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MONIQUE ZAVISTOVSKI, EDITOR STEVEN CHESNE, MUSIC COMPOSER ROB KELLY, PRODUCTION COORDINATOR DAVID KHALAF, WRITER MONICA TUTAK, SOUND EDITOR/MIXER ZEBEDIAH SMITH, MOTION GRAPHICS Full Production Credits: Produced & Directed by Special Thanks: For more information about this film visit: ----------------- Web site design by JenG
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Captivated
by stories and storytellers at a young age, Craig started traveling the
world vicariously through books, magazines and films. For the past 15
years Craig has worked as a documentary filmmaker in all phases of production
including producer, director, cinematographer and editor on various travel
films and commercials on location in over 70 countries. During the last
6 years Craig has been producing/directing his own independent documentary
films including; "Empires of Steam" which is about the last
steam railways in India and China; "The Great Bazaars" which
was about the merchants and craftsmen who work within the traditional
bazaars of Fez, Cairo, Istanbul and Marrakesh. Craig is now working on
a documentary film about the city of Venice, Italy. Having once worked
as a paperboy "Press Pass to the World" fulfilled one of Craig's
dreams to meet some of the journalists whose stories he read as he tossed
newspapers onto people's doorsteps. 
Monique
Zavistovski is a graduate of USC’s M.F.A. program in Cinema-Television
and holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Projects
she edited have appeared at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, the 2002
Venice International Film Festival, and have won festival awards worldwide.
She has worked with filmmaker Peter Forgacs on his Getty Center installation,
"The Danube Exodus," and with artist Judy Chicago for her permanent
installation at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In addition to "Press
Pass to the World," she has recently completed the editing on "Drive,"
a feature doc about women pro golfers who defy stereotypes and are faced
with overwhelming obstacles in pursuing their dreams. She is currently
editing "Yella Shabab, Yella," a documentary about a Palestinian,
an Israeli and a Jewish-American struggling as a team to bring peace to
the Middle East.
Within
the last 5 years, Chesne has scored 16 independent feature films including
No Turning Back, Dinner and a Movie, The Trip, Zen Noir, Monsoon Wife,
Dry Cycle, UP, Michigan!, Artifacts, Close Call, Singapore Sling, Running
From Shadows, Only in L.A.; An Existential Affair and the upcoming feature
film Debating Robert Lee. In addition to Chesne's dramatic scoring, pop
and world-music catalogues, his orchestral concert works include 2 concertos,
4 symphonies, 2 orchestral suites, and 2 tone-poems, as well as works
for string quartet, woodwind ensemble, and music for theater and ballet.
His works have been performed by the Ventura Symphony, the L.A. Modern
String Orchestra, The Los Angeles Ars Symphonia Orchestra, the La Mirada
Symphony, Mehli Mehta's American Youth Symphony, as well as by members
of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the L.A. Chamber Orchestra, the Hollywood
Bowl Orchestra, and the Pacific Symphony. 
After
getting his BA in Film, Rob began his career in production working at
Paramount Pictures on shows including 7 Days, Star Trek Voyager, Deep
Space Nine and the feature film Star Trek Insurrection. With the experience
gained at the studio he went to work for a visual FX house as a Visual
FX coordinator and continued working on TV shows and feature films like
The X-Files, Galaxy Quest, Family Man, Rock Star, as well as numerous
commercials and music videos. Rob recently completed Producing/Directing
a documentary call "High Tech Vegas" and is working on upcoming titles
which include High Tech Rides, High Tech Monorails and Rocket Man. Rob
currently resides in Los Angeles.
David
Khalaf is a freelance writer who graduated from the University of Southern
California with a B.A. in print journalism and a minor in cinema-television.
He has been published in prestigious publications such as The Los Angeles
Times and the Orange County Register, and many other not-so-prestigious
publications. David spends the majority of his time working as advertising
manager of student publications at USC, and the minority of his time finishing
his first novel, presumably a brilliant satire on American commercialism.
Be begrudgingly calls Burbank home.
Monica
Tutak is a freelance sound editor and mixer who has worked on various
Film, Television, DVD and Trailer projects including An Ideal Husband
(DLP Digital Projection), Titanic (DVD THX Mastering), Dharma & Greg (Television),
and A Bug's Life (Trailer). Previous to embarking on her freelance career
she worked for Technicolor Complete Sound and Media City Sound and was
nomiated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on Hollywood Squares. She
is currently editing the feature documentary "Gallipoli" for Ekip Films.
She resides in "The Valley" of Los Angeles with her husband and 17 month
old son.
With
a background in theatre and writing, Zebediah Smith moved into the world
of film and video in college. Working at smaller production studios he
had the chance to work in production and post-production, learning as
much as he could about the varied tasks that are required in filmmaking.
Now he works as a freelance editor and designer in Los Angeles. He has
worked on projects for commercial, television, documentary, and film,
but he is especially interested in independent filmmaking, both narrative
and documentary. He was happy to join the crew of "Press Pass to
the World" for such an extraordinary journey into the lives of foreign
correspondents. Currently he is co-producing a short film that he wrote
and a feature documentary.
David
Khalaf 
Special
thanks to all the foreign correspondents:
Michael
Breen