BLUE SKY COLLABORATORS

David Marshall
producer/director

David B. Marshall a multi Emmy award winning Producer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor. His work has taken him around the world many times in his 30-year-career. He holds a B.S. in photography/film and an M.F.A. in computer graphics / animation. Dave’s documentary films reflect his interest in human rights, social justice and the power of contextualized history. His work has been broadcast throughout North America, Europe, Asia and South America. His films have been presented at over fifty film festivals around the world premiering at: South By Southwest, Big Muddy, Moondance, Rhode Island International Film Festival, and Frameline to name a few. Dave is the recipient of twenty three Emmy nominations and seven Emmy awards. His films include Hitching a Ride a journey on the Great Lakes, recipient of a 2003 Emmy; Autumn’s Harvest, a look at AIDS and America’s migrant farm population, aired on PBS and took honors at film festivals around the world; Swimming With Lesbians, in distribution by Frameline; Songs of Freedom, broadcast on PBS and now in national distribution, honored with Emmy Awards for Best Director and Best Children’s Programming; Beginning with the End, premiered at SXSW and honored with Emmy Awards for Best Director and Best Editor in distribution by Filmaker; Criminal Injustice, honored with an Emmy for Research in distributed by Filmakers Library; Opioids From Inside in collaboration with WGBH distribution by PBSWorld, honored with Emmy Awards for Best Director and Her Voice Carries broadcasting on PBS in 2019 and distributed nationally by APT. David was also a cinematographer on the Academy Award-nominated film, “Attica”. 

Christine Christopher
producer/writer

Christine Christopher is a writer/producer for film and television whose Emmy Award-winning films include Criminal Injustice and Songs of Freedom. She is also the writer/producer of July ’64– a Emmy-nominated documentary that was broadcast nationally on the PBS series “Independent Lens” and is distributed by California Newsreel.July ’64 was the recipient of Telly and Aurora Awards, was nominated for two Emmys and recognized by the Organization of American Historians with an Eric Barnouw Award. Christopher is the recipient of many national grants and awards, including a Sundance Documentary Fund research and development grant, multiple grants from the Independent Television Service, National Black Programming Consortium, and the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, Telly and Aurora Awards, as well as multiple Emmy nominations for her work with David Marshall and Blue Sky Project Films. She is credited for research she contributed to the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Attica Prison Uprising, Blood on the Water. She is credited for research she contributed to the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Attica Prison Uprising, Blood In the Water; and was a consultant to the Academy Award-nominated film, “Attica” directed by Stanley Nelson.

Fiona Willis
producer/writer

Fiona is joining the project as a production consultant with significant expertise in medical subjects. Fiona has 25+ years of television producing, writing and project management experience. For the past 15 years, Fiona has been the executive producer of the award-winning national public television medical program Second Opinion. Fiona’s credits also include national television series such as The Joan Rivers Show, Lifetime Television’s, Our Home and Handmade by Design, and FOX’s, The Mark Walberg Show. Fiona’s freelance television experience also includes shows on The Family Channel and Nickelodeon, as well as WXXI Public Broadcasting’s regional and local productions of New York Wine & Table, 60 Second Science, Horses on Parade, Let’s Do Business, and Get the Lead Out. Fiona just finished a film with Dave Marshall (Blue Sky Project) and WGBH called Opioids from Inside that was distributed on PBS stations through WORLD channel. The film focused on the ripple effect on children and families when women are incarcerated for opioid-related crimes. Fiona is currently producing a film called Out in Rural America, which shares the stories of peoples’ experience of being gay in rural America and will air nationally on public television.

Michael Krasner
producer

 Mick, MD, FACP, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, teaches Mindfulness-Based programs to patients, medical students, and health professionals for more than 23 years, involving over 4000 participants over 2000 health professionals. He was the project director of Mindful Communication: Bringing Intention, Attention, and Reflection to Clinical Practice, with results reported in JAMA in September 2009, which led to the establishment of Mindful Practice Programs at the University of Rochester which he co-directs, providing continuing education to health professionals locally and internationally for the past 14 years, including a multi-year teacher training program. He is executive producer of a documentary film about medical education, The Healer’s Journey, expected for release in 2025, and the host of the new podcast Flourishing in Medicine: From Surviving to Thriving. He describes his personal mission as centered on supporting the flourishing of health professionals and envisions a personalized health professional-patient relationship where healing is truly bidirectional, care goals are mutually derived, and the uniqueness of the clinical encounter reflects the central act of mutual high regard.