Cast & Team
The Cast
(in order of appearance)
John Van Hamersveld
Peter Coyote
Nicho Lowry
Bill Graham
Victor Moscoso
Bob Weir
Alton Kelley
Chet Helms
Herb Greene
Jacaeber Kastor
Mickey Hart
Pete Howard
Barry Melton
George Michalski
Erik Davis
Stanley Mouse
Wes Wilson
Scott Montgomery
Titus O'Brien
Mary Weaver Chapin
Angelina Lippert
Ben Friedman
Ben Marks
Rock Scully
Allen Cohen
Rick Griffin
Jerry Garcia
Michael Pearce
Norman Orr
David Graham
Bob Schnepf
Lee Conklin
Roger Dean
Gary Westford
David Singer
Randy Tuten
Ted Bahr
Co-Producer, Co-Director, Writer
Ted Bahr was just 8 years old when the Summer of Love happened in 1967, and like many who missed “the sixties,” he came to revere them. It wasn’t too late to cover his college-year walls with posters from the era, nor was it too late to move from New York and spend 15 years in San Francisco in the 1980s and 90s. After a 35+ year career in computer and electronics media and conferences, he retired in 2018 and opened the Bahr Gallery in Oyster Bay, NY which is dedicated to late 1960’s psychedelic rock posters.
Jesse Block
Co-Producer, Co-Director, Cinematography,
and Editing
Jesse Block is a San Francisco based Director, Videographer and Editor. He has directed episodes on broadcast programs such as BET's Jazz Central, Sci Fi Channel's The Anti-Gravity Room, and ABC's Live From The Starlight Room. His documentaries include Brotherly Jazz-The Words and Music of The Heath Brothers, The Dragon Master Showcase and PBS's New Year's Special - Hot Tuna 25 Years and Runnin', and John Cippollina Electric Guitarslinger.
Tom Disher
Original Score/Sound Design/Mix
For over two decades, Tom Disher has composed and arranged award winning music for Film, TV, and Interactive Media. He has owned and operated Disher Music & Sound since 1992. Tom’s clients include Artisan Pictures, Miramax Films, Sony PlayStation, Intel, Chevron, Jamba Juice, Safeway, Cisco, GMO, Genentech, Amgen, PBS, Outdoor Life Network, The International Channel, PeopleSoft, Petco, and numerous independent filmmakers, to name a few. His education includes a Bachelors degree in Classical Piano Performance, with a minor in Jazz Arranging at Hartt College of Music, and four years of full-time Post-Graduate studies in composition, while serving as technical assistant for the Hartt Synclavier Electronic Music Studio.
Tom was awarded an Emmy for music for the PBS Special “John Wooden: Victory, Values, and Peace of Mind”, and 7 Addies for music and sound design for Sybase, Sony Playstation (GT4 and Guitar Hero Promos) , KTSF, Webex, Tivo Fusion, and Encanterra Trilogy
Ben Hicks
Original Score
Ben Hicks is an Audio Engineer, recording engineer and Sound Designer at Disher Sound. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz Ben spent a year in the Guitar Performance program at Berklee School of Music. He has worked on more than 20 films and documentaries including most recently as Supervising Sound Editor on Tony Foster: Painting at the Edge
Jake Wisdom
Principal Animation
Jake Wisdom is a Maine-based photographer and media specialist. With a foundation in computer science and graphic art, complemented by an M.F.A. in visual effects, Jake’s work focuses on transforming photography and static art into compelling animated clips. Throughout his career, Jake has collaborated with various bands, artists, and festivals to bring movement to their visual assets and enhance their digital presence. In his free time, Jake cares for his 100 gallon coral reef tank.
Jesse Spencer
Color and Conform, Additional Animation
Jesse Spencer has 30 years of experience editing independent and commercial productions, working as both an offline creative editor and a theatrical/broadcast online editor/colorist. His feature film credits include Steven Van Zandt: Disciple, The Hamiltons, Everything Strange and New, and Strange Culture. He has also served as a consultant and post-production supervisor on several Bay Area documentaries and narrative films, including the 2010 Oscar-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America.
As an online editor, Jesse has provided finishing and color work for numerous films broadcast on ITVS, and worked on Blood of the Yingzhou District—winner of the 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Mara Leonardi
Graphic Design and Photo/Poster Editing
Mara Leonardi is a Graphic Designer and Art Director whose career has focused on publication design, corporate identity, and event production. She studied illustration at the HS of Art and Design and has a BFA in Graphic Design from Pratt Institute. A native New Yorker and mother of two boys, she enjoys gardening, cooking, and hiking.
Aron Ranen
Additional Cinematography
Aron Ranen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and journalist based in New York City. He has worked for major international news organizations covering breaking news, entertainment, and cultural events, while also directing and photographing documentaries that have screened at film festivals and museums worldwide.
Eric Predoehl
Additional Cinematography
Eric Predoehl is a multi-media professional whose talents have been utilized as a producer, director, writer, camera operator, editor, photo-journalist, graphic designer, AV technician, and idea generator. He has a B.A. degree in Radio-TV Broadcast from San Jose State, and an A.A. degree in Professional Photography from De Anza College. He has worked as a camera operator on many live concert videos in the Bay Area and had Producer credits for his work on “Something in the Air: A Rock Radio Revolution,” Ed’s Inner Space, Otis Rush: Live Part One” (Assoc. Producer)), and “Joe Louis Walker, Live on Broadway.”
Ben Fong-Torres
Narration
Ben Fong-Torres, is best known as a writer and editor, with Rolling Stone. He is the author of ten books, including a best-selling memoirs, The Rice Room, The Doors By the Doors, and Hickory Wind: The Life & Times of Gram Parsons. While at Rolling Stone, where he wrote over 30 cover stories, he held a weekend shift on top-rated KSAN-FM and was later a regular contributor to the television show, Evening, where his interview subjects ranged from Paul McCartney and Steve Martin to Grace Slick and the Jacksons. As co-anchor of KTVU’s telecasts of the Chinese New Year Parade, he earned five Emmy awards.
At Rolling Stone, he wrote and narrated the Billboard award-winning radio special, What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been. He also served as narrator on radio documentaries about Elvis Presley, Sly and the Family Stone, Santana, and blues music. And, for Audible, he read his memoirs and his book about Little Feat, Willin’.
He graduated from San Francisco State University, which has honored him as an Alumni of the Year and an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts. He is portrayed as a real-life editor in the Cameron Crowe movie, Almost Famous, and is the subject of Suzanne Joe Kai’s documentary, Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres.
A feature-length documentary on San Francisco's Big Five and the psychedelic poster revolution.
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