Team bios - Freedom on the Fence

Freedom on the Fence
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A Digital Documentary Project

Team biographies
Andrea Marks, Producer, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Oregon State University. One area of focus in Andrea’s work is creating innovative ways to experience design history. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Design Arts Grant, for her project Women of the Bauhaus. This project explores the role of nine women who studied at the Bauhaus and documents their achievements through an interactive CDROM. She received her BFA in Graphic design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and received a Fulbright International Scholarship for post-graduate studies at The Basel School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. Her work has been included in the American Institute of Graphic Arts Communication Design show. Freedom on the Fence is her first film.

Director Glenn Holsten and Producer Andrea Marks

Glenn Holsten, Director, is a producer and director of documentaries and performance programs for public television. His work has taken him around the world, though many of his works have examined the complexities of life in Philadelphia. Such programs include AKA Judy Garland Park, Pulling It Together in North Philadelphia, The Sounds of Philadelphia, First Person Philadelphia, Words In Place (a series of video-poems inspired by the city). His national PBS credits include Philadelphia Diary, a feature-length fictional film inspired by the drama of everyday life in the city of Brotherly Love, An Angel In The Village, a portrait of Philadelphia-based artist Lily Yeh, and Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life, which examines the city through the eyes of the 19th century American painter. The Eakins project included a DVD and an interactive website (with educational outreach components for high school teachers and students).

Glenn is a recipient of the 1997 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a 2000 Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. His works have been featured at the Banff, Dance on Camera, Houston, Columbus and New York Film Festivals, and have been awarded silver and gold awards from Corporation for Public Broadcasting for innovative television production. He has been honored with sixteen Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards. A collection of his work was exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's 20th Century Video Gallery.

On the international production scene, Glenn has directed documentaries in Portugal, Kenya, Northern Ireland, Poland, Bosnia and the Republic of Georgia. In the summer of 2000, Glenn traveled to Mongolia, where he conducted a workshop for television professionals that explored creative methods for storytelling on television. He holds a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania.