PRODUCTION TEAM
It takes a team to climb a mountain.

Bill Phillips
Director
Had Dartmouth’s first Special Major in Film approved in ‘69 and now teaches at the College. With a Cinema MFA from USC, he has had 25 features made, won a Cable Ace Award, was nominated for an Edgar, had a Miniseries nominated for an Emmy, and has won various festival awards. See IMDB.

Kathy Harvard
Executive Producer
Wife and caregiver of Andy Harvard. Works as an advocate in the fight to end Alzheimer's disease and is the Marketing and Sales Director for InnerAsia Trading. She has served in various executive and board positions in human service and arts non-profit organizations following a career in international development with The United Nations Children's Fund.

Olivia Powell
Producer/Editor/Camera
Graduated from Dartmouth College as a Film & Media Studies major and salutatorian of the Class of 2017. Her film A war story showed in spring 2017.

Ben Silberfarb
Editor/Camera
Award-winning, full-time filmmaker. See bsilberfarb.com. Studied film and environmental studies at Dartmouth. Master’s in Environmental Studies from Yale.

Peter Ciardelli
Assistant Editor
Lecturer and Audio Visual Specialist at Dartmouth College. B.A. in Theater from UVM, MFA in Media Production from the University of New Orleans. Consulted and worked on productions in Hollywood and New England. Member of the Editors’ Guild.

Hallie Reichel
Associate Producer/Camera
Government and French double major at Dartmouth, with a senior thesis on French Cinema. Interned with Ken Burns and has produced several short films.

Jamie Dickinson
Post-Production Supervisor/Colorist
Worked as senior editor in London and a colorist/video engineer for the BBC for 20 years. He is now based in the U.S and was recently nominated for an Indie Series Award for Best Visual/Special Effects for the short Here We Wait.

Roy Prendergast
Composer
Hollywood music editor from Caddyshack to Troy and co-author of Film Music. Won two primetime Emmys, nominated for a third. Member of the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Guild. See IMDB.

Andy Harvard
Writer/Creative Consultant/Archival Cinematographer
AB from Dartmouth, JD from Boston University. Worked as a timber management consultant for the U.S. Forest Service, an oil field roughneck in Alaska, a river guide, a climber who helped organize 13 major expeditions, an award-winning filmmaker, author, motivational speaker, Assistant Attorney General for Washington State, a Senior Attorney for The Fed, Senior VP/General Counsel for Eridania Beghin-Say America, Inc. and as Director of Outdoor Programs & Associate Dean for Student Life at Dartmouth.

Christopher Ivanyi
Camera and Technical Consultant
Theater Degree from the University of Hawaii, attended the American Film Institute Directors’ Program. Now runs Dartmouth’s Digital Lab and makes short films.

Cheryl Coutermarsh
Grants Administrator
Administrative Assistant in the Department of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth. Handles all Dartmouth-related grants.

Matt Banker
Post-Production Sound Mixer
BS in Audio Engineering/Live Sound, and ProTools Certified. With a large number of main stream concerts under his belt, he branched out into post-production editing and mixing. He now works freelance for regional concerts and films.

Elisabeth Sanson
Production Assistant/Research Scholar
Film & Media Studies major at Dartmouth, interested in production and post-production.

Colette Rosenberg
Production Assistant/Presidential Scholar Researcher
Geography major at Dartmouth, interested in environmental concerns. Member of Growing Change, teaching sustainability and farming to children.
Keira Byno
Production Assistant/Presidential Scholar Researcher
Anthropology major at Dartmouth. While studying abroad in South Africa in 2016, she found an Australopithecus sediba fossil.

Emily Luy Tan
Production Assistant/Sophomore Research Scholar
Cognitive Science major at Dartmouth. In Wisconsin, her family has honey bee hives. The prairie where they sit is the setting for her home-made films.

Josh Lee
Research Volunteer
Creative Writing major at Dartmouth.

Nick Harvard
Production Assistant/Gaffer/Grip
Hanover High School student.

David Breashears
Creative Consultant/Archival Cinematographer
Renowned mountain climber and filmmaker (Everest, IMAX, PBS). Executive Director of GlacierWorks. He is Andy’s former filmmaking partner and good friend.

Svati Narula
Archivist/Researcher
Assistant editor at Outside Magazine. Graduated from Dartmouth in 2013, now working on a nonfiction book about Andy. Her work has appeared in Quartz, The Atlantic, and Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
Donald P. Silver, C.P.A.
Production Accountant
Received BA from Muhlenberg College and MBA from Columbia University.

Tim Craig
Production Counsel
AB at Dartmouth, majoring in Spanish with modified major in Native American Studies and a “concentration” in film. JD/MBA from Stanford. Almost 30 years of entertainment law practice in New York City.

John Tariot
Special Effects/Technical Consultant
Has more than 20 years’ experience in the moving image archive field. Former clients include NBC News, National Geographic, and Paramount. He owns Film Video Digital, devoted to film preservation and transfer, digital film and audio restoration. Member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and of Colorist Society International.