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Meet the Filmmakers

Directors Ann Hedreen and Rustin Thompson are a husband and wife filmmaking team based in Seattle. Together they own White Noise Productions and specialize in independent documentaries and high quality films for non-profits.
Their most recent feature-length documentary, Quick Brown Fox: An Alzheimer’s Story, is distributed by Women Make Movies and has aired in Finland, Israel, and in the United States on regional PBS stations. It recently won Women in Film’s Nell Shipman award for Best Documentary. It was nominated for two Northwest Emmy awards. Visit www.wmm.com for more information.
Hedreen and Thompson recently completed Art Without Walls: The Making of the Olympic Sculpture Park, an independent short documentary that aired on Seattle’s PBS affiliate, KCTS, and is now for sale at all Seattle Art Museum gift shops.
Thompson’s award-winning documentary, 30 Frames A Second: The WTO in Seattle--also nominated for two Northwest Emmys--was named one of the Top Ten Films of 2002 by the American Library Association, and it is included in the curriculum of more than 100 universities across the country. It won the Best Documentary award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Seattle Underground Film Festival, and the Portland Festival of World Cinema. It is now available on Netflix and it is for sale at www.30framesfilm.com.
Hedreen and Thompson began their careers in national and local TV broadcasting. They have been independent filmmakers for the last 8 years. Other projects include Wild America, made for the Sierra Club and narrated by Sissy Spacek; I Am Sam, a public affairs film for the Seattle Art Museum, narrated by Tom Skerritt; and False Promises: The Lost Land of the Wenatchi, distributed by Filmakers Library and featuring acclaimed character actor Gary Farmer.

Hedreen and Thompson have two teenagers, Claire and Nick, and make their home in Seattle.