Producer, director, and editor Sandy Northrop has contributed to over 25 PBS productions during her 40-year career as a documentary filmmaker. Wind & Stars Production Group is the bannerhead under which she now produces.

Northrop's work has taken her from tracking mountain gorillas in Rwanda's jungles for National Geographic Society to the streets of New Orleans for A Day in the Life of America. Her first independent production, How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall, was shot in France and documented a barroom pianist's quest to make his classical piano debut. In 1990, Northrop settled in Washington, DC and for the next eight years produced the historical montages for PBS' Memorial Day and A Capitol Fourth concerts. A move to Vietnam in 1997 offered the extraordinary opportunity to explore the country and its people. Over the next five years, she produced three one-hour specials on modern day Vietnam for PBS.

For twenty years Northrop has followed and chronicled the work of America's editorial cartoonists. Drawn & Quartered: The History of American Political Cartoons, written with Stephen Hess, was published in 1996. Segments she produced featuring cartoons on the 2004 presidential race aired on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and in 2006 she directed and shot From Pen to Pixels, The World According to KAL, featuring Economist cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher.

Northrop graduated from Stanford University’s Master’s film program in 1972. She received a BFA in photography at the University of Michigan in 1969.

David Lamb has narrated four Wind & Stars productions.

His travels as a journalist and author have taken him to more than 140 countries and to all seven continents. He covered the Vietnam War (He is the only newspaperman to have covered the Vietnam War in the South and later open a bureau in peacetime Hanoi), the Iranian revolution, the overthrow of Idi Amin in Uganda, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the African famine, the Rwanda massacres, the Persian Gulf War, the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq and many of the other major stories of the past three decades. During a career with the Los Angeles Times that spanned 34 years, his reporting was nominated eight times for a Pulitzer Prize.

Mr. Lamb is the author of "The Africans," "The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage," "Stolen Season, A Journey through America and Baseball’s Minor Leagues." "A Sense of Place: Listening to Americans,” "Over The Hills: A Midlife Escape Across America By Bicycle," and “Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns.” His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including "National Geographic," "Readers Digest," and "Sports Illustrated."

Wind & Stars has had the privilege to work with a gifted group of freelance writers, camerapersons, composers and musicians. Feel free to contact us if you would like recommendations, or to offer your services.

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