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HISTORY OF OUR PRODUCTION CREW MEMBERS
 During the program's original run, Dan Berger
was the co-director, co-editor, and videographer (now a TV news technical director); Marcelo Acevedo was the coordinating producer
(until 1996); and Michael Gabbert, who works for the Bay Vision
East/AT&T cable station where the program first started, was the production
manager and the studio's coordinator and technical engineer.
Mark Strathdee
(2005) was a project coordinator, videographer,
editor, and production specialist. Music producer Dwayne Sparks
(started in 2005) was a project coordinator for
the series. In early 2008, Matthew Galvin
joined as the project coordinator and technical
expert.
Carmen
Sudduth (1998-1999) was a coordinating producer; Kimberly Lawrence
(1996-1997, 2000) was an associate producer and researcher; Gary Simmons
(1997-1999) and RaeShawn Williams (2004 -
2005) were associate producers; and Carla
Thomas, Dave
Young, Sibyl Motley, Toby VanMarter, Kimberly Jones, Michelle
Livengood,
Nicole Sharpe, and Denise Yvonne were
various segment producers.
Mark Ramia, who still coordinates
some of the program's syndication, was a videographer; Jeanette Robinson
was a studio camera operator (and the best in shooting Sidewalks-produced
music videos); and Terry Lee, Eric Karmazsin
and Vincent King were also some of the numerous camera operators.
 Jerry
Middlekauff was a co-editor and production assistant during the late
80's.
During the years of 1998 - 2003,
William
Hodgson was a videographer and segment
editor. He also edited a number of Sidewalks:
Video Nite episodes.
Christian Wimmer,
Ray Alvarado,
and Lon McQuillin
were videographers.
Lovelle
Robinson and Brian Bland were KCRT-TV's
production assistants, as well contributing on-air
personalities.
The late Jewel
Whitworth, Robert Gardner, David Ochoa, Don Williams, Tim Smith,
Antonio Tam, Andrew Lazo, Harry Iha, James Nelson,
Benny E. Gill,
Justin Langston,
Chere Beasley, Donna Johnson, and Oliver Podmore were some of the production
assistants / interns throughout the program's run.
Bay
Area musician Kent Racker wrote, produced and performed some of
the additional music for the series.
Mark Christy
and Bill Garvey of Absolute Zero Productions in
Philadelphia, PA were producing and posting
East Coast segments with host Rafael
Siegel.
Rafael's makeup was done by Victoria
Gary of Kiss and Make-Up, Inc.
(302-438-6603)
Read about the current production crew
members.
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