #MyNameIs. His documentary My
Revolutionary Mother was cited as the best documentary film in the Philippines for 2015 by
the film critics collective pinoyrebyu.com. He co-produced a short film Miss Finknagle Succumbs to Chaos, produced and directed a short docu-series for the San Francisco Pride organization, and
producer and lead edited the first Global Pride of 2020, a 28-hour livestream. Jethro has also
produced content for CSAA Insurance Group, Bluewolf, an IBM company, NextGen Climate, Google Street View, MTV Philippines, QTV 11, GMA 7, ABC 5 and MYX 23 among others. Jethro was Mr. Gay San Francisco 2016-17 and Mr Gay Asian Pacific Alliance 2012. He founded Take the Test, a campaign which promotes HIV testing and counseling in the Philippines, and is a recording artist.
Creative Producer/Editor
Jethro's first feature documentary film, 50 Years of Fabulous, premiered as the opening film
at QDocs Film Festival in Portland. He was a fellow for the National Media Maker 2016
Program at Bay Area Video Coalition for his film #MyNameIs. His documentary My
Revolutionary Mother was cited as the best documentary film in the Philippines for 2015 by
the film critics collective pinoyrebyu.com. He co-produced a short film Miss Finknagle Succumbs to Chaos, produced and directed a short docu-series for the San Francisco Pride organization, and
producer and lead edited the first Global Pride of 2020, a 28-hour livestream. Jethro has also
produced content for CSAA Insurance Group, Bluewolf, an IBM company, NextGen Climate, Google Street View, MTV Philippines, QTV 11, GMA 7, ABC 5 and MYX 23 among others. Jethro was Mr. Gay San Francisco 2016-17 and Mr Gay Asian Pacific Alliance 2012. He founded Take the Test, a campaign which promotes HIV testing and counseling in the Philippines, and is a recording artist.
Hanz Florentino
Director of Photography Hanz is a filmmaker, a story teller, a lover and a student of life. Based in Cebu, Philippines, he is the founder of Studio Inspiro, a creative multimedia studio that creates videos, photos, and graphics for heart-based organizations. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Bachelor of Science in Psychology who pursued a career doing what he loves the most: creating films that inspire people to take action. He is also a scholar and graduate of the Diploma Program in Filmmaking and Creative Media Arts at the Film and Media Arts International Academy. |
Clare Major
Director of Photography Clare's work as a cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, and video journalist includes projects for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, PBS, Discovery Channel, and many other media outlets, educational institutions, foundations, companies, and independent documentaries. She contributed to videos that have been part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporting package, won two College Television Awards (a.k.a. Student Emmys), and was a Student Academy Awards national finalist. She has filmed in Kenya, Spain, Switzerland, Senegal, Liberia, Azerbaijan, the Philippines, Haiti, and throughout the USA. Clare has been freelancing in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007. A graduate of UT Austin’s Radio-TV-Film department and of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s documentary program, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, West Africa, and returned in 2009 to shoot her graduate thesis film, Feast & Sacrifice. In 2015, she hiked all 2,650 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from Canada to Mexico. |
Nana Buxani
Cinematographer Nana Buxani is a documentary photographer, filmmaker and painter whose work largely deals in child labour, children and women, homelessness, communities in war and indigenous peoples. Her award-winning documentary work as a cinematographer and producer include: Bunso (The Youngest), Minsan Lang Sila Bata (Children Only Once), Mula Pabrika hanggang Fukuoka (Made in the Philippines to Fukuoka with Love) and Riles (Life on the Tracks). She has shot films and still photography for OXFAM-UK, the ILO, UNICEF, Save the Children, the Women’s Health and Safe Motherhood Program, the European Union Cooperation in the Philippines, Amnesty International UK, Time Magazine (Asia Edition), Marie Claire (London), The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, The National (UAE), and Bloomberg News. |
Joanna Vasquez Arong
Field Producer Joanna is an independent filmmaker now based in Cebu. She founded Eskwela Haiyan, a scholarship initiative supporting vulnerable students affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan. She is presently in postproduction on her first fiction feature film, Apolaqui & Mayari, named after a fable about two siblings who end up fighting over who will rule their kingdom after their father dies. She filmed in the post earthquake and typhoon areas of Bohol, Tacloban and Guiuan. |
Lucille Brillhart Intern, Assistant Editor Lucy is currently studying film at New York University, where she directed a short film called Not All Men, a commentary on sexual harassment. An avid playwright and scriptwriter, she directed a youth summer camp for stage production in her hometown of Pleasanton, CA. Check out the blog about Lucy to learn more about what inspires this energetic director. |
Melanie Choy
Assistant Editor Melanie loves films and loves to make films. Her aspiration is to make films that will inspire people to be creative and be the change they wish to see in the world. She has worked at Jed Riffe Films, Proofpoint, and partnered with non profit organizations such as AnewAmerica and Bay Area Chinese Bible Church (BACBC). Enjoying challenges from concept to delivery, she has worked as a one-woman crew filming and editing and has collaborated with other filmmakers in the Bay Area. Melanie graduated from UCLA and studied video production and editing at Berkeley City College, where she earned an AA in Digital Video. Check out our blog entry about Melanie to learn more. |
Sarah Wapner Editorial Intern Sarah is a California-based student at Chapman University. She is a strong supporter of all forms of art, from film to drawing to dance and is currently pursuing her BFA in graphic design with a minor in film editing. She loves to travel the world and immerse herself in other cultures, most recently going to Italy while interning for Pavan Consulting. Sarah is greatly appreciative for the opportunity to contribute to such a worthwhile project with Treeclimber Media. |