About Us
Filmmaker Bios
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Elemental Productions”][vc_column_text]Elemental Productions is a Los-Angeles based ethnographic documentary film company dedicated to the production of films focusing on the relationship between culture, psychology, and personal experience. Elemental Productions was founded in 2007 by anthropologist Robert Lemelson and evolved out of fieldwork gathered in Indonesia since 1997.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Robert Lemelson”][vc_column_text]Robert Lemelson is a cultural anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker and philanthropist. Lemelson received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. Lemelson’s area of specialty is transcultural psychiatry; Southeast Asian Studies, particularly Indonesia; and psychological and medical anthropology. He currently is a research anthropologist in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience UCLA, and an adjunct professor of Anthropology at UCLA.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Alessandra Pasquino”][vc_column_text]Alessandra Pasquino is a filmmaker and producer of documentaries, commercials, and special projects. She has collaborated with many artists and celebrities including: Oliver Stone, Wayne Wang, Klaus Kinski, Gregory Colbert, Leonardo Di Caprio, Pietro Scalia and Matthew Rolston. She is currently developing documentary projects both with Elemental Productions and independently.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Wing Ko”][vc_column_text]Wing Ko has collaborated with a who’s who of modern artists, musicians and filmmakers. He worked with Spike Jonze on several music videos and edited the pilot for MTV’s “Jackass.” Wing helped create more than 80 music videos for Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Public Enemy and other top bands of the time. For more than 15 years he has traveled around the world and crewed skateboard videos.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Dag Yngvesson”][vc_column_text]Dag Yngvesson was the cinematographer on “Stoked: the Rise of Gator,” a documentary about the rise and fall of skateboard legend Mark “Gator” Ragowski and wrote, produced and edited “Rated X: A Journey through Porn,” about the Los Angeles porn industry. Yngvesson studied film and anthropology at Pitzer and Hampshire Colleges, where he made his first films: “The Kaos Company,” a documentary on squatters in Gothenburg, Sweden, and “Making Skateboards in New Russia,” about skateboarder/ entrepreneurs in St. Petersburg after the fall of communism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Pietro Scalia”][vc_column_text]Born in Sicily, Pietro Scalia won two Academy Awards for Best Editing including JFK by Oliver Stone and Black Hawk Down by Ridley Scott. His other editing credits are Body of Lies, American Gangster, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hannibal, Good Will Hunting, The Quick and The Dead, Stealing Beauty, Little Buddha and many others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Sandra Angeline”][vc_column_text]Sandra Angeline edited “Memory of My Face” and “Family Victim” for Elemental Productions. Angeline’s credits as editor also include “Broken,” “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” and other shows for ABC, Travel Channel and The Style Network. She has worked as an assistant editor on the television series “Wilfred” and the feature films “Smart Ass” and “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.” Angeline studied film at CUNY Hunter College, New York and New York Film Academy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Herbert Bennett”][vc_column_text]Herbert Bennett edited “The Bird Dancer” and “Ritual Burdens” for Elemental Productions. He is a two-time Emmy Award winning editor and was instrumental in the postproduction of three Academy Award-nominated documentary films: “Weather Underground,” “Berkeley in the 60’s,” and “Promises.” Herbert lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he edits films and new media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Mike Mallen”][vc_column_text]Mike Mallen designed the graphics for “Afflictions: Culture & Mental Illness in Indonesia” and edited “Ritual Burdens.” He has been an editor, graphic designer and visual effects artist for the past nine years, working in a wide range of genres including reality television, documentaries and scripted films.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Chisako Yokoyama”][vc_column_text]Chisako Yokoyama has worked as an editor and assistant editor on studio motion pictures, independent features and narrative and documentary films. Her credits as editor include the English and Japanese language independent films “Saki,” “Takamine” and “Goemon” and as first assistant editor, “American Gangster,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Black Hawk Down” and “Good Will Hunting.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Ninik Supartini”][vc_column_text]Ninik Supartini assisted Dr. Lemelson in two research projects about community mental health in Java and Bali. Since 2006, Supartini has served as a mental health and psychosocial consultant for international humanitarian organizations working in post-disaster and conflict areas in Indonesia and Myanmar. Supartini studied English teaching as an undergraduate at the Yogyakarta Teacher Training Institute and lectured in English for more than ten years before turning her interests to community mental health. In 2004, she returned to school at Gadjah Mada University to earn her Masters Degree in Developmental Psychology. Supartini was honored with a Donald J. Cohen Fellowship in 2006 and East West Center Fellowships in 2006 and 2007.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Malcolm Cross”][vc_column_text]Malcolm Cross BSc Mus. Studied music performance and composition in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, additional Post Graduate studies in Jazz and Studio Music. Malcolm has been a professional composer for film, television and stage since 1996. His original film scores include ‘Insomniac Obsession’ (directed by Paul Cameron Carter/PS Films) and ‘Oh Saigon’, a feature-length documentary for Sundance Channel directed by Doan Hoang, ‘I Dream of Dog’ an independent comedy short directed by Jessica Rice and ‘The Grey’, a supernatural thriller directed by Norman Trotter IV.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Richard Henderson”][vc_column_text]Henderson’s writing on ethnomusicology, film music and avant-pop still appears in The Wire (U.K.) and his reportage has previously graced the pages of Billboard, The Beat, Soma, Escape, LA Weekly and Murder Dog; work on four film scores as assistant to his one-time band mate, the justly lauded solo artist, producer and film composer Michael Brook, led to music editing and music supervision for films such as Borat, The Life Aquatic and Into The Wild (the latter earning Henderson the 2007 Golden Reel Award for Music Editing in Feature Films).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Mahar Agusno”][vc_column_text]Mahar Agusno is head of the Psychiatric Department at Sardjito General Hospital and head of the Study Program, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University. He received his M.D. & psychiatric training from Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University. Agusno’s long-term service at the community and mental hospital has contributed significantly to his interest in community and cultural psychiatry. After he finished his mandatory service in a mental hospital in Borneo in 1997, Agusno returned to the Department of Psychiatry, Gadjah Mada University to serve as a lecturer. Simultaneously, he worked at the university’s teaching hospital, Sardjito General Hospital. In 2002, Agusno was awarded a Freeman Fellowship to study medical anthropology at Harvard Medical Schoo[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]