Making it Right

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Are you getting tired of dancing football players, cutthroat cooks, half naked contestants eating maggots, wanna-be celebrities "pimping" their rides, their cribs, their spouses? Most reality TV shows focus on personal gain - become better looking, be the sole survivor, marry a millionaire - as if those are the only valuable rewards, but what if reality TV-style competition featured contestants trying to tackle important social concerns like housing, health care or consumer debt?

MAKING IT RIGHT is a documentary that chronicles the making of a new kind of reality TV show where four teams of diverse college students compete in a series of challenges to solve real problems in the community.

How do today's college students respond to the idea and the experience of being on such a show? Will their solutions work? Are the student ideas better than existing ones? Do the teams function in a cooperative fashion, or do their personalities and real-life concerns get in the way of working effectively? Who wins? MAKING IT RIGHT challenges its participants and its viewers to think creatively and to join with teams on the show in finding new and exciting approaches to living in the REAL real world.

Bob Gliner is an award winning documentary director and producer with some 35 programs to his credit, many of which have appeared on PBS stations around the nation (see www.docmakeronline.com) . He is also a professor in the sociology department, part time instructor in the Department of Radio, Television, Film and Theater, associate director of the Center for Service Learning, and former fellow in residence at the Center for Faculty Development under whose auspices he developed numerous interdisciplinary curriculum with a community focus.

Production Company

SOUTHBAY FILM STUDIOS

Produced and Directed by
Bob Gliner

Executive Producers
Barnaby Dallas
David Kahn
Nick Martinez

CAST: (on camera)
Kimb Massey, Host

Team One:
Nathaniel Montgomery, Art
Sean John Barksdale, English - Communication Studies
Nicolette Pacho, Sociology

Team Two:
Caroline Dukelow, Business
Robert Rinck, Public Health
Darcie Green, Political Science

Team Three:
Kevin Leong, Biotechnology
Kerilyn Grant, Communication Studies
Charmaine Williams, Television, Radio, Film, Theater

Team Four:
Andrew Valeriano-Rollins, Nursing
Faith McCarthy, Business Marketing
Renee Patton, Sociology

Judges:
Dr. Gloria Hom, Past Chair Republican Party of Santa Clara County
Bob Gliner, Professor of Sociology, San José State University
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Executive Director, South Bay Central Labor Council

FAMILIES
Juan Alberto Fregoso
Judith Lynn Fregoso
Amannda Fregoso
Riccardo Fregoso
Amorita Fregoso
Leopoldo Fregoso
Diana Santos
Brock Sager
Caroline Le

EXPERTS:

Health Challenge:
Alain Enthoven
Marriner S. Eccles, Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, Stanford University
Robert Sillen, Executive Director
Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System
Dr. Hubert Morel-Seytoux
Health Care for All
Rich Watters

Health Care for All
Hugo Mora-Torres, Director, Community Health Promotion
Health Trust
Christine Tyler, RN, MPH, Director of Policy
Community Health Partnerships

Housing Challenge:
Taylor Dial, Executive Director
Housing Trust of Santa Clara County
Shelly James, HR Director
Sunnyvale School District
Poncho Guevara, Director of Communications/Fund Development, South County Housing
Ed Moncrief, Director
Neighborhood Housing Services

Consumerism Challenge:
Peter Chua, Asst. Prof. of Sociology San José State University
Chris Cox, Instructor, Sociology San José State University
Michelle Prochl, Asst. VP, Commercial Banking Group of Wells Fargo
Jennie Meehan, President Silicon Valley Economic Development

End Credits:

Field Producers
Ashley Dickinson
Drena Lewis
Candice Piper
Benji Umpad

Camera
Alex Kvatashidze
Greg Bradley
Chico Hernandez
Kyle Effertz
Amir Shirani
Caroline Le
John Romano

Edited by
Bob Gliner

Assistant Editor
Tracy McGreevy

Second Assistant Editor
Andy Shewmaker

On-Line Editor (Barnaby Student)

Original Music
Jeff Hofmann

Sound
Kyle Effertz
Darren Bulmer
Kristini Wu
Matt Ryan
Alexi Deschenes
Jeff Macias
Jennifer Wang
Pearly Chan
Shaminder Dulai

Set Design/Lighting
John York
Sean Russell

Set Construction
Jeff Macias
Josh Peterson
Ricardo Santillan
Jonathan Ly
Marisol Vasquez
Jennifer Wang
Pearly Chan
William Piper

Public Relations
Ramon Johnson

Photos
Shaminder Dulai
Marisol Vasquez

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